"President Bush has stated "Islam is not the enemy" and I believe him, although his subordinates often act exactly the opposite way, as though every Muslim is an enemy."

"The scents of apartheid are growing stronger with the Israelis building a fence between themselves and the Palestinians on the West Bank."

"...the US and its allies will keep on extending their civilising missions for the Muslim lands irrespective of the survival of Bush and Blair regimes."

"The war in Iraq, according to American, European and Asian officials, is acting as a recruiting poster for Islamic terrorist groups worldwide that are loosely affiliated with al Qaeda -- such as Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia."

"It has become clear that the Americans miscalculated the situation in Iraq. The Iraqis did not greet the allied forces with roses, as Defense Secretary Wolfowits predicted."

"The greatest defect of the Geneva accord is that the basic notion of the inalienable human and political rights of the Palestinian people is entirely ignored by Oz and his associates, as was the case in the Oslo process."

"Three of the eight authors of the “Clean Break” document became key policy makers to the Bush-Cheney Gang. Leading that pack was the super hawkish Richard Perle, a current member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. He also sits on the board of the “Jerusalem Post” newspaper, which is owned by the scandal-tainted Conrad Black, a media mogul."

"Amid a ray of optimism—for a zestful peace n’ amity in South Asia—guns were put to silence along the Line of Control (LoC), the Working Boundary and the Line of Actual Contact in Siachen sector—Tuesday night—as a follow-up of Pakistan’s unilateral overture for truce—which for the first time has contracted a jovial n’ atypical feedback from India."