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PAKISTANI DEMONSTRATORS TRY TO CLOSE DOWN U.S. AIR BASE IN JACOBABAD

March 23. Thousands of Pakistanis converged on the U.S. air base in Jacobabad, Pakistan given to the U.S. by CIA agent General Musharref. The demonstrators were met by a large police force and were gradually forced them back into the city center. They condemned the U.S. attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and called for immediate removal of the base by peaceful means.
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BAHRAINI DEMONSTRATORS TRY TO CLOSE DOWN U.S. Base

Bahrain has seen daily demonstrations against the U.S. and Israel during the last five days. On March 24, the demonstrators marched on the U.S. base in Manama. They are said to have exploded a propane tank near the base.
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BANGLADESH: WAVES OF DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST U.S./ISRAEL

We apologize to our Bangladeshi readers that we were not able to report the huge anti-war rallies which have been going on in Dhaka and other cities over the last five days.
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HAMMAD ABDUR-RAHEEM: ISLAMIC ACTIVIST in VIRGINIA FACING FBI INTIMIDATION
[John Walker Lindh Issue is part of it]

Br. Hammad Abdur-Raheem is a well-known Islamic activist in the Falls Church, Virginia area. He is a long time supporter of Jamaat al-Muslimeen and helps just about all human rights activity and anti-war demonstration. He is African-American but an internationalist, married to an Indonesian sister and did the Hajj last month.

On March 24 he was visited by two FBI officers who interrogated him for two and a half hours. Looks like they had been following him around and taking photos of all his activities. In this obvious violation of his rights as a citizen of this great country, they are trying to get him to provide information about all the Muslims he knows.

Advice: Dear Muslims, you should know that the FBI has no right to investigate you if you have not violated a law. As soon as the FBI talk to you, give them your basic information and then demand an attorney. Tell them that anything you say after having been denied an attorney is under duress and a violation of your rights.

[During the two and half hour interrogation, one very interesting item: the FBI officers wanted to know, why Br. Hammad had helped trace out the route for the demonstration in support of the rights of John Walker Lindh. Br. Hammad was not able to take part in the actual picketing for John Walker Lindh's rights]
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2003-03-27 Thu 10:57ct