Asian Muslims Hold Biggest Rallies Yet
By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer
Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated against drawings of the Prophet Muhammed after Friday prayers around the world and Iranian youths rioted outside the French Embassy in Tehran despite calls for calm by governments and religious leaders.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, meanwhile, warned of a "huge chasm that has emerged between the West and Islam," particularly because of Muslim frustrations at Western policies toward Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinians.
While many of the demonstrations were peaceful, up to 60 young men and women hurled stones, firecrackers and firebombs at the French Embassy in the Iranian capital, smashing almost every window on its street facade and starting a small fire near the gate.
"Down! Down with France! Down! Down with Israel," the crowd chanted. More than 100 policemen deployed around the embassy and officers used loudspeakers to urge the protesters to disperse.
Police in Kenya shot and injured one person while trying to keep hundreds of protesters from marching to the residence of Denmark's ambassador. Demonstrators also clashed with police in Pakistan and Egypt.
Rallies in Asia were the largest on the continent since protests erupted throughout the Muslim world over the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper in September and recently reprinted in other European publications. One depicted the prophet with a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse.
Some Muslim leaders in the Middle East, including Kuwait's parliament and Iraq's top Shiite politician, have appealed for calm, saying violence is unhelpful and unnecessary. No major demonstrations were held in Mideast and North African cities Thursday.
But rallies erupted again on Friday. In Pakistan, protesters burned Danish cheese while others clashed with police. The largest gathering was in the capital, Islamabad, where 5,000 supporters of radical Islamic groups demonstrated peacefully in the center of the capital.
Thousands also demonstrated in Malaysia, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, while smaller rallies were held in Indonesia and the Philippines. Some protested outside mosques while others marched on Danish diplomatic missions.
In Egypt, some protesters clashed with police who tried to disperse them with water canons and tear gas. Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza rallied, some firing rifles in the air and others burning Danish flags. About 2,000 Muslim worshippers marched in Jordan under tight security.
The editor of a small Christian newspaper in Norway — the second to publish the drawings, on Jan. 10 — apologized Friday for offending Muslims. Magazinet editor Vebjoern Selbekk said he failed to foresee the pain and anger the drawings would cause.
Many Muslims considered the caricatures offensive to Islam, which is interpreted to bar images of the revered prophet. The Danish newspaper that first published the drawings has apologized for offending Muslims but the Danish government has said it cannot apologize for something done by its free press.
In Pakistan, Mian Aslam, a leader of a coalition of Islamic groups, delivered a fiery speech urging Pakistan to sever ties with any country where the drawings were published. The turnout in Islamabad was the biggest in Pakistan since protests against the cartoons began about a week ago.
About 2,000 protesters briefly clashed with police in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, where they burned foreign-made dairy products. The crowd attacked shops before they were charged by police. At least half a dozen small protests were held around the southern city of Karachi.
In Kenya, thousands of demonstrators, shouting "Down with Denmark!" marched from the largest mosque in downtown Nairobi to Kenya's foreign ministry, to deliver a protest note. At least 200 demonstrators tried to go the home of the Danish envoy, triggering clashes with anti-riot police in which one person was injured.
Israeli police in Jerusalem unsuccessfully tried to prevent protests by barring all men under the age of 45 from attending Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City, Islam's third-holiest site. Despite the efforts, about 2,000 women, young boys and older men marched around the Dome of the Rock shrine on the compound, chanting "Bin Laden, strike again."
In Malaysia's largest city, Kuala Lumpur, about 3,000 protesters marched from a mosque to the high rise building housing the Danish Embassy shouting: "Long live Islam. Destroy Denmark. Destroy Israel. Destroy George Bush. Destroy America!"
Meanwhile, a U.S. official praised Indonesia and Malaysia for their handling of the controversy, saying the two countries proved that Islam and democracy were compatible.
"The protests dissipated fairly quickly and there was a public discussion of it," said Eric John, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
Small demonstrations were also held in Indonesia, where protesters burned tires in one town.
Denmark earlier this week advised its citizens to leave Indonesia after its embassy was stormed by a mob and pelted with eggs.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday he considered the violent reactions to the cartoons "are completely disproportionate to the offense that could possibly have been given."
With that stated, let once again look at an Illuminati structure of deceit, always a lie is boldfaced and media driven. The story never differs, and if information is then needed.. there is "an on going investigation", and therefore it cannot be discussed... althought they already have and are telling you its been foiled ... case and point LA BOMB scare !
Bush Plays Terror Card With Bogus LA Attack Plot
Bootlicking news networks follow suit with dramatic images of Library Tower being destroyed
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 10 2006
In an orchestrated set-up, George W. Bush announced that a plan to fly a plane into the LA Library Tower was thwarted in 2002 and within minutes news networks were showing footage of the same building being destroyed in the movie Independence Day.
Bush stated that the attack was prevented only with the help of NSA surveillance of communications, an attempt to shut up critics of the spying scandal in a move about as sophisticated as a 300lb Pittsburgh Steelers fan after a heavy drinking session.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, immediately went public with comments of his absolute bewilderment concerning the alleged plot.
"I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on national TV and not inform us of these details through the appropriate channels," the mayor said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I don't expect a call from the president — but somebody."
Within minutes of the President's speech, news networks were showing images from the movie Independence Day, where the Library Tower is destroyed as part of the alien invasion.
We have to understand that the Mayor being completely oblivious to the supposed terror plot most likely means that it was completely invented by Karl Rove and his fellow scriptwriters. That meant that a target had to be chosen and they chose the Library Tower knowing full well that news networks would show images of it being destroyed from the movie Independence Day.
In the mind of the passive viewer this information enters the brain as if it is real, and they suspend disbelief to embrace the notion that the building was destroyed by terrorists. This residue remains in the viewer's psyche and the validity of the government's response to the 'attack,' in this instance passing the soon to expire Patriot Act and justifying spying on Americans, is unquestionable.
This isn't another tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, the suggestibility of television is a scientific fact that has been accepted for decades.
This represents an organized campaign of mind control and fearmongering. They have played the terror card so many times that the fingerprints of deception can be lifted and verified almost immediately.
These are the same people that brought you fake fat bin Laden 'confession' tapes found in a shack in Jalalabad and could psychically predict tapes tying Osama to Saddam airing on Al Jazeera days before they surfaced.
Furthermore, as Kurt Nimmo points out, one of the supposed ringleaders of the operation, Riduan Isamuddin, was “operations chief” of Jemaah Islamiyah, which was a creation of Indonesian intelligence and is widely acknowledged to wholly controlled by the CIA.
If the government has really thwarted an attack on LA you can bet your bottom dollar that they would have waved it in front of the anti-war crowd's face before invading Iraq in March 2003.
This is as obvious a political points scoring move as you're ever going to see. It has been deliberately and synthetically concocted to stifle heated criticism of the NSA spying.
This, despite the fact that the spying debate still circles around foreign phone calls, when the real issue is the admitted fact that the Pentagon and other government agencies have been caught and continue to spy on peaceful anti-war and activist groups entirely made up of American citizens.
SIDE NOTE ON SOME PEOPLES THINK : To think on the NO SPIN ZONE [ Bill O'Reilly is host of The O'Reilly Factor ] the O'Reilly Radio show we had a caller on Wensday who stated Americans needed to pass as fast as they could the Pat Act II and Pact Act I and allow spying, because IF and WHEN the USA gets hit again his and everyone elses rights are gone. BLOOP, gone and Martial Law would be needed .. ROFL , why fight then, just do it now. You've lost ethier way idiots. This sort of conditioned thinking is exactly what they want. Fear, be scared. Give away your freedoma and rights for security no one ever has had or can have. Terror exsists in every country. In Iran and Iraq they use the USA as the Terror. Think on that.
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Twenty-Three Intel Experts Say LA Terror Plot a Sham
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 10 2006
Related: Bush Plays Terror Card With Bogus LA Attack Plot
Following yesterday's highly suspiciously timed announcement that the US government had foiled a 2002 terror plot against the Los Angeles Library Tower, intelligence experts and White House reporters have uniformly debunked the story.
As we reported yesterday, in an orchestrated set-up, George W. Bush announced that a plan to fly a plane into the LA Library Tower was thwarted in 2002 and within minutes news networks were showing footage of the same building being destroyed in the movie Independence Day.
After the mayor of LA, Antonio Villaraigosa, immediately went public with comments of his absolute bewilderment concerning the alleged plot, no fewer than twenty three intelligence experts told Capitol Hill Blue that President Bush was "cheapening and politicizing their work" by creating a "fantasy world" of discredited terror alerts and using them for political points scoring.
Both current and former NSA and FBI officials vented their fury with George Bush, one telling Capitol Hill Blue that he was "full of shit."
The LA attack plot arose from the same discredited informant who said that Washington and New York financial institutions were being targeted, which led the White House to raise the terror alert right as the 2004 election campaign was beginning.
In June 2004 John Pistole, the FBI's counterterrorism director, said he was "not sure what [the CIA] was referring to," after a CIA counterterrorism official who testified under the alias "Ted Davis" said that the US had prevented aviation attacks against the east and west coast.
Even former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, before he was replaced by Michael Chertoff, stated that the White House would raise the terror alert with zeal based on the flimsiest evidence.
White House press reporters questioned the timing of the bogus attack claim Thursday evening in light of the NSA spying hearings, after Bush claimed NSA surveillance was key in preventing the alleged attack.
"But is it just a coincidence? You had February 6th circled on the calendar for the hearings, the NSA hearings. Is it just a pure coincidence that this comes out today?" asked one journalist.
McClellan was clearly ruffled and all he could do was repeat the same line about how the President likes to share information with the American people, a claim that would be funny if it were not so disturbingly tragic in light of today's report highlighting White House knowledge of levee breaks in New Orleans hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore.
"Scott, I wanted to just ask a follow-up about the LA plot. Is there something missing from this story, a practical application, a few facts? Because if you want to commandeer a plane and fly it into a tower, if you used shoe bombs, wouldn't you blow off the cockpit? Or is there something missing from this story?" asked another.
File this with the dozens of fake terror alerts, staged 'Al-Qaeda' arrests and hoax bin Laden tapes as another brazen attempt to frighten the American people into jettisoning their own liberty for the sake of a mythical security offered by an illegitimate occupational government.
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