Quote of the day

"The trumpets' silver sound is still;
The warder silent on the hill."
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Busy

I'v been really busy since we just started dubai metroblogs, did'nt know it would get this busy but i guess since we just started its more work then normal, lots of new visitors lots comments have to take care of them all. will be posting something of relevence soon. by the way check out Dubai Metro Blog and drop us a line.

Dubai Metro Blog

Hello everyone, Dubai recently joined the metroblogging team and just went live today you can visit the site at dubai.metblogs.com

Another Earth Quake Hits region

After China another earthquake hit the region with an epicenter in Iran, shocks were felt in the UAE as well, even though i did'nt feel anything a lot of people reported feeling tremors in dubai and sharjah.

Mysteries of Selfishness

Just a thought, would I, could I have made a lot of money if I had a good lawyer sueing the hell out of the drunk guy who hit me. Here is the senario, the stauate of limitations is over so no point but what do u say lets hear it.

drunk guy and his friend are out having some fun, they find some gays outside a bar and decide they want to harass them, one of them takes a baseball bat to one of the drag queens car and has some more fun, untill the cops decide to get them, well the cops are not that smart and start chasing the dumb drunk guys, the high speed chase ends when the stupid drunk guy breaks a red light and bangs my car doing 90 miles an hour, cops all over the place, its like movie 5 serious injuries one hospital can't handle, lots of ambulances, lots of morphine, ........ its all going black i don't know where i am wake up after 3 days with pipes and wires all over go through 7 surgeries to put some parts right well they can't be put right so the docs do the best they can.....

now here the killer, the dumb drunk guy is not fully insured, hes 23, not wealthy, lawyer advises me to settle for 20,000 $ as there is no point going after the guy.... should i not have listened to the lawyer and done something else... no no no dont tell me now. as I said the statute of limitations is long over.

Mysteries of Selflessness by Iqbal

"Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting,
by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror,
like a roseI pluck my breast apart,
that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein."

"I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to goldAnd set my ashes aflame."

Interesting Ad.

Today I noticed a new bill board on Dubai's Sheikh Zaid Road, quite eye catching, for those who can't see it I took a picture enjoy !!!

Disgusting Just Bloody disgusting

Source CNN: Complete Story

In fact, NASA wants to recycle just about everything -- even turning the
astronauts' sweat and urine back into drinking water.

Some crew members are leery of turning urine into drinking water. But Kloeris noted that water-treatment systems on Earth do that already."So in real life you are drinking somebody else's urine instead of your own," she said. "So I'm not sure psychologically which is worse. I think I'd rather drink my own."

Human Trafficking

A leading aid agency yesterday said, it had warned Pakistan’s government that young female survivors of last month’s devastating earthquake could fall prey to human traffickers and slave traders. Although the International Organization of Migration said, there had been no confirmed reports of kidnappings in the wake of the October 8 tragedy; it had urged authorities to be on the alert.

Discussion on Kashmir

India acknowledged Pakistan’s claim of a discussion between the two Prime Ministers in Dhaka on the idea of self-governance for Kashmir but denied any endorsement by New Delhi of what seems to have been essentially Islamabad’s suggestion. In response to questions on Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s remarks about self-governance on both sides of the LoC, an Indian spokesman gave a different account of the talks between Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

Bush Plotted to Bomb Al-Jazeera

US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said Tuesday, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret". The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the daily. The newspaper said that the memo "casts fresh doubt on claims that other attacks on al-Jazeera were accidents".

Dubai Air Show

Dubai Air show in on full swing, I havent yet been there but I hear that its amazing, I saw the stunts from my office today, trying to get a hold of some passes so I can go and visit the show before it closes on the 25th. FYI The show started on 20th, It will run till 25th. Participants from all over the world are taking part in the biggest Air Related exibition in the fastest growing regional market. The show has already generated huge orders for aircraft manufacturers.

A-380 Dubai Air Show

This is one of the highlights of the amazing Dubai air show.

Allama Iqbal - Odeus Part-II (XVI)

The leader is unworthy,
The followers are in disarray,
They march without an aim,
Like an arrow untargeted.

I have searched every recess
In thy seas for pearls,
But have found no trace
Of the pearl of life.

Abandon earthly life,
Absorb thyself in Selfhood,
Waste not thy life—
bloodOn the trifles of the world.

Revealed in these words
Is the secret of life and death;
Love is death with honour,
Life without honour is death.

Rumi has taught me the truth
About wisdom and vision:
The wise man gropes in the dark;
The one who surrenders, wins.

The West’s dazzling wisdom
Has failed to dazzle me;
For the Holy Land’s dust
Has made my eyes immune.

"Donate resolution of Kashmir" Musharraf Asks India

It was a plea for donation that New Delhi had never been asked before October 19, never expected from Islamabad, and that, too, in front of a worldwide audience. The earthquake had provided the opportunity, the occasion demanded it and President Gen Pervez Musharraf took up the challenge.

Musharraf asking for a unique donation, stunned the Indian delegation in reaching out to New Delhi. It was a plea that must have gone down well with the foreign donors, who have always expressed their apprehensions over tension in Kashmir that the two nuclear rivals have held on to fast.

"My appeal to India is let’s together resolve the Kashmir dispute once, and for all, and grasp the fleeting moment, let happiness emerge from the ruins of the tragedy. The earthquake has created a unique feeling of togetherness, of an urge to help each other within the people of Kashmir. I sincerely believe that the challenge of this earthquake can be created into an opportunity of a lifetime that was never available to India and Pakistan to improve their relations. Let us together solve the Kashmir dispute, once, and for all," Musharraf said.

Amid thunderous applause as television cameras panned on the Indian delegation headed by its State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Musharraf remarked: "Let this be the Indian donation to Kashmir. Let us together solve the Kashmir dispute, once, and for all."

Pakistan's Largest Business Group

Far large than any of pakistan's business groups is the Pakistan Army, which is the largest coroparate entity in Pakistan. It owns, through its civilian corporate and welfare arms - Fauji Foundation and Army Welfare Trust - :

1. the largest housing society in Pakistan; Defence Housing Society - larger than even Bahria Town.
2. the largest logsitic company in Pakistan - National Logistic Cell.
3. the largest fertilizer company; fauji fertilizer and Fauji Jordan
4. the largest cereal company - Fauji Corn Flakes
5. the largest Construction Company - Frontier Works Organization
6. Three Sugar Mills
7. One of the ten largest banks (Askari Bank)
8. A software company (Askari Computers)
9. Biggest Network of Universities (NUST)
10. Askari Potable Water

There isn't enough room here to list the other companies the Army owns. But they are in the areas of Cement, Oil, Gas, Power, Corn, Polypropalene (whatever the hell that is), insurance, pharmeceuticals etc. etc. It has now even bid for the largest and most profitable govt. owned entity in Pakistan - Pakistan State Oil. This could be the biggest or second biggest privitization in Pakistan's history. It has revenuens of $2.5 billion and owns 85% of Pakistan's fuel oil market........... So the largest govt. owned entity in the country could be sold by the govt. to its own Army. The Army will obviously need to get a loan to buy this company, which it can conveniently take from its own Askari Bank. The bank can take a risk, because it always remains profitable because it has in its accounts the military budget !!

Four Women Forced To Consume Human Excreta In Orissa, India.

Remind you of the witch hunts doesn't this, We in the developing world are still living in pre-historic times.

'In a revolting incident of superstition some villagers in Uparkhandadhar village of Sundergarh district in Orissa allegedly forced four women accused of being witches to eat human excreta under the disguise of witches. The police have arrested eight persons, including two women for this heinous action.'These four women were locked in a room for three days by six men and two women. They were allegedly forced to pay a fine of 500 rupees each and forced to consume human excreta.'"They beat us with a bible and said we were lying and that we are practicing witchcraft. They also fined us for it and forced us to consume human excreta," said Kapri, one of the victim.'According to police, the four women were tortured as they were accused of practicing sorcery and spreading disease in the village.'

Another Bomb Blast

Today there was another bomb blast in karachi, apparently balouchistan liberation front has taken responsibility for it, when will this all stop ? its about time the feudals stopped their dangerous games and if they don't stop I say, blow them away the way they blow innocent people without any regard for life, I say Bomb their palaces untill they submit to the law of the land. We have had enough of this nonsence from them. They just play with people's life because of their infestation with power. I say to hell with them enough is enough. live and let live if not you Bastards have no right to live and that day is not far when you will face your own demons.

PAKISTAN: Call for repeal of blasphemy laws

LAHORE, 14 November - Outraged at the burning of two churches after alleged desecration of Islam's holy book by a Christian man, minority groups and human rights watchdogs in Pakistan on Monday demanded repeal of the country's blasphemy law, which they said was being misused frequently.

The fires came a day after a local Muslim resident in Pakistan's central Punjab province accused a Christian of burning a one-room Islamic school along with copies of the Koran.
More than 1,000 enraged Muslims set ablaze three churches, a convent and a priest's house near the town of Sangla Hill, about 80 km northeast of Lahore, witnesses said. No one was injured in the arson attacks in the town where one in ten of the 10,000 residents are Christian.
Christians make up less than three percent of Pakistan's mainly Muslim population of 150 million. Police say the attacks are being investigated.

"Police have arrested around 90 people for rioting, violence and vandalising Christian property," the Punjab government's home secretary Khusro Pervez, told reporters.
Yousaf Masih, the Christian accused of desecrating the Muslim holy book, has also been detained, he added.

Lahore police official Ali Asghar Dogar said the allegations were apparently brought by people who lost money while gambling with the Christian man on Friday.
Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao condemned the incident and promised security of Christian worship places. "Security of places of minority worship across Pakistan has been intensified and extra police deployed to protect them," Sherpao said.
But the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said police apparently stood by and watched.

"The fresh accusations of blasphemy against a Christian citizen and the failure of police to act in the matter has proved the lack of official will to prevent the abuse of blasphemy laws," the commission's Secretary-General, Syed Iqbal Haider, said in a press statement.
The crime of desecrating the Koran, under the blasphemy law, is punishable by death, although the punishment has not been carried out in recent years.

Human rights activists say the law is often misused to settle personal vendettas. "Most of these cases," said Amnesty International (AI) in a report on Pakistan, "are motivated not by the blasphemous actions of the accused, but by hostility toward members of minority communities, compounded by personal enmity, professional jealousy or economic rivalry".

Shafqatullah, a lawyer who defended a family accused of desecrating the holy book some years ago in Jhang, in central Pakistan, told IRIN: "So tense was the situation after a mosque blared 'kill them' calls early one morning. Had sanity not prevailed, the family might have been killed."
"And it was proved later that the issue was over a piece of land," he said. Often it's one person's word against another's, making it difficult to defend oneself against a blasphemy charge. Most cases are eventually thrown out when they reach a higher court due to a lack of evidence, but that doesn't necessarily save the accused. Even when those accused of blasphemy are found not guilty by the courts, their lives are still in danger.

The US State Department's latest annual report on International Religious Freedom noted that in Pakistan the government had taken steps to improve the treatment of religious minorities, but the abuse of the Hudood Ordinances and the blasphemy law continued. Citing the latest case as apparently having stemmed from a monetary dispute involving a gambling debt, Iqbal Haider said: "The list of such abuses of the law is growing by the day." Leading Christian organisations demand immediate repeal of the blasphemy law. "The blasphemy law has always acted as a lethal sword against the minority communities. Its repeal is our longstanding demand," a Christian community leader, Peter Jacob, told IRIN after an emergency meeting of the Catholic Church, Church of Pakistan, National Council of Churches, Salvation Army and National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) in Lahore.

"This latest atrocity shows that despite amendments made in the blasphemy laws last year, there is no real commitment to either implementing these, or protecting non-Muslims accused under the unjust laws," said the HRCP. Amendments adopted on 26 October 2005 place limits on the abuses of the law. Now, under the amended law, only senior police officers will be able to investigate blasphemy cases. More importantly, they will only be able to file criminal charges after looking into allegations. But minority organisations and human rights activists had rejected the changes as insufficient. "The blasphemy laws should be scrapped and those guilty of attacking buildings belonging to minority communities penalised under existing legislation," Haider said.

Originality

I think that I have been reading too much and and thus become lazy with the habit of thinking, the reason I'm writting this is because I have been posting other people's articles lately rather then writing my own. I think that is not what a blog should be and I should get off my butt and start doing some original work.

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

Albert Einstein.

High School Student Wins Mayoral Elections

Fire Department Endorses Student
HILLSDALE, Mich. -- He hasn't even graduated from high school yet, but he's already mayor of a small Michigan town. Michael Sessions, 18, was elected mayor of Hillsdale, Mich. on Tuesday in a write-in campaign. Sessions got into the race about six weeks ago, the day after he turned 18.
Backed by his fellow students and an endorsement by the city's fire department, sessions won the race by more than 60 votes.
But just because he's mayor doesn't mean he'll be able to slack on his school work.
"I'll go to school from 7:50 (a.m.) to 2:30 p.m. each day, and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., I'll be doing mayor business," Sessions said. Sessions used $700 saved from his summer job to fund his campaign. He takes office Nov. 21.

How do you sleep at night ?

Mukhtara Mai - Rosa Parks for the 21st Century

The Rosa Parks for the 21st Century

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 8, 2005

She may be the bravest woman in the world, but Mukhtaran Bibi was finally looking intimidated. Mukhtaran is the Pakistani peasant woman who was gang-raped on the order of a local council, and then forced to walk home nearly naked before a jeering crowd. Instead of killing herself, as rape victims routinely do in such places, she prosecuted her attackers and became a women's rights leader in Pakistan.
But last week, she was confronted by something she found pretty scary: Midtown Manhattan.
Mukhtaran Bibi visiting Mr. Kristof's office last week. Glamour magazine is honoring Mukhtaran as a "woman of the year." It flew her from Pakistan - first-class - to the U.S., where she met senior officials in the White House, the State Department and Congress.
At the Glamour banquet at Lincoln Center, Brooke Shields introduced Mukhtaran as a woman who "showed the world the real meaning of the word honor." Mukhtaran (who also goes by the name Mukhtar Mai) seemed a little stunned to receive two standing ovations from a huge crowd of whooping Americans.
Mukhtaran is, of course, an unlikely star of Glamour. She's a peasant living in a remote village who doesn't know her age (her mom says she was born in the winter, but no one knows what year). She is a devout Muslim who wears a head scarf, and while her photos adorn Glamour's December issue, her clothing-to-skin ratio may set an all-time high for the magazine.
While Mukhtaran is being feted here, it's easy to think that her problems are over. But they aren't. President Pervez Musharraf allowed her to make this visit, after blocking a trip by her in June and then kidnapping her when she protested, but Pakistani intelligence agents still follow her everywhere. Agents open or confiscate her mail and spread lies about her in the Pakistani press, and she is reported to be on a death list. At some point, her luck may run out - and her fame won't stop a knife or a bullet. "I'm still very scared," she said. "I feel threatened."
Yet what sets Mukhtaran apart is not her suffering, but her effectiveness in bringing hope, education and new attitudes to rural Pakistan. Laura Bush got it just right in an eloquent video tribute to Mukhtaran at the banquet: "Please don't assume that it's only a tale of heartbreak. Mukhtaran ... proves that one woman really can change the world."
After prosecuting the rapists, Mukhtaran used the compensation money of $8,300 to start schools in her village because she thinks that education is the best way to overcome feudal attitudes. Girls from surrounding areas hike up to two hours each way to attend the school.
When I first met Mukhtaran, in her village, she was running out of money to keep the schools operating, her enemies were biding their time to murder her, and she was lonely and frightened - and unwavering.
Times readers responded with a torrent of contributions, more than $130,000, and Mukhtaran has used the money to improve the schools and "endow" them by buying cows, which will generate income to pay expenses. She has also bought an ambulance for the area and built a police station that provides security, and now she's preparing to build the first high school in the area, along with a clinic and a women's shelter. (If you want to help, please don't send money to me; contributions can be sent to either of these Web sites: www.4anaa.org and www.mercycorps.org.)
Not surprisingly, filmmakers are jostling to make a movie of her story. Mukhtaran turned a tale of gang rape into something that is actually inspiring.
The world lost Rosa Parks last month, but Mukhtaran is a Rosa Parks for the new century: a woman simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary, who transcended her role and started a broad movement for justice. The most pressing moral challenge today is to overcome the brutality and inequality faced by women and girls in the developing world, and Mukhtaran has become a leader of that struggle. I hope that we'll follow her, and that the U.S. will align itself with real Pakistani leaders like her.
Mukhtaran was in the fourth grade in her own school when I met her. So on this visit I asked her over pizza on West 43rd Street what grade she's in now.
"I've been too busy to go to school much," she said, embarrassed. "So I'm still in the same grade. ... But I do hope that eventually I'll get to high school."
Never mind. This is one fourth grader who can be a teacher for us all.

US uses Naplam and White Phosphorus / Chemical Weapons

Confirmed: U.S. used chemical weapons against Iraqi civilians
ROME, November 8— The U.S. Army used chemical weapons against civilians, among them a variant of napalm, during the November 2004 offensive to take control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, according to a report released today by the Italian public television channel RAI, reports EFE.
In the report, titled "Fallujah, the hidden massacre," its author, Sigfrido Ranucci, interviewed U.S. soldiers, city residents, and journalists who confirmed the use of White Phosphorus and MK77, a "derivative" of Napalm – the chemical substance used in incendiary bombs during the war in Vietnam– during the taking of the central Iraqi location.
"In Fallujah I saw the burned bodies of women and children. White Phosphorous explodes in the form of a cloud that radiates 150 meters and from which there is no escape," Jeff Englehart, ex marine and Iraq veteran who participated in the offensive, affirmed in the report.

A documentary is available at the following URLs
RAI News (Italian News Service)
and at
democracynow.org Exclusive 45 min Documentary

Jordan Hotel Bombing

The violence is spreading to countries that had been relatively peaceful till now. Jordan is considered a safe place a key ally to the US on its fight against terrorism it too has fallen target to suicide bombings.

"At least three explosions went off Wednesday at hotels frequented by Westerners in downtown Amman, Jordan, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 others. The blasts went off nearly simultaneously at a Radisson, a Grand Hyatt and a Days Inn -- all U.S.-based chains. A police official told reporters he believed the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers." CNN.

Improving International Relations

Pakistan Army Generals at work

Tennessee school shootings

Cnn Reports,
"A student opened fire Tuesday on a principal and two assistant principals at a high school in Jacksboro, Tennessee, killing one of them, the sheriff said."

Apparently the motive is not know yet, it is a sad incident and sadly these kinds of things are happening a lot lately. Security of life is not available anymore, you just dont feel safe anywhere.

For the detailed news item visit: CNN

Allama Iqbal / Iqbal Day

Today being Iqbal Day I thought I should inform my readers of this great thinker, philosopher and poet.

Allama Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال,علامه محمد اقبال لاهوري) (November 9, 1877–April 21, 1938), commonly known as Allama Iqbal , was an important colonial era Indian Muslim poet, philosopher, and thinker of Kashmiri origin, though based in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). A major Urdu and Persian writer and poet, he is in the unusual position of having written one of India's major national songs ("Saare Jahan Se Achcha") while at the same time being credited as a major force behind the creation of Pakistan. He is posthumously revered in Pakistan as "Muffakir-e-Pakistan" ("The Thinker of Pakistan") or "Shair-i-Mashriq" ("The Poet of the East"). Along with Muhammad Ali Jinnah he is considered one of the preeminent founding fathers of Pakistan, arguably having convinced Jinnah to return from England and lead the movement demanding a separate homeland for South Asia's Muslims when Britain granted independence to the region. (Jinnah had practically gone into self-exile after having given up trying to get the national secular and Muslim leaderships to work together.)

For further reading visit Allama Iqbal on wikipedia.

Absence of mind

My mind was going hyperspeed while at work so many thoughts I thought it would go supernova on me, now its empty. Tut Tut Tut, well if I can't think of anything to write I'll just leave with a quote until I decide who I want to harass today.

"A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

France Riots Escalate

Wow - 12 days now and there no stopping the riots, its being reported that the riots are spreading to other European countries in the form of copycat protests. And all this started why because some cops wanted to ID some kids. The underprivileged of this world lead tough lives and situations such as these arise of necessity. I feel that the situation will get worse as the gap between the rich and the poor increases around the world. Guardian Reports "The growing violence is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair - fertile terrain for crime of all sorts as well as for Muslim extremists offering frustrated youths a way out. " How does a Nation expect to deal with its own people it has been ignoring for quite some time now, how does a Nation plan to deal with discrimination, how does this nation claim that's it does not discriminate when it has banned religious head scarves for Muslim students in its schools and looks upon the beard in a funny way? The day these questions are answered there be a lot more harmony in France's midst. They created their problems and now they have to solve them. Calling the underprivileged "scum'' does not seem to be effective policy on the part of the "Honorable" Interior Minister as it has only deteriorated the situation.

Honor Killing / Karo Kari

I recently read an article about an honor killing in London and I decided that I should do my part in putting some light on this barbaric practice.

The Human Rights Watch defines honor killings as "Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members who are perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by her family for a variety of reasons including, refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce—even from an abusive husband—or committing adultery. The mere perception that a woman has acted in a manner to bring "dishonor" to the family is sufficient to trigger an attack. "

Even in 2004 and 2005 Honor Killing have been reported in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda and the United Kingdom. In Europe, honor killings have been reported within the Muslim and Sikh communities. Many cases of honor killing have been reported in Pakistan, where it is known as KaroKari. It is also reported among Sikhs in the adjacent Indian Punjab.

Even though almost all countries on the list have severe penalties against honor killings they are on the rise, even in the western world where honor killings were not very common a few years back, it is becoming an increasingly common problem in the west as young second-generation immigrants from Muslim backgrounds embrace liberal lifestyles, to the consternation of their traditional parents. Even though the world cries out at these barbaric acts enough is not being done to prevent these acts, it is about time that governments not siidleey by while people are slaughtered in the name of honor.
detaileded Information on honor killing can be found wikipedia's Honor Killing.

SATRIBUNE website closes/shutdown

I have been getting a lot of search hits for "satribune" because of an old posting on my blog, I guess people are trying to reach the site and are unable to, so here is how it goes, the following link is of the final story by Mr. Shaheen Sehbai. It clears up the disappearing of the website quite nicely.

http://www.satribune.com/archives/200510/P1_sat.htm

Pakistan defers F-16 Purchase

CNN Reports, "Nearly a month after Pakistan's catastrophic earthquake, President Pervez Musharraf says he is postponing the purchase of F-16 warplanes from the United States to provide more relief to quake victims."

Finally some wise decisions coming out of the Pakistani administration.

September 11 - 9/11 - what really happened ?

What really Happened, will we ever know, who did it, was it Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden, The US Governement, the CIA, who really killed Innocent people?

I'v seen a lot of conspiracy theories about 9/11. But I came across the following website amazing stuff. You never know what to believe anymore. Check these out, especially the videos.
http://www.letsroll911.org/

Also check out the following websites:
http://physics911.net/
911WeKnow.com
http://www.therevolutionist.tk/
911physics.co.nr
911 In Plane Site
The 9/11 Blimp - Bush Knew!
The 9/11 Hoax

September 11 Conspiracy theories. Amazing stuff.

Eid Mubarak

Wishing all my readers a very happy Eid.

Tit for Tat

Both the following news stories have been taken from Daily times, aaah politics is so much fun for those at the helm of affairs. It is the pawns that suffer. I really don't know the facts behind the stories here but I know the politics behind the stories, this is what will probably happen the leaders will step up and in a very difficult diplomatic step both accused will be pardoned and released to their respective countries or at least their death sentences will be turned to life in prison. This has been going on for a long time between Pakistan and India and I don't see if there ever will be peace between the two countries. We have seen spies being caught and exchanged in tit for tat measures, we have seen diplomats even of very high stature being declared personan non grata by both governments in tit for tat measures. When will this all end, will there ever be peace?

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
SC upholds spy's death penalty
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday rejected another appeal of Sarabjeet Singh alias Manjeet Singh and upheld his death sentence.The SC bench announced its judgment in the fourth case against Sarabjeet, who has already been awarded a death sentence for involvement in terrorist activities.Agencies add: The SC rejected the petition on the grounds that it had not been filed within the stipulated period. Sarabjeet has 30 days to appeal against the SC's Tuesday's decision. staff report


Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Pakistani gets death for Red Fort attack
New Delhi: An Indian court sentenced a Pakistani to death on Monday for the Red Fort attack five years ago.The prosecutors had said that Ashfaq Rehman, convicted of waging war on India, was a member of a banned Pakistan-based militant group, which some analysts suspect of involvement in the recent bombings in New Delhi. As the sentence was read out, Rehman started screaming in protest. Two of Rehmans Indian co-conspirators, Nazir Ahmed Qasid and his son Farooq Ahmad Qasid, received life sentences, while his wife and another man, an internet cafe owner who aided and abetted Rehman, got seven years in prison. Hang the terrorists,a crowd chanted outside.

Oprah Show On South Asia Earth Quake

There is a petition on www.ipetitions.com requesting oprah to do a show on the earthquake. Seeing her viewership and the amount of money shes has been able to collect for other causes in her show I think that signing the petition might help in some way. Whatever can make a differnce in this time of need must be tried and done.

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Oprah_Earthquake/

The purpose of this petition is to request Oprah to do a show on the recent earthquake in South Asia and the havoc that it has caused to millions of people left without enough shelter to survive through the severe winter season. This event has not gotten nearly the kind of media coverage it deserves, especially since a lot can still be done to save the 3.3 million lives that could be lost over the next few months. We think an Oprah show on the earthquake aftermath and how people can contribute could help turn the situation around... "Oxfam also said the United States... had given less than one fifth of their fare share - calculated according to the relative size of their economy as a proportion of the total from major industrialized countries" -- Associated Press "It is not right to sit with the money for reconstruction for one year from now if it is a question of whether people will still be alive" -- Jan Egeland, head of U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "We are racing against time to shield the victims from cold weather in the mountainous region" -- Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan

A soldier's prayer for his son

A Famous poem by a great leader General Douglas McArthur written during a millitary campaign in the philippines after watching his son asleep. The words are very moving and perfectly describe an Ideal Human being. Truly words of wisdom.

"Prayer for Arthur"
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee -- and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.

Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the weakness of true strength.

Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain"