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An interesting article/report from Paul Craig Roberts.
what was witnessed in 1984, is it being repeated?,
despite all the evidence leads to greater conspiracy that was unfolded later!
The way it is done is simple, by chain reaction of ‘problem—> reaction—>solution‘, once the fear
is created of imminent CRISIS, people are suppose to react in certain manner that demands ‘solution’,
that ‘solution’ is preconceived by the planners, mission accomplished!
The SAGA continues……….
Fabricating Terror
By Paul Craig Roberts
November 30, 2010 “Information Clearing House” – Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots?
The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Oregon.
The Associated Press report by William Mall and Nedra Pickler (11-27-10) is headlined in Yahoo News:
“Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon.â€
This is a misleading headline as the report makes it clear that it was a plot orchestrated by federal agents.
Two sentences into the news report we have this: “The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the
[FBI] agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said.â€
The teenager was supplied with a fake bomb and a fake detonator.
Three sentences later the reporters contradict the quoted authorities with a quote from Arthur Balizan, special agent in
charge of the FBI in Oregon: “The threat was very real.â€
The reporters then contradict Balizan: “White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said Saturday that
president Barack Obama was aware of the FBI operation before Friday’s arrest. Shapiro said
Obama was assured that the FBI was in full control of the operation and that the public was not in danger.â€
Then Shapiro contradicts himself by declaring: “The events of the past 24 hours underscore the necessity
of remaining vigilant against terrorism here and abroad.â€
The story arrives at its Kafka highpoint when President Obama thanks the FBI for its diligence in
saving us from the fake plot the FBI had fabricated.
After vacillating between whether they are reporting a real plot or a orchestrated one, the reporters finally come
down on the side of orchestration. Documents released by US Attorney Dwight Holton “show the sting
operation began in June.†Obviously, the targeted Portland teenager was not hot to trot. The FBI had to
work on him for six months. The reporters compare “the Portland sting†to the recent arrest in Virginia
of Faroque Ahmed who was ensnared in a “bombing plot that was a ruse conducted over the past six
months by federal officials.â€
Think about this. The FBI did a year’s work in order to convince two people to participate in fake plots.
If you are not too bright and some tough looking guys accost you and tell you that they are Al Qaeda and expect your help
in a terrorist operation, you might be afraid to say no, or you might be thrilled to be part of a blowback against an
American population that is indifferent to their government’s slaughter of people of your ethnicity in your country of origin.
Whichever way it falls, it is unlikely the ensnared person would ever have done anything beyond talk had the FBI not organized
them into action. In other cases the FBI entices people with money to participate in its fake plots.
Since 9/11, the only domestic “terrorist plot†that I recall that was not obviously organized by the FBI is the “Times Square plot†to
which Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to trying to set off a car bomb in Manhattan. This plot, too, is suspicious. One would think that a
real terrorist would have a real bomb, not a smoke bomb.
In his May 19, 2009 article (reprinted Nov. 27, 2010), Joe Quinn collects some of the fake plots, some of which were validated by torture
confessions and others by ignorant and fearful juries. The US government comes up with a plot, an accused, and tortures him until he confesses, or the
government fabricates a case and takes it to jurors who know that they cannot face their neighbors if they let off a media-declared “terrorist.â€
Perhaps the most obvious of these cases is “the Miami seven,†a hapless group of Christian-Zionist-Muslims that called themselves the “Sea of David†and
were quietly living in a Florida warehouse awaiting biblical end times. Along came the FBI posing as Al Qaeda and offered them $50,000 and an Al Qaeda
swearing-in ceremony.
The FBI told them that they needed to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and various government buildings. An honest reporter at Knight Ridder revealed:
“The Justice (sic) Department unveiled the arrests with an orchestrated series of news conferences in two cities, but the severity of the charges
compared with the seemingly amateurish nature of the group raised concerns among civil libertarians,†who noted that the group had “no weapons, no explosives.â€
The Justice (sic) Department and tamed media made a big show out of the “militaristic boots†worn by the
hapless “plotters,†but the FBI had bought the boots for them.
The biggest piece of evidence against the hapless group was that they had taken photos of “targets†in Florida, but the
US government had equipped them with cameras.
The US government even rented cars for its dupes to drive to take the pictures.
It turns out that the group only wanted the $50,000, but an American jury convicted them anyhow.
When the US government has to go to such lengths to create “terrorists†out of hapless people, an undeclared agenda is being served.
What could this agenda be?
The answer is many agendas. One agenda is to justify wars of aggression that are war crimes under the Nuremberg standard created by the
US government itself. One way to avoid war crimes charges is to create acts of terrorism that justify the naked aggressions against “terrorist countries.â€
Another agenda is to create a police state. A police state can control people who object to their impoverishment for the benefit of the
superrich much more easily than can a democracy endowed with constitutional civil liberties.
Another agenda is to get rich. Terror plots, whether real or orchestrated, have created a market for security. Dual Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff, former head of US Homeland Security, is the lobbyist who represents Rapiscan, the company that manufactures the full body porno-scanners that, following the “underwear bomber†event, are now filling up US airports. Homeland Security has announced that they are going to purchase the porno-scanners for trains, buses, subways, court houses, and sports events. How can shopping malls and roads escape? Recently on Interstate 20 west of Atlanta, trucks had to drive through a similar device.Everyone has forgotten that the underwear bomber lacked required documents and was escorted aboard the airliner by an official.
The “war on terror†provides an opportunity for a few well-connected people to become very rich. If they leave Americans with a third world police state, they will be living it up in Gstaad.
This despite the fact that everyone on the planet knows that it is not lactating mothers, children, elderly people in walkers and wheelchairs, members of Congress,
members of the military, nuns, and so on, who are members of Al Qaeda plotting to bring aboard a bomb in their underwear, their shoes, their shampoo and face creams.
Indeed, bombs aboard airliners are a rare event.
What is it really all about? Could it be that the US government needs terrorist events in order to completely destroy the US Constitution? On November 24, National Public Radio broadcast a report by Dina Temple-Raston: “Administration officials are looking at the possibility of codifying detention without trial and are awaiting legislation that is supposed to come out of Congress early next year.†Of course, the legislation will not come out of Congress. It will be written by Homeland Security and the Justice (sic) Department. The impotent Congress will merely rubber-stamp it.
The obliteration of habeas corpus, the most necessary and important protection of liberty ever institutionalized in law and governing constitution, has become necessary for the US government, because a jury might acquit an alleged or mock “terrorist†or framed person whom the US government has declared prior to the trial will be held forever in indefinite detention even if acquitted in a US court of law. The attorney general of the United States has declared that any “terrorist†that he puts on trial who is acquitted by a jury will remain in detention regardless of the verdict. Such an event would reveal the total lawlessness of American “justice.â€
The United States of America, “the city upon the hill,†“the light unto the world,†has become Nazi Germany.
It was the practice of the Gestapo to ignore court verdicts and to execute or hold indefinitely the cleared defendant in the camps. The Obama regime is in the process of completing Dick Cheney’s dream by legislating the legality of indefinite detention.
American law has collapsed to the dungeons of the Dark Ages.
This Nazi Gestapo policy is now the declared policy of the US Department of Justice (sic).
Anyone who thinks the United States is a free society where people have liberty, “freedom and democracy†is uninformed.
— On Thu, 12/16/10, Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [1984genocide] In the NEWS:: No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it. [1 Attachment]
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], “Gurmit Singh” <[email protected]>, [email protected], “Johann Hari” <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 12:43 AM
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In The News!
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DDR against ex-Patiala MP
Tribune News Service
Nangal, December 15
The Ropar police has lodged a daily diary report (DDR) against a former Member of the Parliament from Patiala, Atinderpal Singh.
His name figures for distributing literature on the radical Sikh chief, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, in Nangal.
The area residents brought this matter into the notice of police. The police officials brought the complainants
and the alleged accused in the police station and enquired into the matter.
Ropar SSP JS Aulakh said a DDR had been lodged and the matter would be brought into the notice of
District Authority (legal) and further action would be initiated accordingly.
Meanwhile, Hindu organisations held a meeting and condemned Atinderpal’s action of
spreading message of separate Khalistan state.
Bathinda, December 15
SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar today gave a call to all Sikhs settled across the world to lodge protests against the frisking of turbans in their respective countries. He also announced that the SGPC would stage a massive dharna outside the US Embassy in Delhi on December 23 to lodge a protest against the frisking of Sikhs’ turbans.
Avtar Singh Makkar
SRINAGAR, India – Police fired tear gas and swung batons to disperse hundreds of Muslims participating in religious processions in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Wednesday. At least six people were injured, police said.
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“The Sikh high priests praised the human rights organisation, Sikhs for Justice, for making an endeavour along with the All- India Sikh Students Federation to bring the culprits of 1984 riots to book. They commended the campaign launched by these outfits to file a petition with the United Nations Human Rights Commission, seeking recognition of 1984 riots as genocide under Article 2 of the UN Convention and seeking an impartial probe into the killing of Sikhs. Akal Takht directed the Sikh community to extend its full support to the campaign.”
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Comments:
While SGPC is good/quick in praising however, why do they ‘SHY AWAY’ in openly
protesting
AGAINST GENOCIDE?
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Dear ‘Peace/Justice/Truth‘ loving people;
Here is little ‘token of love – poem’ to all those minorities fighting for their rights to justice/peace/truth!
Remember always, people with vision are in minorities and are few, however they change the world and create history!
Just like OneGod’s SAINTS/MESSENGERS/GURU‘s, are few in small numbers!
Even 5th Grader calls for: Perhaps for ‘HUMAN RIGHTS TO WAKE UP‘?
WAKE UP LION SLEEP NO MORE, WE ARE FEW THEY ARE MORE
GOD ASKS, WHY IS IT ‘LION‘? THAT YOU HAVE STOPPED TO ROAR
YOU KNOW THEY LIKE IT ALWAYS, THAT LION SHOULD ROAR NO-MORE
WE HAVE VALUES, WE ARE WITH CORE, THEY ARE MORE WITH NO-CORE
“CHORUS†WAKE UP LION SLEEP NO MORE, WE ARE FEW THEY ARE MORE
THEY SUCK YOUR BLOOD AND ARE EVER THIRSTY FOR MORE AND MORE
THEY KNOW IT, THEY SHALL LOOSE AND ONE DAY LION WILL WIN FOR SURE
YOU CAME WITH HOPE, LIGHT & ARE PURE, ITS EVEN WRITTEN IN THE FOLKLORE
WAKE UP LION SLEEP NO MORE, DOES IT MATTER?, WE ARE FEW THEY ARE MORE
WORLD AWAITS YOUR ROAR, AS THEY SEE WORLD DRIFTING INTO ABYSS AND BORE
“CHORUS†THEREFORE, WAKE UP LION SLEEP NO MORE, YOU MUST RESTORE YOUR TRUE ROAR!
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Why and how can we call constitution valid or bonafide, if it does not adhere to basic HUMAN RIGHTS of HUMAN BEING?
What If INDIA Grabs UN PERMANENT SEAT??? Now WHEN
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Therefore international community must pay heed and understand the gravity of the situation and act in light of basic human right
context of every being of ‘PLANET EARTH’!
If not, then abolish/take-off ‘HUMAN-RIGHT’ word from dictionary and forums or UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS or ‘GENEVA CONVENTION for HUMAN RIGHTS’
As a friend “jkirwan” shares valuable thoughts, where are we heading and Watching & Waiting Are Never Enough!
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What are we, and what have we become? We are the shadow-people in the audience that just watches this charade unfold. We claim to be people but in reality most of us have no real-face that we can reveal to the world. Nor will we, no matter how many more threats keep right on coming from this totally corrupted government that we see and hear and completely ‘understand’ Â yet all we choose to DO is watch and take videos-rather than to actually get up from the bleachers and get-involved to stop what must be stopped, if there is to ever again to be a country in this place where tyranny reigns supreme!
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As the countdown nears completion on what’s left of this hideous year of 2010-we KNOW in our guts that what will happen to us come New Year’s Day, 2011 will be nothing short of the absolute destruction of everything that was still there on New Year’s Day………………………………..
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— On Wed, 12/15/10, Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.
To: [email protected], “Gurmit Singh” <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 3:11 AM
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Dear ‘Peace/Justice/Truth‘ loving people;
“No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.”
Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Washington D.C., known more these days as the “district of criminals†commits so many crimes each day as a collective body that a moratorium on government should be declared until we can clean this nest of globalists, these kissers of corporate butts who seem more determined to protect their own private interests than protecting our country from obliteration by global cabals.
As congress moves forward with plans to end our sovereignty, as they collude with foreign interests to take our jobs, to destroy our culture and to subject us to international laws and agreements harmful to us as a nation, we need to remember who we are. We are not globalists; we are Americans. We are not “citizens†of some new world… We are not a collection of mindlessly identified numbers and codes, biometric identifiers, or mindless sheep that don’t understand what is being done to our nation.
We are the greatest society to have ever existed. WE ARE AMERICANS.
The greatest threat America faces on a day to day basis are those who masquerade as protectors and defenders of the American people. D.C. has long since ceased to be of any value to the public although corporations and the obscenely rich find a home away from home in this ten square mile district.
We are also standing on the edge of a precipice and if we don’t stand up and collectively demand a return to, and an affirmation of, who we are and what has bound us together for more than 200 years, we will be driven over the edge into an unimaginable abyss.
As congress continues its daily deluge of anti-American legislation, its un-American activities, bear in mind that just because congress said it, doesn’t make it so. Consider this opinion of the Supreme Court:
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and any statue, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it.
An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.
Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principals follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it . . .
A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one.
An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.
Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.
– Sixteenth American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Section 177. (late 2nd Ed. Section 256)
Keep this in mind when your friends and family, or your elected officials tell you that “it’s the law, you have to.” If that law is arbitrary to the constitution, if it renders you subject to illegal or unconstitutional laws and acts it is in fact, null and void. Keep this in mind when the courts rule in favor of corporate interests knowingly violating the rights and protections afforded the people as described in the Constitution. Almost without exception, every law that has been passed by one administration and congress after another in the last twenty years has substantially violated and reduced the rights of Americans.
One of the gravest mistakes made by Americans today is the mistake of assuming that because congress passed a piece of legislation and the president signed it, the violations of rights and liberties, the assaults on the American people under the guise of [national security] or other created crisis are justified or legal.
You have guaranteed rights only so long as you defend them from encroachment by the government.
Marti Oakley is a political activist and former op-ed columnist for the St Cloud Times in Minnesota. She was a member of the Times Writer’s Group until she resigned in September of 07. She is neither Democrat nor Republican, since neither party is representative of the American people. She says what she thinks, means what she says, and is known for being outspoken. She is hopeful that the American public will wake up to what is happening to our beloved country . . . little of it is left.
— On Wed, 12/15/10, Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Fw: Kashmir: History in making or what? “Kashmir Situation Explosive: Mirwaiz”
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 12:23 AM
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Kashmir Situation Explosive: Mirwaiz
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday said that the situation in Kashmir was ‘explosive’ and that India needs to respect the wishes and aspirations of the people in Jammu and Kashmir.
Interacting with a delegation of Swaraj Peeth Trust, a Gandhian center for nonviolence and peace, who called on him at his Nageen residence here, Mirwaiz deplored the ‘criminal silence’ observed by a vast section of Indian civil society over the grave human rights violations in Kashmir.
The Valley’s chief cleric urged the delegation to apprise the Indian public about the “explosive†situation in Kashmir.
“Being the followers of Gandhiji’s non-violent philosophy, it is your duty to inform the Indian masses about the ground situation in Kashmir and impress upon the Indian government to stop human rights violations in Kashmir and resolve the Kashmir issue according to the wishes and aspirations of people,†Mirwaiz said.
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of moderate faction of Hurriyat conference was attacked by right wing Hindutwa forces three times in five days. On November 25th, he was heckled, roughed up and punched in the face by the activists belonging to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad while speaking in a conference in Chandigarh.
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— On Tue, 12/14/10, Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Surinderjit [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Kashmir: History in making or what?
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 1:00 AM
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Kashmir: History in making or what?
Kashmir, international community comes to commit and boldly make a STAND for Kashmir!
As their past struggle for PEACE/JUSTICE/TRUTH continues to present with only one-voice, they don’t falter even if more than 50,000 govt. jobs are offered or money is being flooded to them or their leaders, since they want peace/justice/truth only! Their leaders/people are ‘unlike others’!
IRAN realizes the global new alignment taking place and how it gradually and COVERTLY aligning to “confront ISLAM? or real NWO?”.
Another article: LINK`http`www.thecommentfactory.com/kashmirs-economy-is-rotting-because-of-indian-occupation-3741/`line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Verdana; `LINK
However, india under pressure from global community still does not recognize/budge that people know the game well and can’t support india’s propaganda.
It’s like when kids play the powerful kid say’s “ALL IS MINE NOW“!
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Special Dispatch No.3443
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Iran-India Relations Deteriorate after Ali Khamenei’s Statement on Kashmir; Article in Indian Magazine Says: ‘Iran is India’s New Bugbear, Repeatedly Raising the Contentious Kashmir Issue…’
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In November 2010, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a message to Hajj pilgrims in which he called upon Muslims worldwide to support the Kashmiri people in India’s Jammu & Kashmir state. The Muslim majority state of Jammu & Kashmir has witnessed Pakistan-backed, anti-India terrorist violence since the early 1990s, though there has been some decline in terror attacks in recent years. Khamenei’s message came at a time the Kashmiri youth have been protesting against human rights violations by Indian security forces.
In his message, the Iranian leader noted that the need for solidarity with the Kashmiri people is “a great obligation” upon the Muslim ummah.[1]The annual Hajj message, which also called upon the Islamic world to support Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq, has led to a deterioration in Iran’s relations with India. Iran and India have traditionally been friends. However, Khamenei’s message of support to Kashmiris is now being seen in New Delhi as new diplomatic posturing by Iran, probably in response to India’s growing ties to the U.S.
India moved quickly to express its displeasure over the Iranian leader’s statement. The Iranian charge d’affaires in New Delhi was by summoned by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) where the Indian government conveyed its “deep disappointment” over Khamenei’s comments on Kashmir.[2] According to a report in The Times of India daily, Y. K. Sinha, the Joint Secretary in the MEA, conveyed the Indian government’s sentiments to the Iranian charge d’affaires. An unidentified Indian official commented on India’s response, “We have conveyed to the Iranian authorities our deep disappointment and regret that they have chosen to disregard our sensitivities and chosen to question our territorial sovereignty.”[3]
Recently, a report in Outlook, a leading Indian weekly magazine, examined the deteriorating relations between New Delhi and Tehran, and attempts by the two traditional friends to create some balance in their standpoints on major international issues.
Following are excerpts from the article:[4]
“Khamenei’s Tilt Against India had to be Taken Seriously; For A Country to Mention Kashmir Thrice in Five Months is Akin to Showing a Red Rag to India”
“Iran is India’s new bugbear, repeatedly raising the contentious Kashmir issue in recent months, much to the embarrassment, even anger, of New Delhi. Last week, Indian diplomats winced as the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his sermon on the eve of Eid Al-Adha, spoke of Kashmir in the same breath as the struggles in Palestine and Afghanistan, and gave a clarion call to the Muslim ummah to counter the insidious designs of the American-Zionist cabal.
“Implicit in Khamenei’s sermon was the message that India was part of the diabolical plan, hatched by America and Israel, to colonize Islamic countries and suppress Muslims.
“Khamenei’s tilt against India had to be taken seriously, for, beginning July, his Eid-ul-Fitr sermon was the third occasion Iran had chosen to mention Kashmir. Khamenei himself did it first on July 21, and then, on September 18, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson criticized Indian security forces for firing on Kashmiris protesting against the alleged burning of the Koran in the U.S. For a country to mention Kashmir thrice in five months is akin to showing a red rag to India.
“No wonder, [the Indian External Affairs Ministry]… summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Delhi and issued a demarche. India also abstained during voting on the United Nations resolution condemning alleged human rights violations in Iran. This marked a departure from New Delhi’s policy of voting against the UN resolution since 2003.”
“Iran has Embraced Kashmir as Part of Its Larger Endeavor to Emerge as the Leader of the Muslim World; Until 10 Years Ago, This Leadership Mantle Belonged to Saudi Arabia”
“Beyond all the sudden cut and thrust, diplomats struggled to understand Iran’s decision to adopt the Kashmir cause as its own. Partly, say diplomats [in New Delhi], Iran has embraced Kashmir as part of its larger endeavor to emerge as the leader of the Muslim world. Until 10 years ago, this leadership mantle belonged to Saudi Arabia, which would periodically cite Kashmir in the course of championing various Muslim causes and struggles worldwide.
“The perils of leading the ummah, or community, became obvious to Riyadh during the 9/11 attacks – most of those who flew their planes into the World Trade Center towers were Saudi nationals. An ashamed and stung Riyadh now preferred to build its image as a liberal Islamic nation, softening its earlier strident tones and refraining from embracing every cause appearing in the Muslim firmament.
“In the space the Saudis vacated, Shi’ite Iran stepped in. America’s opposition to Iran’s nuclear program, the ruling party’s brutal suppression of opposition protests disputing last year’s election results, and President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s periodic bouts of belligerence bolstered Tehran’s credentials as it tried to emerge as the leader of the Muslim world.
“Inevitably, Kashmir began to creep into the rhetoric of Iranian leaders. Says Raziuddin Aquil, who teaches history in Delhi University, ‘Iran now wants to fill up the space vacated by the Saudis as champion of Muslim struggles. The Saudis have been aligning more and more with the U.S. and as a result have also lost credibility among Muslims, many of whom continue to see the Americans as the main enemy.’ With only Al-Qaeda and the Taliban professing to play [the role of] dissenter, Iran’s quest for pan-Islamic leadership acquires legitimacy each time it highlights struggles Muslim communities are waging in different countries. It can’t make an exception of Kashmir.” &am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;nb sp;
“Few Deny a Creeping Mutual Distancing [Between India and Iran] on Issues Critical to Each Other”
“Others feel the growing proximity between India and the U.S. has prompted Iran’s recent remarks on Kashmir. They say Iran is reacting to U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to Indian Parliament, where he sought New Delhi’s help in restoring democracy and freedom in Iran and Myanmar. Former [Indian] Foreign Minister K. Natwar Singh told Outlook, ‘It has to do with Obama’s visit as Iran feels we are leaning too much towards the U.S. There is a definite shift in the stand of the two countries.’
“Few deny a creeping mutual distancing on issues critical to each other. For instance, Tehran seems to have come a long way from the mid-1990s, when it refused to back a Pakistan-initiated resolution at the UN on alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. Interestingly, many Western countries, including the U.S., had backed the Pakistani move. Iran played a crucial role then to ensure the resolution was defeated.
“Over the years, Tehran had consistently opposed attempts to equate the movement in Kashmir with the struggle, say, in Palestine, and publicly articulated the need to resolve the issue through negotiations between India and Pakistan.
“India, on its part, began to inch closer to the U.S. from 2000, but ensured it did not sour relations with Iran. It invited then-President Mohammed Khatami to be the chief guest during the Republic Day celebrations in 2003 [while also hosting Iranian leader Ariel Sharon in New Delhi the same year], and India and Iran also forged a strategic partnership in this decade.”
“The Shift in India’s Stand Came in September 2005 – [When]… It Voted with the U.S. and Other Western Countries … [on a UN] Resolution Against Iran’s Controversial Nuclear Program”
“The shift in India’s stand came in September 2005 – for the first time it voted with the U.S. and other Western countries in the International Atomic Energy Agency on a resolution against Iran’s controversial nuclear program, which Tehran claims is for peaceful purposes but many others think otherwise. Critics pummelled New Delhi, saying its vote sought to appease the Americans, with whom India was negotiating for a nuclear deal, that India had compromised on an independent foreign policy.
“No doubt, the vote strained India’s relations with Iran, but New Delhi opted for a course correction. It said Iran had a legitimate right to peaceful use of nuclear energy, but it should also fulfill its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments. Says a senior MEA official, ‘Our reasonable stand is well respected the world over.’
“Despite hiccups in the past few years, the two countries are together engaged in joint projects that will enhance their trade and give them access to markets in Afghanistan and Central Asia. Iran also happens to be a major source for India’s energy needs; India is Iran’s third largest energy market. This is why [former Indian Foreign Ministry] Natwar Singh cautions, ‘Iran is an important country for India. Though we should keep a close watch on the developments there, we should not overreact.’
“South Block [i.e. the MEA] also wants to play a balancing role between Iran and the West. But India can scarcely cast itself for this as long as it fails to win Iran’s trust on the nuclear issue. Nor will India look at Tehran sympathetically as long as it continues to harp on Kashmir. Obviously, should India succeed in restoring peace to Kashmir, there won’t be any troubled waters for Iran to fish in.”
Endnotes:
[1] Jahan News (Iran), November 21, 2010.
[4] Outlook (India), December 6, 2010. The text of the article has been lightly edited for clarity.
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1984 GENOCIDE And DEMOCIDE Onwards, Resulting EXTINCTION OF SIKHS By 2050 In ‘India’?
No wonder, why just in 2000 decade alone 3 american presidents visited india, perhaps? to understand and learn,
how ‘india’ able to accomplish ’1984′ while maintain ’ZERO CONVICTED‘ for Nov 1984 GENOCIDE?
“Inconspicuous india indeed, we must plan more trips to learn, HOW they accomplished 1984, Ignorance is strength, war is peace & Mass Media Control/manipulation!“
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Blue thunder is a freedom hating commie and will get you!
Classic Example of 1984 in-action:
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