Aid Worker's Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism

Aid Worker's Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism
"We must remember
that these men have a ruthless plan for the world in the form of a theocratic
Islamic caliphate. In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan we saw a glimpse of their
utopia: women degraded, freedom denied and followers of other brands of Islam
exterminated." -- Faith J.H. McDonnell, Director of IRD's Religious Liberty
Programs

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/597668352.html

Tags: Caliphate, Islam, Islamofascism, radical Islam, World Domination

Fight Taliban Not With Weapons - In war against Islamofascism, strongest weapon = free flow of info

Fight Taliban Not With Weapons - In war against Islamofascism, strongest weapon = free flow of info
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Fight Taliban, But Not With Weapons Washington Post, United States

In today's war against Islamofascism, there's no stronger weapon than the free flow of information from the outside world. Show pictures of how a fellow Muslim country like Turkey or Malaysia is doing, or of how the once impoverished countries like India and China are advancing. It will be a much more potent weapon than the barrel of a gun.

(Excerpt) Read more at http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/shim_jae_hoon/2008/06/fight_taliban_but_not_with_wea.html" ...

Tags: Caliphate, Islam, Islamofascism, radical Islam, World Domination, non-Muslims, religion, war on terror, Taliban, Afghanistan Pakistan

Memorial Day: More Than Just a Vacation Day - ... And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism

Memorial Day: More Than Just a Vacation Day - ... And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism

The News & Advance
Published: May 25, 2008

Say the phrase “Memorial Day,” and more people than you’d imagine will think of city pools opening, the first three-day weekend of the year, cookouts, the unofficial start of summer, big sales at the mall. Fewer and fewer people today would first think it’s the day to honor America’s war dead.

How sad it is that the nation’s most somber holiday has turned into a day for pool parties, grilling up some burgers and dogs and snagging some bargains on markdown.

Over the course of the nation’s 228-year history, millions of men and women have answered their country’s call to service to defend freedom and liberty, not just for ourselves but often for the world. Tens of thousands of them gave the ultimate sacrifice, the last full measure of devotion, their very lives to the nation they love.

That’s the sole purpose of this day: honoring those men and women and remembering their sacrifices.

America is now in the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a conflict in which more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers have died. As a nation, for at least this one day, let’s put aside the endless arguments over whether we should have invaded Iraq … let’s not debate whether it’s possible to create democracy in the Arab world … let’s stop fighting over the planning, or lack thereof, for the post-war period … and please, let’s stop babbling on that the war was just about oil.

Let’s just focus on the men and women who’ve put themselves in harm’s way for their country.

It was almost seven years ago, that 19 Islamo-fascist terrorists launched attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City, killing close to 3,000 people in a matter of minutes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa.

In the dark days following the attacks, Americans of all stripes realized there is indeed evil in this world, people whose entire purpose in life is to bring down the exemplar of Western culture: the United States of America.

And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism. In fundamentalist Afghanistan (the lair of the Taliban and al-Qaida) and the dictatorship of Iraq (the well of simmering Arab frustration that had to be drained to make the region fertile ground for democracy, the argument went), hundreds of thousands of American soldiers hit the ground, to protect both their own nation and to liberate the people living under the thumbs of brutal leaders.

Their country called, and they responded, without reservation and knowing full well the dangers they faced.

Has the government of this nation had their backs at all times? Hardly. Just recall the horrible stories The Washington Post broke last year about the rancid conditions wounded veterans faced in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and replicated in military hospitals around the country. Then there’ve been the stories about faulty equipment and lack of proper resources that troops have had to face. This nation’s civilian and military leaders, from President Bush on down, ought to hang their heads in shame for the way they’ve treated the men and women of the armed services.

But still, America’s sons and daughters are answering the nation’s call to service, and will continue to do so. Not because they’re Republicans or Democrats, not because they’re nationalistic chest-thumpers, not because they’re capitalism’s storm troopers.

No, rather because they are willing to sacrifice and possibly die for a simple concept: the dignity of mankind and the value of a single life.

That’s what Memorial Day is all about.


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/opinion/editorials/article/memorial_day_more_than_just_a_vacation_day/5183/

Tags: Bombing, 911, Islamofascism, Taliban, Islamic terrorism, "palestinians", Jihad, Afghanistan, Muslims, radical Islam, religion of peace, Iraq war Iran memorial day

ISLAMIC THREAT, NUCLEAR PAKISTANI FRONT

The Iranian 1979 lesson of 'suffering from cracking down on a non Jihadi dictator in a Muslim country' tells us not to Teach him a hard lesson.

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ISLAMIC THREAT, NUCLEAR PAKISTANI FRONT

Understanding Al-Qaeda's Pakistan PSYOP and Insurgency

http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2007/09/understanding-alqaedas-psy

Understanding Al-Qaeda's Pakistan PSYOP and Insurgency
The Troubling Effectiveness of al-Qaeda's PSYOP On The Pakistani Army

By Steve Schippert

Going forward in the global conflict before us, it is important to acknowledge and understand that al-Qaeda is currently engaged in an Information Operation (IO) campaign inside Pakistan. This is in addition to its efforts to gain influence outside of Pakistan, particularly with Muslims in Europe, the Middle East and in the US. The primary target of the Pakistan campaign is the Pakistani military and it is driven by al-Qaeda’s accelerating insurgency inside Pakistan. Understanding how and why al-Qaeda has undertaken this effort allows decision makers greater understanding of al-Qaeda’s aims and equips them with a ‘lay of the land’ required to counter al-Qaeda’s message and objectives.

Usama bin Laden’s latest recorded message is the third in just two weeks following three years of virtual silence from the al-Qaeda leader. In it, bin Laden calls on Pakistani Muslims to acknowledge that Musharraf’s actions are examples of his loyalty to the United States and representative of his unbelief. For bin Laden and his compatriots, such unbelief marks Musharraf as ‘kufr’ and places the requirement on believers to make “armed rebellion against him.” The misguided understanding that bin Laden and al-Qaeda have of Islam makes it obligatory to fight against those who rule outside of their interpretation of Islam, and its overly broad application of tawhid. Yet bin Laden crafts a different message for the Pakistani Army, whom he advises to “resign” from their jobs, “disassociate yourself from Pervez and his Shirk (polytheism)” and “enter anew into Islam.” There is a reason for this, which will be discussed below.

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s latest video message and bin Laden’s audio message, released on the same day, mark as-Sahab’s 77th and 78th propaganda productions this year alone. There is a clear shifting of gears in the al-Qaeda Information Operations, most notably within Pakistan as well as their international efforts surrounding the 6th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

Before looking further into the al-Qaeda Pakistani IO campaign, we must address the al-Qaeda-Taliban insurgency actively ongoing in Pakistan.

al-Qaeda in Pakistan - From Terrorism to Insurgency

There is, of course, no single agreed upon definition of terrorism. Terrorism is defined in the US Code of Federal Regulations as “…the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85) For instance, terrorism is – among other things - a tactic employed to increase support for a group through inspiration while also decreasing effective resistance to the group through intimidation. An example of this type of terrorism would be the beheading of those deemed to be ‘spies’ for the Americans in South Waziristan, the multiple car bomb and rocket attacks, or the anti-aircraft assassination attempts on Musharraf. Additionally, the bombings that took place after the Pakistani government raid on Lal Masjid (the Red Mosque) are an example of the use of terror to gain influence. No matter the definition of terrorism being applied, al-Qaeda has clearly been a terrorist organization in Pakistan.

Beyond Pakistan, Al-Qaeda seeks to – in part - influence American foreign policy through terrorist means. But within Pakistan, al-Qaeda has clearly and by specific design transformed from being simply a dangerous international terrorist group within Pakistan to a full-fledged internal insurgency against it. This transformation is represented through the efforts of al-Qaeda to acquire the armored assets of a state Army and its nuclear weapons, as well as the pursuit of land holdings to be integrated into the larger objective of creating an Islamic state to be ruled by a successor to the Prophet, a Khalifa or Caliph, nearly 1350 years after the last of the ‘rightly guided’ rulers.

An insurgency is a movement with specific governmental designs on the host country. In Countering Evolved Insurgent Networks, Col. Thomas X. Hammes (USMC, Ret.) quotes Bard O’Neill to define an insurgency. O’Neill wrote, “Insurgency may be defined as a struggle between a nonruling group and the ruling authorities in which the nonruling group consciously uses political resources (e.g., organizational expertise, propaganda, and demonstrations) and violence to destroy, reformulate, or sustain the basis of one or more aspects of politics.”

In more accessible terms, Terrorism-Research.com offers that the ultimate goal of an insurgency “is to challenge the existing government for control of all or a portion of its territory, or force political concessions in sharing political power.”

Both aptly describe al-Qaeda’s actions, operations and aims within Pakistan, a ready-made nuclear power which the terrorist group seeks to wrest complete control.

Perhaps the best way to describe al-Qaeda’s Pakistan insurgency is to call it a “Death by a Thousand Cuts.” They have openly sought not only the assassination of Pervez Musharraf, but also the demise – or reconfiguration – of the Pakistani national government. In a strategy that has been executed with remarkable patience, al-Qaeda has gained acknowledged control of several sizable territories in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

After defeating Pakistani forces on the battlefield, the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance have secured various ‘peace accords’ replete with concessions from the Musharraf government. Effective control of North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Bajour and Swat have been ceded to them and Pakistani forces were – upon agreement – effectively withdrawn from the areas handed the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance through the accords. The accords, no matter how presented by the Musharraf government, represented abject defeat.

Al-Qaeda Insurgency: Destination - Islamabad

Domination in these territories has allowed al-Qaeda the haven necessary to rebuild its training and planning infrastructure as well as replenish its human resources. After a few short weeks of basic military training, Taliban conscripts are sent in waves across the border to battle US and Coalition forces in Afghanistan.

However, al-Qaeda has no designs on investing in regaining that territory. There are no resources for them there – and a more formidable, if reduced, military force to be reckoned with. One whose defeat of the terrorist group drove them into Pakistan’s border regions to begin with. Al-Qaeda’s designs are not back towards the west, but rather onward deeper into the heart of Pakistan.

While al-Qaeda’s Pakistan insurgency has been largely waged in the FATA region, it’s territorial aims are by no means limited to it. Rather, al-Qaeda seeks control of all of Pakistan, including its military, weapons and economic capabilities. Al-Qaeda has been executing this strategy one territory, one victory at a time. And it now closes in on Islamabad.

Indeed, an analysis by the Pakistani Interior Ministry warned Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf of precisely this. The New York Times reported that the 15-page internal Pakistani document warned Musharraf that “the influence of the extremists is swiftly bleeding east and deeper into his own country, threatening areas like Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat, which were considered to be safeguarded by Pakistani government forces.” The Interior Ministry document said that Peshewar endures the “highest number of terrorist incidents, including attacks on local police,” and that in Bannu and Tank regions, police are “patronizing the local Taliban and have abdicated the role of law and order.”

It is important to note that Peshewar is the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Much of the Pakistani government, non-Islamist educators, officials and police forces live inside heavily armed and walled communities in the NWFP, where they are more safe from al-Qaeda attack. The NWFP borders the Federally Administered Tribal Areas under direct Taliban-al-Qaeda control on one side and the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on the other. The rising violence is a clear indicator of the expansion of al-Qaeda’s insurgency as it marches patiently but steadily toward Islamabad. As evidenced by bin Laden’s latest message, that patience may be nearing an end.

Usama bin Laden’s latest message implored the Pakistani public to take up arms against Musharraf and warned the army’s soldiers to break ranks and fight Musharraf with al-Qaeda rather than serve him. This is a sign that al-Qaeda’s patient approach to its Pakistan insurgency has run its course. There could be a maelstrom of events to follow in Pakistan.

AQ Targets Police for Violence and Army Soldiers for Influence

The al-Qaeda Information Operation (IO) is designed to support the insurgency’s incremental march on Islamabad. The key to understanding the al-Qaeda IO and its insurgency goals is to understand how al-Qaeda primarily targets Pakistani Interior Ministry forces (police, constabularies and the Frontier Corps) for physical attack while targeting Pakistani regular army forces for influence and subversion.

The persistent mention of Pakistani police forces – rather than Pakistani Army forces – is expected in any Pakistani Interior Ministry report, as the Police forces fall under the Interior. But Pakistani police forces also decidedly bear the brunt of al-Qaeda’s lethal attacks and not the Pakistani Army. It’s not that al-Qaeda and their indigenous Taliban allies cannot attack the Pakistani Army with expectations of success. They most certainly can and have. With bin Laden’s latest audio message delivering a combination invitation and ultimatum to Pakistani Army soldiers, al-Qaeda’s designs for the Pakistani Army are more clearly visible. The reason for attacking Pakistani police forces is two-fold and – in this writer’s view - also the most elusive and yet perhaps most important indicator of the ongoing al-Qaeda insurgency.

First, the Interior Ministry is widely regarded as the one segment of the Pakistani government with unwavering loyalty to Musharraf, whom al-Qaeda has sought to assassinate several times. Unlike the military and the military’s intelligence arm (ISI), the Pakistani police forces, constabularies and Frontier Corps of the Interior Ministry do not have historical ties to Islamist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Interior Ministry loyalty to Musharraf makes their ranks logical targets for the Islamists who seek to kill and replace Musharraf atop an Islamist-run Pakistani government.

Secondly, and most importantly, al-Qaeda at the same time seeks to avoid open bloody conflict with the Army. Not because it fears the deadly consequences of such a confrontation, but rather because al-Qaeda senior leadership wants the Pakistani military intact – for themselves. Ideally, they do not want to ultimately find Musharraf killed or oustered only to have the military splintered internally between pro-government and pro-al-Qaeda commanders. Al-Qaeda is executing an insurgency to gain control, not to touch off a civil war.

In the end, al-Qaeda’s design is also to co-opt an intact military in order to gain command of a military force with the assets of a state (aircraft, armor, etc.) and direct control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Recent reports of defections of Pakistani military elements since bin Laden’s latest message to them indicates a level of success in the al-Qaeda IO campaign targeting them.

Measuring al-Qaeda’s PSYOP Success

Three weeks ago, well over 200 Pakistani Army soldiers surrendered to a much smaller number of fighters from the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance without a shot fired. But the al-Qaeda IO campaign primarily targeting the Pakistani regular army forces has a spillover effect on other forces - and the general populace - as well. It is reported in Pakistan that many soldiers in the Pakistani Army, Frontier Corps paramilitary and police forces are refusing to fight or putting up little fight against their own countrymen inside the Federally Administered Tribal Area.

It is difficult to dispute the success of al-Qaeda’s Psychological Warfare efforts inside Pakistan. The message has been consistent for several years and al-Qaeda’s patience and restraint in seeing it through are significant qualities of the terrorist organization turned insurgent group. With every message and in all their forms, al-Qaeda has sought to convince the Army soldiers that they are not al-Qaeda’s enemy, rather that they are simply being misled by Musharraf. In bin Laden’s latest message, he said of the Pakistani Army, “we see the armies becoming tools and weapons in the hands of the Kuffaar [unbeliever, referencing Musharraf and the US] against the Muslims.”

This message resonates, as many Pakistanis are reluctant to take up arms against other Pakistanis, whether those they would confront are Taliban or al-Qaeda or not. It must also be considered that upwards of 30% of the Pakistani Army are, like the Taliban, ethnic Pashtuns. The vast majority of them are enlisted foot soldiers, as very few ethnic Pashtuns hold leadership positions, largely due to internal social and educational dynamics.

Even among the Pakistani police forces in the North West Frontier Province, many are said to have requested leave or simply deserted when faced with the outlook of deadly confrontations with fellow Pakistanis among the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance. In other instances, including the Interior Ministry’s report that specifically cited the Bannu and Tank regions, police are “patronizing the local Taliban and have abdicated the role of law and order.”

Where True Power Lies…And Grows

This is an indication that fear is also a prime motivator among Pakistanis. In the North West Frontier Province capital of Peshawar, al-Qaeda’s black banner of jihad can be seen displayed in the widows of many shops and flying in various places. This does not necessarily mean that there is explicit support in the hearts and minds of all Pakistanis there – even among those flying the al-Qaeda banner.

Though Peshewar and the rest of the NWFP are technically under Pakistani state control, this indicates a reflection among the populace of where the true power lies – outside the walled communities where many government employees and ‘moderate’ citizens take refuge. In many cases, the al-Qaeda banner may well be flown simply out of self-protection to avoid attack on their particular shops.

The police cannot protect everyone all the time, but al-Qaeda and the Taliban can attack at their choosing. And from a local’s perspective, this is where the true power lies. And as more and more Pakistanis in the police forces, the Frontier Corps and the regular army begin to show a reluctance to do battle, the al-Qaeda power in these region grows, both in measurable means on the ground and within the minds of the Pakistani populace.

Such are the tangible gains of effective, persistent and robust al-Qaeda information operations, a classic PSYOP directed at both the Pakistani population writ large and also expressly directed at the Pakistani Army. As a result, Pakistani forces are engaging al-Qaeda and the Taliban less and less. In fact, President Musharraf announced that in 2008, there will be no Pakistani Army activity at all in al-Qaeda-held territory, deferring engagement to the less capable and less effective Frontier Corps and Pakistani police and constabularies.

Conclusions

The growing success of this long running al-Qaeda PSYOP makes it clear that the defeat of al-Qaeda and the elimination of their global headquarters in Pakistan will not come from Pakistani sources or initiative. As with so many other theaters in this global conflict, the initiative must again come directly from the United States. The American public and American political leaders must prepare themselves for the reality that, at this stage, defeating al-Qaeda in Pakistan most likely requires American boots on Pakistani soil.

The continued disengagement from the fight by Pakistani military forces unwilling to combat terrorists and insurgents within their own country is indeed troubling. President Musharraf’s recent decision to fully disengage and withdraw his most capable combat forces from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by January 2008 certainly does not bode well for continued distanced engagement or non-engagement by American forces. In the end, defeating al-Qaeda in Pakistan will require direct American military action on the ground. The alternative is to accept the consequences of a strengthening al-Qaeda insurgency that is gaining momentum.

There can therefore be little debate that al-Qaeda and its global headquarters in Pakistan must be defeated before they consume Pakistan and the assets of a nuclear-armed state with professional military forces. The first step is an effective IO strategy of our own to counter this very powerful aspect of the insurgency. At current, only Pervez Musharraf openly engages the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance in the war of words and ideas within Pakistan. Unfortunately, these efforts amount to little given his poor domestic credibility. More Pakistani voices are required, and they must address the Pakistani people, bottom up, in a credible manner.

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CNN Student News Transcript: November 5, 2007

CNN - Nov 4, 2007
Al Qaeda would certainly flourish in a country distracted by a worsening state of emergency. Then, there is the issue of the nukes

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/11/04/sn.transcript.mon/

Al-Qaeda pursuing nukes, biological weapons: US

Daily Telegraph, Australia - Oct 9, 2007
The NIE, which prefigured much of today's report, said al-Qaeda had regrouped in Pakistan "and would not hesitate'' to use weaponas of mass destruction

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22561509-5006003,00.html

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Is Iran meddling in Afghanistan?

Is Iran meddling in Afghanistan?http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0808/p06s01-wosc.htmlChristian Science Monitor, MA - Aug 7, 2007 Islam Qala, Afghanistan - Iran's broadening influence beyond its border with Iraq, ...

Islamists' Vicious tactics of Using Human Shields

Islamists' Vicious tactics of Using Human Shields

"Palestinian" best booming export = Heinous Crimes of using own civilian-people as Human Shields

TALIBAN

NATO says Taleban using civilians as shields, as high toll feared http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/October/subcontinent_October989.xml§ion=subcontinent

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PALESTINIANS

"Palestinian" most 'successful' Export

Interesting to note that the first terrorists that started in this CRIMES ON OWN PEOPLE were the Palestinians. http://geocities.com/palestiniansarelies/HumanShields.html "Palestinian" long history of vicious CRIMES - use of Arab kids as human shields.

lgf: Palestinian Human Shield Watch http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22479

Armed palestinian terrorists using Children as human Shield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefgMtXOc1M

Palestinian Children Die as Human Shields for Terrorists, We see a pattern here among the Palestinians. Children are mere cannon fodder, useful mostly as human shields to protect terrorist leaders. http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=366

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=2ce774234b2a68bad29cb1d515a7bd9b.823231Palestinian Muslim terrorist using children as human shield

Palestinians Use Children as Cannon Fodder

Tulkarm, West Bank - In a rare letter of protest sent in early December to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian women's group demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop using children as cannon fodder.

"Our children are being sent into the streets to face heavily armed Israeli soldiers," said the letter from the Tulkarm Women's Union - a local branch of the Palestinian Women's Union, a trade-union group that promotes the status of women in the Palestinian Authority.

"The Palestinian Authority must put an end to this phenomenon. We urge you to issue instructions to your police force to stop sending innocent children to their death."

The letter adds weight to complaints from parents who are beginning to speak out despite what they say has been months of intimidation by armed gunmen loyal to Arafat.

'We don't want to send our sons to the front line, but they are being taken by the Palestinian Authority," says Aisheh, 43, a mother of six in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. She says she decided to speak out after her 17-year-old son was hit in the head by a rubber bullet. He suffered a concussion.

Like other protesting parents, Aisheh declines to allow her full name to be published for fear of reprisals. A nurse from Gaza who spoke out on Palestinian TV against sending children to the flash points was condemned in the Palestinian media as a traitor. Other individuals who refuse to allow their names to be published say they have been threatened by armed Fatah officials for discouraging their children from participating in the clashes.

Israel has faced international criticism for the deaths of at least 38 youths under the age of 17 in the first two months of conflict in which nearly 300 people have died. Nearly 1,000 children have been injured. The Palestinians consider anyone under the age of 17 a child. But children just entering their teens-and some even younger-have been injured in the region's worst violence in nearly a decade.

Bassam Abu Sharif, a special adviser to Arafat, has accused Israeli troops of "cold-blooded killing." He denies Israeli accusations that the Palestinian Authority has placed children at the front of demonstrations to act as human shields for armed gunmen.

"We don't send children-nobody can send children-and we don't hide behind children," Abu Sharif says.

But Aisheh says the militia of Arafat's Fatah movement and the Palestinian security forces provide transportation and encouragement to children eager to answer the call to combat Israel's continued presence on Arab land. "When school finishes, Palestinian Authority security cars go around collecting children from the streets and sending them to the killing fields," she says. "This is very serious because they are children and they are unarmed."

Israeli army chiefs point out that not all the children killed in the recent clashes have been innocent bystanders. They say their snipers have orders to shoot anyone shooting or throwing Molotov cocktails at them, but some of the attackers have been as young as 12.

Palestinian Authority TV broadcasts constant images of children carrying weapons and staging mock attacks on Israelis. Over the summer, children as young as 12 were trained in the use of Kalshnikov rifles and other weapons at special camps by Fatah officials.

"As the number of those killed rises, the Palestinian media extol and exalt not only those killed, but also their willingness to die as martyrs for Allah, emphasizing that dying a martyr's death was the realization of their hopes," says Itamar Marcus, director of the Palestinian Media Watch monitoring group.

Palestinian Authority TV and newspapers also have come under fire, accused of encouraging children to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at armed Israeli troops.

Aisheh's husband, Abdelghani, says intimidation has kept parents from speaking out. "No one here dares to say publicly that he is against sending his own children to the front line," he says. "Some parents who have tried to protest have been condemned as fifth columnists (traitors) and threatened."

PLO Uses Churches as "Human Shield" Propaganda http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2001/oct/win3.htm


When Attacking Israelis - Palestinians Use Children as "Human Shields"

ISRAEL TO U.N.

"KEEP PALESTINIANS FROM USING

KIDS AS SHIELDS"

By Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST

November 8, 2000



United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson is to begin a week-long visit to the area today, with Foreign Ministry officials saying they will present a strong case to her about the Palestinian's "cynical" use of children as human shields in the recent riots.

Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker said the use of children in the violence constitutes no less than a "war crime," and cites various international conventions to back up his position. Various international treaties, Baker says, set the age of 15 as minimum age for a child to participate in hostilities, whether directly - through combat - or through other means.

According to Baker, the Palestinians are well aware of the IDF's firing procedures: tear gas and water hoses against rock throwers, rubber bullets against firebomb throwers, and live fire against gunmen.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak explained that the Palestinians are placing the stonethrowers in the front lines, followed by the fire-bomb hurlers and then the snipers. In some cases, he said, some of the Palestinian youths killed during the clashes have actually been shot from behind.

The use of children as combatants was spelled out last week in a letter Israeli Ambassador to the UN Yehuda Lancry wrote to the executive director of UNICEF, asking the children's rights advocate to pressure the Palestinians to keep their children out of areas of potential conflict.

"Chairman Yasser Arafat, who is ruthlessly encouraging the involvement of children in the violence, calls them 'the Generals of the rocks.' He would have the world believe that Israel, with its guns and helicopters, is waging a war against 10-year-olds with small stones," Lancry wrote. "In truth, however, the children... are used as human shields for the gunmen, bomb throwers, and lynch mobs whose faces have been totally obscured and invisible to the media."

The message seems to be getting through, at least at a declarative level.

Yesterday, PA Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said, "There has been an overwhelming agreement among Palestinian factions to carry out a public-awareness campaign to prevent those children under 16 years old from taking part in these demonstrations." According to Abed Rabbo, the children are not knowingly being used as cannon fodder, but rather take part in the protests as a genuine expression of pain and grievance.

The problem, Baker says, is that children at that age are incapable of making the kind of logical decisions regarding whether to place themselves in life-threatening situations, and are in need of parental guidance and authority to protect them.

Regarding Robinson's visit, Mordechai Yedid, deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry's UN and International Organizations division, said Israel will receive her as the head of the UN's Commission on Human Rights, but not as part of a human rights inquiry commission the body set up last month after adopting a one-sided resolution condemning Israel for "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel, said Yedid, has informed Robinson that it will not cooperate with the body, or in any way assist it in implementing the resolution.

During her two-day visit, Robinson will meet with Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, and Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. A meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak is still in the works.

She is scheduled to go to the Palestinian Authority on Friday, where she is slated to meet Arafat and will surely be flooded with numerous allegations of Israeli human rights violations.

Robinson is a former president of Ireland and is seen as a possible candidate in the race to succeed Kofi Annan when his term as UN secretary-general expires in two years.

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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/Default.aspx?tabid=132&view=item&idx=76

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9838

http://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/8/31468.pdf.

http://www.c4israel.org/articles/fall2004/html/martyrs.html

http://www.carmical.net/articles/israel.html

More on Human Shields - from http://www.anti-cair-net.org/

U.S. doctors: Palestinian intifada abusing children

Kids - the main force of the Palestinian Front

Palestinian Children Die As Human Shields For Adult Terrorist Leaders

YouTube - Palestinians Using Kids As Human Shield This video shows the use of children by This video shows the use of children by the Palestinian terrorists as a human shield from the IDF. ... (more) (less) ...

Melanine.org - Human shield in Gaza

CRIMINAL USE OF CHILDREN

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Palestinian Crimes of HUMAN SHIELDS, Beit Hanoun (Nov, 2006)

Amazing how effective it is, their tactics, after all, the mainstream media didn't blame Huzbullah when doing that in Qana, that only boosted the Palestinians to continue using their civilians as bombs and as shields. Anything to demonize the Zionists.

Beit Hanoun: A hub of terrorist activity http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/Beit+Hanoun-+a+hub+of+terrorist+activity+5-Nov-2006.htm?DisplayMode=print

Beit Hanoun: Women act as human shields http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3324081,00.html YNet, Israel - Nov 5, 2006... Men leaving city accompanied by women who act as their 'human shields.' Residents report ... On the way from Erez Crossing to Gaza City is the town of Beit Hanoun. ...

Hamas Uses Women as Human Shields Omega Letter Intelligence Digest (subscription) http://www.omegaletter.com/articles.asp?ArticleID=5991

Terrorists Hide Behind Civilians Arutz Sheva IDF Operation Autumn Clouds In Gaza To Continue ThreatsWatch.Org http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/11/idf-operation-autumn-clouds-in/ http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-06T145946Z_01_L12263400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-7'>http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-06T145946Z_01_L12263400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-7

Israel Uncovers Female ‘Terror Network’ The Media Line, NY - 5 hours ago... More than 55 Palestinians were killed in the operation, including several civilians ... civilians were caught in the line of fire while being used as human shields. http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=15612

PALESTINIAN ARABS ONCE AGAIN USE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS HUMAN ...Dafka - Nov 5, 2006 Palestinian terror organizations used woman and children as human shields this past weekend ... In response, the Palestinians organized a human shield of more than ... http://www.dafka.org/NewsGen.asp?S=4&PageID=1320

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http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=280013

GAZA STRIP: Palestinians use women as human shieldsPeoria Journal Star, IL - Nov 3, 2006... of women who streamed to the scene to serve as human shields, killing one and ... More than 20 Palestinians, most gunmen, have been killed since the offensive began ... http://www.pjstar.com/stories/110306/pm__BBE5F07L.012.shtml

Women acting as human shields aid escape of Palestinian militants Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 3, 2006... who were rushing toward the shrine to serve as human shields. Two of the women were killed on the third day of fighting in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. ... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-ex-mideast3nov04,0,2270037.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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IRANIAN BACKED HEZBULLAH

The best in the line of copycats of the dreadful Palestinian terrorists are of course the Huzbullah. everyone knows about the facsist Islamic Terrorists Huzbullah (that under the direct order of Adolf Ahmadinejad of Iran invaded Israel and abducted Israelis in order to draw fire from Israeli defenders) that said "good that jews are concentrated all in one place - Israel so it easier to exterminate them". now that is fascism, (not what the Islamic propagandists lie on anti terrorists fighters.)
Omar Alfara is an ARAB Lebanese and the official Huzbullah Poet who always makes great poems for ... How the Islam terrorists use civilians as a human shield ... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nassrallah

Photos that damn Hezbollah Herald SunTHIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid ... www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,19960056-5006301,00.html These are the pictures that damn Hezbullah ( http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5200963,00.jpg )

Canada.com - Hezbollah's human shields http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=439dbdcc-167c-423c-9d52-b14a90605440

YouTube - STOP TO USE civilians LIKE Human Shield +UN Ambulance Transporting Terrorists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ONKb9J2YeU + Hezbollah's Use of Human Shields ...



Hezbollah using Christians for human shields http://mikesnoise.typepad.com/noisepage/2006/08/hezbollah_using.html

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21620 Hizballah Human Shield Watch

DEBKAfile - Hizballah is using Lebanese Christians as human shields for its attacks and their towns and villages as supply centers to pump ordnance to the launch teams ... http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=2926


Media Lies and Hezbollah's Human Shields ...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23785



keebsiweebsi: Hezbullah makes Human Shields of Qana (Kana) and ... - Hezbullah makes Human Shields of Qana (Kana) and other Lebanese civilians (video). Video of Hezbullah terrorist firing rocket from Lebanese village: ...
http://www.livejournal.com/go.bml?journal=keebsiweebsi&itemid=57872&dir=next

Children used as Human Shields by Hizballah (Hezbollah) (Hezbullah ... - Children used as Human Shields by H.. 16 sec. Hizballah (Hezbollah) (Hezbullah) s.. 59 sec. hizballah attack 3 min. Israeli Army Spy Unit Hacks Hizbollah TV ... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4398808882114018636

The Jawa Report: Like I (and Others) Said, Hezbullah Lost - Well, the smoke has had time to clear, and Hezbullah is now being percieved ... acting as human shields for a hezbollah which can now rearm with impunity. ...
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184639.php

Even the UN are used as human shields - If it cannot take into account women and children used as human shields, ... etc, but between the lines, the message to the UN and Hezbullah is clear...
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2002

Who is a civilian when it comes to casualties?When anti-Israel groups use women and children as human shields, as bombers, ... they themselves say "I am Hesbullah", and "We are all Hesbollah." ...
http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/025609.html

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IRANIAN BACKED AL-SADR IN IRAQ

Al-Sadr using children as human shields

This http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0820/p01s04-woiq.html report about the standoff in Najaf blandly reports that children are inside the Shrine of Ali as human shields. Or at least one child.

Inside the shrine itself, there were no weapons to be seen, but there were hundreds of Mahdi Army supporters, some of them familiar faces from a demonstration one week ago in Baghdad. They were voluntary human shields, the youngest perhaps 8 years old, the oldest 70.

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