Titles:

• UK: Muslim women who refused to take full-body scan are barred from flying
• Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls
• U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia
• Astonishing number of birth defects reported in Fallujah
• That was a war council in Damascus
• Ensure Pakistan does not use military aid against us: India

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UK: Muslim women who refused to take full-body scan are barred from flying

Two Muslim women have become the first passengers to refuse to subject themselves to controversial 'naked' full body airport scans. The pair - who security officials insist were selected at random - opted to miss their flight to Pakistan and forfeit tickets worth £400 each rather than be screened. One of the women refused to go through the full-body scanner at Manchester Airport on religious grounds while her companion also declined for 'medical reasons'. The women were travelling together to Islamabad when they were selected to pass through the controversial security screen after checking-in at Terminal Two at the airport. An estimated 15,000 people have already passed through the scanners, with the pair the first passengers to refuse a scan.

Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls

Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed. In the first test of public opinion since the collapse of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's coalition government last month, Wilders's Freedom Party (PVV) led in the city of Almere and was second in The Hague. The results came on top of an opinion poll showing that the PVV, which campaigns against Muslim immigration as its main platform, would win the most seats -- 27 in the 150-member Dutch parliament -- in the June 9 election. The popularity of Wilders, who compares Islam to fascism and the Koran to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," has dented the image of the Netherlands as a country that has often portrayed itself in the past as a bastion of tolerance. The PVV has been pitching its policies to a nation of 16 million that is turning increasingly inward as the economy struggles and social tensions rise. There are nearly 1 million Muslims in the Netherlands. "The leftist elite still believes in multi-culturalism, coddling criminals, a European super-state and high taxes," Wilders told cheering supporters at a rally in Almere after polling ended Wednesday. "But the rest of the Netherlands thinks differently. That silent majority now has a voice," he said.

U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia

While nearly half the population of Somalia teeters at the edge of starvation, the U.S. is preventing the United Nations from delivering desperately needed food. According to documents obtained by the New York Times, the Americans demand that aid agencies guarantee that no fees are paid "at roadblocks, ports, warehouses, airfields or other transit points" controlled by Shabab resistance fighters. Since the Shabab and other militias control more than half of the area in conflict, United Nations compliance with U.S. conditions would mean starvation for about three million people.Indeed, if international aid were restricted to areas controlled by the U.S.-backed puppet regime, only a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu, the capital, would be fed. As the Americans' Somali puppets' position becomes more untenable, the U.S. squeezes the UN's food delivery system, in effect punishing the entire Somali people. U.S. food relief to the UN's Somali operations in 2009 was only half that of 2008. In 2007, United Nations officials declared Somalia the "worst humanitarian crisis in Africa...worse than Darfur," as a result of the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in late 2006. Thus, the United States has been waging continuous war against the people of Somalia, directly or by proxy, for over three years under the guise of the "war on terror."

Astonishing number of birth defects reported in Fallujah

Doctors are investigating reports of a very high rate of birth defects in a city of Iraq that was often the scene of heavy fighting involving U.S. troops. The BBC reported the residents of Fallujah are seeing birth defects, including heart problems, at a rate of 95 in every 1,000 births. The report said that represented 13 times the number of similar birth defects in Europe. A doctor told the BBC she is seeing two or three cases every day of birth defects, including paralysis, brain damage and cardiac problems. Data indicate prior to 2003, doctors would have seen perhaps one such case every two months. Local officials have advised woman in Fallujah not to have children, the BBC said. Residents link the timing of the surge in defects with about a year after a U.S. military-led offensive in Fallujah in 2004 and suggest armaments used in the fight may be to blame for their children's problems. Military officials told the BBC they had received no official reports of an increase in birth defects in the area but that exploded ordnance is a "recognized hazard." One researcher said she had seen "footage of babies with an eye in the middle of the forehead, the nose on the forehead."

That was a war council in Damascus

The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi. "The timing of the meeting, the way it was undertaken and the ensuing press conference that was held at its conclusion, all point to a strategic coalition being reinforced. This is the build-up of a new front that will spearhead the confrontation with the US-Israeli alliance and whichever Arab countries that may, expressly or implicitly, be affiliated with it."The Iranian president said he expects war to break out somewhere between spring and summer of this year.

Ensure Pakistan does not use military aid against us: India

Raising concern over the reported decision of the United States to supply sophisticated arms to Pakistan, New Delhi on Thursday said Washington should ensure that the military aid was not used against India. Defence Minister A.K. Antony expressed concern over the move to supply a whole array of sophisticated laser guided bomb kits, surveillance drones and latest-model F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. In a statement here, Mr. Antony said: "Given our bitter past experience of how Islamabad used such aid against India, Washington should ensure that the latest tranche of military aid is used only for the purpose of countering al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and not against India." Pentagon also decided to refurbish and expand the F-16 fighter jets Pakistan has been using since the 1980s. It also has got Cobra attack helicopters and C 130 transport aircraft from the U.S. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration was expanding weapon sales to India and Pakistan "in a bid to forge closer ties with each country, while creating new opportunities for American defence firms." It said that while India paid for its own weapons, Islamabad used American grants to fund most of its arms purchases. During the visit of U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates to Pakistan, there were reports of Pentagon willing to offer surveillance drones to Islamabad, now used in the frontier areas. The U.S. annual military aid to Pakistan is now around $3 billion.

    After returning from Brussels, General Kayani met Urdu columnist of Pakistani papers and informed them of the "sacrifices" rendered by the Pakistan army in "war on terror". Later these details were released to the media by the public relation wing of the Pakistan armed forces, ISPR According to these details 30,452 people have been killed and injured from 9/11 to date in Pakistan. Out of these 8,785 are military personal while the rest of 21,673 are civilians. Of course these official statistics do not include the thousands of deaths not "officially verified". According to ISPR, some 2,273 Pakistani soldiers including 78 officers (one three star General, 2 two star generals and 5 brigadiers besides others) have lost their lives while 6,512 sustained injuries. On the other hand only 1582 US and NATO troops have been killed so far. On an average, 10 soldiers were killed or injured each day in 2009. The report adds that Pakistan has setup 821 border check post on the Pak-Afghan border, the Durand line, to stop the cross border movement of the militants while all the 43 nations NATO has only setup 112 check posts on the border. ISPR report proudly claim that Pakistan has arrested 17,742 "terrorist" so far and conducted 209 brigade level operation while the US has not even done 10 operations. 73 sleuths of intelligence agencies are killed and 264 injured while CIA lost only 11 agents. The biggest disclosure by Kayani was about the "silent surge" which Pakistan has undertaken in this area to increase its troops from earlier 90,000 levels to 147,000 while the 43 nations NATO troops deputed at the other side of the border are less than 100,000. Let's not forget that Pakistan has lost more than 35 billion dollar in this war as confirmed by Hina Rabbani Khar in the budget speech in the National assembly while the current year loss assessment has been more than 10 billion dollar as per Hafiz Pasha, Chairman planning commission. This is the price Pakistan is paying for this American war contracted by our rulers without paying even the smallest attention to the interest of Pakistan, Islam and the Muslims. This is the price we have not borne even in 1965 Pak India war and Kargil war combine.

   Earlier Kayani, while informing the foreign correspondents, told them the "five fundamentals" that was the basis of his strategy, consisting of public opinion, media support, army's capability and resolve, owning this war as ‘our war' not ‘US war' and a comprehensive strategy based on four phases namely clear, hold, build and transfer. However the strange part of this strategy is that public opinion against the operation was suppressed only through the bomb blast that occurred in the public places and this forced the large portion of media, not to criticize the bloody operations that displaced millions in extreme hot and cold seasons. The army chief statement was later published in media saying it was our operations that reduced attacks on the NATO troops on the other side of the border, thus disclosing the real aim of the operations.

   Thus, it is clear that it is only the traitor rulers of Pakistan who have given the crucial support to the crusaders to stay in Afghanistan through the "rent an army" service and through providing vital logistic routes to the US. Had there been a K000 in Pakistan, there would have been no America in this region from the very onset. And only Allah Knows how many American and NATO soldiers will be prisoners of war (PoWs) once K000 is established in Pakistan, which is not a distant future.

Imran Yousafzai

Deputy Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan

     Hundreds of people attended a demonstration organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir today calling for the removal of Sheikh Hasina and her government and the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate". The demonstration started from Muktangon and finished outside the national press club. Before finishing the programme, a senior member of the party delivered a speech in which he said, despite the government's repressive measures, Hizb ut-Tahrir organized the demonstration to speak for the Ummah and on behalf of the Ummah. He said the Muslims of the country want to see the back of Sheikh Hasina and her government. Sheikh Hasina is a loyal agent of the crusaders and polytheists - US, Britain and India.

The government of Sheikh Hasina collaborated with the Indian polytheist state in the killing of army officers at the BDR headquarters in February 2009 to weaken the BDR and the Army of Bangladesh.   Her government is securing the interests of imperialist powers, but it has done nothing to fulfil its promises to the people. The subservient stance taken by Sheikh Hasina and her government is a crime against Islam, and the Muslims.  

The speaker said the root cause of the country's problems is the kufr democratic system. Khaleda Zia and the BNP alliance is not an alternative to Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League alliance. Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" can fulfil the needs of the Ummah and challenge the imperialist disbelievers and polytheists. Hizb ut-Tahrir urges the people to reject the government of Sheikh Hasina and the kufr democratic system. And calls upon the people of power, the descendants of Khalid ibn Walid to give the party nusrah to remove the current government and re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate".