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From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: mLet's conratulate her...
Date: 12 Dec 1992 05:46:45 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


BOSNIA AID BECOMES A PERSONAL MISSION 
 
December 10,1992 
 
BY ALEX TIZON 
 
Seattle Times 
 
 SEATTLE - A newspaper story about war atrocities in the 
former Yugoslavia has inspired a Seattle-area woman to drop 
everything, collect relief supplies and deliver them in 
person to needy refugees in the war-torn region~ 
 Susan Conley of Lake Forest Park will fly out of Seattle-
Tacoma International Airport this morning with 10 boxes of 
winter coats, boots, toys and antibiotics. 
 Her destination: a rural village in  Bosnia-Herzegovina  
named Mijkovici, which has been occupied and razed by 
Serbian soldiers, leaving 49 farming families to live among 
the ruins. 
 "l've never done anything like this," said Conley, 29, a 
communications specialist for an electronics company in 
Redmond, Wash . , east of Seattle . "I am a very methodical 
person. I live a very planned life . " 
 C;onley said she had been following the developments in the 
former Yugoslavia, feeling bad for the land ~nd the people 
she had visited as a tourist two years ago. Then, a little 
over a week ago, she picked up a copy of the Seattle Times, 
which had a front-page story about rape victims in Bosnia. 
 The article's description of one victim, a 60-year-old 
woman.~, who had been gang-raped by Serbian soldiers and 
left devastated and hopeless, especially moved Conley. 
 "It made me want to help her somehow, give her something, 
anything so that she would see there is still love in the 
world." 
 She dug up a flier she had picked up in a church in 
Scottsdale, Ariz., soliciting aid for Bosnian and Croatian 
victims. She called the number and was told four people from 
Scottsdale were leaving for Mijkovici, and that she could go 
with them. 
 "The moment I told her 1 would go 1 was panicked," Conley 
said. "1 was thinking, `What have 1 gotten myself into?' " 
She said she has felt every emotion, including out-and-out 
fear. 
 She felt that fear: most recently while getting travel 
inoculations. her doctor asked if she wanted to borrow his 
bulletproof vest. She said yes. 
 The outpouring of help and support from friends and family 
has helped calm the fear, Conley said. She even managed to 
persuade a friend to come along on her eight-day relief 
mission. 
 "People think we're crazy, but that's all right," said John 
Bucy, 31 , a computer-software engineer from Renton, Wash. 
 Conley and Bucy will take time off work and pay for their 
trip, which is estimated to cost about $2,600 each, with 
their savings. 
 "I won't be buying Christmas presents this year," Conley 
said. 

Newsgroups: soc.relgion.islam,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.iranian
From: hashem@netcom.com (Basil Hashem)
Subject: Islamic Computing Resource Guide (Rel 2.0) - Intro
Organization: Netcom
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:59:31 GMT

Assalamu Alaikum,

Well, it's been almost 6 months since I've updated the Islamic Computing
Resource Guide. Too long I suppose..... but here it is. Release 2.0.

What is it?
The Islamic Computing Resource Guide is a listing of software and network
resources such as electronic mailing lists, forums, and remote sites (on the
Internet and otherwise) related to Islamic discussion.

In the software section are listed Quran and Hadith database programs,
educational programs and games, prayer calculation programs and other
software.

In the network resources section are listed file archive sites with Islamic-
related information as well as forums and discussion groups.

What Next?
There will be two additional messages following this introductory message.
The first will be a Macintosh BinHex'ed file of a Microsoft Word 5.0 document
that has the guide in a pretty format - nice cover page, multiple columns, etc.
You will need to decode the binhex format and then you can use the file
normally. The document is 13 pages when printed out.

The next message contains a text version of the Guide. Obviously, this format
lacks the nice formatting features, but for those without a Macintosh, this
will have to do. It is approximately 20 pages long.

If you have any questions or fail to receive a copy, please send me e-mail
and I will make sure you get forwarded a copy.

Salam,

-Basil
hashem@netcom.com
-- 
"I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous"
Basil Hashem
basil@netcom.com
KPMG Peat Marwick
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 12:48:29 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Tajiks seeking refuge in Afghanistan

From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 15:36:45 EST


        GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) -- More than 35,000 Tadzhik refugees, hoping
to escape civil strife in their homeland, have now braved the icy waters
of the Amu Darya River to swim to asylum in northern Afghanistan, the U.
N. High Commission for Refugees said Thursday.
        New arrivals, many barefoot and almost all without warm clothes, are
straggling across the border at a rate of 5,000 a day the agency said.
UNHCR and other relief organizations based at Mazar-i-Sharif in
Afghanistan are mobilizing relief supplies, and negotiations are under
way with Afghan officials to build a new camp in the area, a UNHCR
spokesman said.
        The refugees began crossing the river, which forms the border with
Afghanistan and is guarded on the Tadzhik side by troops of the CIS,
over the weekend. Preliminary reports from Mazar-i-Sharif say some are
suffering from bullet wounds and many more from exposure, the spokesman
said.
        The UNHCR is also mobilizing supplies in an attempt to help the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which is working with
more than 100,000 displaced Tadzhiks inside the borders of their own
country.
        The ICRC said Thursday it had delivered emergency medical supplies to
three hospitals in Dushanbe, the Tadzhik capital, and had distributed
clothing and blankets to 6,600 displaced persons who have taken refuge
in the city. The ICRC has been working in Dushanbe since Oct. 30.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:29:52 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: The Stinger Bazaar

From: clarinews@clarinet.com (ANWAR IQBAL)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:58:39 PST


        ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- A Pakistani official said Sunday his
government helped the United States buy back Stinger missiles from
Afghan guerrillas who fought a successful war against Soviet-backed
communists.
        Washington reportedly supplied hundreds of Stinger missiles to the
Muslim fundamentalist rebels or mujahideen to shoot down Soviet planes
during the 14-year war. Although the Soviets withdrew in 1989 and the
communist regime in Kabul collapsed last April, the mujahideen did not
return the missiles.
        ``Recently we helped buy back 100 Stinger missiles from the Afghans
and gave them back to the U.S. administration,'' said Akram Zaki,
secretary-general for foreign affairs in the Pakistani foreign office.
        A U.S. Embassy spokesman asked to confirm Zaki's claim said: ``We
have no comments.''
        Western diplomatic sources in Islamabad said efforts by the CIA to
buy back the missiles had not been very successful. The mujahideen
groups, reportedly believing the Americans wanted the missiles back at
any cost, were demanding three to four times the original price for
them.
        The Stingers were originally priced from $25,000-$35,000 apiece, but
the mujahideen allegedly were asking as much as $80,000 apiece.
        The shoulder-fired missiles supplied to the mujahideen in the mid-
1980s proved very accurate against Soviet aircraft. The Afghans claimed
they shot 250 planes with 340 missiles during the last phase of the war.
        Americans sent the Stingers to the mujahideen at a time when the
Soviet jet fighters and gunship helicopters had paralyzed the Afghan
resistance.
        Western diplomatic sources said under an agreement, the mujahideen
had to return the empty shells once the missiles were fired. Although U.
S. diplomats in Islamabad refused to disclose how many missiles were
supplied to the mujahideen, other diplomatic sources said they ran into
hundreds.
        They said a recent count of empty shells showed several hundred
Stingers were still in the hands of the mujahideen.
        The Americans reportedly feared the missiles could fall into the
hands of enemy countries or terrorist groups, after media reports in the
late 1980s that some Stingers had been supplied to Iran.
Newsgroups: soc.relgion.islam,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.iranian
From: chao6@husc11.harvard.edu (James Chao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.african
Subject: World Model United Nations Conference in Czechoslovakia
Date: 21 Dec 92 05:09:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec21.000918.18726
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

To all those interested in international relations, politics, and the
United Nations: 

Harvard World Model United Nations (WorldMUN) is an international
conference that brings together university students and young
professionals from around the globe to siimulate the workings of the
United Nations.  The second annual WorldMUN conference will be held from
March 28, 1993, through March 31, 1993, at the Hotel Diplomat in Prague,
Czechoslovakia.  

Ten committees, representing the General Assembly, Economic and Social
Council, and Specialized Agencies of the United Nations, will discuss
issues from the actual UN agenda.  In addition to the formal debate of
resolutions, committee sessions will be augmented by presentations from
politicians, businessmen, scholars, and activists who have helped shape
the dramatic world events of recent years.

In this era of momentous political change, WorldMUN seeks to assess the
role of the United Nations in a new world order.  WorldMUN marks the first
truly international simulated United Nations where participants play the
roles of their own nation's ambassadors.  WorldMUN strives to teach
tomorrow's leaders about the United Nations and its methods of conflict
resolution.  It aims to foster skills in negotiation and debate, in order
that delegates may formulate resolutions on topics currently discussed in
the real United Nations.  These resolutions will be sent to the actual
United Nations committees.

WorldMUN 1993 will take place at the Hotel Diplomat in Prague,
Czechoslovakia.  The Hotel Diplomat is Prague's most modern conference
center.  Prague is both one of the most beautiful metropoles of Europe and
an ideal location for debating current world politics and the changing
role of the United Nations.

The Hotel diplomat is a luxury resort that offers restaurants, shops, a
night club, and fitness and spa equipment.  Delegates will stay at the
Hotel Diplomat for the reduced rate of 130DM/day double occupancy, which
includes two meals a day.

Delegate registration is $US60 per delegate.  For more information, please
reply to this e-mail address or write/fax:
Joshua A. Salomon, Secretary-General
Harvard World Model United Nations 1993
Suite 23, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-3810
UNITED STATES

Telephone:  001-617-493-6995
Fax:  001-617-493-6995

James Chao
chao6@husc.harvard.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 20:42:35 CST
From: Mohammed Ayazur Rahman <U54753@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: The Stinger Bazaar

No, No,...Noooooooooooooooooop.

please dont use stingers against each other

please dont hand them over to the U.S government

Best use is to send these STINGERS MISSILES to Kashmir and Bosnia


regards,

AYAZ SHAH
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan)
Subject: Re: Khales instructed ...
Keywords: Jihad
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:08:14 GMT

In article <1gj5hjINNhuh@girtab.usc.edu> jodar@girtab.usc.edu (Nicholas Jodar) writes:
>
>Assalamu Alaikum....
>
>Auzu Billahi Min Ash-Shaitan Nirajeem.  Bismillah...
>
>In article <1992Dec14.190253.14344@wam.umd.edu> endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan) writes:
>>
>>Afghan brothers and sisters, we have to speak out. These thugs have taken 
>>Islam as a hostage and they expect us to stand aside and watch while they are
>>taking our country, our religion and our culture for a ride. We have to expose
>>their true worth and their evil intentions. We have to rise above sectarian
>>and ethnic barriers, barriers that these Watan Feroshan and their masters 
>>have erected for us, and face this shameful and open intervention and 
>>manipulation of our country. Khalis and the rest of his brothers, the 
>>ill-begotten pups of Zia, are none but ISI agents and we all very well know
>>it. How long are we going to watch this comedy in Kabul. The only way to 
>>stop this organized crime against the peaple of Afghanistan is organize 
>>against them. 
>>
>>H.Abed   ( More next time )
>
>Brother, perhaps some of the energy you spend bashing various
>people here on 'soc.culture.afghanistan' could be better spent?

If today U.S.A was taken over by a puppet Government and you knew
it very well that this was the case how would you react ? I do not
enjoy bashing anyone. But I am also not going to sit and listen to
the patronizing of some con artists who as I said earlier have taken
my country and my religion as a hostage. This agression will not stand.

>Agreed, action should be taken.  So take it.  In fact, why 
>don't you go over there and straighten things out?  What they
>need is somebody who's got their head on straight.
>

And it will be taken. And is taken. 

And as far as me going there. Well I just came from there. I intend 
to finish my education. I serve in my own limited way by honestly
and frankly telling what has happened to my country and what is 
happening. A decade in the refugee camps has thought me a lot. I do
stand guilty of abandoning my country and peaple when they most 
needed help. I do not need you to tell me how to serve my country.
I have a very clear conscioune about that. 
 


>What Afghanistan needs is to establish a Khilafa, not a
>republic.
>

Here we go again. I think we have exhausted that subject long time
ago and so maybe you should read some old postings.


>-AQ
>

H.Abed.  ( Though thank you for your advise Mr.Joder.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira)
Subject: Nationalism just stinks like CIA overbaked agents..
Organization: ECE - Concordia University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:07:01 GMT

Anybody with a clear mind will notice how those two guys are
trying to scare people who interfere with their dirty agenda by
intimidation and slander... I do not need to reply to them, their
posts are self-condemning.. It is clear from the odor of their posts
that if they are CIA agents, then they are overbaked..

I am not impressed nor scared.. It is just that Afghanistan group
is among 30 groups that I scan everyday (in about 30 mn) and I do not
have the time to reply to them, but I am now convinced that this is not
Soc.culture.Afghanistan but Talk.CIA.afghanistan... So I am
not interested.. All I can say, God help Afghanistanis who will have
to deal with such people for so long (14 years and counting)
I am not going to help them, I have enough people like that to deal
with in my country.

WASSALAM ALA MAN ITTABA ALHUDA.
(Salam to whoever deserves it).

=============================================================
Modified Murphy's first law of realistic probability:
If it can happen, it will happen...
Unless of course "it" is a good thing.
::::::::::::::********************************:::::::::::::::
Ilyess Ben Ali Bdira    Montreal Quebec  Canada
E-mail ilyess@ECE.concordia.CA, benali@alcor.concordia.CA
Phone Number and Address variable...
::::::::::::::********************************:::::::::::::::
From: endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan)
Subject: Re: Wakeup Muslims
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:41:42 GMT

In article <1g80maINN4en@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali) writes:
>==============================================================
>                        IT'S TIME TO
>
>
>                       W A K E   U P!
>
>- Hundreds of thousands of our Muslim sisters and brothers are
>  being killed, raped, and victimized in Bosnia
>
>- Hundreds of thousands of our Muslim brothers and sisters are
>  being strarved to death in Somalia
>
>- Our mosques are being destroyed in India
>
>- Muslims are being oppressed all over the world: Palestine,
>  Algeria, Kashmir, Egypt, the Balkans, here in America ...
>
>        WHAT ARE OUR SO-CALLED "MUSLIM LEADERS" DOING?
>
>                       N O T H I N G...
>
>==============================================================
>
>            Show your outrage at these attacks
>         against our Muslim brothers and sisters
>
>                  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
>                    4:00pm - 6:00pm
>                Saudi Arabia Consulate
>        10900 Wilshire Blvd. (at Westwood Blvd.)
>
>Sponsored by _Muslim WakeUp!_, Southern California Chapter
>==============================================================

Sponsored by Saudi Arabia Consulate !!!!!

We have a good idiom for this in Dari,

"Koor khud,  Bena-e-Mardum".

 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Re: babak
Originator: sehari@class1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:02:39 GMT


---
Q.  What do call a urinal that Sigmund Freud used?
A.  A Freudian Urinal.

                           With highest regards,
                                Babak   Sehari.

--
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:54:49 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Leadership quarrels

From: clarinews@clarinet.com (ANWAR IQBAL)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 9:20:13 PST



        ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Opponents of interim Afghan President
Burhanuddin Rabbani called for his resignation Wednesday, asking him to
quit immediately and transfer power to Vice President Mohammad Nabi
Mohammadi, according to the Afghan News Agency.
        The agency, which is affiliated with the opposition, said a group of
prominent religious scholars and guerrilla commanders have asked Rabbani
to ``relinquish the post of president to Vice President Mohammadi.''
        The group demanded Rabbani's ouster after a three-day meeting outside
Kabul, but supported his moves for convening a consultative council to
form a future administrative arrangement for Afghanistan.
        However, they asked Rabbani to dissociate himself from the council
and let the vice president handle it.
        The news agency, run by Rabbani's arch-rival Hekmatyar, said seven of
the nine main former rebel groups also supported these demands.
        The seven parties are also meeting at Pule Charkhi, about 9 miles
from Kabul, and continued their deliberations Wednesday for the second
consecutive day.
        The agency claimed that several prominent leaders, including
Hekmatyar, Maulavi Yunus Khalis, Syed Ahmad Gailani and Sibghatullah
Mojaddedi, also attended the meeting.
        All head their own guerrilla groups. Khalis and Gailani are
candidates for the post of president, while Mojaddedi is a former
president who headed the first mujahideen government after the collapse
of the communist regime in April.
        The agency said the sides determined it was important to have a
consultative council for a strong government in the future. They also
felt that they could not trust Rabbani with the election of the
representatives to the council.
        The agency claimed that Rabbani had bribed the delegates to elect
people of his liking. ``The religious scholars and commanders, as well
as seven of the nine mujahideen parties, believe that Rabbani wants to
ensure his re-election,'' the Afghan News Agency reported.
        It said the religious scholars and guerrilla commanders ``also
proposed forming supervisory committees to receive complaints of
manipulations in the election of the members to the consultative
council.''
        They said it was necessary for Rabbani to quit immediately to ensure
fair elections to the consultative council. ``To avoid a political
vacuum after Rabbani's resignation, we propose the power be transfered
to Vice President Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi.''
From: jodar@girtab.usc.edu (Nicholas Jodar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: Khales instructed ...
Summary: Less talk, more action....
Keywords: Jihad
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:32:03 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu


Assalamu Alaikum....

Auzu Billahi Min Ash-Shaitan Nirajeem.  Bismillah...

In article <1992Dec14.190253.14344@wam.umd.edu> endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan) writes:
>
>Afghan brothers and sisters, we have to speak out. These thugs have taken 
>Islam as a hostage and they expect us to stand aside and watch while they are
>taking our country, our religion and our culture for a ride. We have to expose
>their true worth and their evil intentions. We have to rise above sectarian
>and ethnic barriers, barriers that these Watan Feroshan and their masters 
>have erected for us, and face this shameful and open intervention and 
>manipulation of our country. Khalis and the rest of his brothers, the 
>ill-begotten pups of Zia, are none but ISI agents and we all very well know
>it. How long are we going to watch this comedy in Kabul. The only way to 
>stop this organized crime against the peaple of Afghanistan is organize 
>against them. 
>
>H.Abed   ( More next time )

Brother, perhaps some of the energy you spend bashing various
people here on 'soc.culture.afghanistan' could be better spent?
Agreed, action should be taken.  So take it.  In fact, why 
don't you go over there and straighten things out?  What they
need is somebody who's got their head on straight.

What Afghanistan needs is to establish a Khilafa, not a
republic.

-AQ
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan