توتر بالقدس مع افتتاح معبد يهودي

يفتتح اليوم في البلدة القديمة في القدس وسط إجراءات أمنية إسرائيلية مشددة معبد هاحوربا أو ما يعرف بكنيس الخراب وهو الكنيس الذي يعتبر اليهود إعادة بنائه -وفق تصوراتهم- مؤشراً على قرب بناء معبد جبل الهيكل على أنقاض المسجد الأقصى.

وتنطوي عملية إعادة بناء الكنيس على خطورة كبيرة كونها تأتي في سياق استهداف كيان المسجد الأقصى والتهويد المستمر لمدينة القدس.

وبحسب مدير مكتب الجزيرة في رام الله وليد العمري فإن 12 منظمة يهودية مغالية في التطرف تنشط بمجالات متفاوتة بهدف نهائي لديها وهو إقامة الهيكل المزعوم مكان الحرم القدسي الشريف، فيما بدأ عشرات اليهود بالاحتفال الذي يستمر اليوم وغداً.

وبحسب الأساطير والنبوءات اليهودية فإن بناء كنيس الخراب يقربهم مما يسمونه بخلاص اليهود حيث تتحدث الجماعات اليهودية عن "نبوءة" مفادها أن حاخاما إسرائيليا عاش في العام 1750م، كتب يومها متنبئا -كما يزعمون- بأن يوم البدء في بناء الهيكل الثالث المزعوم هو اليوم الذي يلي إعادة افتتاح كنيس الخراب.

وتقول مؤسسة الأقصى للوقف والتراث إن هذا الكنيس يعتبر "أكبر وأعلى كنيس يهودي يبنى بالقرب من المسجد الأقصى، وقد أقيم على حساب المسجد العمري وأرض وقفية إسلامية في حارة الشرف، وهو حي إسلامي احتلته إسرائيل عام 1967"، ويقول اليهود إن الجيش الأردني هدم هذا الكنيس عام 1948 وإنهم قد أعادوا ترميمه.

انتشار كثيف

وتحسباً لاندلاع مواجهات أو مظاهرات كثفت الشرطة الإسرائيلية من إجراءاتها الأمنية بشكل كبير في محيط البلدة القديمة، ومنعت المصلين دون الخمسين من العمر من الوصول إلى منطقة الحرم، وأخرجت منه من كان داخله ممن أعمارهم دون الخمسين.

وقد دعت السلطة الفلسطينية وحركة فتح إلى إضراب مدة ساعتين اليوم وساعتين غداً، فيما دعت الفصائل الفلسطينية الأخرى إلى مظاهرات، كما تعقد الفصائل الفلسطينية في غزة مساء اليوم مؤتمراً وطنياً بهذا الخصوص.

وكانت شخصيات وفصائل إسلامية ووطنية دعت إلى الاعتكاف في المسجد الأقصى والرباط فيه خلال الأيام المقبلة تحسبا لأي اقتحام محتمل لجماعات يهودية لمناسبة افتتاح هذا الكنيس اليوم الاثنين وغدا الثلاثاء.

وفي الإطار ذاته أخرجت الشرطة الإسرائيلية مساء الأحد بالقوة عشرين فلسطينياً كانوا يعتكفون في المسجد الأقصى الذي اقتحمت باحاته من جهة باب المغاربة وحجزت –حسب ما ذكر مصدر فلسطيني لوكالة يونايتد برس إنترناشونال- هوياتهم الشخصية عند خروجهم من المسجد المبارك.

وكانت مؤسسة الأقصى حذرت في بيان الجمعة الماضية من أن الجماعات اليهودية المتطرفة دعت إلى اعتبار الثلاثاء -وهو اليوم الذي يلي افتتاح كنيس الخراب- يوما عالميا من أجل بناء ما يسمى الهيكل الثالث وتتخلله دعوات إلى اقتحام المسجد الأقصى.

Source: Al-Jazeera.
Link: http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9AF06B0C-9B9F-48E0-9C68-57C8D0954ACD.htm.

اتفاق لتقاسم السلطة في الصومال

توقع الحكومة الصومالية اليوم في العاصمة الإثيوبية أديس أبابا اتفاقا للتعاون وتقاسم السلطة مع حركة أهل السنة والجماعة المسلحة، وهو الاتفاق الذي كان مقررا توقيعه السبت ولكنه أرجئ إلى اليوم.

وينص مشروع الاتفاق الذي يرعاه الاتحاد الأفريقي على تحديد إستراتيجية مشتركة لمواجهة مقاتلي حركة الشباب المجاهدين المناوئة للحكومة، إضافة إلى تشكيل لجنة لعلماء الدين "لتحديد إطار يحمي ويصون العقيدة الإسلامية".

وبحسب مراسل الجزيرة في مقديشو جامع نور ستحصل حركة أهل السنة -وفقا للاتفاق- على خمس حقائب وزارية من بينها وزارة سيادية كالخارجية أو المالية أو الداخلية أو الدفاع، وحصولهم على ثلاثة سفراء وتسع قنصليات إضافة لدمج مقاتليهم ضمن الجيش الصومالي.

وأسست حركة أهل السنة والجماعة الصومالية عام 1991 لحماية التيار الإسلامي الصوفي من تأثير ما تعتبره تناميا مطردا للتيار السلفي في الصومال. لكن الحركة حملت السلاح السنة الماضية بعد أن دمر مقاتلو الشباب عددا من الأضرحة الصوفية الشهيرة.

طاولة الحوار

في هذه الأثناء دعا ساسة ومفكرون إسلاميون -في ختام مؤتمر عقد في دبي- الأطراف المتحاربة في الصومال إلى وقف القتال والمباشرة في الجلوس إلى طاولة الحوار.

ودعت هذه الشخصيات الفصائل الصومالية إلى الانضمام إلى البرلمان والحكومة الانتقاليين، وتحكيم علماء الأمة للتوسط في الأزمة في بلادهم.

ونظم المؤتمر بمبادرة من المركز العالمي للتجديد والترشيد الذي يترأسه العلامة الموريتاني عبد الله بن بيه نائب رئيس الاتحاد العالمي لعلماء المسلمين، وحضره الرئيس الصومالي شريف شيخ أحمد، والمبعوث الأممي إلى الصومال أحمد ولد عبد الله، وعبد الله عالم نائب الأمين العام لمنظمة المؤتمر الإسلامي.

في هذه الأثناء قال تقرير أعدته الأمم المتحدة إن إريتريا استمرت خلال العام 2009 في دعم جماعات مسلحة معارضة للحكومة الصومالية.

وأشار التقرير الذي أعدته لجنة متخصصة بمراقبة الوضع بالصومال إلى أن إريتريا تخالف بذلك الحظر الدولي على الأسلحة، رغم العقوبات الدولية الجديدة التي فرضت عليها.

قوات فاسدة

من جهة أخرى وصف التقرير قوات الحكومة الصومالية بأنها قوات فاسدة وغير منضبطة وغير فعالة، وبأنها عبارة عن مليشيات موالية لمسؤولين حكوميين وعسكريين يفيدون من الحرب، ويقاومون دمجهم تحت قيادة موحدة.

على صعيد آخر نفى الرئيس الصومالي شريف شيخ أحمد وجود تدخل أميركي على الأرض في الصومال. وقال شيخ أحمد في برنامج لقاء خاص الذي تبثه الجزيرة لاحقا إنه لا رغبة لديه في طلب تدخل من ذلك القبيل مستقبلا.

Source: Al-Jazeera.
Link: http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/EXERES/643564FF-475C-45D9-A76B-BC13B94F2A58.htm.

Russia Leads in Paralympic Games

By Helena Zhu
Epoch Times Staff

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—After two days of competition, the Russian Paralympic team has distinguished itself with 10 medals in total at Canada’s first Winter Paralympic Games.

The Vancouver 2010 Paralympics, which had its opening ceremony on Friday night to a sold-out crowd of 60,000 at BC Place, has brought the spirit felt during the Olympics back to the city.

From UBC Thunderbird Arena to the Vancouver Paralympic Center to Whistler, fans showed up in red and white, with Olympic red mittens and Canadian flags.

While the Olympics puts a spotlight on athletes in their teens, 20s, and 30s, the Paralympics is for disabled athletes of all ages. Takashi Hidai, Japanese wheelchair curler, is the oldest among all curlers at 75.

Aside from the age of athletes, the Paralympic events are much more wallet-friendly than the Olympics for sports fans. While some Olympic hockey games could cost you over $10,000, the Paralympic event tickets average $20.

Over the 10-day games, 1,350 athletes and training officials from 44 countries are participating in 64 events in alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, wheelchair curling, and ice sledge hockey.

After Russia, Ukraine is in second place so far with six medals, while Austria is in third with three medals.

The host country, Canada, did not medal on Saturday. But on Sunday, Canadian athletes won three silver medals.

Colette Bourgonje was the first Canadian to win a winter Paralympic medal on home soil. The 48-year-old Saskatoon native finished second in women’s 10-km sitting cross-country skiing.

"I felt very strong today, the skis were quick. I am happy and proud to be representing Canada," said Bourgonje, who was badly injured in a 1980 car accident.

The United States now places seventh with one silver in women’s sitting slalom and one bronze medal in men’s sitting biathlon.

Source: The Epoch Times.
Link: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/31366/.

Afghanistan not safe for the Indians

March 13, 2010



Source: YouTube.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIoRPz5G1I.

Russia to build up to 16 nuclear reactors in India

GLEB BRYANSKI, REUTERS

Russia will build up to 16 nuclear reactors for power stations in India, Russia's deputy premier said on Friday during a visit to India with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to reaffirm decades-old ties.

Russia is competing with French and American firms for lucrative contracts to build nuclear power plants for energy hungry India because Asia's third-largest economy needs to boost its supply to help sustain rapid economic growth.

"The agreement sees construction of up to sixteen nuclear reactors in three locations," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters.

Putin pledged on Friday to boost banking and technology co-operation with India, seeking to bolster ties with a Cold War ally that has been shifting focus towards the United States.

Russia wants to boost trade with India to $20 billion by 2015 from the current $8 billion. Together with China and Brazil, Russia and India make up the so-called BRIC group of major emerging economies, whose global influence is rising.

The two nations also seek a greater role in stabilizing the region because both share security interests emanating from Islamist militant violence and the war in Afghanistan.

"India is our strategic partner ... which is an evidence that our geopolitical interests almost fully coincide," Putin told a conference with businessmen in the Indian capital New Delhi.

Setting the tone for his one-day visit mainly aimed at keeping one of the world's biggest arms importers interested in Russian weapons, Putin offered state financial aid for the Indian telecoms unit of Russian conglomerate Sistema.

Sistema, controlled by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, is looking to deepen its investment in Sistema Shyam TeleServices, a joint venture with India's Shyam group.

"We are ready to contribute funds for your joint activity," Putin said in response to a question by a Shyam group official.

Yevtushenkov later said the Russian government would become a shareholder in Shyam.

Putin also vowed to remove hurdles in the banking sector that he said were hampering mutual trade, and signaled that the government was ready to encourage joint ventures and acquisitions in the sector.

Source: The Sudbury Star.
Link: http://sudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2490670

Kandahar operation leaves dozens of coalition and Afghan police dead

KANDAHAR, Mar. 14 - Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate during a successful operation on Saturday, which was primarily a message to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's warning against their coming operation in Kandahar city, caused the U.S-coalition and Afghan troops deadliest losses.

According to the details, Mujahideen, having penetrated into all security barriers and checks, carried out a series of attacks and bombings on the important points in the heart of heavily secured Kandahar city.

In the first attack, Mujahideen targeted the police headquarter, conducting face-to-face fighting and detonations that inflicted the police force heavy losses of life and material, but it is still unclear how many policemen were killed and injured, followed by attacks on the police checkpoints in Sarbuzi area of Kandahar city.

Meantime, Mujahideen carried out simultaneous attacks and bombings which continued till late night hours of Saturday near governor house, provisional guesthouse and intelligence headquarter.

The last detonation which has been the most fatal and deadliest of all since the operation started on Saturday Mar. 12, targeted the U.S-led coalition patrol which encountered Mujahideen who, while leaving Kandahar city in their vehicle, have been engaged in a fierce gunfight with the coalition patrol.

Mujahideen first opened firing at coalition soldiers from the vehicle, later, as per their tactical plan, Mujahideen left the vehicle which gave the collation and
U.S soldiers a chance to approach the vehicle, at this point the Mujahideen exploded the vehicle using a remote control device that killed and wounded a large number of the U.S and the coalition soldiers but the death and the injury toll enemy troops is not determined yet.

However, the Afghan puppet and NATO officials claimed, as usual, that most of the civilians were victims of Mujahideen attacks and explosions, while some independent media outlets, observers and witnesses say, the fatalities and casualties have only been inflicted on the Afghan police force during the Mujahideen bombings and attacks on the police headquarter and police checkpoints and on the foreign coalitions during the last bomb attack in an area at the furthest point of this city, where curfew had been imposed by the enemy to prevent the civilians from going outside, as the Mujahideen were in the point of leaving Kandahar city.

Qari Yousuf Amadi, the spokesman for al-Emarah website, in telephonic conversation told al-Emarah that the Mujahideen's successful operation in the heart of Kandahar city was a message to Stanley McChrystal and a reaction to the U.S coming operation in Kandahar province which proves that the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are fully prepared and ready to fight the Americans, NATO and their allies, no mater whichever part of Afghanistan they may be.

Source: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Link: http://124.217.251.48/~alemarah/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1320:kandahar-operation-leaves-dozens-of-coalition-and-afghan-police-dead.

Australia and Canada Take a Rationale Decision after Holland

After the dissolution of Dutch government following its parliament’s hot discussion over the American war in Afghanistan, now Canada and Australia have decided to respect views of their people for unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

The Americans have been using various ploys and wiles in the last nine years to achieve their colonialist objectives, trying to show that the war in Afghanistan is the war of the West. Otherwise, they claim, the West would have to face harm as result or reap its benefits. The Americans have been able to keep a number of countries entangled in the Afghan war through play of wiles and display of ambitious goals.

But as the time went by, not only the Afghans realized the true face of America but other members of the Coalition in Afghanistan also came to know the true feature of USA as clearly as they see the broad day light. They know that America does know only its interests; it does not care about others; nor it pays any attention to other countries interests.

Western countries who are part of the Coalition in Afghanistan were thinking that they have vital interests in Afghanistan because Americans had told them so i.e. that Afghanistan was important for them geo-economically and militarily and that it was crucial for their long-term dominance over the whole region. That is why, Western countries divided all provinces and areas of Afghanistan among themselves, referring to them as areas of their influence and promised to carry out reconstruction there. As such, they simultaneously began to have confrontations with the Mujahideen. But during the past nine years, Mujahideen became more stronger with the passage of time; the Afghans sensitiveness against foreign troops growingly compounded; the material and life losses of foreign troops kept spiraling up and the American domineering attitude ominously became evident. These ground realities forced America and its allies face frustrations and convincingly came around that the achievement of their objectives was almost unfeasible and impossible. Links of the chains of their victory started breaking smithereens.

Western analysts believe that Americans are not ready to give any role to the rest of the world to play in Afghanistan nor are they allow them to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people through positive measures. A French statesman Morg Basin says, there are many examples which indicate America overtly and covertly works against the stance of other countries because of its arrogance. They hurl hurdles in their ways. He further says whenever, French, Canada and German succeed in winning the hearts and minds of Afghans in a given area of Afghanistan through reconstruction work and other humanitarianism activities, the Americans heavily bombard that area; they torture the residents and launch night raids on their houses. Thus they intentionally create resentments and wrath among the people. This contradictory image of America and its other domineering attitudes in addition to the presence of Mujahideen in 80% of Afghanistan have given rise to a rift among the ranks of the American-led Coalition in Afghanistan. The Coalition members want to pull out of the country one after another because they know, the current war in Afghanistan is only aimed at securing interests of Americans and Britons while other countries are being used as fodder of the cannon.

After the dissolution of the Dutch government over the mission in Afghanistan, where the parliament was not ready to extend the military mission in the country, now the Australian and Canadian public have mounted pressure on their rulers to pay respect to the people’s demand for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and notify America and NATO of their decision.

Observers believe that the Austrian and Canadian decisions to pull out of Afghanistan indicate the beginning of the fall of American empire and mastership. Their sun is about to set. They are facing defeat not only in the military field but their social system is on the verge of disintegration. If they keep traveling the way that leads to the well’s hole, they would certainly end up falling down into the pit if they do not amend their way. Only wiles, stratagems and ploys will not save them.

Source: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Link: http://124.217.251.48/~alemarah/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1319:australia-and-canada-take-a-rationale-decision-after-holland.