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The new Arab Mindset is an ominous warning for the West

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As the world debates about the various merits of the Arab revolt - whether the revolution will produce an alternative political landscape or not - very little has been said about the Arab mindset. Yes, the Arab people have grown to become fearless against the despotic regimes, but this is an accurate description of their psychological state, not their mindset. The thinking process of the Arabs has experienced a massive transformative change and is rapidly reaching a level of intellectual maturity that is likely to yield a crescendo effect.
Consider the euphoria that greeted the banishment of Ben Ali from Tunisia, or the incarceration of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Initially, the Arabs concluded that this would finally lead towards a permanent change; one that is different from the present day autocratic systems and draconian laws.
Instead, and within a space of few months, the Egyptians learnt that the regime not only survived, but was given a new lease of life through a military coup. The peace treaty with the Jewish state-despised by the majority of the Egyptians-remained firmly intact. The military -once the stalwart of the revolution, went from heroes to traitors overnight. Torture, imprisonment without trial, abductions by security forces, extra judicial killings, and sectarian strife- prevalent under Mubarak- returned to haunt Egyptians with renewed vigour. Western protégés groomed in exile and presented as viable alternatives to the status quo were quickly repudiated by the masses. Islamists, once coveted by the faithful are now ridiculed for sounding more secular than the secularists! Even the public enthusiasm for constitutional reforms and the presidential election has faded.
The Tunisian experience is almost as identical. Looking further afield, the same can be said for Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Jordan, Syria and some of the GCC countries. The narrative before and after the revolt, remains unchanged for many Arabs. For them, the Arab world is ruled by pro-western elites who are more interested in the preservation of Western colonial interests than the liberation of Arab masses from tyranny.
Right now, it seems as though any Western attempt to orchestrate political change in Arab countries is instantly rejected and thrown back. The dormant Arab mind is now awake, and is fast producing results that are diametrically opposed to the West's longevity and primacy in the Middle East.
The learning curve, which consists of the sensation of the reality, contemplation and judgment, is no longer so steep for the Arab masses. So how have Arab minds changed?
It can be argued that over the past eighty odd years, the breadth and depth of problems faced by Arabs have grown in both magnitude and scope: The destruction of the Caliphate in 1924, Western occupation of Muslim lands, the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, the successive Gulf wars, the war on terror and the physical reoccupation of Arab lands, have all left indelible impression on Arab minds. These deep seated feelings of humiliation, indignity and violation of Islamic values spurred many Arabs to think profoundly about these feelings. However, the West through Arab exiles and her surrogates in the Arab world fed the masses a diet of corrupt Western thoughts to confuse and shield the Arabs from the arriving at the correct judgment about the events that befell them. Subsequently, the thinking process or thinking cycle-feelings about the problems, that in turn require connectivity and contemplation, which is then followed by judgment was either broken, or skewed, in the favour of Western interpretations. For many Arabs, this resulted in intellectual paralysis and stagnation of Arab societies. Severed from their natural feelings, the Arabs were unable to generate home grown solutions to the problems they faced, and were forced to import Western solutions and ideas. Thus the thinking process was temporarily disrupted. What compounded the situation further, was the adoption of Western solutions. Such solutions rarely solved problems but further exacerbated and sometimes prolonged them, as they were often ‘copied and pasted' without any real understanding of its origins and motives. This made the helpless Arabs more reliant on the West for their ever increasing portfolio of problems.
In this way, the West was able to keep its intellectual stranglehold over the Arabs and the wider Muslim world for many years. Only a few Muslims managed to punctuate West's intellectual dominance and expose the fallacy of its ideology. However, the majority remained in stasis, and plummeted into the abyss of gloom and despair.
Today, this no longer appears to be the situation. The Arab thinking process is no longer fragmented and disconnected from its surroundings. On the contrary, it is vibrant, in touch with its environment, and takes solace from its rich Islamic heritage. The time taken to truly understand events is visibly shorter and the judgments more often than not are rooted in Islamic thoughts. Western thoughts and views are now routinely discarded. In its place is a new constellation of Islamic concepts and values. The concept of Khilafah "Caliphate"(Caliphate), Jihad, Islamic politics, Ummah, unity, Shari'ah and a Khilafah "Caliphate" (single ruler for the Arab and Muslim world) is so prevalent now, that it is common to see these terms included as part of West's lexicon to interpret the events in the Muslim world.
In summary, the mindset of the Arabs is now a beacon for the intellectual elevation of the whole Muslim Ummah. It is only a matter of time before the Ummah's intellectual revival leads to a political conclusion that spells the end of Western domination of Muslim lands.

Abed Mustafa

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The Third Wave of Rajab Conference in Indonesia - The Echo of Khilafah is Stronger  

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"Khilafah "Caliphate",  Khilafah "Caliphate",  Khilafah "Caliphate" !" Such a call is again echoed in 8 major cities in the country. After two weeks in a row the call of Khilafah "Caliphate" and Syariah has been echoed in some big cities such as Banjarmasin, Kendari, Palu, Jayapura, Ternate, Samarinda, Batam, Pelembang, Lampung, Palangkaraya, and Ketapang.

And today, Sunday June 19th, 2011, Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia held again the Rajab 1432 H Conference in 8 other cities in Yogyakarta, Pekanbaru, Padang, Banda Aceh, Lubuklinggau, Bengkulu, Jambi, and Pangkalpinang.

The events with the theme of ‘Prosperous Life Under the Khilafah "Caliphate"' have been held and have become the hot issue while the call of  Sharia and Khilafah "Caliphate" have received a warm welcome.

"Secularism is a misleading  idea  whose goal is to separate the religion with the worldly life so it must be abandoned" said the Chairman of HTI Riau, while opening the conference in Pekanbaru, Riau. He also said that without the Khalifah, there is no real unity.  On the other hand, nationalism only divides the ummah.


"We should not be like dumb evils who cannot say loud to the unjust and wicked rulers that it is obligatory to enforce Syariah in the frame of Khilafah "Caliphate"!" said the Chairman of HTI Central Board, Muhammad Rahmat Kurnia when delivering the warm call of Hizb ut-Tahrir to the Muslims of Riau.

While in Yogyakarta around 10,000 of Islamic clerics (kyai), ustadz, mubalighah, the intellectuals, and the businessmen who come from various areas in Special Province of Yogyakarta thronged the Jogja Expo Centre (JEC) to attend the conference.


They also stirred up the call of the obligation of upholding Syariah and Khilafah "Caliphate".  The special thing about the conference in Yogyakarta was the coming of a leading scholar from Japan, Prof. Hassan Ko Nakata, to the conference. In his speech which was in Arabic, he gave encouragement to the residents of Yogyakarta to continue preaching to awaken the Muslims so that they are willing to be bound by Islamic laws and to fight together with Hizb ut-Tahrir  for the establishment of  Khilafah "Caliphate".

"From Yogyakarta, the call spreads to all parts of Indonesia, even to the world!" he shouted. The Spokesman of HTI, Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, who also attended the occasion read the Warm Call from Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia for the Muslims in Yogyakarta and Central Java.

At the western tip of Indonesia, in Banda Aceh, the call of khilafah is also inflamed. In the city of what is so called as "Serambi Mekah" (the Veranda of Mecca), around 2000 Muslims from various parts of Aceh, gathered in the Dayan Daod Hall.

 The Rajab Conference in Aceh took place smoothly and the participants enthusiastically never stopped calling  the words to establish khilafah. No less interesting was also the conference in Jambi, Sumatra. Around 350 Muslims fulfilled the Auditorium of RRI Tenalai Pura, in the city of Jambi, Jambi Province.


While in Pangkal Pinang, Bangka Belitung, Rais Am of Islamic Organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) of Central Bangka, KH Syairan Rois, stated that the NU Central Bangka supports the whole struggle of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

 "We support all struggles of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and we call upon all Muslims to re-establish the khilafah," he suggested and then greeted by the audience with Takbir.


The Deputy Governor of Bangka Belitung, Shamsuddin Basari, who was also present in the event declared his support. He said personally he supports  the struggle for Khilafah "Caliphate" of Hizb ut-Tahrir.  It is because Indonesia is now really in a collapsed state due to a corrupt system.


He also stated the need for unity of the ummah, from the scholars and the umara (rulers) to all components of society should work together to unite for the establishment of  Khilafah "Caliphate". "What has been struggled by Hizb ut-Tahrir is not a deviation from the religion, and it is worth fighting for. Hizb ut-Tahrir has never committed acts of violence and this is the right one. The government should support the struggles of Hizb ut-Tahrir"he admitted that out loud and greeted by the echos of Takbir.

Since June 2nd, the series of Rajab Conference 1432 H have been scheduled to continue in 29 major cities with the top event is on June 29th at Lebak Bulus Sports Stadium, Jakarta. Fatih mujahid  [  mediaumat.com ].

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HTI Urges Russia to Stop Cruelty Against The Islamic Activists

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HTI-Press. Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia staged a protest on Thursday (June 16th) afternoon to condemn Russian government who committed cruelty against the Muslims in Russia  in front of the Russian Embassy, ​​Jakarta. In order to obtain confession from two activists of HT Russia, Sidikov Farukh Fadhludinovitz and Albert Zakoyovitz Shakirov, the Department of Homeland Security of Russia (FSB) committed cruelty to the families of those two activists who have been detained since December 10th, 2010.


Not only did the FSB kidnapped and insulted the Muslim sister in Russia, Minibayeva Ilmira Yonirovna (26), who is 8-month pregnant, they also searched her house so rudely  that she almost had a miscarriage.  The FSB personnel were trampling on the Islamic books which contain many verses of the holy Koran.

Due to such cruel actions, HTI urged the Russian government to immediately stop such dreadful actions in achieving their objective, which is clearly contrary to the values ​​and principles supposedly adhered by the Russian, namely human rights and democracy.

However, whether the Russian government will stop such cruel actions or not, HT Russia and other HT activists around the world, will hold on tight to the method which is a non-violence method of preaching to re-establish the Syariah in the framework of Islamic Caliphate.  

"Remember, O the Russian ruler, your cruel actions will not stop the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir there! Sooner or later your cruelty will bring you down,  then the Caliphate will be established to revenge your attitude! " threatened Roni, one of the protesters.

During the protest,  the Russian embassy refused to meet with the delegation led by HTI Spokesman Ismail Yusanto. HTI denounced the cowardice of the Embassy. "The attitude of the Russian embassy is a reflection of a coward, how could they refuse to meet and discuss with a delegation of Hizb-ut Tahrir who just want to protest," said the Spokesman of HTI Ismail Yusanto. [RA/FW]

 

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A Call For Khilafah Echoes From Indonesian Archipelago

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HTI-Press. Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia again held the second series of Rajab Conference 1432  in various major cities in Indonesia. After Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan became the first city to hold such conference on Sunday (June 2nd , 2011), which was attended by around 10 thousand Muslims, the second series of the conference are held in six cities in Indonesia simultaneously from Kendari (Southeast Sulawesi), Samarinda (East Kalimantan), Ketapang (West Kalimantan), Bandar Lampung (Lampung, Sumatra), Batam (Riau, Sumatra) to the Eastern Part of Indonesia in Jayapura (Papua) on Sunday (June 12th, 2011).

In Kendari around 20 thousand Muslims attended the MTQ Monument in Kendari. The event began with the opening speech of the HTI local leader in North Sulawesi, Ust Ahmad Rois. He said that the purpose of the Rajab Conference is to remind the Muslims about two events : the Ascension of the Prophet and the Collapse of the Khalifah. Through the momentum of the Rajab Conference, it  is expected that all Muslims are encouraged for its establishment.

Around 2500 Muslims packed the Youth Pledge Building Indoor Sports Centre (PKOR) in Way Halim Bandar Lampung. In Samarinda, the Rajab Conference was attended by around 7000 Muslims who fulfilled the Segiri Sports Stadium.  In West Kalimantan, more than 100 people attended the local Rajab Conference 1432 AH in Ketapang district. Ketapang. They came from various elements of society.

It was reported that the Rajab Conference in Batam was attended by various elements of society.  In Abdul Jalam Tumenggung Sports Hall Batam, approximately 1900 Muslims were determined to struggle for the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate". They came from various areas such as Batam Island, Karimun Island, Bintan Island, Singapore and Malaysia.

The Rajab Conference in Papua was held at Hotel Muspaqco Jayapura. Around 1000 people packed the Hall of the hotel. Muhammad Jaffar Abdullah, the HTI local leader, states "Papua is ready to enforce Islamic Sharia and Khilafah "Caliphate" ,". Papua is a predominantly non-Muslim region. However, after having interaction and contacts with Hizb ut-Tahrir, the local figures accept the struggle of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Papua. The reason is because the Khilafah "Caliphate" does not only safeguard the Muslims but also the non-Muslims as well.

This event is a series of Rajab Conference held in 29 cities across Indonesia. The climax of the event is on June 29th at the Sports Stadium in Lebak Bulus, Jakarta. In a press release, the Spokesman of HTI, Ismail Yusanto said that the Rajab Conference is not to weep the sad moment of the collapse of the Ottoman Khalifah, on the contrary, the conference was held to boost the enthusiasm and the optimism for the success of the struggle to enforce Sharia and Khilafah "Caliphate". "Of course this struggle requires seriousness, sincerity and support from people and the supports are obvious, among which can seen from the enthusiasm of the participants of the conference," he said. (FW)

 

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Headline news for 15-6-2011

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Titles:

Nouriel Roubini: This "Perfect Storm" Of Threats Could Slam The Economy By 2013
Iraq: Auditors Says $6.6 Billion Missing from Pentagon Probably Stolen
CIA Expands Drone Strikes to Yemen
90% seized 'Taliban' civilians: U.S. report
US suspicious of Pakistan's bomb facility leak to militants: Robert Gates
Kissinger, Huntsman: U.S., China need cyber détente

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Nouriel Roubini: This "Perfect Storm" Of Threats Could Slam The Economy By 2013
The world economy could face a perfect storm of soaring sovereign debt and slowing growth, according to the economist who predicted the last global financial crisis. Debt problems in the US and Europe, slowing growth in China and stagnation in Japan could combine to harm the economic recovery, the New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said. This in turn could hurt the GCC by choking off demand for oil, the region's main revenue source, other economists say. Mr Roubini said there was a one-in-three chance of different factors converging to smother growth from 2013. Other possible outcomes were "anaemic but OK" global growth or an "optimistic" scenario in which the economy improved. "There are already elements of fragility," he told Bloomberg News. "Everybody's kicking the can down the road of too much public and private debt. The can is becoming heavier and heavier, and bigger on debt, and all these problems may come to a head by 2013 at the latest." Politicians and investors have closely followed Mr Roubini's comments since he made a series of accurate predictions about the global meltdown in 2008.

Iraq: Auditors Says $6.6 Billion Missing from Pentagon Probably Stolen
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time. This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash - enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

CIA Expands Drone Strikes to Yemen
The CIA is ready to expand its drone strikes from Pakistan to Yemen. A U.S. official said that a secret plan to bomb Yemen has been in the works for months, Fox News reports this week. Obama approved the secret plan without consulting Congress last year. It has been under development for several months and is set to be rolled out in July. In May, the State Department ordered all "non-essential" U.S. diplomats and family members to leave Yemen immediately. It also issued a warning to Americans to abstain from traveling to Yemen. The Wall Street Journal makes the case that drone attacks are more civilian friendly than the sort of NATO bombing currently underway in another Arab country, Libya. "CIA drones use smaller warheads, which officials hope will lower the risk of civilian deaths and anti-American backlash in Yemen, the newspaper said," Fox reports.

90% seized 'Taliban' civilians: U.S. report
Following the release of figures intended to portray an American success in Afghanistan, a U.S. military report shows that almost 90 percent of Afghans "captured" as Taliban militants were actually civilians. Back in December 2010, U.S. commander General David Petraeus claimed that during the previous six months a total of 4,100 Taliban rank and file had been captured and 2,000 had been killed, only to be revealed that nearly 90 percent of those captured had been civilians, Inter Press Service reported. Another set of misleading figures that was circulated claimed that U.S. Special Operations Forces had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban militants, killed 1,031, while having killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban members through May and July of the same year. The figures were released for media publicity and intended to reverse the U.S. reputation over its losses in war-torn Afghanistan. The report indicates that even more detainees were released from the U.S. detention facility at Bagram airbase, also known as the Detention Facility in Parwan, after their files were reviewed by a panel of military officers. Although the number of Taliban deaths claimed by the U.S. is impossible to double check, the number of detainees can be monitored, as detainees can only be held in a Forward Operating Base for 14 days before being released or sent to long-term detention.The death toll of the U.S.-led forces in 2010 stood at 711, making the year the deadliest on record for foreign forces in Afghanistan since the start of the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. NATO has admitted that the power of militants in Afghanistan is on the rise despite the presence of nearly 150,000 U.S.-led forces in the war-ravaged country.

US suspicious of Pakistan's bomb facility leak to militants: Robert Gates
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said Washington is disappointed and suspicious that militants in Pakistan were apparently tipped off that American intelligence officials had discovered two of their suspected bomb-making facilities, but stopped short of concluding that Pakistani officials had leaked the information to the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani insurgents. The US provided Pakistan with the specific locations of insurgent bomb-making factories twice in recent weeks, only to see the militants learn their cover had been blown and vacate the sites before military action could be taken, US and Pakistani officials said. "We don't know the specifics of what happened. There are suspicions and there are questions, but I think there was clearly disappointment on our part," The Washington Post quoted Gates, as telling a foreign news agency in an exclusive interview. Trust has been in short supply in the US-Pakistan relationship, highlighted most dramatically by the US decision not to tell Islamabad in advance of the May 2 Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad city, out of fear that they might tip off the al-Qaida leader or his protectors. The State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Daniel Benjamin, said on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US troops in last month's raid on his lair, "obviously" benefited from a support network inside Pakistan. When asked whether it was time to take a harder line with Pakistan, Gates counseled patience, and noted that the Pakistanis have not forgotten that the US abandoned them in the late 1980s after the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan. "We need each other, and this relationship goes beyond Afghanistan," he said. "It has to do with regional stability, and I think we have to be realistic about Pakistani distrust ... and their deep belief that when we're done with al-Qaida that we'll be gone, again."

Kissinger, Huntsman: U.S., China need cyber détente
The United States and China need to reach an agreement to restrict cyber attacks and designate some areas as off limits to hacking, two former senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Henry Kissinger, an architect of the opening of U.S. relations with China in the 1970s, told a Thomson Reuters event that Washington and Beijing both had significant espionage capabilities and the key was finding a way to discuss them. Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to China, likened raising cyber attacks with Beijing to the challenge of discussing missile defense and the military use of space -- issues that are also highly sensitive to the Chinese. "At some point, we are going to have to develop a context in which we can actually discuss this and, I would think, draw some red lines around areas that we don't want them into and they might not want us into," said Huntsman, who left China in April to plan his presidential election campaign, and was speaking at the same event. Their calls for a cyber detente follow a blitz of hacking attacks on major U.S.-based institutions in recent weeks, including the International Monetary Fund, the Senate, and companies such as Citigroup and Lockheed Martin.

 

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Demonstration against Russian repression of Muslims

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13 June 2011, Sydney, Australia - Muslims gathered outside the Russian Consulate in Sydney today demonstrating against repression of Muslims, women in particular, by Russian authorities.

The following messages were delivered:


1. Muslims in Australia, and around the world, strongly condemn Russia's continued targeting of Muslims. In spite of presenting a new face of civilisation and progress to the world, Russia continues to use barbaric tactics of repression and extra-legal measures whenever expedient.


2. The use of the pretext of fighting terrorism to target and silence Muslims is old and lame. Russia does not fool anyone by its cheap tactics.

3. The targeting of Muslim woman in particular - as has occurred recently in the city of Ufa - is a low that Russia should be ashamed of, and it highlights the severity of her crimes. The honour of our mothers, sisters and wives is absolutely sacrosanct, and a matter Muslims do not take lightly at all.

4. Russia should not think that the Muslims within her borders are a small minority which she can deal with as she pleases. The Muslims of Russia are not a minority; they are an inextricable part of the global Muslim nation.

5. Russia should not take advantage of the fact that the current regimes in the Muslim World are all lackeys of the West that do not care for the welfare of Muslims around the world. The time when these regimes will be relegated to the dustbin of history and replaced with the Caliphate is near. The excesses that Russia commits now will not be forgotten and the Caliphate will deal with those who oppress Muslims swiftly and severely.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia

13 June 2011

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Police break up Islamist demonstration

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1/ Police in Sudan break up Islamist demonstration

By MOHAMMED OSMAN
Associated Press Published: Saturday, Jun. 11, 2011 - 8:43 am

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Police used tear gas and batons to break up an Islamist demonstration Saturday calling for more troops in disputed southern border regions less than a month before the south's independence, a spokesman for the leading Islamist party said.

North and south Sudan fought a more than two-decade civil war that ended with a 2005 peace agreement, and the south voted overwhelmingly for independence. Southern Sudan is poised to become the world's newest nation in July.

But tensions over the border regions of Abyei - a fertile land near major oil fields - and Kordofan have raised fears of conflict only weeks before the south secedes.

Saturday's demonstration had the proper permits and was intended to be a show of support for the north's decision to send troops to Abyei and Kordufan, said Ibrahim Osman Abu Khalil, spokesman for the Islamic Liberation Party. But he said as some 5,000 members gathered outside the party headquarters, officials suddenly announced that it was no longer allowed.

Abu Khalil said seven party members were arrested and two remained in detention hours later. One party member was seriously injured, he said.

Northern troops invaded Abyei after a May 19 attack on northern and U.N. troops by southern soldiers. The U.N. report said two northern soldiers were killed in that attack, which it called a trigger for the invasion but one that appeared to be a "deliberate plan" by the north, which was already building up troops in the area.

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2/ With tear gas and batons, police in Sudan break up Islamist demonstration backing army

By Associated Press, Published: June 11

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Police used tear gas and batons to break up an Islamist demonstration Saturday calling for more troops in disputed southern border regions less than a month before the south's independence, a spokesman for the leading Islamist party said.

North and south Sudan fought a more than two-decade civil war that ended with a 2005 peace agreement, and the south voted overwhelmingly for independence. Southern Sudan is poised to become the world's newest nation in July.

But tensions over the border regions of Abyei - a fertile land near major oil fields - and Kordofan have raised fears of conflict only weeks before the south secedes.

Saturday's demonstration had the proper permits and was intended to be a show of support for the north's decision to send troops to Abyei and Kordufan, said Ibrahim Osman Abu Khalil, spokesman for the Islamic Liberation Party. But he said as some 5,000 members gathered outside the party headquarters, officials suddenly announced that it was no longer allowed.

Abu Khalil said seven party members were arrested and two remained in detention hours later. One party member was seriously injured, he said.

Northern troops invaded Abyei after a May 19 attack on northern and U.N. troops by southern soldiers. The U.N. report said two northern soldiers were killed in that attack, which it called a trigger for the invasion but one that appeared to be a "deliberate plan" by the north, which was already building up troops in the area.

 

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