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Brit soldiers ‘made Iraqis dance like Jacko

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 14 (ANI): British soldiers manipulated the cries of pain of Iraqi prisoners and made them dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa has heard.

The men claim they were also verbally abused, burned, stamped and urinated on and forced to lie face down over full latrines during the time they were held by the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in Basra in September 2003.

One of those detained, hotel worker Baha Mousa, 26, died from 93 separate injuries inflicted on him over a 36-hour period while other prisoners examined by a doctor suffered “extensive and serious” injuries.

Much of their treatment was meted out in a bid to soften the men up for interrogation.

An inquiry into the abuse which opened in London on Monday heard that it may have provided extremists with a “rallying cry” to incite further attacks on UK forces in the war torn country.

According to Gerard Elias QC, the Counsel to the Inquiry, it also undermined the sacrifices made by other members of the Armed Forces working to improve security and rebuild the infrastructure following the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein.

The men were held in custody for as long as 56 hours, during which time conditioning techniques such as hooding and the use of stress techniques, outlawed in 1972 as a result of abuse in Northern Ireland, were used on them.

The Baha Mousa Inquiry is expected to last into next year and will hear evidence from soldiers involved as well as the detainees. (ANI)

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Pictures of detainee-abuse could have a ‘destabilising effect’ on Pak : General Petraeus

May 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, May 30 (ANI): The US Central Command Chief General David Petraeus has said that publishing images of the abuse of prisoners in US custody could dent Pakistan’s efforts to counter extremism.

General Petraeus, in his statement to a court, urged it to keep the photographs under a veil, as they could have a ‘destabilising effect’ on Pakistan and other US allies in the war against Al Qaeda.

“Photos depicting abuse of detainees in the US military custody in Afghanistan and Iraq would negatively affect the ongoing efforts by Pakistan to counter its internal extremist threat,” Petraeus said.

He added that if the pictures are made public, they would likely deal a particularly ‘hard blow’ to the efforts of the United States in the countries where it is engaged against Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

It may also ignite civil unrest in those countries, Petraeus said.

“Militant and extremist groups would use these images to foment anti-US sentiment and to incite demonstrators to conduct deliberate attacks against US targets, as well as western non-government organization facilities and personnel,” he said. (ANI)

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Thai PM calls for calm after unrest

April 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has urged the countrymen to remain calm after a week of deadly protests and an assassination attempt pushed the nation to the edge of chaos.

Abhisit vowed the government would bring to justice those responsible for Friday’s attack on Sondhi Limthongkul, the leader of the so-called “Yellow Shirt” movement who led a blockade of Bangkok’s airports last year.

The bid to kill Sondhi came days after rival “Red Shirts” — supporters of ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra — clashed with troops in riots in Bangkok that left two people dead and 123 injured.

“I call for all sides to remain calm,” Abhisit said in his weekly national television address. “Anyone who tries to incite further unrest, intimidation and underground struggling is jeopardising our country and democracy.”

The premier said he had to keep a state of emergency in place in Bangkok and surrounding areas for now to maintain order, but added that the government was “speeding up work in order to lift it.”

He asked supporters of Sondhi’s movement, the royalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), to avoid using the assassination attempt as a pretext for taking to the streets again.

“This case will be resolved in a straightforward manner and as soon as possible, so I ask all those who support the PAD to be calm and don’t make any movement,” he said.

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Taliban website used US host: Washington Post

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON: A Taliban website used a US-based host for over a year to boast of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan before the deception
was uncovered and the account was pulled out, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The Houston-based web-hosting outfit said it simply rented cyberspace to the account holder and had no clue about its Taliban connections.

For more than a year, the militant group used the site, claiming to be the voice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, to rally its followers and keep a running tally of suicide bombings, rocket attacks and raids against the US and allied troops. The cost of the service: roughly $70 a month, payable by credit card, the newspaper said.

The Taliban’s account was pulled last week when a blogger noticed the connection and called attention to it, the Post said.

However, the odd pairing of violently anti-American extremists and US technology companies continues elsewhere and appears to be growing, it added.

Intelligence officials and private experts cite dozens of instances in which Islamist militants sought out US internet firms – known for their reliable service and easy terms that allow virtual anonymity – and used these to incite attacks on Americans.

In some cases, the complaints come from governments.

Pakistan has been complaining to US officials about militants’ use of North American internet services since late last year, when investigations into the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, which involved Pakistanis, revealed that the attackers had communicated using Internet phone calls routed through another server based in Houston.

The newspaper quoted US and Pakistani officials as saying the issue had raised tensions within diplomatic and intelligence circles in both countries and had reignited a high-level internal debate over the legality and efficacy of shutting off or restricting access to such services.

A senior Pakistani official said repeated requests to Washington to shut down controversial sites have gone unheeded and that the seeming reluctance of US authorities had become “an irritant.”

The official said Pakistani intelligence experts are convinced that Washington prefers to keep the sites running for intelligence purposes.

Under the federal eavesdropping laws passed last year, US intelligence officials can legally monitor communications between foreign groups without a warrant, even if the transit lines pass through the United States.

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FIR against Vaiko for making pro-LTTE speech

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chennai, Apr. 10 (ANI): An FIR has been lodged against MDMK leader Vaiko here for allegedly delivering inflammatory speeches in support of the LTTE.

This comes a day after he warned of a bloodbath in Tamil Nadu if LTTE chief Prabhakaran is harmed.

The Chennai Police has framed Vaiko under sedition and under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Sedition is officially defined as an attempt to bring hatred or contempt, or exciting or attempting to excite, disaffection towards the Government.

Under section 124A of IPC, sedition is a non-bailable offence, which means the accused cannot be granted bail by the arresting authority.

Conviction under the UAPA can lead to imprisonment for five years or even a life sentence.

The FIR also accuses him of making a comment that could create fear or incite violence. (ANI)

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ROUNDUP: Prosecutor accuses Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Cairo – Egypt’s public prosecutor on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of sending operatives to Egypt to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons and money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement released Wednesday evening Abdel-Magid Mohammed accused Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah of dispatching agents to Egypt during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The militants were to recruit local agents to conduct attacks, to incite the people and the armed forces to revolt, to spy on Egypt and to smuggle weapons and cash to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, he said.

The statement added that the prosecutor had received “certain information” from Egypt’s domestic intelligence service, State Security Investigations, that a Hezbollah cell had rented apartments overlooking the Suez Canal in order to spy on traffic through the canal.

It also accused them of spying on resorts in Sinai, and renting rooms in fashionable districts where Hezbollah agents held training workshops on spreading Shiite thought in Egypt.

Hezbollah’s spokesman in Beirut did not answer repeated requests for comment from the German Press Agency dpa on Wednesday evening.

Earlier on Wednesday morning, two sources in the Egyptian Interior Ministry and an Islamist lawyer told dpa that State Security had detained 49 people – including 41 Egyptians, seven Palestinians with Israeli passports, and one Lebanese man – in December on suspicion of smuggling weapons and money to Hamas.

A spokesman from the Israeli Embassy in Cairo told dpa the embassy was working with the Egyptian authorities to find out more information about the detentions.

Montasser al-Zayat, a former member of the Islamist group Gamaa al-Islamiya and a former associate of deputy al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, on Wednesday told dpa that the brother of the Lebanese detainee had asked him to represent the detainees, but that he had not had access to them.

Egypt’s public prosecutor on Wednesday evening said that Egypt’s High State Security prosecutor was interrogating “around 49 suspects,” that the Lawyer’s Syndicate had been duly notified of the men’s detention and that the prosecutor had received no petition from a lawyer seeking access to the detainees.

“Investigations revealed that Nasrallah had dispatched the agents after his speech … and that he had planned to incite the people and military forces to rebel against the regime,” Egypt’s public prosecutor said in the statement, claiming that the arrests had foiled Nasrallah’s plans.

“If the people took to the streets by the millions, could the police kill millions of Egyptians?” Nasrallah asked in a televised address at the beginning of Israel’s offensive in Gaza in December. “People of Egypt, you must open this border by the force of your chests.” (dpa)

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Azharuddin pitches in Moradabad for a different game and ‘long innings’

April 8, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

Moradabad, April 8 (IANS) After playing for 16 years on the cricket fields, former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin is ready to play a completely different game, promising the people of Moradabad that he was was here for a ‘long innings’ in politics.

Azharuddin looked cool in blue jeans, matching blue T-Shirt and dark glasses, preferring this casual outfit to the trademake kurta-pyjama of a typical politician. Many in the crowd, specially the young, copied his jaunty style and raised collar.

‘I have come here to stay and will stay here,’ Azharuddin, who belongs to Hyderabad, told a gathering of his party workers in a jam-packed hall in this crowded city famous for its brass industry.

Azharuddin told his excited Congress party workers: ‘I have been a captain of the cricket team and I believe in playing a long innings. Some people tell me that I have already won the elections, but for me victory is not decided till last ball of the match,’ he said in fluent Hindi.

Azharuddin reached Moradabad, 180 km from Delhi Tuesday, in a black Ford Endeavour to begin an intense phase of campaigning in a state where the Congress has not really been in the reckoning for many years.

As soon as he got down from his car, a large crowd gathered there, with people struggling to have a glimpse of the cricket star who was making his debut in politics.

‘I have come here to see my hero. I have been his fan for long and feel fortunate to see him in real life,’ Pervez Alam, a local resident who said he will vote for him, told IANS.

Azharuddin listened patiently to all speakers of the district Congress committee even as he gave autographs and posed for snaps with youngsters who had come to meet the former stylish wristy batsman.

‘I thank for all the advice. Advices had helped me in the game of cricket and will help me here also. I will learn a lot from all of you,’ he said.

Azharuddin, 46, joined the Congress party Feb 19 amid much fanfare. He was initially being considered as a candidate for Secunderabad, adjacent to his home city of Hyderabad. Tonk in Rajasthan and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh too were considered for him before the party leadership settled on the ‘brass city’, where Muslims constitute 45 percent of the population.

Moradabad, with a population of over 1.7 million, is famous for manufacturing brass, aluminium, iron and glass products and lies in the sugarcane belt of Uttar Pradesh. The brass industry is having a bad time in the global economic recession and the expectations from a local MP is that he would be able articulate their problems in New Delhi and find solutions to them.

Farmers of the region, as anywhere else in the country, face a lot of hardship like lack of power, poor returns of their crops and delayed payments by sugar mills.

Azharuddin took note of their problems. ‘Don’t think that I am a celebrity who is unaware of the problems of farmers. When I was young I used to work in the fields of my aunt. Even now I am ready to work for you and with you in your fields to solve your problems.’

Asked about the hate speeches made by Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Pilibhit, only 150 km from here, Azharuddin said: ‘He should avoid making such statements. Such statements send a wrong message to the youth and would not get him votes.

‘The common man needs solution to their everyday problems – rather than issues that divide people and incite hatred.’

His main rival is Thakur Sarvesh Singh of the BJP, who is the sitting state legislator from the Thakurdwara constituency who is known to be close to party president Rajnath Singh. The third important candidate is Rizwan Ahmad of the Samajwadi Party who commands support of the substantial Turk community among Muslims.

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ICL may sue Yousuf for terminating contract

March 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Karachi, Mar.27 (ANI): The management of the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) has warned that it will not hesitate to sue Pakistan middle-order batsman Mohammad Yousuf if he opts out of his present contract to resume his international cricket career with Pakistan.

According to ICL sources, Yousuf will be dragged to court if he bids adieu to the league without consulting the ICL management.

The ICL fears that Yousuf’s exit could incite other Lahore Badshah players like Abdul Razzaq, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Mohammad Sami and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to follow suit.

The ICL is scheduled to start in October, but there is a cloud of uncertainty hovering over it, The News reports.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt said Yousuf would be included in the national team after he quits the ICL.

Pakistan captain Younis Khan has expressed a desire to have Yousuf back in the team. (ANI)

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