From: mughal@iago.caltech.edu (ASIM M MUGHAL)
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Subject: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS (18th)
Date: 7 Oct 1992 04:42 PDT
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*     IN THIS ISSUE:                                                 *
*                   - NEWS UPDATE (SEP. 18th)                        *
*                   - MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS FAILURE TO HELP MUSLIMS     *
*                             IN CRISIS.                             *
*                   - ANNOUNCEMENTS                                    *
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BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
More and more evidence is emerging of UN troops acting as spies
against the besieged Muslims in Bosnia.
The boarding of an Iranian plane on September 4 at Zagreb airport
and the Croatian announcement that it was carrying weapons to
the Bosnians, had come following pressure from the US.
The Americans provided intelligence information to the Croats
and then pressured them to board the plane for inspection.
While Greece, Romania and Russia are providing arms and are
involved in sanctions-busting by sending supplies to Serbia,
neither the US nor the UN have acted to halt this illegal
trade.
The UN arms embargo against all the republics of former
Yugoslavia, essentially deprives the Bosnians from
defending themselves. The Serbs have access to the huge stockpiles
of arms of the former Yugoslav army.
On September 16 and 17, Sarajevo Radio reported that Serbian
planes had bombed several cities in Bosnia.
In Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, food supplies have dwindled
and will last only three days. UN relief flights have also been
suspended for now.
The various parties head for Geneva on September 18 for what is
called fresh attempts to bring a halt to the fighting in
Bosnia.
On the eve of the talks, the Serbian fascist leader, Radovan
Karadzic, said that he would strike a deal with the Croats
but ignore the Muslim majority in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

OCCUPIED KASHMIR
The Indian occupation forces have started a new campaign, code-named,
"Operation Tiger", in the Kashmir Valley to crush the
uprising.
Young men, held in Indian interrogation centres in Srinagar and other
parts of the Valley, are systematically being eliminated.
They are not shot, but tortured to death.
Those showing Islamic or pro-Pakistani sentiments are especially
targeted.
Most have been killed with knives. There is also another obnoxious
practice in play.
Organs of the body are also being removed for sale. Kidneys are
a special favourite of the Indian occupation forces.
In India, the sale of kidneys is a thriving industry. Poor
people sell one of their kidneys to earn money. The rich pay
enormous sums to acquire these organs.
The Indian occupiers have now started such ghoulish practices
on young Kashmiri boys held in illegal detention camps.
On September 14, the bodies of four members of the Hizb-ul
Mujahideen were handed over to their families. All had marks of
torture on their bodies and there were deep cuts on them.
Following a medical examination, the doctors confirmed that their
kidneys had been removed.
The Hizb-ul Mujahideen called for a complete strike on September 18
to protest these barbaric practices by the Indian occupiers.

LEBANON
September 17 marks the 10th anniversary of the massacres at Sabra and
Shatilla refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon.
In the early morning of September 14, hundreds of heavily-armed,
Christian Phalange militiamen were allowed to enter these camps by
their zionist allies.
For nearly four days they murdered in cold-blood thousands of people.
The massacre and the screams of innocent men, women and children,
were witnessed and heard by the zionists from their observation points
as well their positions at the entrance to the camps.
They refused to stop these massacres and denied permission for anyone to
enter the camps either.
Only after four days' of slaughter when the Phalangists felt that
they had satiated their blood-letting lust, were the wounded from the
camps allowed to seek medical attention.
The Phalangists and their zionist masters spared nobody and nothing:
even animals -- horses and cats and dogs -- were shot dead. Many
of the dead were left in grotesque postures.
It must be recalled that Palestinian fighters had been evacuated
from Beirut only two days earlier under a US-brokered agreement
under which the US pledged to provide protection to the
Palestinian refugees left behind.
Israel continues to be a favourite surrogate of the US; the Phalange
and their leaders continue to enjoy their life in Lebanon.
No one has been tried for crimes against humanity.
The Palestinians and other Muslims gave Ariel Sharon, then Israeli
defence minister, the title of THE BUTCHER OF BEIRUT.
How appropriate.!
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                Muslim governments' failure to help
                         Muslims in crisis


     The sensational  failure of Muslim governments to rally
seriously to  Muslim Bosnians,  butchered by  the  Christian
Serbian war-machine, and to Somalis, decimated by famine and
civil war,  has focused  attention on their nature, exposing
them as  mere outfits  rigged at  best  to  proffer  ad  hoc
gestures delivered with frenzied verbal solidarity.
     However, this  token action  has not even been on offer
at some  Islamic battlefronts, such as Kashmir and Karabakh,
where Muslim  regimes have  made a  virtue out  of inaction,
cynically arguing  that any  attempt to take sides will lead
to wider  conflagrations.   No Muslim  country,  other  than
Pakistan, which  is directly  involved, can validly claim to
have resisted India's resolve to annex Kashmir, although the
conflict has  been around  since 1948.  Likewise, Azerbaijan
has fended  for itself without any support from other Muslim
countries in  its four-year-old  confrontation with  Armenia
over Karabakh.   Even  Turkey, which claims kinship with the
Azeris, has  sent only a handful of retired army officers to
Baku as a gesture of solidarity.
     In several  cases, such as that of Palestine, the enemy
has   successfully exploited  this mixture of empty rhetoric
and lack  of meaningful  deeds to  portray themselves as the
victims of  Islamic aggression.  Israel has  managed to turn
itself into  an impregnable fortress with lavish US arms and
funding extended  ostensibly to  stave off  "vastly superior
Arab armies poised to throw the zionist State into the sea".
     These mythical  armies, of  course, existed only in the
war-zones of  Arab rhetoric,  dished out  by Arab  dictators
eager  to  support  the  Palestinian  cause  publicly  while
privately doing  the US bidding.   Bosnia is the most recent
example of  token action  and  maximum  rhetoric  by  Muslim
governments being  sensationalised into  a  "declaration  of
jihad" against the true aggressor (the Serbs in this case).
            The very  western media,  which have exposed the
brutality of  the Serbian  war-machine and  the  horrors  of
Serbian-run death-camps,  are describing  the limited Muslim
response  to   the  plight   of  Bosnian  Muslims  as  major
contributions.   The British  Sunday  Times  newspaper,  for
instance, reported  on August  29  that  a  "first  wave  of
mujahideen" had  been sent  to Bosnia  to "wage  a jihad, or
holy war,  against the Serbs."   Three days later, The Times
of London  published an  even more  sensational report under
the headline:  "Arab States and Iran move closer to jihad in
the Balkans".   In  compiling its  report, The  Times relied
heavily  on  a  review  of  financial  donations  by  Muslim
countries and  rhetoric in  Arab media.  It made much of the
$8 million donated by king Fahd out of his personal fortune,
the $3  million offered  by Shaikh Jaber Ahmad al-Sabah, the
amir of  Kuwait, and  the  $10  million  loan  announced  by
Pakistan.    The  Times  mostly  cited  Saudi  or  pro-Saudi
newspapers to prove its thesis that Muslim countries were so
angry about  Serbian butchery  of Bosnian  Muslims that they
were on  the verge  of declaring  jihad.  The commentator of
Al-Riad newspaper  was said  to have  described the  Bosnian
fighting as  a "prelude  to the  war between  Islam and  the
west."    Al-Riad  and Al-Yaum,  another Saudi  paper,  were
quoted as  calling on  Muslims to  "declare a  jihad to save
Islam".   The Times  pointed out  that the  Arab  media  and
governments had  ignored  the  disaster  in  Somalia  -  "an
entirely Muslim  country and   member  of the Arab League" -
claiming  that   Saudi  Arabia   had  actually  turned  away
boatloads of  Somali refugees.      However,  the  newspaper
perversely interpreted  this as  showing that  more  was  at
stake in  the Bosnian  disaster:  "The  Middle  East  States
want to  retain a foothold in the new ordering of Europe and
seem, in  pursuit of  this aim,  to be ready to fund a war."
Yet both  the contributions and the rhetoric reviewed showed
a criminal opt-out rather the commitment to jihad claimed by
the newspaper.
     Even The  Sunday Times  found it  impossible to sustain
its August  report of  a declaration  of jihad  in Bosnia by
Muslim States.   Only  one week  after the report (September
6), its Middle East correspondent Andrew Hogg argued that no
country in  the Middle  East was  prepared to  fight in  the
Balkans, and  all the  countries were  content  to  dispense
humanitarian aid  and rhetoric.  The foreign policies of the
overwhelming majority  of Muslim  countries are  directed in
close cooperation  with US policy makers, particularly after
the collapse of the Soviet Union.
            Most of  the Muslim capitals, which express loud
solidarity with  Bosnian Muslims, were members of the US-led
alliance which destroyed Iraq - an Arab and Muslim country -
to help president George Bush to shed his "wimp" image.

     King Fahd,  who donated  $8 million for the Bosnian and
$3 million  for the Somali disaster funds had paid more than
$60 BILLION  towards the  funding of the rape of Iraq by the
allied armies, and spent $200 BILLION on the construction of
US bases  in Saudi  Arabia.  The Saudi monarch has also paid
out vast  sums of  money to  fund CIA covert projects around
the globe.     His financing of the contras in Nicaragua and
of Jonas Savimbi's  guerrillas in Angola is well-documented.
     King Fahd  even personally  approved funds for the CIA-
conceived attempted  assassination of  Shaikh Fadhlullah  in
Lebanon in  1985.   Shaikh Jabir  had  donated  one  million
dollars to  the animals  of the  London zoo  long before  he
thought he  could make political capital out of his donation
to Bosnians,  but, he  has not announced any contribution to
the Somali  disaster fund.  Perhaps, the Kuwaiti amir thinks
Bosnian Muslims  are worth  only two  million more  than the
animals at  London zoo,  while Somalis  are worth even less.
     Significantly, Fahd's  $3 million  belated donation  to
the  Somali  disaster  fund  came  only  after  the  US  had
announced its food airlift to Somali refugee camps in Wajir,
southern Kenya.    The Saudi contribution would also only be
confined to  places benefiting  from the  US airlift.  Saudi
Arabia is  not alone  in supplementing  the  foreign  policy
agendas of the west. The majority of Muslim governments have
a  distinguished   history  as  proxies  of  the  west  (and
sometimes of  the east  until the  collapse  of  communism).
     Those who  sought ideological legitimacy in an alliance
with the former Soviet Union have now joined the disgraceful
scramble for  US favours.
              Muslim  governments  have  also  distinguished
themselves in  suppressing internal revolts.  Throughout the
Muslim world  Islamic activists  are at the receiving end of
brutal  repression.  From  Algeria  to  Indonesia  they  are
persecuted for  their belief that only an Islamic revolution
will liberate  their countries  from internal  dictatorships
and subservience to the west.
           Even Jordan's king Husain, who reached a workable
arrangement with the Muslim Brothers in his kingdom, has now
begun arresting some Islamic activists, including members of
parliament. It  is these  twin tasks,  kowtowing to the west
and maintaining themselves in power, that Muslim regimes are
organised to  discharge.  That is why they do them well, and
why they  fail spectacularly  to go to the rescue of fellow-
Muslims who  are in  desperate need  of help or engaged in a
life-and-death struggle.

M. C.
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