Titles:

• Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund
• Britain leaps to secure Libya contracts
• British Soldiers gather for Afghanistan Kill TV night
• Pakistan threatens U.S. with retaliation

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Germany slams ‘stupid’ US plans to boost EU rescue fund

Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe’s debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others. German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble said it would be a folly to boost the EU’s bail-out machinery (EFSF) beyond its €440bn lending limit by deploying leverage to up to €2 trillion, perhaps by raising funds from the European Central Bank. “I don’t understand how anyone in the European Commission can have such a stupid idea. The result would be to endanger the AAA sovereign debt ratings of other member states. It makes no sense,” he said. Mr Schauble told Washington to mind its own businesss after President Barack Obama rebuked EU leaders for failing to recapitalise banks and allowing the debt crisis to escalate to the point where it is “scaring the world”. “It’s always much easier to give advice to others than to decide for yourself. I am well prepared to give advice to the US government,” he said. The comments risk irritating the White House. US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been a key driver of plans to give the EFSF enough firepower to shore up Italy and Spain, fearing a drift into “cascading default, bank runs and catastrophic risk” without dramatic action. The danger for Germany is that America will lose patience, with unpredictable consequences. The US Federal Reserve is currently propping up the European banking system in a variety of ways, including dollar swaps.

The global economic crisis is exposing the reality of relations between western states. They are not united, as it is perceived by many, but they are divided. This is the undisputed truth. Muslims should take comfort from these signs and work to redouble their efforts to establish the Islamic state.

Britain leaps to secure Libya contracts

Britain, as the perpetrator of a Western-led attack on Libya under the guise of protecting the country’s civilian population, is seeking to secure more business contracts with the new Libyan government. British Trade Minister Stephen Green launched business talks in Libya, claiming UK firms are eager to participate in the rebuilding of the North African country. Green said that he had several meetings with the Libyan businessmen and members of National Transitional Council (NTC) and talked about future contracts between the two countries. However, he told reporters in Tripoli that Britain will not take strategic decisions with Libya until the country creates a new constitution and an elected government is chosen by the Libyan people. Britain formerly sent a team of negotiators to Tripoli to begin talks with the NTC officials and to sign lucrative oil deals. The news was then confirmed by Senior Whitehall officials, revealing that British Trade and Investment was planning to renew its oil contracts in Libya quickly, amid rising fears that Russian and Chinese oil firms are seeking to secure the best of the contracts.

Britain is not the only Western country that is eager to feed on the oil reserves of the country. Italy, France, and the US are also queuing up to devour Libya. The messenger of Allah (saw) said,”… there will come a time when the nations gather against you, just as people gather around a feast.’ A man said, ‘Will it be because we are few at that time, O Allah’s Messenger?’ He responded, ‘No, you will be numerous in those times, but you will be as useless as the scum of the sea, and Allah will remove the fear that your enemies used to posses from you from their chests, and He will place al-Wahn in your hearts’, it was said, ‘What is al-Wahn?’, he responded, ‘Love of life, and hatred of death.”

British soldiers in Afghanistan gather for Kill TV night

Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in “Kill TV nights” designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal. The discovery of the practice comes in the wake of the damning verdict of the Baha Mousa inquiry into the conduct of some in the military. It casts fresh questions over the conduct of soldiers deployed abroad and has provoked a furious response from peace campaigners. Andrew Burgin from Stop the War last night described it as the “ultimate degradation of British troops”, comparing it to the desensitisation to death of US soldiers in the final stages of the Vietnam War. The footage, seen by The Independent on Sunday, shows ground troops at the British headquarters in Helmand province, Camp Bastion, gathered for a get-together said to be called “Kill TV night”.

Despite all the rhetoric about the merits of their civilisation, the reality of British army is no different to the behaviour of savages. And their hared for Islam is clear to see. Allah says in the Quran: “O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.” [TMQ: 3:118].

Pakistan threatens US with retaliation

During his recent trip to Washington, Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha told the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) General David Petraeus that Pakistan would be forced to retaliate if US forces launch a military offensive in the country’s Pak-Afghan tribal belt. According to military sources in Rawalpindi, Pasha also made it clear that Pakistani felt betrayed by the blunt assessment of US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. Mullen had said that the ISI was using the Haqqani network as a proxy against the US. Amid escalating tensions, Pakistan’s top military commanders had already resolved on Sunday to respond materially to any American attack launched on Pakistan from the US-controlled and managed Afghanistan. Pakistani defence analysts have discussed the ways that the US can launch attacks on Pakistani soil including a surgical strike in Pakistan like the May 2 operation that targeted Osama bin Laden or more drone strikes – that may go beyond the agreed upon lines in North Waziristan. If the US strikes in such a fashion, then the Pakistani military leadership may be pressured to respond, opine analysts.

The time for threatening has gone. It is time for action. The Pakistani army leadership needs acts decisively to cut all forms of support to the American war machine. Otherwise, they(Kiyani and his supporters) who have lost their manhood and sold their Iman, should step aside and let others do the job for them.

01 Dhu al-Qi’dah 1432
2011/09/29