By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
7 November 2010
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The US government was once again agitated when bomb-contained parcels bound to Chicago were intercepted in the airports of Dubai and Britain through the intelligence information from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. According to media sources, almost the entire world accused Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) for the foiled terroristic activity.
Recently, the government was perturbed by the heightened travel advisories issued against the Philippines by the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In their respective releases, citizens of these countries were advised to avoid visiting Manila and most of Mindanao cities including shopping malls, places of worships and other public places.
Credibility-torn and elections-troubled Barack Obama called the parcels as “credible terrorist threat” and could have, according to experts, even brought down the plane. The suspect, a Yemeni woman, has been arrested and contained by the Yemeni government. Assumingly, the US government would spare no effort to delve into the matter and sanction the source of the parcels reportedly sent to the two places of Jewish Worship.
Malacanang, on the other hand, assured the public of no possible terrorism stating further that the Office of the President has been provided with intelligence report and that the situation is under control. Terroristic activities in the Philippines are only carried out by the Abu Sayyaf, the militant Islamist faction of the Moro National Liberation Front. The group is the most notorious of all extremists the Philippine government has to deal with.
Al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist group who was responsible for the 9/11 bombing that toppled down New York’s World Trade Center, was engineered by Osama Bin Laden in alliance with other groups including war-torn Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. However, while the world believes that US military offensives killed Saddam Hussein including its dominion or have thrown them out of Iraq, the proximate probability of reunification with other Muslim fundamentalists still looms as it is obviously caught in the spotlight – again!
President Obama’s dream of fixing peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and Arab Peninsula seems to have been derailed or slowed down. With the recent bomb threat addressed to the Jewish nationals residing in his territory, the prospect of instituting peace between and among the conflict-born Arab Kingdoms is apparently turning gloomy.
For as long as the world’s superpower dominates global politics, war shall always be construed as a controlling mechanism by powerful countries and economies against weaker nations like those in oil-rich Middle East and Arab Peninsula. Consequently, the direct proportional relationship between the supply and demand of resources attributable to this ferocious exercise, under the economies of scale, determines the gigantic role of predator and the coerced submission of preys. Obviously, war is a manifestation of interests no matter who or what triggers which.
Perceptibly, the Islam fundamentalists are the only extremists the world has to deal with. Among them are the Al-Qaeda, the Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Abu Sayyaf. Collectively, these groups are Islamic by faith, culture and orientation. Most of them have been known for their terroristic and kidnap-for-ransom activities all over the world. Practically, the only perceived reason for their cause is their ideology positioned at the opposite end of the Islamic faith.
The Taliban is the Islamist group that was launched in early 1990 to end the bitter war in Afghanistan. Backed by Pakistan, the militant group almost succeeded in dominating the country when America then bombarded them from power in 9/11’s feverish aftermath. The Islam fundamentalists of Iraq are believed to be the offspring of Al-Qaeda. The Jewish controlled Israel defied the Arab-controlled Palestine over a strip of land each one claiming territorial control by reason of historical domain. Hezbollah was founded in Lebanon to blockade Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The Abu Sayyaf, while it is thriving in the Muslim countries of the Far East with high profile notoriety particularly in the Philippines, shares a common ideology with them.
Startlingly, historic wars can be traced back to the famous Garden where, through the calculative and precise engineering of the serpent, the Woman tempted the Man to swallow the fruit that allegedly contains the trivia of knowledge. This knowledge propelled the technology of procreation whereby the two beautiful animals conjured their sexual faculties that later brought forward Cain and Abel. The four, to make the long story short, not only championed procreation; they introduced war with the highest degree of stupidity. Undoubtedly, it is the same war that crazed man-made kingdoms fighting against kingdoms of the whole world.
Humans are genetically pre-disposed to inherit the image of the Man and the Woman and that includes among others the intellect, the strength and biases, the whims and caprices, and its culpability and flexibility. Conversely, along with creation, stupid war was born. It was not the result of human conflicts or of its attributes; it was an activity consequential to creation itself.
Man is the masterpiece of all Creation initiated by the Master Creator; war is the masterpiece of procreation designed by the savage of the Garden called Man. Arguably, for as long as the thin red line that demarcates the values and greed or good and evil is completely understood, only then can man intelligently punctuate this stupid war at once.
Remember, even the handsomest of all angels named Lucifer waged war against the Master Creator out of personal business. What more can a superpower do to its subjects?
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
7 November 2010
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The US government was once again agitated when bomb-contained parcels bound to Chicago were intercepted in the airports of Dubai and Britain through the intelligence information from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. According to media sources, almost the entire world accused Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) for the foiled terroristic activity.
Recently, the government was perturbed by the heightened travel advisories issued against the Philippines by the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In their respective releases, citizens of these countries were advised to avoid visiting Manila and most of Mindanao cities including shopping malls, places of worships and other public places.
Credibility-torn and elections-troubled Barack Obama called the parcels as “credible terrorist threat” and could have, according to experts, even brought down the plane. The suspect, a Yemeni woman, has been arrested and contained by the Yemeni government. Assumingly, the US government would spare no effort to delve into the matter and sanction the source of the parcels reportedly sent to the two places of Jewish Worship.
Malacanang, on the other hand, assured the public of no possible terrorism stating further that the Office of the President has been provided with intelligence report and that the situation is under control. Terroristic activities in the Philippines are only carried out by the Abu Sayyaf, the militant Islamist faction of the Moro National Liberation Front. The group is the most notorious of all extremists the Philippine government has to deal with.
Al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist group who was responsible for the 9/11 bombing that toppled down New York’s World Trade Center, was engineered by Osama Bin Laden in alliance with other groups including war-torn Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. However, while the world believes that US military offensives killed Saddam Hussein including its dominion or have thrown them out of Iraq, the proximate probability of reunification with other Muslim fundamentalists still looms as it is obviously caught in the spotlight – again!
President Obama’s dream of fixing peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and Arab Peninsula seems to have been derailed or slowed down. With the recent bomb threat addressed to the Jewish nationals residing in his territory, the prospect of instituting peace between and among the conflict-born Arab Kingdoms is apparently turning gloomy.
For as long as the world’s superpower dominates global politics, war shall always be construed as a controlling mechanism by powerful countries and economies against weaker nations like those in oil-rich Middle East and Arab Peninsula. Consequently, the direct proportional relationship between the supply and demand of resources attributable to this ferocious exercise, under the economies of scale, determines the gigantic role of predator and the coerced submission of preys. Obviously, war is a manifestation of interests no matter who or what triggers which.
Perceptibly, the Islam fundamentalists are the only extremists the world has to deal with. Among them are the Al-Qaeda, the Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Abu Sayyaf. Collectively, these groups are Islamic by faith, culture and orientation. Most of them have been known for their terroristic and kidnap-for-ransom activities all over the world. Practically, the only perceived reason for their cause is their ideology positioned at the opposite end of the Islamic faith.
The Taliban is the Islamist group that was launched in early 1990 to end the bitter war in Afghanistan. Backed by Pakistan, the militant group almost succeeded in dominating the country when America then bombarded them from power in 9/11’s feverish aftermath. The Islam fundamentalists of Iraq are believed to be the offspring of Al-Qaeda. The Jewish controlled Israel defied the Arab-controlled Palestine over a strip of land each one claiming territorial control by reason of historical domain. Hezbollah was founded in Lebanon to blockade Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The Abu Sayyaf, while it is thriving in the Muslim countries of the Far East with high profile notoriety particularly in the Philippines, shares a common ideology with them.
Startlingly, historic wars can be traced back to the famous Garden where, through the calculative and precise engineering of the serpent, the Woman tempted the Man to swallow the fruit that allegedly contains the trivia of knowledge. This knowledge propelled the technology of procreation whereby the two beautiful animals conjured their sexual faculties that later brought forward Cain and Abel. The four, to make the long story short, not only championed procreation; they introduced war with the highest degree of stupidity. Undoubtedly, it is the same war that crazed man-made kingdoms fighting against kingdoms of the whole world.
Humans are genetically pre-disposed to inherit the image of the Man and the Woman and that includes among others the intellect, the strength and biases, the whims and caprices, and its culpability and flexibility. Conversely, along with creation, stupid war was born. It was not the result of human conflicts or of its attributes; it was an activity consequential to creation itself.
Man is the masterpiece of all Creation initiated by the Master Creator; war is the masterpiece of procreation designed by the savage of the Garden called Man. Arguably, for as long as the thin red line that demarcates the values and greed or good and evil is completely understood, only then can man intelligently punctuate this stupid war at once.
Remember, even the handsomest of all angels named Lucifer waged war against the Master Creator out of personal business. What more can a superpower do to its subjects?
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