Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hypocrisy your name is Bush

[Shaikh Hyder]

Dear Waleed this article will be ignored by Bush, but if WD, Siraj tell  him 
then he will be more receptive as coming from Muslim leaders.  Otherwise your 
efforts are just waste of time. And Muslim leadeers will  go and shake hands 
with Bush and continue with their iftar parties with  the enemy of Islam.

"G.Waleed Kavalec"@yahoo.com wrote: 
 
April 8, 2007
  
  North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents   By MICHAEL R. GORDON   and 
MARK MAZZETTI

  WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully 
pressed the   United Nations to impose strict sanctions on   North Korea 
because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed   
Ethiopia to complete a secret arms  purchase from the North, in what appears to 
be a violation of the  restrictions, according to senior American officials. 
  The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January  in part 
because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive  against Islamic 
militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the  American policy of 
combating religious extremists in the Horn of  Africa. 
  American officials said that they were still encouraging Ethiopia to  wean 
itself from its longstanding reliance on North Korea for cheap  Soviet-era 
military equipment to supply its armed forces and that  Ethiopian officials 
appeared receptive. But the arms deal is an example  of the compromises that 
result from the clash of two foreign policy  absolutes: the Bush 
administration's commitment to fighting  Islamic radicalism and its effort to 
starve the North Korean government  of money it could use to build up its 
nuclear weapons program. 
  Since the Sept. 11 attacks, as the administration has made  counterterrorism 
its top foreign policy concern, the White House has  sometimes shown a 
willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it  might otherwise 
criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia  and antidemocratic 
crackdowns in a number of Arab nations. 
  It is also not the first time that the Bush administration has made  an 
exception for allies in their dealings with North Korea. In 2002,  Spain 
intercepted a ship carrying Scud missiles from North Korea to  Yemen. At the 
time, Yemen was working with the United States to hunt  members of Al Qaeda  
operating within its borders, and after its government protested, the  United 
States asked that the freighter be released. Yemen said at the  time that it 
was the last shipment from an earlier missile purchase and  would not be 
repeated. 
  American officials from a number of agencies described details of  the 
Ethiopian episode on the condition of anonymity because they were  discussing 
internal Bush administration deliberations.
  Several officials said they first learned that Ethiopia planned to  receive a 
delivery of military cargo from North Korea when the  country's government 
alerted the American Embassy in Addis Ababa,  Ethiopia's capital, after the 
adoption on Oct. 14 of the United Nations Security Council   measure imposing 
sanctions. 
  "The Ethiopians came back to us and said, 'Look, we know we need to  
transition to different customers, but we just can't do that  overnight,' " 
said one American official, who added that the issue had  been handled 
properly. "They pledged to work with us at the most senior  levels."  
  American intelligence agencies reported in late January that an  Ethiopian 
cargo ship that was probably carrying tank parts and other  military equipment 
had left a North Korean port. 
  The value of the shipment is unclear, but Ethiopia purchased $20  million 
worth of arms from North Korea in 2001, according to American  estimates, a 
pattern that officials said had continued. The United  States gives Ethiopia 
millions of dollars of foreign aid and some  nonlethal military equipment. 
  After a brief debate in Washington, the decision was made not to  block the 
arms deal and to press Ethiopia not to make future purchases.  
  John R. Bolton,  who helped to push the resolution imposing sanctions on 
North Korea  through the Security Council in October, before stepping down as 
United  Nations ambassador, said that the Ethiopians had long known that  
Washington was concerned about their arms purchases from North Korea  and that 
the Bush administration should not have tolerated the January  shipment. 
  "To make it clear to everyone how strongly we feel on this issue we  should 
have gone to the Ethiopians and said they should send it back,"  said Mr. 
Bolton, who added that he had been unaware of the deal before  being contacted 
for this article. "I know they have been helpful in  Somalia, but there is a 
nuclear weapons program in North Korea that is  unhelpful for everybody 
worldwide. 
  "Never underestimate the strength of 'clientitis' at the State  Department," 
said Mr. Bolton, using Washington jargon for a situation  

Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hypocrisy your name is Bush

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

April 8, 2007
North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents By MICHAEL R.
GORDONand
MARK
MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully
pressed the United
Nationsto
impose strict sanctions on North
Koreabecause
of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed
Ethiopiato
complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be
a
violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.

The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part
because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic
militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of
combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa.

American officials said that they were still encouraging Ethiopia to wean
itself from its longstanding reliance on North Korea for cheap Soviet-era
military equipment to supply its armed forces and that Ethiopian officials
appeared receptive. But the arms deal is an example of the compromises that
result from the clash of two foreign policy absolutes: the Bush
administration's commitment to fighting Islamic radicalism and its effort to
starve the North Korean government of money it could use to build up its
nuclear weapons program.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, as the administration has made counterterrorism
its top foreign policy concern, the White House has sometimes shown a
willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it might otherwise
criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia and antidemocratic
crackdowns in a number of Arab nations.

It is also not the first time that the Bush administration has made an
exception for allies in their dealings with North Korea. In 2002, Spain
intercepted a ship carrying Scud missiles from North Korea to Yemen. At the
time, Yemen was working with the United States to hunt members of Al
Qaedaoperating
within its borders, and after its government protested, the United
States asked that the freighter be released. Yemen said at the time that it
was the last shipment from an earlier missile purchase and would not be
repeated.

American officials from a number of agencies described details of the
Ethiopian episode on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing
internal Bush administration deliberations.

Several officials said they first learned that Ethiopia planned to receive a
delivery of military cargo from North Korea when the country's government
alerted the American Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, after the
adoption on Oct. 14 of the United Nations Security
Councilmeasure
imposing sanctions.

"The Ethiopians came back to us and said, 'Look, we know we need to
transition to different customers, but we just can't do that overnight,' "
said one American official, who added that the issue had been handled
properly. "They pledged to work with us at the most senior levels."

American intelligence agencies reported in late January that an Ethiopian
cargo ship that was probably carrying tank parts and other military
equipment had left a North Korean port.

The value of the shipment is unclear, but Ethiopia purchased $20 million
worth of arms from North Korea in 2001, according to American estimates, a
pattern that officials said had continued. The United States gives Ethiopia
millions of dollars of foreign aid and some nonlethal military equipment.

After a brief debate in Washington, the decision was made not to block the
arms deal and to press Ethiopia not to make future purchases.

John R. 
Bolton,
who helped to push the resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea through
the Security Council in October, before stepping down as United Nations
ambassador, said that the Ethiopians had long known that Washington was
concerned about their arms purchases from North Korea and that the Bush
administration should not have tolerated the January shipment.

"To make it clear to everyone how strongly we feel on this issue we should
have gone to the Ethiopians and said they should send it back," said Mr.
Bolton, who added that he had been unaware of the deal before being
con