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New Delhi, India — timesofindia.indiatimes.com
"The prevailing military regime with a civilian facade is the optimal combination for us to strike a deal with. The Indian illusion needs to be buried once for all: that a democratic government, as we understand it, can ever be conjured into existence in Pakistan. The army is the largest political party by far and it has conquered the only country it is capable of conquering — its own." [more]
"The media, some of which appear to be actually lusting for conflict and the ratings it will bring, is more focused on the drums of war instead of the chants of peace. In Washington, cable networks keep up an incessant chatter about the need and the rationale for punishing Iraq." [more]
"'The other thing most Americans haven't understood fully is the reason that India joined the anti-terror war. Much of it from the (ruling) BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) is because of anti-Muslim feelings,' Embree, professor emeritus at Columbia University, New York, maintained.
'I am sure the BJP welcomed Americans because they saw it (the US war against terrorism) not as a war against terrorists, but as a war against Muslim terrorists seen in the light of Kashmir.'" [more]
"Rejecting Islamabad's persistant demand for a plebiscite in Kashmir in accordance with the UN resolution, the US on Friday said it favoured the settlement of the problem bilaterally between India and Pakistan in accordance with the Shimla accord and hoped the coming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir would lead to the resolution of the issue." [more]
"Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has trained between 10,000–50,000 terorists, the US State Department's Coordinator for Counterterrorism Francis Taylor has said. Briefing Non Governmental Organisations, Taylor said 77 suspected terrorists are in custody facing 116 criminal charges." [more]
"Afghans captured by American forces in two raids in Oruzgan in Afghanistan last month have said that they were beaten and abused by American soldiers, despite their protests that they were supporters of Interim leader Hamid Karzai." [more]
"It thus seems fundamental to me that we cannot have a global trading system without a global economic policy, a global health care policy, a global education policy, a global environmental policy and a global security policy. "In effect, we have to create more opportunity for those left behind by progress, thus reducing the pool of potential terrorists by increasing the number of potential partners." [more]
"Reports from Pakistan say the Musharraf regime began asking the US military to return two of the four bases — Jacobabad and Pasni — lent to it for the Afghan operation because of the tensions with India. Whether or not this was a pressure tactic to get the US to lean on India to relax its pressure is unclear, but it transpires that US generals have agreed to move their assets out of Pakistan." [more]
"An unmanned Pakistani spy plane was on Sunday shot down after it intruded into Indian air space in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources here said." [more]
"Even as the CIA saluted its slain colleague, the first American fatality in Afghanistan, 'American hero' Johnny ëMikeí Spann, who died in the prison revolt, British journalists in Mazar-i-Sharif have begun reporting that Spann was less an innocent victim than the one who allegedly provoked the riot." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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