[ALBSA-Info] Nuts dont grow only in Malaysia

[Bejko, Kreshnik]

Interestingly enough yesterday at Harvard Square, Boston I stumbled upon
supporters of the little known US presidential candiate Lyndon LaRouche
who claims that there is a conspiracy within the US by the Anglo-American 
financier establishment(aka Harvard Inc), inspired by foreign policy
heavyweights Zbignew Brzezinski 
and Samuel Huntigton, to push the world towards a World War III in its 
'The West vs. Rest'  incarnation. The relevency of this, as far as Albanians
are concerned, is their insisistence on 'reliable' Russian and Macedonian
sources that Ayman al Zawahiri's brother is training Arab mujahedeen in
Kosova
in the US administered territory, with tacit US support. In other words
LaRouche
says that on one hand the US is bombing the Taliban on the other it supports
it and
if you dont vote for him in 2004 then you are responsible for the bloody
course of
events that will most certainly follow. Of course, I thought this just plain
nuts but
this goes to show that nuts dont grow only in Malaysia.

cheers




(14:50) Arab League head warns against clash of civilizations
By The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The head of the Arab League warned today that the
current fight against terrorism could escalate into a clash of civilizations
between the West and the Muslim world. 

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa urged European Union
parliamentarians and Middle East countries to work harder to end the current
"campaign of slanders and defamation" directed at the Muslim world in wake
of the terrorist attacks on the United States. 

"The conflict between civilizations, between religions, provokes a major
confrontation if this conflict remains unattended," Moussa said. 

He added that if negative stereotypes continue to be reinforced on both
sides, it would "set the world on fire." 

"We indeed have to be more enlightened," said Moussa, adding that the world
needed to look at the root of terrorism, which he said was based on poverty
and inequalities. 

Javier Solana, the EU's top foreign and security policy chief, urged
lawmakers at the special Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary forum to seek
better relations to deal with the root causes of terrorism, including the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. 

"We have to be courageous enough to thrash out any issue," he said. 

Lawmakers called for a closer "inter-cultural dialogue" in order to improve
relations. 

All agreed that terrorism needed to be fought on all fronts, not only by
military means, but also by fighting poverty. 

Meretz Knesset member Naomi Chazan said terrorism was rooted in poverty but
added, however, that the war against terrorism affected all countries. 

"This is not a clash of civilizations. It is not a clash of religions,"
Chazan told the chamber. "Each one of our societies and each one of our
cultures and each one of our religions harbor terrorist strains." 

Moussa, whose organization represents 21 Arab countries and the Palestinian
territories, called for an action plan to be drawn up to deal with any clash
of cultures. 

"We need you and I think you need us," he said. 

The forum coincided with a meeting of Euro-Mediterranean foreign ministers
earlier this week in Brussels which dealt mainly with the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. 

The "partnership meeting" was the latest in a regular series launched in
1995 to bring the 15 EU nations together with Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt,
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinians, Syria, Tunisia
and Turkey. 

In a related story, Hizbullah might be tempted into launching an attack in
the Mount Dov region to show its disdain for its inclusion on a US-British
list of terrorist organizations, Western diplomatic sources warned yesterday