ROOTS OF TERRORISM: SYMPOSIUM ON ROOTS OF TERRORISM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
>From Narain Kataria
Organiser, India
June 5 2006
Hindus suffered maximum brunt
A Symposium on “Roots of terrorism” was organised by America’s Truth
Forum in Washington, D.C. last month. It was attended by prominent
and highly-placed scholars and experts on Islamic Studies. Most
of them were celebrities and frequent guests on national TV and
Radio Stations. Dr. Babu Suseelan, a Psychologist and Director of
Addiction Research Institute, PA and Board Member of Indian American
Intellectuals Forum (IAIF) presented his viewpoint in a forceful
manner.
The symposium was well attended by about 400 intellectuals and US
opinion makers; majority of whom were Jewish and Christian Americans.
IAIF members too were present in a sizable number. This was a rare
occasion for IAIF members to interact with American mainstream
personalities and exchange the Indian viewpoint openly on the menace
of terrorism. It was, probably, for the first time that the presence
and scholarship of Hindu Americans was recognised and appreciated
by renowned global experts on counter-terrorism. Surprisingly, many
of these well recognised experts on counter-terrorism did not know
enough about the terrible atrocities perpetrated on peaceful Hindus
by the Islamic invaders and rulers.
Dr. Babu Suseelan explained that it was absolutely essential for the
world to understand the deadly ideology that successfully transforms
the simple human beings into deadly suicide bombers and terrorists.
He said that we cannot deal with the problem of terrorism until and
unless we completely comprehend the ideology which extols the virtues
of killing and preaches hate, incites violence and enjoins on its
followers to instill terror in the hearts of those who do not believe.
Many of the Islamic injunctions make the co-existence of Muslims
with any other people almost impossible. That is the reason why
Muslims have been in a state of perpetual war wherever they live,
be it Afghanistan or Iraq, Chechnya or Sudan, Kashmir or Thailand,
Indonesia or Bangladesh, Philippine or Spain, USA, UK, or India.
It is vital to understand that Islamic menace exists because of
liberal’s habitual tolerance of intolerance. Their tolerance of
intolerance is not tolerance. This type of pathological tolerance,
sobering sympathy for Jihadists and stony indifference to victims is
immoral and barbaric.
Tracing the history of India, Dr. Suseelan pointed out that the
Afghanistan was once Hindu and a part of the original India of that
time. In 1947, Pakistan too was forcibly carved out of the Indian
Territory by Islamists. Now, feverish efforts are on by all Islamic
nations to wrest the Indian Kashmir from the Hindu India. Threats
of violence, loot, murder and rape of Hindus-all familiar tools of
terrorism-have become a routine thing in Kashmir today.
Some of us mistakenly believe that terrorism in the world began from
9/11/2001. This assumption is based on ignorance, lack of historical
background and devoid of factual data. For example, India has been
experiencing terrorism for hundreds of years. Even the so-called
Moghul King ‘Akbar-the-Great’ had killed 30,000 to 40,000 innocent
Hindus in one day.
It is common knowledge in India that 14,000 young Hindu girls had to
burn themselves in fire in a city named Chittor in a western sate of
Rajasthan in India when Hindu soldiers were not able to defend the
honor of their womenfolk against the barbarian Islamic forces.
Timur-the-Terrible ordered his soldiers to kill 100,000 Hindu prisoners
in one day. Tuzk-i-Timuri, the book written by his historian records
‘In a short span of time all the people in the fort were put to sword,
and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut
off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels.’
Almost entire world knows that six million Jewish people were murdered
by Nazis. It is also known that 1.2 million Armenians were butchered
by Turkish Muslims.
Will Durant, the celebrated author of ‘The Story of Civilization’
has said that “The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest
story in history.” Anwar Shaikh, a Pakistani Muslim scholar of repute
settled in UK, in his book ‘This is Jihad’ says that “The Muslims
must fight non-Muslims. Mr. Koenraad Elst, the Belgian scholar and
Indologist says that there is a place in Afghanistan called The Hindu
Kush, which means the slaughter of Hindu.
At present, Hindus are under siege in India. Muslim population there
is rising with leaps and bounds. There are 162 million Muslims living
in Pakistan. There are approximately 150 to 160 million Muslims in
India; Bangladesh has another 147 million Muslims. Roughly one-third
of the world’s Muslim population lives in the Indian sub-continent.
This is a very frightening scenario for India.
Enlightened audience in the high-profile Symposium was horrified and
shocked at the information provided and profusely applauded Dr.
Suseelan time and again. Later, many groups invited him to speak on
television, radio, and in their meetings.
These were some of the luminaries who participated in the Symposium:
R. James Woolsey, former Director of CIA, Dr. Paul Williams, former
Consultant to FBI, Dr. Bruce Tefft, a founding member of the CIA’s
Counter Terrorism Center, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Editor of “The Legacy of
Jihad”, Joe Kaufman, Investigative Journalist for Frontpage Magazine,
Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch, David Horowitz, President of
the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Walid Shobat, a former
PLO functionary, Brigitte Gabriel, a former anchor for world news in
the Middle East and a prominent Arab-American journalist, Dr. Harvey
Kushner, a noted author, lecturer, professor and internationally
recognized authority on terrorism, Kenneth Timmerman, a nominee for
the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
(The writer is President, Indian American Intellectuals Forum,
New York.)
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ALIYEV MEETS FM OF BELGIUM, OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE
AzerTag, Azerbaijan
June 5 2006
President Ilham Aliyev on 5 June in Bucharest has met Foreign Minister
of Belgium, OSCE Chairman-in-office Karel de Gucht.
In the meeting, discussed was the current status of the negotiations
concerning the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh
conflict and other questions of mutual interest.
Mr. Karel De Gucht extended his congratulations to THE President of
Azerbaijan on reach of the Azerbaijani oil to the Turkish Ceyhan port.

GUAM IS FUNERAL OF ASHES OF USSR
Prime News Agency, Georgia
June 5 2006
Tbilisi. June 05 (Prime-News) – The Polish mass media terms GUAM as
a funeral service of ashes of the former USSR.
According to the June 05th issue of the Wprost newspaper, the
Kremlin lavished centres for political research regularly summon the
CIS-BI summit in Moscow and invite experts who support “pro Russian
separatism” in Moldova and Georgia.
Vitali Kinakh, Ukrainian Defence and Security Council Secretary General
terms the Commonwealth of Independent States a virtual organisation,
the newspaper says.
“The Russian Duma has not even elaborated principles of free trade
among the CIS member states. Russia has already lost Georgia, Ukraine,
Moldova and Khirgizia, as well as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara”,
the Ukrainian official said.
“Russia thinks that Georgia and Ukraine, as the western agents,
are looking for reduction of Russian influence over the post soviet
regions. Russia sees a genetically Russia phobia of the Baltic
nations and Poland as reason for revolt, as they stir actions in other
countries as well. According to Yuri Levada political centre, it was
Poland’s idea to change GUAM into the international organisation,
through initiation by Georgia and Ukraine. Besides, Romania wants
the presidents of Georgia and Ukraine to take part in resolution of
the conflict in Prednestrovie, which immediately challenges Russia,
as the latter supports independence of the breakaway republics”,
the newspaper says.
Poland also initiated creation of the Commonwealth of Democratic
Choice, which affiliated the post soviet and the Central European
countries. The organisation aims at reduction of influence of Russia.
It was a start of “the war”. In this war Russia uses ban of import
of Georgian wines and mineral waters and Ukrainian pipes as lethal
weapon. The weakest spot of GUAM is Azerbaijan, as it accounts for
energy independence,and Moscow can stir anti Azerbaijani feelings
in Armenia.
Russia also created Economic Commonwealth of Eurasia, Organisation
for Collective Security and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to
reduce importance of GUAM, the newspaper went on.

AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS CONTINUE TALKS TO SETTLE NK CONFLICT TODAY
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 5 2006
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s President Robert
Kocharian today continued the negotiating process for the settlement
of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Romania told APA that the presidents did
not make any statements after about 40-minute talks. The results of
the meeting are not yet made public.
The Presidents started the talks in Bucharest yesterday. No statement
was made after the yesterday’s 4-hour talks.

RA AND AR PRESIDENTS REFUSED TO REVEAL DETAILS OF THEIR TALKS TO MASS MEDIA
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 5 2006
Having talked over three hours tete-a-tete, RA and AR Presidents Robert
Kocharyan and Ilham Aliyev refused to reveal any detail of the talks,
ArmInfo reports quoting RFE/RL.
To remind, the Presidents’ meeting was held at the Greek Embassy
in Bucharest June 4. All the efforts of journalists to get details
of the meeting were useless. In response to the Azeri journalists’
insistent questions, President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan just said
accommodation on providing details to mass media had not been reached
in the course of the Bucharest meeting. President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev ignored the journalists’ questions, RFE/RL reports. It should
be noted the Presidents met within the frames of the Black Sea Forum
for Dialogue and Partnership.

ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS – WORLD OLYMPIAD WINNERS- TO BE HONORED IN YEREVAN TODAY
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 5 2006
A solemn reception in honor of the Armenian chess players – the
winners of the World Chess Olympiad held in Turin – will be organized
in Yerevan today, Novosti-Armenia reports.
Armenian chess players are arriving in Yerevan by the Paris flight at
10 p. m. local time today, RA PM Andranik Margaryan told journalists
today.
In his words, today the government will elaborate the mechanism of
organizing an official reception to be held at the Freedom Square
near the National Theater of Opera and Ballet.
He reminded according to the government’s decision the international
competitions’ winners were rewarded from RA state budget. Armenian
PM added the Armenian chess players might also get additional reward.
RA men’s chess team won the World Chess Olympiad held in Turin, Italy,
May 20 – June 4.
Levon Aronyan (FIDE 2005 World Cup winner), Vladimir Hakobyan, Karen
Asryan, Smbat Lputyan, Gabriel Sargsyan and Artashes Minasyan were
in Armenia’s team.

ARMENIAN FILMMAKER SEEKS JEWISH VIEWERS
By Shayndi Raice
Jewish Advocate, MA
June 5 2006
Franchot Lubin (left) and David Davidian produced a film on the
Armenian genocide.Cites connections between Nazi genocide of Jews
and Turkish genocide of Armenians.
The Armenian genocide might not seem like a Jewish issue, but it should
be according to Armenian filmmaker David Davidian, who has submitted
a DVD on the genocide to the 2006 Boston Jewish Film Festival.
According to Davidian, producer of “The 1915 Turkish Genocide of the
Armenians” and director of the Genocide Archive Project, the Holocaust
and the Armenian genocide are closely related. In 1939, Hitler told
his generals that they should not be worried about world condemnation
for murdering millions of Jews because nobody remembered what happened
to the Armenians. Davidian also suggested that many of the techniques
used by Hitler were in fact copied from the Turkish genocide of the
Armenians. Death marches, round-ups, and marking Armenian homes were
all trademarks of the Turkish genocide, said Davidian.
“There are philosophical and actual connections,” he said. “The
[Armenian] genocide was the first state-sponsored genocide against its
own citizens. The second was Hitler. World governments ignored it as
an internal problem. These things, even if denied, can’t be ignored
because when they’re ignored it encourages someone else to do it.”
Davidian produced the film with director Franchot Lubin, who had
previous experience collecting survivor testimonies while working
for Steven Spielberg’s “Survivors of the Shoah” documentary. The two
filmmakers documented accounts of Armenian genocide survivors who live
in the Boston area today, some more than 100 years old. In addition
to the submission to the Boston Jewish Film Festival, which will
take place this fall, the two men have sent their film to hundreds
of U.S. Congressmen as part of an education campaign.
“If the world did something about it in 1915, there would have been
much less of chance of Hitler doing what he did to the European Jews,”
said Davidian.
Although the film does not seem to have an easily apparent Jewish
theme, Sarah Rubin of the Boston Jewish Film Festival said that while
films must be relevant to the Jewish community, “We do stretch the
envelope.”
While she could not comment on the film’s chances of being chosen
for the festival, she added: “There are times when there might seem
to be something that isn’t strictly Jewish themed but we program it
in because there’s a clear connection.”
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SENATOR MAY LOSE SEAT IN AIRLINE BRIBERY CASE
The Moscow Times, Russia
Itar-Tass
June 6 2006
Combined Reports
Senator Levon Chakhmakhchyan faced expulsion from the Federation
Council on Monday after security agents said they caught him with a
$300,000 bribe in a sting operation.
Chakhmakhchyan was the latest politician to be targeted in what
appears to largely be a jockeying for power in the run-up to the 2008
presidential election. Authorities are portraying the shakeups as a
drive against corruption.
State-run television prominently broadcast footage Monday of
Chakhmakhchyan, from the republic of Kalmykia, being questioned on
Friday after agents from the Federal Security Service detained two
associates and accused them of carrying a black briefcase containing
the cash.
Chakhmakhchyan, who was at the Moscow offices of an airline with his
associates, was released because of his parliamentary immunity, the
Prosecutor General’s Office said. Channel One television identified
the airline as Transaero on Sunday.
Prosecutors said the two associates of Chakhmakhchyan had sought to
blackmail a businessman to avoid a negative report on his company’s
activities by the Audit Chamber, the country’s main financial watchdog.
Prosecutors identified the two suspects as Igor Arushanov, the chief
accountant of the Association of Russian-Armenian Business Partnership,
and Armen Oganesyan, an Audit Chamber official.
Chakhmakhchyan is the president of the association, and Oganesyan is
his son-in-law.
Chakhmakhchyan has denied wrongdoing and denounced the incident as
a provocation.
Transaero spokesman Sergei Bykhal declined to comment Monday, citing
the ongoing investigation.
Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov ordered the Kalmykia
legislature to recall Chakh-makhchyan as its senator, council
spokesman Vladimir Yeremenko said. That would strip Chakh-makhchyan
of his immunity.
Kalmykia’s president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, supported Mironov, saying
local legislators should honor his request, Interfax reported.
A half-dozen prominent regional politicians have been forced out of
office in recent weeks.
After being detained last week, Volgograd Mayor Yevgeny Ishchenko
was charged Monday with abuse of office and engaging in illegal
business activities.

CHEAPENING PEACEKEEPING
By Alexander Golts
The Moscow Times, Russia
June 6 2006
No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. For more than 10 years,
Russian peacekeeping troops have prevented the renewal of hostilities
in the self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and
Transdnestr. Now we are hearing calls for them to withdraw. Belgian
Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht has said that the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, which he chairs, is prepared to
allocate up to 10 million euros ($12.9 million) to cover the removal of
Russian troops from Transdnestr. Georgian lawmakers have threatened to
declare the mission in South Ossetia illegal. And Ukrainian Defense
Minister Anatoly Gritsenko has said that GUAM — an alliance that
includes Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova — should develop
its own peacekeeping force. Considering that the hot spots in the
Commonwealth of Independent States (apart from Nagorno-Karabakh)
are all monitored by Russian troops, Gritsenko’s comments amount to
a call for their withdrawal.
Russian leaders have responded with righteous indignation. “Our
peacekeepers are a bone in the throat of one side in these conflicts,”
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said recently. “Endless provocations
and dirty tricks have been directed against the peacekeepers. I have
spoken about this many times in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Our
soldiers will carry out their mandate until political solutions and
agreements are in place.”
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov maintains that the attacks on
peacekeepers in South Ossetia are the result of Tbilisi’s intention to
resort to force to resolve the conflict there. Top Russian officials
insist that the peacekeeping missions can legally remain in Georgia and
Moldova even against the will of the governments of these countries.
Tbilisi and Chisinau consistently argue that the Russian military is
using the peacekeepers to pursue its own interests in the region. The
leaders of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdnestr have repeatedly
called for their self-proclaimed states to be absorbed into the
Russian Federation. South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity has even
taken his case to the Russian Constitutional Court.
For its part, Moscow has adopted a provocative stance. A Foreign
Ministry spokesman has observed that, where Georgia is concerned,
only negotiations can make this a reality, and that the South Ossetian
position was based on the right of national self-determination. This
when Russia has been handing out passports to South Ossetian
residents for years. Passions on both sides have reached the point
where missions originally intended to prevent armed conflict could
lead to the outbreak of war.
All of these self-proclaimed republics appeared as the result
of conflicts initiated by the leaders of newly minted Soviet
successor states. They sought to secure power with victorious wars
that inevitably devolved into the murder of civilians, widespread
atrocities and defeat. Russian peacekeepers were deployed to separate
the warring factions and to stop the killing.
Regulation of the conflicts did not follow, however, because the
parties involved did not try to reconcile. The self-proclaimed
republics believed the peacekeepers had been sent in to preserve
their independence. Tbilisi and Chisinau took the opportunity to
accuse Russia of violating their territorial integrity. In the CIS,
reconciliation efforts never go anywhere, in large part because of
the position adopted by Moscow. President Vladimir Putin was telling
the truth when he said recently that Russia had no intention of
annexing neighboring territories. Moscow is simply exploiting existing
conflicts because before these countries can integrate into European
institutions they must settle their internal disputes, so the best
way to keep them out of the European Union and NATO is to keep those
conflicts simmering.
Moscow feels no obligation to influence the leaders of these
republics to push them toward a compromise. On the contrary, the
Kremlin’s actions have created the illusion that Russian guns will
always protect the status quo in these would-be states. Abkhazia,
Transdnestr and South Ossetia have turned into criminal-controlled
enclaves, and Georgia and Moldova have appealed to the international
community for help to secure the removal of Russian peacekeepers from
their territory.
The Russian peacekeeping experience offers an important lesson:
Such missions can only succeed when they are disinterested. When a
country such as Russia sends its peacekeepers into conflict zones, its
goal must be to prevent bloodshed, not to pursue ulterior political
motives. Moscow has given in to this temptation, and in so doing has
cheapened a noble undertaking.
Alexander Golts is deputy editor of the online newspaper Yezhednevny
Zhurnal.

THE SUPERPOWERS CLASH
by Malcolm Pein
The Daily Telegraph (LONDON)
June 5, 2006 Monday
ARMENIA took an unassailable lead in the 11th round of the Chess
Olympiad at Turin by defeating the Czech Republic 3-1 and are 3.5
points ahead with just two matches to play. Armenia should coast home
now and the battle will be for the minor medals. The world number
three, Levon Aronian, won after the remarkable intermezzo 11.Nf7!
with the point 11…Kxf7 12.dxe6+ and Bxb7 winning material.
L Aronian – D Navara
37th Olympiad Turin
Queen’s Indian
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 Ne4 7.Bd2 f5
8.Qc2 Bf6 9.Ne5 d5 10.cxd5 Nxc3 11.Nf7! Qd7 12.Bxc3 Bxd5 13.Bxd5 Qxd5
14.e4! fxe4 15.Nxh8 Nc6 16.0-0 Ke7 17.Rae1 Rxh8 18.Rxe4 Rd8 19.Rfe1 Rd6
20.Rf4 g6 21.h4 Rd7 22.h5 Bxd4 23.hxg6 hxg6 24.Qxg6 Ne5 25.Qf6+ 1-0.