Hamas: 'Resistance' against Israel is only option left for Palestinians

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal addresses Tehran conference 'in support of the Palestinian Intifada'; Iranian supreme leader tells conference that UN bid for statehood will fail.

By The Associated Press and Haaretz

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal told an international conference in Iran on Saturday that "resistance" was the only option left for the Palestinians.

Meshal was addressing the "5th International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada" in Iran’s capital Tehran.

	In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal Cairo, Egypt on May 4, 2011.
	Photo by: AP

"Palestinians must resort to resistance no matter how costly it is, until Palestine is free and Israel is destroyed," Meshal said.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who also spoke at the conference on Saturday, assailed a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, saying the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations is doomed to fail.

Khamenei told the conference, which was attended by other by senior Palestinian militant leaders as well as Mashaal, that the Palestinians should not limit themselves to seeking a country based on the pre-1967 borders because "all land belongs to Palestinians."

"Our claim is freedom of Palestine, not part of Palestine. Any plan that partitions Palestine is totally rejected," Khamenei told the conference.

"Palestine spans from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean), nothing less."

Khamenei claimed that a two state solution would mean "giving in to the demand of the Zionists" and that it would "trample the rights of the Palestinian people" to live on their land.

Khamenei also called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that should be removed.

Hamas has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Last week, Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh accused Abbas.of relinquishing Palestinian rights by seeking recognition for a state in the pre-1967 borders.

"The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives," Haniyeh said. "States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established."

Pakistan: AKI reporter Shahzad 'was initially supposed to be beaten, not killed'

Via: adnkronos.com

Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad was probably killed by his country’s
powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, but the initial order
was to rough him up and give him a scare, according to a recent article in
The New Yorker magazine.

But sometime before he disappeared on 29 May the order changed from kidnap and hurt to kill, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Dexter Filkins wrote, citing an unnamed senior American official.

Shahzad disappeared in Islamabad on 29 May. His body was recovered two days later in the remote rural area of Mandi Bahauddin, 150 kilometres southwest of the capital Islamabad, bearing signs of torture.

Pakistan's powerful military spy agency ISI has denied any involvement in Shahzad's abduction and murder, which occurred just days after he published an article in Asia Times Online alleging links between Al-Qaeda and officials in the Pakistani navy. He was also a contributor to Adnkronos International (AKI).

Shahzad upset the ISI for his articles that shed light on alleged ties between the Pakistani spy agency and Al-Qaeda. One article said Al-Qaeda, not the Taliban, attacked the Mehran base as punishment for the military’s crackdown on Al-Qaeda affiliates within the Pakistani navy.

Shahzad also seemed to have contact with Al-Qaeda’s chief of global military operations Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri, who he wrote was responsible for the Mehran attack. Previously he got a major scoop by reporting that Kashmiri was actually not killed in a 2009 drone attack, as reported by US intelligence sources. When Kashmiri actually was killed by a drone days after Shazad’s murder, it raised suspicion that Shahzad caved in under torture and revealed the militant’s location to his interrogators, the New Yorker said.

His trouble with the ISI started months earlier on 25 March after he published an article that Osama Bin Laden was on the move, he told Filkins nine days before he disappeared, during meeting at an Islamabad coffee shop near Shahzad’s home.

He got a phone call from an ISI officer, “summoning him to the agency’s headquarters, in Aabpara, a neighbourhood in eastern Islamabad. When Shahzad showed up, he was met by three ISI officers. The lead man, he said, was a naval officer, Rear Admiral Adnan Nazir, who serves as the head of the ISI’s media division,” the article said. They asked him to retract the story and Shazad refused.

“We want the world to believe that Osama is dead,” Nazir said, according to Shahzad’s account. “They were obviously trying to protect bin Laden,” he told Filkins.

A book written by Shahzad was to be published that explored the links between Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the ISI and the Pakistani journalist thought this would further anger his country’s intelligence agency.

Shahzad was vocal about his opposition to terror. But while in university he was involved in the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist party that recruited thousands of people for armed groups. He told journalists that some of his contacts were the same people he met in Jamaat-e-Islami.

Filkins said there are other reason’s the ISI may have wanted Shahzad dead. He may have been a suspected foreign agent.

US flags in demand... so they can be burned

Via: telegraph

 

It is five years since a stationer in Rawalpindi came up with the bright idea of printing flags for political demonstrations.

This week brought fresh demand for the Stars and Stripes with a wave of

demonstrations against American allegations that Pakistan was using an

Afghan insurgent group to wage a proxy war against US forces Photo: EPA

 

By Rob Crilly, Islamabad

 

Not Pakistani flags to be waved in celebration, but Danish flags to be burned in anger at blasphemous cartoons.

Since then, Syed Mohammed Hussain has seen his one-off experiment turn into a profitable little sideline as he produces American and Israeli flags to order.

This week brought fresh demand for the Stars and Stripes with a wave of demonstrations against American allegations that Pakistan was using an Afghan insurgent group to wage a proxy war against US forces.

But it all started with protests at caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed printed in a Danish newspaper in 2006. Pakistan witnessed some of the fiercest demonstrations, with two people shot dead.

"I was also very angry about the Danish cartoons but I wouldn't have gone out on the streets myself. Instead I decided to get Danish flags printed," Mr Hussain, who sells his flags for 500 rupees or about £3.50, told The Express Tribune

 

Word spread fast and he couldn't keep up with the orders.

Today, bulk buyers – looking for more than 100 flags – are given a discount.

And there has been no shortage of business this year as relations with the US have fluctuated between poor and catastrophic.

The killing of Osama bin Laden in May ignited a spate of flag-burning protests. Many Pakistanis were angry that the US could launch a secret, unauthorised raid on Pakistani territory.

Today his storeroom has a selection of western flags, including the Union Flag and French Tricolour, ready to be stamped, trampled or burned.

Mr Hussain said he wasn't sorry his hard work ended up as nothing but a small pile of ash.
"The demand is there and if I don't sell them, someone else will," he said.

Angola Gets Rid of Its Hezbollah Muslims; When Will We?

By Debbie Schlussel

As you know from reading this site, entire Michigan cities, including Dearbornistan and Dearbornistan Heights, are Hezbollah-occupied territory. The large populations of Hezbollah-supporting Shi’ite Muslims are engaged in money-laundering, phony charities, and other financial and moral support to Hezbollah, the terrorist group that murdered over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in barracks and Embassy bombings in Beirut and worked with Al-Qaeda to murder many more Americans.  But the country of Angola knows how to deal with them.

Contrast Angola’s actions with those of our own officials who are in bed with Hezbollah’s Shi’ites, here in America.

Angola on Tuesday expelled 140 foreign nationals, including 16 Lebanese, on suspicions of terrorism and money laundering, a government official said.

“These foreigners were expelled from Angola because of their illegal status and for money laundering and for terrorism,” said Fretas Neto, who heads Angola’s foreign migration office.
The action was taken, he explained, “to safeguard the national interest and guarantee the internal security of the Angolan state.”

Police also probed four other Lebanese nationals and plans to expel them shortly, Neto said.
“They will be banned from the country for a period of more than 20 years,” he added.

Since a protracted civil war ended in 2002, Angola has attracted a substantial number of foreigners looking to capitalise on an economic boom fuelled by the flourishing oil industry and the diamond trade.

There are several Lebanese-owned businesses in the capital Luanda, mainly in the import-export sector.

And those businesses are all funding Hezbollah.  Bet on it.

That’s how you deal with them. You deport them.  Sadly, the way America deals with ‘em is to hold Ramadan Iftar dinners and monthly “dialogue” for them and to give them millions of dollars in government financing for their welfare agencies, which attracts more and more of them to this country to milk the system and suck us dry. And they are laughing at us all the way to the bank . . . and the terrorist-financing hawala.
Alhamdillullah [praise allah].