[Oman-L] Re: Lets love Peace....

[andrew avelin]

Hello everyone!
       I take this opportunity to request U all that
let us all be after Peace and love that is lacking in
our mankind right now.....
       Pray for everyone who're all so innocent but
killed without any reason..
With Love
Andrew..   
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>   2. RE: AL-SAYIGH'S DEPORTATION AND A WARMING OF
> SAUDI-IRANIAN RELATIONS (Moh .)
>   3. RE: demonstrations (Irfan Ahmed)
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> Why not let us all know? I think we need to
> understand.
> 
> Tommy
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> t: [Oman-L] demonstrations
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> I was surprised to see demonstrations in Oman in
> respect of the Afghanistan
> "war" on "western" television and would like to
> learn more about the
> reasons and feelings of the Omanis that took part
> and willing to let me
> know directly and off list.
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> expatriates.
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> From: "Moh ." <mnur_01@hotmail.com>
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> Subject: RE: [Oman-L] AL-SAYIGH'S DEPORTATION AND A
> WARMING OF SAUDI-IRANIAN RELATIONS
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:44:03 +1000
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> POLICYWATCH
> Number 255 June 17, 1997
> 
> AL-SAYIGH'S DEPORTATION AND A WARMING OF
> SAUDI-IRANIAN RELATIONS
> By Joshua Teitelbaum
> 
> 
> Today's announcement of the deal between U.S. law
> enforcement officials and 
> Hani al-Sayigh, an alleged member of the clandestine
> Shi`i organization 
> "Saudi Hizballah" with links to the al-Khobar Towers
> bombing, has strategic, 
> not just legal, implications for the investigation
> of that terrorist act. 
> The decision to seek al-Sayigh's deportation to the
> United States and his 
> cooperation in gaining information about al-Khobar
> suggests that the United 
> States may in fact be willing to grapple with the
> ramifications of what 
> al-Sayigh has to say about Iran's possible
> complicity. Meanwhile, thousands 
> of miles away, as Secretary of Defense Cohen
> promotes "dual containment" 
> with America's Gulf allies, an equally intriguing
> development is afoot-a 
> tentative rapprochement between a victim of
> al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and the 
> state many observers believe is chiefly responsible
> for it, Iran.
> From Conflict to Reconciliation? Generally,
> Saudi-Iranian relations are best 
> understood within the context of both Islamic and
> nationalist tensions. The 
> two countries represent competing visions of the
> Islamic past and future and 
> vie for domination in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (the
> battle over this term is 
> a case in point). One arena in which the two parties
> have played out these 
> tensions since the Islamic revolution in Iran has
> been at the annual 
> pilgrimage (the hajj). As head of the Saudi Royal
> Family, King Fahd has 
> declared himself since 1986 to be the "Custodian of
> the Two Holy Shrines," a 
> title until then reserved only for the now-defunct
> caliphate. The Saudi 
> family guards this role jealously, and sees an
> obligation and a 
> responsibility to facilitate the now close to 2
> million strong pilgrimage. 
> However, its approach to the hajj is very simple:
> "Muslims, perform your 
> duty, avoid politics and then go home."
> 
> For revolutionary Iran, on the other hand, the
> pilgrimage is a magnificent, 
> God-given vehicle for promoting and exporting the
> Islamic Revolution. Each 
> year, Iran's contingent to the pilgrimage attempts
> to perform a ceremony cum 
> political demonstration (which, as far as this
> writer can tell, did not 
> exist before the Revolution) called "Disavowing the
> Infidels" (al-bara'a min 
> al-kuffar, or al-bara'a min al-mushrikin). During
> this event, the faithful 
> condemn America, Israel, and other "enemies of
> Islam" and, by implication, 
> the Saudi government. The Saudi `ulama have branded
> this demonstration 
> bid`a, un-Islamic innovation, and have forbidden it
> each year, although Iran 
> claims that it still carries it out. In 1987, Saudi
> attempts to prevent the 
> ceremony resulted in the death of 275 Iranian
> pilgrims and 85 Saudi 
> policemen. Iran deeply resents Saudi attempts to
> pose as the paragon of 
> Islam while being an ally of "the Great Satan," and
> may have assisted 
> directly or indirectly in the al-Khobar bombing in
> order to send a strong 
> signal of disapproval to both Riyadh and Washington
> and to carry on the 
> campaign to evict the "infidels" from the Gulf.
> 
> In this context, recent indications of a honeymoon
> of sorts between these 
> longstanding regional and ideological rivals are
> perplexing. Low-level talks 
> aimed at improving relations began in late 1996,
> leading one Iranian paper 
> to talk about a "new chapter" in bilateral ties. In
> mid-March 1997, Iranian 
> Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati visited the
> Kingdom in order to invite 
> King Fahd to the December summit of the Organization
> of the Islamic 
> Conference, which Tehran seeks to host. Saudi Crown
> Prince `Abdallah and 
> Iranian President Rafsanjani met in Islamabad later
> that month, and the two 
> countries announced the signing of an air transport
> protocol on March 30. 
> Although the visit never materialized, Iranian
> officials stated that 
> Rafsanjani intended to make this year's April hajj.
> Iranian officials were 
> surprisingly mild in response to the death of over
> 200 pilgrims during the 
> 1997 hajj. Last month, Fahd congratulated Iranian
> President-elect Mohammed 
> Khatemi on his victory, and Khatemi wired back his
> hope 
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