Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3598-1004384119-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16211 invoked by uid 510); 29 Oct 2001 19:34:38 -0000 Received: from n6.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.56) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 19:34:38 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3598-1004384119-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.224] by n6.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Oct 2001 19:35:20 -0000 X-Sender: bajwa@i91.net.in X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 29 Oct 2001 19:35:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 21598 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 19:35:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.224 with QMQP; 29 Oct 2001 19:35:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.i91.net.in) (203.145.138.112) by mta3 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 19:34:54 -0000 Received: from m2c4s9 (ra6.i91.net.in [203.200.97.116]) by mail.i91.net.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA19588 for <iwar@yahoogroups.com>; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:04:54 +0530 Message-ID: <003a01c160b0$f53cd600$361510ac@m2c4s9> To: <iwar@yahoogroups.com> References: <002101c1604d$2b20c240$6301a8c0@crestech.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 From: "Mandeep Singh Bajwa" <bajwa@i91.net.in> X-Yahoo-Profile: mandeep_bajwa Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:05:32 +0530 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Sensitivity,.Ramadhan,.friends,.and.a.non-existent.coalition] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just one example of Muslims waging war against war during Ramzan. The slaughter of innocent Muslims and the rape of Muslim women by Pakistani Muslim soldiers did not slacken up during Ramzan (Oct-Nov) in Bangla Desh in 1971. And this is not perception but the cold, hard facts. Mandeep Singh Bajwa South Asia Editor Orders of Battle Internet Magazine http://orbat.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Mohammad Ozair Rasheed To: Info War Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:11 PM Subject: RE: [iwar] [fc:Sensitivity,.Ramadhan,.friends,.and.a.non-existent.coalition] Just one comment I believe that US has been trying very hard to point out that this is not war against Muslims :) Regards, Ozair P.S. Mr. Bajwa: Nice to see you come out of 'perceptive' mood. -----Original Message----- From: Mandeep Singh Bajwa [mailto:bajwa@i91.net.in] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:01 PM To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Sensitivity,.Ramadhan,.friends,.and.a.non-existent.coalition] Correct ! History is replete with instances where Muslims waged war during Ramzan. ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred Cohen To: Information Warfare Mailing List Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:44 AM Subject: [iwar] [fc:Sensitivity,.Ramadhan,.friends,.and.a.non-existent.coalition] [Analysts Note: This fawning of Senator Biden over Sec. Powell can only be witnessed as an attempt to curry favor with the State Department and its numerous, Arabist members. It is unfortunate that the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does not know that Israel was attacked by Muslims in 1973 during the Jewish holiest day of Yom Kippor AND during Ramadhan. Indeed, the 1973 war is known among Muslims as the Ramadhan War. Are we to understand a unilateral, U.S. dictate exists that says that while Muslims are allowed to attack during Ramadhan, they cannot be attacked? The president has said repeatedly that Bin Laden hi-jacked a religion; why is Senator Biden so concerned about bombing during Ramadhan those who are described as religious hi-jackers? Are the Muslim citizens of the U.S. united with the nation over the new anti-terrorism legislation, leading to the question: where is Senator Biden getting his information.] HEARING OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE SUBJECT: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM CHAIRED BY: SENATOR JOE BIDEN (D-DE) WITNESS: SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL LOCATION: 325 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 2:15 P.M. EDT DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2001 -------- SEN. BIDEN: The hearing will come to order. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. Our colleagues will be filing in as the vote winds down. I guess it wound down now. And they'll have an opportunity to question. But I think in the interest of your time, we should begin. With your permission, if and when we get a quorum here, which I fully expect, we may interrupt you and pass out 12 ambassadorial nominees while we have a quorum, if we can. I'm sure that won't offend you. SEC. POWELL: It will not offend me in the slightest, Mr. Chairman. SEN. BIDEN: Well, Mr. Secretary, I want to compliment you personally, and I want to compliment the president on the way you have both united the nation and, I think equally important, in a sense, for this undertaking, clearly equally as important, the way you have put together a coalition of the willing here, and some of the timid, it seems to me. You put together a coalition of not only our traditional friends, but you put together a coalition of our friends in the Muslim world, as well as some who are not automatically considered to be rallying to our concerns and needs.We need the support in the Islamic world, as you know better than I do. And as you said yesterday about bombing during Ramadan, we'll do what we need to do, but we'll be sensitive to that concern. I think the president has been incredibly skillful, along with you, in keeping the coalition together; in keeping Muslim leaders on board who are experiencing demonstrations and protests about U.S. bombings, and accusations that we're attacking the whole Islamic world, which is simply not true. And it's also significant credit to your personal diplomacy. Let me say that I cannot speak for all Democrats -- I don't think there's ever been a man or woman born that could speak for all Democrats -- but I am confident when I say both political parties are united in our resolve to pursue and conclude successfully this war, and to support the president's efforts. The world should know that we support our president and our military forces in their mission. To the best of my knowledge, there's no daylight, no daylight, between the parties -- or between the Congress and the administration on the way in which you are pursuing this effort. The world should also know that there's broad agreement not only on eliminating Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, as well as the Taliban that supports him, but there's also broad agreement and support for the president's resolve to keep a coalition together to help feed displaced Afghans, as well as put together, possibly with an extraterritorial help, with the United Nations or some other international fora, a viable government that will be a source of stability and not a source of unrest, after we successfully prosecute this war effort. I need not tell you this won't be easy. But be assured, many of us will stand shoulder to shoulder with you in what are bound to be some very difficult decisions you and the president are going to have to make. And on that score I'd like to personally thank you for keeping me and the ranking member, who is still my chairman, and all the committee, informed. There has never been a time, speaking for myself, that I have ever called you or called any of your people that I haven't gotten an immediate response, and the same can be said for Senator Helms, and, I expect, for all of our colleagues here. And I think to state the obvious, that's awfully important, to keep this kind of cohesion which you've put in place. And I also want to publicly acknowledge how much I personally appreciate -- and Senator Helms can clearly speak for himself -- the personal briefings he and I together and separately have received from the President of the United States. This has not been an on-again, off-again thing. It's been roughly about once every week or 10 days he's had us down there. And he's not only telling us what's going on, but genuinely asking for input. And I've been impressed. I've been impressed. So impressed that publicly some of my colleagues wonder whether or not I am under his influence. And I've said to them what I'll say to you: as long as he's right, I am for him. I am for him, and I think he's doing it the right way. So, Mr. Secretary, there are going to be, as I said -- you know better than we, having prosecuted another difficult war. This one, I think, is even more complicated -- that there's going to be some tough decisions. It'll be really easy to Monday morning quarterback. I commit to you that I will not do that, and I don't think most of us up here will do that. We know this is risky business, and this is very difficult. And one example is, if the newspaper is correct, Tuesday's successful mission in Kabul shows the importance of our air power and the partnership with folks on the ground who are in the coalition, of those assets working together. If the initial reports are accurate, we targeted and killed 22 hard-core terrorists linked to bin Laden in a single pinpoint strike, based on human intelligence provided from ground assets. That requires both things. It requires the air and the coalition. And we carried this out without jeopardizing U.S. servicemen and -- unnecessarily and without causing any collateral damage. And so they are the success stories, and they are significant. We're going to hear the occasional mistake. I hope the American people can keep this in perspective, and I believe they will, that there will be some collateral damage. But that's a decision, a tough decision the president is going to have to constantly make. So, Mr. Secretary, you just returned from Shanghai, where you said, as you have the ability to do better than most, you capsulized in one sentence how the world has changed. You said, "Not only is the Cold War over," you said, "the post-Cold War is over." And out of the tragedy on 9/11, and from the president's initiative and your diplomacy building this worldwide coalition, I believe we have a number of opportunities to enhance our relationships with countries from Russia to China and possibly even change on the margins the dynamics with Iran. And I believe if we succeed in seizing these opportunities, continuing the path the president has put us on, the 21st century has the significant possibility of being safer than the 20th century. And you and the president, if that occurs, will have made a historic contribution to the well being of this nation.I yield to my friend, Senator Helms. SEN. JESSE HELMS (R-NC): Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a matter of personal privilege, let me say that this morning, about 6:15 when I was reading the newspapers, I ran across an item about the distinguished chairman of this committee. I said this cannot be so, because both papers that I saw implied strongly, if they did not state outright, that Joe Biden has broken with bipartisan support for the president.Now, Senator Biden and I attend a lot of meetings at the White House and sit side by side with the president, and I know how this fellow operates, and I know that those reports were not accurate. And I understand how first-hand accounts can happen, but I want to do what the chairman is not going to do I'm sure, and I want to say that these reports were taken out of context and were not accurate. SEN. BIDEN: Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! 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