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. Aruba Police Arrest 3 more in Missing of teen age student girl.

. By MICHAEL NORTON, AP Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruban police arrested three men Thursday who acknowledged giving a ride to an Alabama teenager the night she disappeared on this Dutch Caribbean island, officials said.

The three, described by authorities earlier as witnesses and "persons of interest," had been released last week after being questioned about 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.
They told police they dropped off Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., at her hotel in the early hours of May 30, but Holiday Inn employees say security cameras did not record her return.
Police also impounded a gray Honda car. Holloway's friends reported last seeing her leave a nightclub in a silver car.
"The three people have been arrested as suspects," chief government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg told The Associated Press. He did not elaborate.
Attorney General Caren Janssen said the three were arrested at 6 a.m. She refused to name them, but authorities previously described the three as students — two Surinamese brothers and the son of a Dutch justice official studying to be a judge.
The Dutch detainee, a student at Aruba International School, left his home in the middle-class Montana neighborhood of Oranjestad on Thursday with his head covered in a blue-and-green striped towel.
Police identified the Surinamese brothers only as Satish and Deepak K.
Janssen refused to say whether the three were connected to two former hotel security guards detained earlier in Holloway's disappearance. A judge ruled Wednesday there was sufficient cause to hold the two ex-guards.
The judge's decision means authorities could detain Nick John, 30, and Abraham Jones, 28, for nearly four months while prosecutors investigate possible murder and kidnapping charges, defense attorneys said. Neither man has been formally charged.
John's lawyer, Noriana Pietersz, said she spoke to her client in jail Thursday.
"I have decided not to demand the immediate release of my client," she said. "We prefer to let the prosecution investigate, confident that my client will be released by Wednesday" when a judge will decide whether to extend his detention.
Holloway vanished while on a five-day trip with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their high school graduation.
The night she disappeared, Holloway ate and danced at Carlos' n Charlie's bar and restaurant. She did not show up for her return flight hours later, and police found her passport in her hotel room with her packed bags.
Police and the FBI said a lack of any solid leads was hindering progress in their search for Holloway.
Authorities have not said Holloway was a victim of foul play and have not ruled out any possibilities, including that she may have drowned.
The Aruba government and local tourism organizations have offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Holloway's rescue, her family and benefactors in Alabama have offered an additional $30,000, and Carlos' n Charlie's donated $5,000 — for a total of $55,000.

Lal Krishna Advani, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and president of the BJP (Bharatya Janata Party), has resigned from his latter position within a day of returning to India from Pakistan. His resignation comes in the wake of bitter attacks on him by extreme rightwing Hindu groups, especially the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which have accused him of shaming Hindutva by being soft on Pakistan during his visit here. Mr Advani has also, remarkably, been attacked by the Congress for calling the Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, a secular leader.

Pawns we are.....
This is with reference to Mr Riaz Jafri's letter published in the Nation on 30th May titled 'We 're helpless pawns'. Mr Jafri is living in a fool's paradise if he thinks our foreign policy has nothing to do with the desecration of the Holy Quran at the hands of the Americans. I would like him to refer to Mr M.A. Niazi's article published in this paper on 13th May. I would also like to add to Mr Jafri's knowledge that most of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay are those handed over by Pakistan.These prisoners were handed over unconditionally without any guarantees or assurances about their treatment. I recommend that Mr Jafri be more rational and informed.-MOEZ MOBEEN, Islamabad, via e-mail, June 6.

Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi ... sons of a Muslim?
Indira was a convert .....
Was she Hindu or a Muslim?
..... decide yourself.

• Rajiv Gandhi's father and paternal grandfather were Moslems from Gujara
• (by krishna 2004 Posted on June 2, 2005 ) ..... ...... .....

. One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most societies. Why is it then no where we find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather's name? It appears that the reason is simply this. Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather was a Moslem gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat. At the very beginning of his book, THE NEHRU DYNASTY, astrologer K.N.Rao mentions the names of Jawahar Lal's father and grandfather. Jawahar Lal's father was believed to be Moti Lal and Moti Lal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru. And we all know that Jawahar Lal's only daughter was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru; Kamala Nehru was her mother, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis. She was totally against Indira's proposed marriage with Feroze.

• Why? No one tells us that. Now, who is this Feroze? We are told by many that he was the son of the family grocer. The grocer supplied wines, etc. to Anand Bhavan, previously known as Ishrat Manzil, which once belonged to a Moslem lawyer named Mobarak Ali.
• Moti Lal was earlier an employee of Mobarak Ali. What was the family grocer's name? One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grand-father in most societies. Why is it then no where we find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather's name? It appears that the reason is simply.
• Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather was a Moslem gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat. This Moslem grocer by the name of Nawab Khan, had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam. This is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was derived.
• Rajiv's father Feroze was Feroze Khan before he married Indira, against Kamala Nehru's wishes. Feroze's mother's family name was Ghandy, often associated with Parsis and this was changed to Gandhi, sometime before his wedding with Indira, by an affidavit.
• The fact of the matter is that (and this fact can be found in many writings) Indira was very lonely. Chased out of the Shantiniketan University by Gurudev Rabindranath himself for misdemeanor, the lonely girl was all by herself, while father Jawahar was busy with politics, pretty women and illicit sex; the mother was in hospital.
• Feroze Khan, the grocer's son was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira and soon enough she changed her religion, became a Moslem woman by name Maimuna Begaum and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque.
• Nehru was not happy; Kamala was dead already or dying. The news of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi urgently called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the youngman to change his name from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of religion, from Islam to Hinduism for instance. It was just a case of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi.
• The surprising thing is that the apostle of truth, the old man soon to be declared India's Mahatma and the 'father of the nation' didn't mention this game of his in the famous book, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Why? When they returned to India, a mock 'Vedic marriage' was instituted for public consumption. On this subject, writes M.O. Mathai (a longtime Private Secretary of Nehru) in his renowned (but now suppressed by the GOI) Reminiscences of the Nehru Age on page 94, second paragraph: "For some inexplicable reason, Nehru allowed the marriage to be performed according to Vedic rites in 1942. An inter-religious and inter-caste marriage under Vedic rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a civil marriage." It's a known fact that after Rajiv's birth Indira and Feroze lived seperatly, but they were not divorced. Feroze used to harass Nehru frequently for money and also interfere in Nehru's political activities. Nehru got fed up and left instructions not to allow him into the Prime Minister's residence Trimurthi Bhavan.Mathai writes that the death of Feroze came as a relief to Nehru and Indira. The death of Feroze in 1960 before he could consolidate his own political forces, is itself a mystery. Feroze had even planned to remarry. Those who try to keep tabs on our leaders in spite of all the suppressions and deliberate misinformation, are aware of the fact that the second son of Indira (or Mrs. Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze. He was the son of another Moslem gentleman, Mohammad Yunus.
• Here, in passing, we might mention that the second son was originally named Sanjiv. It rhymed with Rajiv, the elder brother's name. It was changed to Sanjay when he was arrested by the British police in England and his passport impounded, for having stolen a car. Krishna Menon was then India's High Commissioner in London. He offered to issue another passport to the felon who changed his name to Sanjay. Incidentally, Sanjay's marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka (now they call her Maneka for Indira Gandhi found the name of Lord Indra's court dancer rather offensive!) took place quite surprisingly in Mohammad Yunus' house in New Delhi.
• And the marriage with Menaka who was a model (She had model for Bombay Dyeing wearing just a towel) was not so ordinary either. Sanjay was notorious in getting unwed young women pregnant. Menaka too was rendered pregnant by Sanjay. It was then that her father, Colonel Anand, threatened Sanjay with dire on sequences if he did not marry her daughter. And that did the trick. Sanjay married Menaka. It was widely reported in Delhi at the time that Mohammad Yunus was unhappy at the marriage of Sanjay with Menaka; apparently he had wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay died in the plane accident. In Yunus' book, 'Persons, Passions & Politics' one discovers that baby Sanjay had been circumcised following Islamic custom, although the reason stated was phimosis. It was always belived that Sanjay used to blackmail Indira Gandhi and due to this she used to turn a blind eye when Sanjay Gandhi started to run the country as though it were his personal fiefdom. Was he black mailing her with the secret of who his real father was? When the news of Sanjay's death reached Indira Gandhi, the first thing she wanted to know was about the bunch of keys which Sanjay had with him. Nehru was no less a player in producing bastards.
• At least one case is very graphically described by M.O. Mathai in his "Reminiscences of the Nehru Age", page 206. Mathai writes: "In the autumn of 1948 (India became free in 1947 and a great deal of work needed to be done) a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As she departed, I noticed (Mathai is speaking here) that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings with her became rather frequent, mostly after Nehru finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to Lucknow, Shraddha Mata turned up there, and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply; and she visited Nehru at midnight... "Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared. In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind. She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found. The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister. The person who brought the letters surrendered them..."I (Mathai) made discreet inquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tightlipped and secretive. Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was."
• Coming back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Antonia Maino of Turin, Italy. Rajiv became Roberto. His daughter's name is Bianca and son's name is Raul. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the people of India as Priyanka and Rahul.What is amazing is the extent of our people's ignorance in such matters.
• The press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after taking over as prime minister of India was very informative. In this press conference, Rajiv boasted that he was NOT a Hindu but a Parsi. Mind you, speaking of the Parsi religion, he had no Parsi ancestor at all. His grandmother (father's mother) had turned Muslim after having abandoned the Parsi religion to marry Nawab Khan. It is the western press that waged a blitz of misinformation on behalf of Rajiv. From the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the big guns raised Rajiv to heaven. The children's encyclopedias recorded that Rajiv was a qualified Mechanical Engineer from the revered University of Cambridge. No doubt US kids are among the most misinformed in the world today! The reality is that in all three years of his tenure at that University Rajiv had not passed a single examination. He had therefore to leave Cambridge without a certificate. Sonia appears to have studied up to 5th standard but claims to be graduate of the cambridge. Such a description is calculated to mislead Indians. She was a student in Cambridge all right but not of the University of Cambridge but of one of those fly by night language school where foreign students are taught English for one and a half month period. Sonia was working as a barmaid in Cambridge.
• And surprise of surprises, Rajiv was even cremated as per vedic rites in full view of India's public. This is the Nehru dynasty that India worships and now an Italian leads a prestgious national party because of just one qualification - being married into the Nerhu family.

Two roses. How beautiful. 

A Day keeps going on EVEN if You don't like. A review.

Ah, a great cricketer passes away !
.........IN Fazal Mahmood, who died in Lahore on Monday, Pakistan has lost one of its most glittering stars on the cricketing firmament. We all will miss him.

"Kashmir struggle" ...... ...... ..

MR M. P. Bhandara has spoken his mind boldly (Dawn April 30 and May 10). One craves for a Pakistani counterpart of the former diplomat and journalist Kuldip Nayyar or an Indian member of parliament who, like Mr Bhandara, could write similarly about the case and stakes of Pakistan and the Kashmiris in the Kashmir issue in any leading Indian daily to make it a two-way flow of ideas. Thanks to Dawn for publishing the views of Mr H. N. Akhtar (May 4) and Mr Khalid Hasan (May 5 and 16) in which they have taken note of and responded to the views of Mr Kuldip Nayyar and Mr Bhandara.When Congress leaders felt frustrated by Mr Jinnah in their programme of keeping India united without reservations/guarantees about the rights of the Muslim minority, they half-heartedly conceded a truncated Pakistan. Nevertheless, the Congress and Hindu Mahasabha vowed in their resolutions of June 1947 to strive for reunification of India. Besides other measures, they planned to occupy the Jammu and Kashmir state to control their defence parameters and the rivers of Pakistan. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhai Patel played their role in collaboration with Lord Mountbatten to achieve this national goal. These are recorded facts of history.So, holding on to the J&K state to harm Pakistan is a national policy of India, which has religiously been pursued by all Indian governments. Having used the military option in 1971 to cut Pakistan to its present size, they are now feverishly busy in constructing dams on three rivers of Pakistan in occupied Kashmir to economically strangulate us.India is exploiting the post 9/11 scenario. Mr Advani, then deputy premier of the BJP government, had dashed to Washington to offer India’s services to strengthen US-Israeli partnership which was happily accepted. This boosted the pride and arrogance of the new Indian nationalists committed to Hindutva. This is evident from India’s attitude and response to Pakistan’s peace overtures and flexibility. The people in Pakistan feel that now the US and India are hand in glove to thrust an Indian solution on Pakistan and the Kashmiris. It seems Pakistan is being intimidated, which is evident from its consistent caving in on the Kashmir issue, which has created doubts and a feeling of concern and disappointment among Kashmiris who have given more sacrifices for freedom from India than Congress workers during the “Quit India movement” against the British.Like many freedom struggles in the past, the Kashmiris’ resistance movement attracted the bona fide support and sympathy on personal or ideological grounds of some individuals and NGOs. These people numbered in their dozens and mostly belonged to ethnic Kashmiris of Pakistan and AJ&K. Mr Bhandara says Pakistan usurped the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle by “terrorism”, encouraging religious zealots and unemployed Afghans, Arabs and Pakistani “mercenaries” to take over the liberation struggle. Would Mr Bhandara say that some people of other nationalities who joined the Indian National Army (INA) of Subhash Chandra Bose were mercenaries and terrorists and that they took over the INA? Had he visited any graveyard in Srinagar and seen the tomb-stones there, he would have come to know about their identification. Molested and widowed women and orphaned children of occupied Kashmir have not been exported / infiltrated from Pakistan. They are Kashmiris living on the soil of their motherland.Mr Bhandara is wrong when he says that only Pakistan supported the Taliban. Pakistan recognized and supported them when even the US was going to do the same if they had accepted American conditions. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (with which India has vast economic affiliations) also supported the Taliban. They had complete control over Kabul and 90 per cent of Afghan territory. Additionally, there was the Pushtoon factor which Pakistan could not overlook. By the way, were the Taliban worse than the RSS and VHP zealots?Every state in the world admits Kashmir to be a disputed territory. There is a lot of sympathy and support for the just cause of the Kashmiris in the world as evidenced by the recent EU Commission’s report and statements in many public forums in many countries.How can the Kashmiris accomplish the mission of their martyrs with scores of parties and groups? Can’t their leaders shed their personal egos and ambitions for the sake of their motherland? It is the clarion call of this critical juncture that all freedom-loving Kashmiri leaders should unite on one platform and struggle for their just cause. No power will be able to overlook or bypass their united demands. There is no substitute to unity. That is the only way to success. Otherwise, they and their people will be doomed and history will not forgive them.KHAWAJA MUHAMMAD BASHIR BUTT Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir .... daily Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan 6/01/2005

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Musharraf may not know, but Osama’s in Pakistan ........
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Gary Schroen, the CIA officer who has just published a book on his exploits in Afghanistan, says Osama Bin Laden is in Pakistan but President Pervez Musharraf may not know it and may not even want to know.According to the CIA veteran, “I can only speculate, but it is based on almost 20 years of dealing with the Pakistani military and ISI officers. I think at some level, probably the colonel level, there are officers probably in ISI who know where Bin Laden is at.”A report by CNN says Schroen, after being shipped to Afghanistan following 9/11, was asked by his boss Cofer Black that he wanted “Bin Laden’s head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice.” Schroen’s book ‘First In: an insider’s account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan’ has been described as “riveting.” He claims to have developed two plans to capture or kill Bin Laden, once in 1998 and then a year later. Both were turned down by CIA and the White House.Schroen’s Afghan mission was codenamed ‘Jawbreaker’ and met rapid success in helping to topple the Taliban, using cash, contacts and air strikes coordinated by the CIA and US Special Forces. When Tora Bora was attacked, Bin Laden fled to Pakistan. Asked where Bin Laden is today, Schroen said, “He’s hiding in Pakistan in the northern tribal areas above Peshawar - an area that is rugged, hilly, heavily forested. The US government and the US military are not authorised by the Musharraf government to enter there unilaterally.”The former CIA operative is of the view that instead of going into the area north of Peshawar, Pakistani forces made the mistake of going into South Waziristan. The campaign was a failure. “They did get clobbered heavily,” Schroen says of the Pakistani forces. “I think they knew that Bin Laden wasn’t there, and therefore they would be able to arrest a few Al Qaeda operatives and make us happy.”According to CNN, Schroen believes Musharraf not only doesn’t know where Bin Laden is, but he doesn’t want to know, afraid of the internal political consequences of finding him. That’s because, Schroen thinks, Pakistan’s northern tribal areas would explode upon news of the death or capture of Bin Laden. “I think the philosophy of the Taliban, this fundamentalist view, is popular there. So Bin Laden, I think, strikes them as heroic. He fought a jihad against the Russians, and he’s bloodied America’s nose time and again.” He believes that regardless of how much reward money America offers, Bin Laden would not be captured and handed in. “As long as he stays in place, it is going to be almost impossible to find him.”Schroen’s view is at odds with information found in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act to Associated Press, according to which, a large number of Al Qaeda, Taliban and other suspects, many of them innocent, were sold to the Americans by Pakistanis and Afghans for cash.Another key job for the United States, Schroen says, is to figure out a way to find the right incentive for Musharraf to hunt harder for Al Qaeda’s leaders. One major step is for the Pakistani President to get more answers from inside his own military and intelligence establishment. “A man of that caliber (Bin Laden) could not be hidden out for that many years without word getting out in the community. So, I think some people probably know within ISI and the military,” says Schroen.