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Its obvious that some one is standing behind the board and pushing it forward or its the guy himself.
neo_ny_23MemberYeah I have the same cell phone from Cingular. I also admit that its really sleek and looks good but it lacks something. I hv special liking for flip cell phones which can be folded. I think i would like to have some cell phone which looks similar to x427 but has better ringtones and quality, which has a cam, and able to connect it to my computer.
The good thing is that, am just being patient and next year by this time, I will upgrade to a much better cell phone.
Oh btw, Cingular rocks.
neo_ny_23MemberGuys-find that girl. Find the girl you think is more beautiful on both the outside and inside than anyone on the planet. And tell her you think that of her. Make her feel like the queen of the world. Give her flowers, not on Valentine’s Day, not on her birthday, on some random Thursday when she won’t expect it. Never miss a chance to tell her what she means to you. Pull her close at night. Remember what she wore the night you met. Study her eyes, they could be the softest brown, or the most electric green, but they are unique to her and are beautiful regardless. Tell her that you miss her. Hold her face when you kiss her. Brush her hair. Pick her up and swing her around when she hugs you. Find the most unthinkable way to show her that you love her. Pay attention to everything she says. Cook for her, mac’n’cheese or fillet mignon, she won’t care. Surprise her with something she always wanted but never got. Don’t get jealous. Trust her completely. Always pay. Don’t back down from showing her affection anywhere. Complement her on the way she looks, every single day. Take her dancing. Be her rock. Give her the life she always dreamed of, no matter what the cost. No matter how tough she is, always treat her as the most fragile thing ever. Make it so all girls are jealous of her. Give her space when she needs it. Take note of everything she likes, and dislikes; favorite food, favorite song, favorite place, etc. Bring her breakfast in bed. Plan ahead, the more thought she sees that you put into something, the more she will appreciate it. Go shopping with her, and pretend you like it. Come to terms with the fact that she IS more important than your boys. Think before you speak. Wear out the phrase “I love you” like it is going out of style.
Sorry Sarah. No such chicks available in my college. I am very much like what you described here….But where is the girl with whom I want to do all such stuff???? 99% of the girls are just carried away by looks, muscles and money. No one gives a s.h.i.t. about those stuff u really wrote here. Remaining 1% are either taken or are not looking. We should have more girls here on earth. Start cloning gurls!!! Come on, do something!!!
neo_ny_23MemberI agree with Rachel. Clean up your own home first before supporting some one else. We gotta be self-sufficient first before supporting some one else.
Another thing Aqeel – Poverty is NOT the reason for terrorism. Most of the terrorists are eithe from rich and affluent families or atleast middle class families. The major reasons of terrorism are: 1) Wrong and corrobated (check the spelling.. am not sure about it) education leading to Jehad or Gitmo and Abu Ghraib tortures 2) Wrong and short sighted foreign policies of different countries, and 3) Lack of diversity and globalisation in the middle eastern and many muslim nations around the world.
About eradicating poverty one thing each country can do is to 0) Stable and strong central government and regional governments 1) stop corruption in their own governments and NGOs (Non Government Organizations) 2) better education 3) strengthening economy on the basis of the rich natural resources the country has and 4) better communication. Communication doesnt only mean just phones or stuff like that. By better communication I mean, better phone facilities, better electricity, better roads, setting up better internet and computer facilities, opening your own country to the whole world so that your people will know whats happening outside your country and others will know whats happening in your country and whats the scope of employement and investment there. It broadens everyone’s mind.
Building better roads, means more employment to poor people and by building better roads, u not only solve the problem of communication but also provide hard money to the poor people. When they have money, they send their kids to schools. When they send their kids to schools, their kids and eventually the families get education (not Islamic Jehad studies but realistic studies which are practical in today’s world). When you get education, you have the power of knowledge. With better internet facilities, you come across various fields and scopes all around the world, which opens up your mind.
But, there is always a but! Countries around the world can successfully end poverty by ending corruption in their own offices and NGOs. As long as corruption is there, nothing I said above is gonna work. And again, the only mean of ending corruption is proper ethical education. Goverment officials should take the leads in anti-corruption campaigns and should be the ones to clean up first.
Thats all I can think of right now.
neo_ny_23MemberHoly Cow, that was an amazing goal…. Wow, she has such a powerful strike.
neo_ny_23Member1. Get a dream job, make tons of money, make my parents happy and get a hot chick.
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9. Get a dream job, make tons of money, make my parents happy and get a hot chick.
10. Marry a nice girl whom I love for sure and who loves me fore sure and live a wonderful king size life (and make my parents happy).neo_ny_23Memberbrunette: Download Adware (do a Google Search for “Lavasoft Adware”) to remove the spywares. Or download webroot spysweeper. It also removes lots of unnecessary stuff which anti-viruses usually dont detect.
neo_ny_23MemberI am 20, will be 21 soon and am in almost 3rd Bachelors Degree, and am working as a part time Fitness Instructor, life-gaurd and Recreation Attendant in my college gym. I work 40 hours a week (officially) and more than that sometimes (unofficially).
neo_ny_23MemberSea beach and music for me.
neo_ny_23MemberToday I stumbled across this article which clearly shows how interested Pakistani Government is in the War against Terrorism. Its a shame that we label Pakistan as an “aly in our war against Terrorism”.
LAHORE, July 31: While no religious seminary in Pakistan is ready to admit that the three London suicide bombers ever visited them, the Pakistan Government has itself declared that the three came to Pakistan between November 2004 and February 2005.
Muhammad Siddiq Khan and Shehzad Tanweer stayed in Lahore and Faisalabad while Haseeb Hussain chose Karachi. Six months after their return from Pakistan, they committed such bloody acts of terror that it could change Europe much more than 9/11 changed America. The tragedy highlights the superficiality of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s rhetoric about changing the country’s direction.
During their stay at the seminaries, the bombers learnt to make explosives from recovered Al-Qaeda manuals. The information provided to Islamabad by the UK authorities show that Khan and Tanweer came to Pakistan in mid-2004. After landing in Karachi, the two militants traveled to Lahore from where they proceeded to Faisalabad. In the interregnum, they were at the Jamia Manzurul Islamia, an extremist Sunni madrassa situated in Lahore Cantonment. There, they lived with Osama Nazir at Jamia Fatahul Rahemia, a religious school run by Qari Ahlullah Raheemi.
Raheemi, an extremist cleric, is considered close to outlawed Pakistani militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, led by Maulana Masood Azhar. Azhar was released by India at Kandahar in exchange for hijacked passengers of flight IC-814. British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who has been sentenced to death for the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002, was considered close to Azhar.
British intelligence agencies have already approached their Pakistani counterparts to know whether the three were in touch with the Al-Qaeda or other Islamic groups in Pakistan, or if there was a Pakistan-based mastermind behind the London attacks. What the British authorities specifically asked the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to find out is how many more Muslim volunteers of Pakistani origin present in the UK are ready to carry out suicide bombings for their cause.
Sources say British agencies have provided vital leads to their Pakistani counterparts to track down other potential bombers who have returned to Britain in the recent past. Sources say two of the four London bombers had visited Pakistan and were being supervised by Al-Qaeda managers based in Pakistan since then. British citizenship and familial ties to Pakistan enabled them to travel freely between the United Kingdom and the South Asian state.
The bombers apparently followed a set route, though there were many who used to believe that the terror highway of Pakistan had been closed effectively after Musharraf’s oft-repeated claims of having taken concrete steps to uproot extremist elements and dismantle their Jihadi infrastructure.
Barely a month before the blasts, the June 2005 arrests of two Pakistani-Americans in the small Californian town of Lodi, and a confessional statement by one of them of having been trained at an Al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan for six months till 2004 to carry out terrorist attacks in the US, had questioned the actual commitment of America’s most-trusted ally against terror — General Musharraf.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that the arrests would help bust the well-organised network of an Islamic militant group in California whose fighters were being imparted military training at a Rawalpindi camp run by leading Pakistani militant outfit, Jamiatul Ansar (JUA), previously called the Harkat ul Mujahideen (HUM) and formerly led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil.
One of the men arrested, 22-year-old Hamid Hayat, is accused in an FBI criminal complaint of undergoing training in an Al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan to learn “how to kill Americans” and then lying to FBI agents about it. His father, 47-year-old Umer Hayat, is charged with lying about his son’s involvement and his own financing of the camp. Hamid’s affidavit says that he was preparing to attack hospitals and shopping centers. It describes the investigation as beginning on May 29, 2005, when Hamid Hayat was flying from Pakistan to San Francisco. He had flown to Islamabad from San Francisco on April 19, 2003, and returned to the US on May 29, 2005 after his wedding, the FBI affidavit states.
A week after the two Pakistanis were arrested in Lodi, the visiting Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik disclosed in Islamabad on June 13, 2005 that Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed used to run a training camp for Kashmiri militants when the armed struggle in Jammu & Kashmir was at its peak.
Malik declared: “Sheikh Rashid has played a great role for Kashmir’s liberation. He used to support the frontline Jihadis from Kashmir, and has the honor of having trained around 3,500 Jihadis. However, a few know of his contributions.”
Sheikh Rashid considers himself to be among Musharraf’s closest hands. As information minister, he happens to be the public face of the Pakistani Cabinet, as well as the launcher of the General’s political weather-balloons. Terrorism experts, therefore, say these revelations highlight the threat posed by the second-generation Pakistani militants and the persistent presence of terrorist bases in a country which is the alleged hideout of the Al-Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden and his second-in-command, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri.
At the same time, contrary to Musharraf’s claims, the pattern of treatment being meted out to leaders of the four major Jihadi groups he had banned in January 2002 shows that his intelligence establishment continues to maintain its long alliance with the former, primarily because of the fact that both share a common agenda: the liberation of ‘Occupied Jammu & Kashmir’.
At present, sources say, hundreds of militants are undergoing advanced training at camps in Bagh, Rawalkot, Kotli, Gulpur, Aliabad, Halanshumali, Padhar, Halan, Kaliar, Forwad Kahuta and Kacharban across Poonch district in Jammu & Kashmir.
Notwithstanding the ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan, militant circles concede that several training camps along the Line of Control (LOC) were reactivated in April 2005, facilitated by the melting of snow. They also say that hundreds of militants had gathered at various points along the LOC after rigorous training in cutting and penetrating the fence erected by India.
Although Musharraf insists that he is determined to end all forms of terrorism, there seems hardly any evidence that his Government has tried to dismantle the Jihadi network from Pakistani soil. The authenticity of his claims can be gauged from the record of his administration’s handling of the Jihadi kingpins as none of them has either been prosecuted on terrorism charges, despite the fact that all four are wanted either by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) or by the FBI.
As things stand, the four major groups — Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), Harkat ul Mujahideen (HUM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) — resurfaced and regrouped to run their networks as openly as before, though under different names. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Syed Salahuddin — the leaders of the four outfits — are once again on the loose. While JEM and HUM have been renamed Khudamul Islam and Jamiatul Ansar respectively, Lashkar and Hizbul have not camouflaged their identities.
The soft treatment these outfits enjoy in the Musharraf administration shows that they are being kept on the leash to wage a controlled Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir, whenever needed. As the political will to dismantle extremist groups that are not on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list seems to be absent, most of the Jihadi groups continue to pursue their agenda. Musharraf, by his own admission, no longer controls the Jihadis that the state had long supported, and the ‘holy warriors’ are far from ready to call it quits.
Also, the Lashkar and Hizbul Mujahideen, both active in J&K, have been seemingly allowed by the administration to resume training at their camps in the country. As the camps reopen, trained militants as well as aspirants are flocking to enlist for the holy war. Interestingly, a significant portion of the crowd constitutes trained militants called in for refresher courses.
Three years since Musharraf’s January 2002 announcement, the so-called modernization campaign has largely failed, and hardly a few cosmetic changes could be introduced in the madrassa system. The Federal Government’s plan for madrassa reform is a classic example of the one-step forward, two-steps backwards approach.
Musharraf’s rhetoric to modernize the country’s 10,000 seminaries has met with little success mainly due to his administration’s failure to enforce the Madrassa Registration and Regulation Ordinance 2002, which was meant to reform seminaries by bringing them into the mainstream. Most of these madrassas were self-financed but they are now being funded by the Government also for modernizing textbooks, including secular subjects and introducing computers into the classroom.
In 2001-02, Rs 1,654,000 was distributed among the madrassas. As the number of students is 1,065,277, this comes to Rs 1.55 per student per year (2.5 US cents). An additional aid of Rs 30.5 million was released for computers and changing the syllabi in 2003-04, which comes to Rs 28.6 per student (50 US cents). But since all madrassas do not accept aid, the money need not be distributed as evenly. The madrassas generally do not charge tuition fees and attract poor students.
Analysts believe that the Musharraf regime’s failure in reforming the seminaries and in cracking down on Jihadi networks has resulted in the resurgence of extremism and sectarian violence in the country. The Pakistani dictator’s priority has never been eradicating Islamic extremism, but rather the legitimization and consolidation of his dictatorial rule, for which he seems dependent on the clergy.
The clergy is hand-in-glove with the ISI and the Jihadis The nexus comes into play at the madrassas itself where young students are indoctrinated. These recruits are then picked up by the agencies or local militant outfits and trained.
During the Afghan Jihad, it was the ISI that hired indoctrinated youth from the seminaries of the NWFP and Balochistan who were then trained and sent into Afghanistan. The same was the case with those who were busy on the Kashmir front. The Pakistani military and intelligence establishments, the country’s religious leadership and the militants share a common belief in the country’s rightful claim over Kashmir.
It is amid all these developments over the last two decades that the tentacles of the July 7 blasts have reached Pakistan. As the biggest-ever probe launched in Britain explores possible Pakistani links to the blasts, it has become clear that no one could have damaged Muslims in Britain more than the suicide bombers. London’s 7/7 brings Muslims across the world back to the situation they faced after 9/11.
The 7/7 bombings and the involvement of the British nationals of Pakistani origin also proves that just as the West has failed in winning its war against terrorism, the Musharraf administration has been unsuccessful in winning its war against extremists and individuals. The bombings have led to increased pressure on Pakistan. As always, Musharraf has ordered a countrywide crackdown. As scores are picked up from seminaries, one cannot help but wonder why the cleansing had stopped after the initial rush of blood.
Analysts have described Musharraf’s July 21 address to the nation as an updated version of his January 2002 televised speech. The new administrative measures for combating terrorism are similar to those announced in the past. This raises two questions. What happened to the first campaign against terror? If these measures did not produce desired results in the past, how will they do a better job this time?
Analysts say given the military background of the Musharraf regime, the counter-terrorism policy was confined to administrative measures pursued through the civil administration, police and intelligence agencies. The narrow strategy comprised police raids on seminaries and arrests of some activists of militant outfits. However, this policy didn’t offer a sustainable solution because the Government priorities shifted and the arrested Jihadis were released later.
Another problem that adversely affected the 2002 campaign against terrorism was the divided official opinion about the role of militant groups in the insurgency in Kashmir. This is why for a long time after September 2001, Pakistan’s officials insisted on distinguishing between terrorism and wars of liberation. Some groups involved in Kashmir were advised by Pakistani intelligence agencies to keep a low profile. The underlying assumption was that if needed, these groups could be reactivated to pursue the official agenda in Kashmir.
Further, the state patronage of Islamic orthodoxy and militancy during 1979-2001 allowed a large number of people to internalize these values. Some of them continue to serve in the bureaucracy, police and intelligence agencies and sympathize with militants and the religious orthodoxy. They quietly soften administrative action against these groups.
Above all, analysts opine, the fate of Musharraf’s counter-terrorism policy and the efforts to promote Islamic moderation depends on its relations with the six-party religious alliance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). If the MMA is to be appeased to cope with the expediencies of power, the latest campaign against terrorism cannot be pursued to its logical conclusion.
The real problem seems to be that there is sympathy for Islamic extremists in Pakistan’s military and intelligence circles. At the same time, there is a widespread feeling that Pakistan is actually fighting the war for the West. Therefore, analysts believe that unless Pakistan makes the war on terror its own war, it cannot win it.
Tell me guys. Tell me what you think about this.
(Source: Amir Mir, South Asia Tribune)
neo_ny_23MemberHappy birthday Anna. Wherez my cake?? I need cake 🙁
neo_ny_23MemberIn late 1970s and early 1980s when there were subtle revolutions taking place against Soviet troops and officials in Kabul, against Soviet occupancy of Afghanistan, CIA knew that they have a potential of making Afghanistan as Soviet’s Vietnam.
Northern Alliance commanders and many mujahadin organisations started revolting against Soviet invasion. Naturally they seeked helped from Pakistan (nearest place and easiest place to get help) and also CIA. CIA and Pakistani Intelligence and government happily trained, provided hi-tech equipments of that time, recruited mujahadins all around the middle east to take part in the “Holy War” against the Soviets.
Major countries which helped those mujahadins (through intelligence, arms, money and government help) are US and Pakistan, while Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt and few other countries provided recruits and money… lots of money. A lot of arms flowed into Afghanistan through Pakistan (all the above countries used to send their cash or bullets to Pakistan and then Pakistan after arming its own army’s teeth to combat against India, sent the rest of the money to Afghanistan). Both Pakistan and US saw a huge personal interests in the Afghan War. US – wanted to take revenge of the Vietnam, and Pakistan, wanted to get up to date arms, money, and also recruits which can latter be used in bleeding Indian blood in Kashmir. Lots of money flowed in from US and Saudi Arabia to Pakistan to help those mujahadins… lots in billions.. not just millions.
Training camps opened up in North Western provinces of Pakistan and South Eastern provinces of Aghanistan where arab fighters came over to kill the “infidels”. Little did CIA know that by “infidels” they not only meant Soviet troops, but all non-believers, especially USA. These mujahadin fighters were trained not to fight in front…. but were trained how to wage gurreila wars, or “terrorist” attacks against the Soviets. They were trained under the very eyes of CIA, ISI and Prince Turki ( Intelligence head of Saudi Arabia), these fighters were trained how to explode car bombs in important locations, how to set up booby traps in phones, cycles, pens, etc which seem useless but have bombs in them. Soviets werent sitting quietly and letting their troops die. They developed new kinds of air crafts and helos to kill the mujahadins… But US stepped up to help them. They provided Anti-air craft missiles, called Stinger Missiles.. US provided as much as 2000 (dont remember if its 2000 or 5000) Stinger missiles. It should be understood that one Stinger Missile is enough to bring down one civilian plane and kill all the crew and passengers. (remember somethign happened in 1990s? A plane was brought down near Bermuda and FBI said it was mechanical failure? Think again!) No wonder, with so much help to the enemy, Soviet lost the war and understood the treat of Terrorism and soon disintegrated.CIA saw this as their victory and withdrew from Afghanistan even if CIA was still involved in Afghanistan as late as 1992-93.
Around late 1980s, Osama Bin Laden, the 17th son of Mohammed Bin Laden, a Construction bussinessman from Saudi Arabia, was
inspired by another sect of Islam called Wahhabism. The creator of Wahhabism, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab, is himself controversial who around 17-th or 18-th century was critical of the Saudi Arabia liberal Islam ways and used violence to kill all the infidels and set up a “pure” Islamic rule of Allah. Well, thats another story that Abdul Wahab, married another girl
(he is a “pir” or religious person who shouldnt marry or something, I dont exactly remember), and violeted his own Islamic ways towards the end, but his teachings were enough to fire up the Islamic Fundamentalists. Osama was mainly sent by Saudi Govt as an unofficial ambassador to Peshawar, Pakistan to help the “freedom fighters” in Afghanistan. Osama mainly supplied money, funds and gave tactical support to these mujahadins. Around 1989-90 ish, Al Qaeda was created by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, supported by his disciple, Osama. After the Afghan war, Azzam realized the threat these Mujahadins possess towards the society and the world since in his eyes they were as good as “terrorists or bandits with guns”. Azzam mainly created Al Qaeda to help oppressed muslim people to rise up and be strong and protest against injustice and stuff like that. But he had his differences with Osama even if Osama was his student. Osama had radical ideas and supported the use of arms. Moreover Pakistani ISI wanted these mujahadins armed so that they can be trained and sent to Kashmir to kill Indians. So, in 1991-92ish, Osama working with ISI assassinated Azzam and two of his sons in a car bomb – a kind of attack which CIA and Pakistani intelligence taught the terrorists to kill Soviets. One of the two guys who understood the threat of Pakistan backed terrorists is finally dead. The other man is Ahmad Shah Massaud. He was the commander of the Northern Alliance who fought against both the Soviets and Talibans.Talibans or Students of Islam, were mainly a band of rogue millitarily trained clerics who were taught in 1000s of Pakistani Madrassas and trained in Pakistan by their army. Its an irony that in 1980s, CIA and Pakistan government worked together “hard” to print millions of copies of Islam corrupting the main ideas in them and supporting violence so that they will be “motivated” to kill the soviets.
Armed with the help of Pakistani army and govt and American indifference, the Talibans entered Afghanistan through the south and finally captured Kabul and drove Massaud and his forces to North West. Massaud was the most toughest and bitter enemy of Mullah Mohammed Omar and the Taliban. Massaud was great in the sense that he not only fought against the Soviets and defeated them, but he also fought single handedly against the Talibans from 1995ish till September 9th, 2001 when he was finally assasinated by Osama bin Laden, just two days before the 9/11.
It is to be understood that by 2001, Al Qaeda was a huge organization with its hubs in almost all relevant countries in the world. Al Qaeda and Taliban enjoyed the support from Pakitani government who used Afghan military camps in training terrorists and then sending them to Kashmir. Offcourse Kargil war in 1999 is one of the best examples how far Pakistani Army can go upto creating nuisance in South Asia when its army general, Prime Minister “okayed” the project of sending Pakistani Army in disguise of mujahadins along with many other mujahadins to Kargil ( a place in Kashmir, in Indian province so as to cut off a whole part from Indian troops). No wonder they were defeated and the Pakistani PM even came close of using Nukes against India. This is to show how far they can go upto creating a mess around that region.
Al Qaeda today has its base all around the world in US, Pakistan, Afghanistan ( southern areas), almost all over Europe mainly UK, France and Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Southern America, Canada, Bangladesh, etc. It is really sad that we are fighting against an enemy which we trained ourselves a decade earlier. I agree US does things in its interests, but it fails to understand that those interests are short term, not long term interests. CIA never bothered to analyze what these mujahadins will do with their guns and weapons after the war. Infact it always turned its blind eye towards Pakistan which is the main hub of terrorism all around the world. And Pakistan in an effort to “show off” that they are aiding US, arrest al Qaeda supporters and terrorists. But, present CIA analysists believe firmly with evidence that those terrorists which were arrested in Pakistan were “ex-terrorists” or who had differences with al Qaeda and were discharged from it. Like the Afghan war against the Soviets, US did another mistake of attacking Iraq. Hell yeah there was a mess in that country but was that more harmful to the world right now than the Pakistani madrassas which teach corrupted versions of Islam to the young minds and train them to terrorize the world? The UK bombers were all taught in Pakistan about “Islam”. One al Qaeda terrorist who was caught around in 2002 in Europe was trained by Pakistani Special Services Group. He was trained about using disguises, making survellience, creating explosives in home, espionage, use of high-tech equipements, and assassination. Iraq was NOT the priority during the war against terrorism. There are countries like Pakistan, and Sudan who openly support and help terrorist organizations. But no action is taken against them. If we are so worried about other people in other oppressed countries why dont we go and fight against Sudan which harboured terrorists all over the world, even Osama for 2 years, Carlos the jackal, and many others? Why dont we go and fight against North Korea which is arming its teeth to threaten the Pacific theater? Why dont we take some steps against Iran which is possessing real WMDs, not just fake pictures of them? Well its over now. But, for long term benefits, one has to take real steps, not just a show of “fight against terrorism”. We caught Saddam Hussien who didnt kill a single American in American soil. But we have now no idea where Osama bin Laden is who successfully killed 1000s of Americans in their own homeland.
Al Qaeda, in contrary to popular belief, is still as powerful and deadly as it was before 9/11. Yeah, Mullah Omar and Osama escaped during the war and American forces easily moved through Afghanistan. Thats because Osama believes in the theory that “When we are in a disadvantageous position and if we have the exit door, always take the exit door rather than facing the enemy and wasting your most valuable resource against them. Save your valuable resources and most important men so that they can be used later when the time is with you”. No wonder, only a fraction of Al Qaeda fighters died in the war while numerically 8 to 10 times the same number are safely hidding somewhere or just staying dormant.
A real solution against terrorism not only taking aggressive military measures against them and those who support them but also to understand the basic life of the middle class, poor Islamic families where these terrorists come from. One has to change not only their minds but also their approach to life by coming up with open ideas and things they really need. No one becomes a terrorist when he is a kid. They become terrorists when they come face to face with Western indifference and lack of a proper and stable political, educational and economic establishment in their own home countries. Education and economy are the main weapons to combat terrorism along with military.
(Source: Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll, Hunting the Jackal by Billy Waugh, Inside Al Qaeda by Rohan Gunaratne).
neo_ny_23MemberYo yo yo Dave trying to be in shape ? 😛 Haha jk. Well, I work in the gym during the summer so far and I work from 6 30 am in the morning till 4 pm and then me and my friend work out (weight and cardio – mainly weight) from like 5 pm till 9 30 pm, when the gym closes. This is my schedule for atleast almost all 7 days of the week. Some times me and my friend just play tennis or sometimes I swim. In running, I run usually around 8 30 – ish pm in the outdoor track (when the sun is setting with the cool air around u), for like 3-4 miles. So thats about how I am trying to relax myself this summer.
Yeah work out really helps a lot. Trust me, u gonna enjoy running!
About midnight runs, umm, I have gone for midnight walks, but not running though. A real incident scared the **** out of me when I wanted to run really late in the night.. The incident is one runner, he was selected for his country’s Olympic games for Track events and he had the habbit of going for running through the city when its really late and dark. One night when he was running, the patrol police thought him to be some thief and shot at him and killed him. Its sad. Oh well, I know many people who go for midnight runs.
neo_ny_23MemberFrankly, I dont really want to initiate a talk about the origins of al Qaeda, who is really responsible for 9/11, Afghan War, Iraq war, and Islamic Fundamentalism even if I have complete information, facts from trusted sources, because lots of people visit this website and I dont think many will be happy to read the bitter truth about all those things.
But, if any one else initiates the discussion and wants to talk about it, I will be more than happy to contribute.
neo_ny_23MemberSo what do you wanna discuss here about? About this convo in particular or the problem of terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalism in particular? If u wanna discuss the problem of Islamic Fundamentalism, then you just opened the whole can of worms here. If you indicate me what u really want to discuss here, I will elaborate on that topic and give u a brief idea about the stuff from my own experience of terrorism, anti-terrorism, history of CIA, al Qaeda, Afghan wars, etc.
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