All Saved - Not A Single Drop of Blood "Hindu Tamil Civilians Rescued" - says Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe (By: Walter Jayawardhana)
Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said in Colombo that Sri Lanka was able to save all Tamil civilians trapped inside the war zone without shedding a drop of blood.
He said in recent history Sri Lanka was the country which was able to rescue the largest number of civilian hostages. "These civilians have been trapped by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", he said.
Over 1,300,000 Civilian Refgues in Northwest Displaced & Homeless - Civilians Migrating to Refugee Camps
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Suspected Taliban stormed a depot in northwest Pakistan handling supplies for NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan on Wednesday and torched eight trucks, as the Pakistani army battled militants elsewhere in the region in an offensive that has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing.
Attacks on terminals and trucks rolling through the Khyber Pass toward Afghanistan have ...
Sergeant Drew Peterson arrested today - For murder!
A police officer himself, sargeant Drew Peterson was arrested officers yesterday around 5:30 p.m. He is charged with the murder of his 3rd wife, Stacy Peterson. His 4th wife is still missing and it is unsure what has become of her.
Peterson's capture occured just after the state police had surrounded his vehicle close to his home in Bollingbroke, Ill.
Peterson joked to reporters saying, "Guess I should have returned the library books".
Peterson's attorney Andrew Abood, released a statement on Thursday evening saying Peterson was innocent.
Jordanian religious leaders condemn Pope Benedict's visit to the Middle East
They say it was provocative because he has not apologized for offending comments implying Islam was violent and irrational.
They said the pope, on the first leg of a tour including Israel and the Palestinian territories, still owed them an apology for hinting Islam was violent and irrational ..
Hindu Rebel Tigers Lay Down Arms in Sri Lanka Will This End the 26-Year Conflict -- By Jay Shankar (Bloomberg)
May 18 (Asian Time) -- Tamil Tiger rebels abandoned the defense of their self-declared homeland, handing President Mahinda Rajapaksa the task of unifying Sri Lanka while deflecting claims his army committed a "bloodbath."
"This battle has reached its bitter end," says Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s head of international diplomatic relations, in a statement, according to TamilNet, a Web site that gives reports from the Tamil perspective.
Pakistan's Forgotten Casualties of War Thousands of civilians flee fighting between the military and the Taliban -- Omar Waraich in Chingalai, Buner
A Pakistani policeman searches the belongings of displaced people from the Buner district at a make shift camp in Mardan. Hundreds of thousands of panicked civilians are fleeing Pakistan's Swat district as clashes with Taliban fighters heighten fears that a peace deal is about to collapse. (AFP/Hasham Ahmed)
Shafiq Ullah vividly recalls the night he fled his home. "The helicopters came close over us, growing louder," the silver-bearded farmer says, in quick, panicked breaths.
"I could see the bombs firing from cannons come down on the nearby houses. I saw one house destroyed completely. We waited at first, but then decided to leave. It was dangerous, but we had no choice. I was too afraid to stay there."
Clasping the hands of his children, Mr Ullah walked for two hours from his home in Ambela - the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban fighters - to the relative safety of a mosque in Goga village.
Along the way, they encountered scenes that still haunt him. "It was awful. I saw pregnant women losing their babies, at least three of them. There were also ordinary people's dead bodies lying on the road, and dogs eating their flesh."
Mr Ullah is not alone. With the Pakistani military locked in a crucial battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters, tens of thousands of civilians are estimated to have fled the fighting.
Pirates seized a Dutch cargo vessel on Thursday, a regional maritime group said, in the latest hijack by gangs proliferating off Somalia despite the presence of patrolling foreign warships.
"The crew are said to be safe. We are hearing there are between eight and 18 crew members," said Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.
The 2,575-tonne "Marathon" was heading westbound through the Gulf of Aden when it was seized, he said.
In another of near-daily incidents, the U.S. Navy said pirates fired small arms weapons at one of its supply ships off the coast of Somalia. The USNS Lewis and Clark outran the two pirate skiffs after being chased for about an hour on Wednesday.
Somali pirate activity has increased over recent weeks, despite an unprecedented deployment of warships seeking ... More...>>>
House Speaker Accusses CIA of Lying "Waterboarding" (Drowning Torture) Used to Force Confessions
House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi accussed CIA of "misleading" her and ohters on Capitol Hill regarding their use of "waterboading", a tortured simulating drowning, to get confessions out of prisoners and "detainees" during the Bush administration.
Pentagon to Get "Tough" On Taliban
Afghanistan War Front Needs Fresh Ideas
President Obama released plans to increase troop levels in Afghanistan by some 60,000 by the end of the year. This comes as the Commander of NATO Forces, General David McKieman was fired and replaced by General McChrstal and is very similar to what occured just before the troop surge of 2007 in Iraq. General George Casey had been relieved of his command in Iraq, and he was replaced by General David Petraeus right before the infamous troop surge that put down the violence in Iraq.
After the Commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, was fired by the Defense Secretary Robert Gates, both the White House and the Pentagon indicated they are looking for fresh ideas in the increasingly tough Afghanistan war front.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, had confirmed ...
"We deeply, deeply regreat that loss --"
-- Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State says in an official apology for U.S. air strike killing over 120 innocent civilians.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton
said "we deeply, deeply regret that loss,"
in a meeting with Afghan President Karzai
and President Zardari of Pakistan.
The United States has now apologised for U.S. airstrikes that killed over 100 innocent Afghan civilians.
Civilian casualties are a source of strain between Washington and Kabul at a time of rising protest by some followers of the Taliban.
The Red Cross officials reported seening dozens of Afghan civilians killed in the U.S. air strikes in Farah province - local officials put the death toll at over 120.
This makes it the single deadliest civilian incident since ...
Top U.S. General in Afghanistan - Fired by Pres. Obama
New Team of Commanders To Boost War Efforts
Whitehouse -- Monday May 11, 2009 - President Obama Fired Top U.S. General in Afghanistan
General David McKieman was replaced by General Stanley McChrystal today, apparently due to Pres. Obama keen desire for more a more agressive and less conventional form for a war going downhill real fast in recent weeks.
Gen. McChrystal, a former "Special Forces" commander in known for his background and expertise, replaces Gen. McKieman who has only been in command there for under one year. Gen. McKieman has constantly insisted on having increased number of troops.
Current Situation Becomes Worse for U.S. Troops in Afghan War
Taliban's efforts are increasing in many locations, putting more pressure on the existing U.S. military efforts in the area.
21,000 additional troops have been approved by Pres. Obama, even though ... (read more>>>)
Abu Aisha Claims He Can Prove - Keller's Translation Contains "Deviant Distortions and Disceptions of Fiqh - Mixed with Corrupt Concepts of Belief & Mysticism"
Take a look at this letter - written by Abu Aisha, concerning the "mistranslation" of Reliance of the Traveler (by Nu Ha Meem Keller).
It is most interesting to say the least and we have requested the brother to provide us with any information he might have on Keller's associates - Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir, Mohamed Yaqubi and Abdul Qadir As-Sufi Al-Murabit - founder of the "Murabitoons".
Military "Impersonators" - Killing Our U.S. Military in Iraq
Police reports cite witnesses saying Brig. General A. H. Al Kadhoumi was driving through a central square when a car filled with armed gunmen opened fire on him, filling his body with bullets. Reports say they used pistols with silencers attached, indicating this was no ordinary attack but possibily professional hit men. General Al Kadhoumi was the operations director for the traffic authority there.
Similar incidents involving gunmen armed with sophisticated weapons, including silencers, have been on the rise since ... (click to read)>>>
Just one day after Pakistan announced an end to a military operation in the north-western district of Lower Dir, and already serious confusion reigns in the area.
Government forces moved into the Maidan area of Lower Dir on Sunday to flush out militants and to plug the routes that link up with the Taleban-occupied Bajaur region to the west.
On Tuesday, the army announced the objectives had been achieved. So, many of the displaced families returned home on Wednesday - only to find all the roads connecting to their region - CLOSED to all traffic.
On Foot -
Soldiers did allow them to proceed, but only on foot - for a distance of around 15 miles (15km) - and most of that through towering mountains.
Women, children and the elderly were once again the ones to suffer as a result of the wars and attacks going on in this remote area of the world.Meanwhile, more families continue to .. More..>>
More U.S. 'War Crimes'?
Haji Nangyalai, one of the protesters, said the demonstration had been called to "show our anger at the crimes committed by the American forces".
Another demonstrator said: "People are really angry and they shout 'Death to America!Death to the invaders!They have killed our innocent people .. that is why we are protesting."
"Hurling stones at government buildings and there is some gun fire in the air - but we are not the ones doing that - we don't know who"
U.S. investigators on location in Bala Baluk observed first hand, the deaths of many women, elderly and children - all of whom had gathered in what they were told would be "save places" - the very targets of the air strikes.
An American accused of spying for the United States, Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi spoke during a press briefing outside her home in Tehran.
Saberi, was set free this week from her prison cell in Tehran.
She said she had aquired a classified report on the U.S. war against Iraq and as a result she was tried and convicted on charges of being a spy. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
Roxana is leaving Iran with her parents and a family friend:
US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, was freed from an Iranian jail this week . . . . (more)>>>
AP – Quarantine officials with protective masks and outfits make their way to board a commercial plane that …
US, Costa Rica report swine flu deaths; toll at 53
The number of swine flu-related deaths outside of Mexico rose after the U.S. reported its third fatality and Costa Rica its first, but both men also suffered from complicating illnesses, health officials said.
In Mexico, the center of the outbreak where 48 people with swine flu have died, most of the victims ...
Mingora residents are fleeing as the situation deteriorates
Pakistan's PM says he has ordered the army to "eliminate militants and terrorists", apparently referring to operations against the Taleban.
Yusuf Raza Gilani made the announcement in an evening TV address to the nation.
Fighting has intensified in recent days in the Swat Valley and other parts of the north-west, and thousands of civilians are leaving the area.
This is the very same area where US air strikes killed more than 100 innocent Afghani women, children and elderly, according to official eye witnesses of the Red Cross.
'Witness for Jesus' in Afghanistan - Afghanistan -- May 7, 2009
Soldiers of Jesus in Afghanistan
US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith to Afghanistan's predominantly Muslim population.
Military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were also filmed with bibles printed in the country's main Pashto and Dari languages.
In one recorded sermon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him".
"The special forces guys - they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down," he says.
"Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our business."
Sri Lanka artillery barrage kills 378, doctor says
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – An all-night artillery barrage in Sri Lanka's war zone killed at least 378 civilians and forced thousands to flee to makeshift shelters along the beach, a government doctor said Sunday.
The army and Tamil Tiger rebels blamed each other for the barrage, which the doctor said left at least 1,100 people .... (read more>>>)
See the image taken by onlooker Gregorz Lukasik has convinced believers and even the Vatican believing a likeness of the pontiff himself in the flames, raising his right hand in a blessing.
Abu Aisha Says, Keller's Translation Contains "Deviant Distortions and Disceptions of Fiqh - Mixed with Corrupt Concepts of Belief & Mysticism"
Take a look at this letter - written by Abu Aisha, concerning the "mistranslation" of Reliance of the Traveler (by Nu Ha Meem Keller).
It is most interesting to say the least and we have requested the brother to provide us with any information he might have on Keller's associates - Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir, Mohamed Yaqubi and Abdul Qadir As-Sufi Al-Murabit - founder of the "Murabitoons".
What is the difference between the early Christians spreading their beiefs and today's Christian Soldiers?
Look at our U.S. soldiers promoting their religion to the people in Afghanistan - and the early Christians following Paul's orders to go spread the word for Jesus to the Roman empire.
For one thing, the US military has the most letahl weapons in the history of the world. An easy task to force ideas of faith on an illiterate population. The first Christians were more like the humble villagers of Norther Pakistan and Afghanistan, with little if anything of the material world.
According to well documented news reports, the U.S. Soldiers are being encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan’s predominantly Muslim population. Aljazeera showed Military chaplains stationed in the U.S. air base at Bagram with Bibles printed in the country’s main Pashto and Dari languages.
In one recorded sermon, Lt. Col. Gary Hensley, the chief of the U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling Soldiers that ...
Playboy Priest & "Beach Bunny" Photos
Reverend "Revs It Up" on the Beach
Not defrocked by the church (yet) - "Father Oprah" was caught without his collar (and his frock - and more) romping with beach bunnies in the sun.
Rev. Alberto Cutie is still a priest, at least for now, but without his duties a St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Miami Beach, FL.
Author of "Real Life - Real Love", father Alberto is no longer going to give advice to the masses about life, lover or anything else on his radio or TV talk shows, on the Radio Peace networks.