Round'em up! v.082505

From Major K - March 25 2005
Arhabi

It is pronounced: ahr-HAH-bee. It is the Iraqi arabic word for terrorist. 2LT C. does not like it because "it just doesn't sing. I learned this word from our interpreters and use it often. I never use mujahedin or jihadi, because they imply a measure of respect due an actual warrior. After all, both of those terms mean "holy warrior." This distinction is also very important to the Iraqis. They have told me repeatedly that these guys are cowards who will not even stand and fight. They kill innocent people, and bomb indiscriminately. They have been their own worst enemy in the public relations department. Even though 2LT C. likes to refer to them using the A-word,(describing a posterior extremity) he would like to find something more catchy. I am content to use arhabi. It lets the locals know exactly who we are after, and what this really is about - not oil, not religion, but security and the hope for a better future

And if you thought that Major K was kidding about that Arhabi business, look at this piece of dreck at arhabi.org.

Hey, Painday, what's in a name?
Afghan raids kill eleven Taliban rebels

"among them a famous Taliban commander called Mullah Painday Mohammed."

At Islamonline.net they put this spin on the Bangladesh gang bombing of Dhaka.Bangladeshi bombs to send message, not kill: Experts
As if that makes any difference! They are still bombs. Sheesh. Here's a sampler:

"Judging from the limited impact of the blasts and the use of home-made bombs, the attackers wanted to send a clear message rather than cause a carnage." The bombs, which killed a man and a 10-year-old boy and wounded more than 100 people, exploded in all but a few of the country’s 64 cities between 10:30 am and 11:30 a.m. Although no group has yet claimed responsibility for the orchestrated nationwide attacks, police said they have found leaflets bearing the name of the recently banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
group. Police said Thursday they had rounded up almost 90 people in the wake of the attacks, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "One of them has confessed that he was Jamayet-ul-Mujahideen's local leader and that he carried out an attack here," said Abdur Rahim, superintendent of police in Satkhira district, where two people were detained.

Jamayet-ul-Mujahideen is led by the so-called "Bangla Bhai" who has been on the run since his group was banned in February, according to IOL’s Correspondent...

Bangladesh is the world's third largest Muslim-majority nation with a population of 140 million. Asked what might have driven the group to use violence, Al-Sawi cited "rampant economic and political corruption in Bangladesh ."

Bangladesh has a long history of political violence, labor strife and gang warfare, according to IOL’s Correspondent. But Wednesday's blasts turned the focus on the presence of extremist group, who have been blamed in the past for bomb explosions at religious shrines and rallies. Early this year, former Bangladesh finance minister S.A.M.S. Kibria, was killed by militants, sparking protests by opposition against violence in the region. In another carnage last November, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina herself was injured.

And you knew it was coming. Here come's the ROP mantra.

"The nation will not tolerate any sort of extremism in the name of religion. Our religion Islam is a religion of peace and it opposes terrorism," Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, a senior minister and secretary-general of the BNP, told a rally.

Don't tell me it was the Jooooos!

Opposition parties have also called for a day-long countrywide protest strike on Saturday. "The bomb attacks were a conspiracy against the nation. A vested quarter deliberately did it to brand Muslims as terrorists," Mohammad Hanif, a leader of Awami League, told another rally.

Slim pickings in the J & K but hey, it includes members of the Jamiat ul Mujahideen. Which I believe to be the same of the Bangladeshi group listed as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen/Jamayet-ul-Mujahideen listed above. (Dang all these crazy muslim versions of spelling the same thing.)

SRINAGAR: Six persons, including two militants, were killed in separate incidents, while security forces seized a huge cache of arms and explosives in Jammu and Kashmir since Wednesday night. Two militants affiliated with the Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen were killed in an encounter with security forces during search operations in Karmulla forest in the Tral area of Pulwama district on Wednesday night, a police spokesman said. A civilian, Mohammad Shaban of Mandoora, was injured in the crossfire and was hospitalised, he said. Two AK assault rifles and three magazines were recovered from the militants— PTI

And now - this time it really was the Joooos!
IDF kills Jihad, Hamas terrorists in Tulkarm

"Four Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists were killed in a gun battle with IDF forces in the West Bank Palestinian town of Tulkarm Wednesday night. Among the dead was the commander of the military wing of Hamas in the city, Army Radio reported. According to officials in Israel's security
services, the four had taken part in terror attacks against Israelis, including the attack at the "Stage" club in Tel Aviv, at Hasharon Mall and at Shavei Shomron. The IDF was operating in Tulkarm in order to arrest wanted activists.

The city of Tulkarm declared a general strike Wednesday night in protest over the deaths."

Chinese Detainees Are Men Without a Country
15 Muslims, Cleared of Terrorism Charges, Remain at Guantanamo With Nowhere to Go

"Hey, Hey we're the Uighers. People say we Uigher around, but we're too busy uighing to put anybody down"...

"In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 were deemed low-risk detainees whose enemy was China's communist government -- not the United States, according to senior U.S. officials."

"For the Chinese Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs ), there is no end in sight. About 20 countries -- including Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Turkey and a Latin American country -- have turned down U.S. overtures to give them asylum, according to U.S. officials."

Uighurs are a Muslim minority whose heartland is in northwestern China. They are a Turkic people who speak a language similar to others in neighboring Central Asian nations and have long sought autonomy in China's Xinjiang province -- a region Uighurs refer to as East Turkistan.

Ironically, many view the United States as a "beacon of hope" that "will assist in the Uighurs' quest for fundamental freedom and human dignity," said Nury Turkel, a U.S.-trained lawyer and president of the Uighur American Association in Washington.

"They are not soldiers. They are not criminals. They are just Uighur people," Willett argued in court. ". . . There might not be a more pro-U.S. Muslim group in the world. The Uighurs have traditionally suffered under religious and political oppression at the hands of the Communist Chinese, and I can remember a time when that made a person someone we liked in this country."
Read the rest for more of the Uighers side of the story...