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Russia says opposes use of force against Iran
Reuters ^ | Aug 17, 2005
Posted on 08/17/2005 6:42:52 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned on Wednesday against using
force to stop Iran's nuclear programme, saying any such action would
have grave and unpredictable consequences.
"We favour further dialogue and consider the use of force in Iran
counter-productive and dangerous, something which can have grave
and hardly predictable consequences," said a statement posted on the
ministry's Web site www.mid.ru.
The West fears Iran's nuclear programme, which the oil-rich state
insists is aimed only at the peaceful generation of nuclear power,
conceals ambitions to develop atomic weapons.
Iran angered the European Union and the United States by resuming
work at a uranium conversion plant earlier this month, rejecting EU
incentives offered in return for giving up its nuclear programme.
Earlier this month U.S. President George W. Bush said military force
remained a last resort to press Tehran to abandon its nuclear
ambitions.
"We consider that problems concerning Iran's nuclear activities should
be solved through political and diplomatic means, on the basis of
international law and Tehran's close cooperation with International
Atomic Energy Agency," the Russian statement said.
Russia, which has constructed a nuclear power plant for Iran and is
hoping for more such contracts, has criticised Tehran for restarting the
uranium conversion.
Moscow says there is no technical need for Iran to convert its own
uranium since Moscow has agreed to supply all necessary nuclear fuel
for the Bushehr power plant due to go into operation next year.
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Russia: Most Muslim Clergy Rebuff Call For Jihad Against U.S.
By Charles Carlson
Supreme Mufti Telget Tajetdin, head of the Central Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of
Russia, last week declared a "spiritual" jihad, or holy struggle, against the United States in
retaliation for its war with Iraq. But top Muslim clerics elsewhere in Russia and in Central
Asia condemned Tajetdin's statement, and the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has
threatened to disband the mufti's office.
Prague, 10 April 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Speaking on 3 April in the Russian city of Ufa,
Supreme Mufti Tajetdin was shown on television throughout the central Volga region
brandishing a sword as he told sympathizers that his administration intended to set up a fund
and solicit donations in order to buy weapons for a struggle against the United States: "For
two weeks now, the anti-Christ of the world has been waging a war [against Iraq]."
But Tajetdin's statements backfired badly, incurring harsh criticism from other Russian and
Central Asian Muslim leaders and even from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On the same day as the mufti's comments, Putin told journalists that he would "do
everything" he could in order to prevent Russia from being drawn into the Iraq crisis.
Putin said it is Moscow's duty to continue cooperation with the U.S. in order to prevent the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and continue the international struggle against
terrorism.
Russian Justice Ministry official Sergei Nikulin said Tajetdin has the right to express his
moral support for Iraq, but that any attempts to buy weapons and send them to Iraq would
be illegal.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office threatened to disband Tajetdin's Ufa-based
Muslim administration for inciting religious hatred.
Other Muslim officials in Russia were similarly quick to condemn Tajetdin, among them his
rival Ravil Gainutdin, who is head of the Council of Muftis of Russia. Both men aspire to
the unofficial title of uncontested leader of Russia's Muslim population. Relations between
them have been strained for several years.
In a statement published in "Nezavisimaya gazeta" on 7 April, Gainutdin's Council of Muftis
expresses "deep regret that among Russian Muslims there are those who want not peace in
Iraq, but World War III." Gainutdin said his organization will not support any form of
hostilities.
The chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Bashkortostan, Mufti
Nurmukhamat Nigmatullin, said that "the announcement of mufti Tadzhuddin in no way
reflects the position of all Russian Muslims."
The head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims in Asian Regions of Russia, Mufti
Nafigulla Ashirov, said that "no Muslims are taking Tajetdin's statement seriously."
In Central Asia, too, prominent Muslim clerics condemned Tajetdin's call for a holy war
against the United States.
Amonullo Negmatzoda, chairman of Tajikistan's Council of Ulemas and spiritual leader of
Tajik Muslims, told ITAR-TASS that a jihad against the United States is not the way to
solve the problem of Iraq.
Negmatzoda reportedly added that a jihad has almost never brought positive results but
only "increases bloodshed and causes unnecessary suffering for ordinary people." He said
that Muslims should pray instead for a swift end to the war in Iraq and a political resolution
to the conflict.
In Uzbekistan, Muslim Spiritual Administration head Abdurashidkori Bakhromov
condemned Tajetdin's call for a jihad as "irresponsible" and said it was likely to aggravate
an already unstable situation. In an interview published on 5 April in the official
Russian-language newspaper "Pravda vostoka," he said such calls fuel the flames of war
and generate enmity toward Muslims living in different countries.
Bakhromov advised Muslims in Uzbekistan to "be careful" and to ignore such appeals. "The
head of Russia's Muslims Tajetdin has expressed a completely wrong thought -- a thought
that would be beneficial for people with bad intentions," he said.
Kyrgyz Mufti Muratali Juman-uulu was more conciliatory in his reaction: "I cannot say 'right'
or 'wrong' about [Tajetdin's appeal]. My opinion on the Kyrgyz state and Kyrgyz Muslims
is that nobody from the our muftiyat [Spiritual Board of Kyrgyz Muslims], [ordinary]
Muslims, imams nor mosque staff has any idea about a jihad against America in
connection with the Iraqi war. This is the first thing. Secondly, we are against this ongoing
war [in Iraq]."
The only Russian Muslim leader who has expressed support for Tajetdin's initiative was
Sverdlovsk Mufti Sibagatulla Hadji, who said that Islam allows the declaration of a holy
struggle in certain extreme cases. Sibagatulla Hadji said Tajetdin had in mind not military
activity against the United States but spiritual opposition. He did not explain why, if that is
the case, Tajetdin had called for donations to buy weapons.
It is not clear why the Russian authorities reacted so harshly to Tajetdin's call for a holy
struggle while ignoring the decision one week earlier by Muslim clergy in Daghestan to
declare a jihad against the United States.
Paul Goble is an expert on nationalities in Russia. He suggested that Russian officials are
trying to sow dissent among the three main Muslim bodies in Russia. "The Russian
government has a long tradition of playing one Muslim group against another, and it seems
to me that this differential approach is designed to make sure that no Muslim group can
claim preeminence and appear to speak on behalf of all Muslims in the Russian Federation.
Were such a group to emerge, it would constitute a major challenge to central Russian
control, and that is not something President Putin is prepared to countenance," Goble said.
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#1103 Mexico near the top, Mexico arrests terrorists in 2003 for working on 'Chemical Weapons'.
Arrested Mexican and Spanish terrorists.
News from the world, several that we have heard before, but this collection is the foundation for what is happening today.
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Interesting articles.........
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small plane crash at Pomona, Calif.
Two taken to trauma center.
No details given. It just happened.