Clerics call for peace & unions out of touch with reality.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Shiite Muslim clerics urged their followers on Friday not to be drawn into sectarian war, while insurgents kept up suicide bombings and assassinations targeting Shiite civilians and religious and political figures.

The attacks killed more than 25 people and followed two days in which nearly 20 car bombs killed nearly 200 people in Baghdad, most of them Shiite civilians. Al-Qaida in Iraq, a radical Sunni Muslim movement led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that has vowed to provoke civil war in Iraq, followed the attacks with an Internet declaration of "all-out war" on Shiites, now Iraq's politically dominant majority.

Friday's deadliest violence was in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 45 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk, where 14 people were killed when a suicide attacker blew up a car packed with explosives just outside a Shiite mosque. The attacker drove the car close to the mosque's entrance and detonated it as worshipers streamed out after Friday prayers, said Tuz Khurmato's police chief, Col. Abbas Muhammed Amin.

Moments later, Iraqi police and Kurdish security forces in the town arrested a suicide attacker wearing an explosive belt, Amin said, adding that the man was believed to be a Saudi.

Farther north, in Mosul, a bomb killed Hikmat Hussein Ali Mosili. Mosili was an aide to Iraq's most influential Shiite clerics, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and Ayatollah Muhammed Saied Hakim.

South of Baghdad, in the mixed Sunni-Shiite city of Iskandariyah, gunmen broke into the home of Mayor Amer Muhammed Khafaji, a Shiite, and shot him dead along with four of his guards, according to a police spokesman for Babil province, Muthanna Ahmed. A suicide car-bomber in the nearby town of Musayab killed three policemen.

In Baghdad's heavily Shiite district of Sadr City, assassins killed Sheik Fadhil Amshani, a cleric and follower of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, as he headed to the Sadr movement's office, said Qahtan Rubaie, an al-Sadr spokesman.

In the center of the city, insurgents landed a mortar round inside the U.S.-controlled Green Zone for the fourth day running. There were no injuries, U.S. officials said.

In far western Iraq, U.S. Harrier jets killed nine suspected insurgents in air strikes on an abandoned school house in the town of Karabilah, the U.S. military said. Insurgents were using the school as a base and were seen firing mortars outside the building at the time of the strike, the military said.

Shiite preachers addressed the violence in their Friday sermons.

In Sadr City, cleric Abdul Zahra Swaiedi condemned "the mass killings and explosions that target innocents all over Iraq," saying they were meant to distort the image of Islam. Swaiedi accused American forces of supporting the attacks to justify their occupation. "No to terrorism, no to terrorism," Shiite worshipers chanted in response.

Absent was any call for retaliation. In Baghdad's Buratha mosque, linked to Iraq's dominant Shiite religious party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, cleric Dhia Edeen Ahmadi urge restraint in his sermon.

"The aim of this criminal wave of killing is to draw us into a sectarian war, but that shall not succeed," Ahmadi said.

He urged Shiites to stay focused on national votes on Oct. 15 and Dec. 15, when Iraqis will vote on a new constitution and new government. Shiites, who account for about 60 percent of Iraq's population, have strong hopes of seeing their aims prevail in the votes.

"We know who they are. They are the thugs of the Saddam regime who are trying to avenge their loss after losing power and the nice, affluent life they had," Ahmadi said, referring to the decades when Iraq was ruled by Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated Baath Party. "But history will not go back. This is our destiny, and no matter how many are killed, whether hundreds or thousands, we shall not turn back."

** Article from the BNP site.www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/docdiary2.php?docId=59/
Now for some madness from the TUC
At The TUC Conference
17th September

The brothers and sisters at the TUC conference took time off this week (12th - 16th) from wrecking British industry with their constant demands for more pay and less work, and voted for a campaign "…..to stop all individuals who belong to racist organisations from working in the public sector or holding union membership."

So………contrary to their supposed role - that of looking after their members' jobs, wages and working conditions - they want to do the opposite and "….ban members of right-wing organisations holding public service posts".

Unions Don't Pay Wages

Now, trade unions, despite their delusions of grandeur, do not employ their members nor pay their wages (apart from those of fat cat union officials) - the owners and proprietors of businesses, from the smallest family firm to the biggest corporations - and ultimately their customers - do that.

BNP Vermin

Putting aside what exactly defines a "racist organisation", one UNISON delegate, a Margaret Greer, referred to the BNP as "vermin" and "fascists"!

More sensibly, an Amicus delegate, Steve Davison, said it was important to discover the reasons why some members voted BNP and to then try and engage them.

T&G delegate, Mohammed Taj, said the BNP was founded in hate and division and that BNP activists had no place in public service. “To be committed to the BNP is to be opposed to the very purpose of trade unionism,” he said. He doesn't say how that squares with BNP stated policies of supporting UK manufacturing, imposing selective import controls on goods, opposing the outsourcing of call centres, and other jobs, to the Indian sub continent and, opposition to EU enlargement which is now drawing in cheap labour from the former some Soviet Union countries.

Are these not what the TUC should be supporting, along with the BNP? Or does the TUC have an alternative role - the spreading of socialism and Communism, perhaps?

BNP members must stand for trade union office to rid the movement of its anti British extremists.


Racism in UNISON

For the ultra PC brigade in the media and the Trade Union movement, the very mention of a person's race is seen as "racism". We are supposed not to notice. We are supposed to pretend that people around us are not of different evolutionary ancestries and we are all the same. Indeed, papers like the Guardian have carried articles which say that "race" does not even exist - even in a biological or genetic sense.

Woops!!

But look what UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis has said in a press release:

PRESS RELEASE
15/09/2005
First Black Woman Elected TUC President

UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, has paid tribute to Gloria Mills who today made TUC history when she was elected TUC President. He said:

“This is a really important development - Gloria is the first black women to be elected TUC”.

** Now as far as I am concerned the most pressing issue is the fact that we are held back by excessive EU laws that hamper our free trade, and face being left behind by the boom economies of China and India. If the TUC dont wise up soon, all their fancy legislation wont mean a thing when all their members are unemployed.

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