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I'm leaving Canada for a bride sounds ominous today

At home with terror Stewart Bell and Jane Kokan, National Post, Sept. 10, 05

For the past year, the National Post and Global Television have been investigating the cases of young Canadians caught up in the war on terror. Today, in the second of two parts, the mysterious disappearance of Rudwan "Raider" Khalil of Vancouver who, according to Russian security officials, died fighting with a Chechen rebel faction.

[. . . . ] Most of the guerrillas escaped. But not all of them. When the Russian soldiers advanced, they found the bodies of four men clad in bloody camouflage. [. . . . ]

Inside the uniform of one of the dead, a bearded, athletic young man with dark skin and curly hair, they found a driver's licence issued by the Province of British Columbia and a blue passport that identified him as Rudwan Khalil, age 26, citizen of Canada.

Search: Dar Al Madinah Islamic Centre in Vancouver, Younis Khathrada , Kamal Elbajah and Azer Tagiev , going to Azerbaijan to find a bride , Saudi Arabia, Dubai , "doing visa for people who want to come to Dhobi "like the office that you are working in" " , Dagestan , returned to Vancouver in May , a courier of money




Shades of Worldly Sophistication? Understands how to get things done globally . . . with a million in cash and a handshake?

Beats me. Sounds more like the Sponsorship Funds moving around Quebec -- but of course, no wrong doing. You decide for yourself based on these items.

Maurice Strong's lawyer "Man of the world: Maurice Strong" -- "Pro and Con: Like Lester Pearson and Norman Bethune, Maurice Strong belongs in the pantheon of internationalists" John A. Campion, Financial Post, Sept. 9, 05

John Campion, a partner at Fasken Martineau, is counsel to Maurice Strong.

In Canada, Mr. Strong has variously held the positions of chief executive of Power Corp., PetroCanada and Ontario Hydro, among many others, and has helped establish Canada's modern foreign aid program as founding president of CIDA.

For his work, he has received 54 honorary doctorates and acclaim world wide, including India's Nehru Prize. He is the first and only non-American to receive the highest honour of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

[. . . . ] In the single transaction under review, Mr. Strong had merely facilitated the sale of shares of a public company between the two third parties. The sale was made at arm's length between the two shareholders. Mr. Strong received no monies into his possession and made no personal gain in the transaction. The Volcker committee stated that Mr. Strong did not know the source of the funds paid from the vendor of the shares to the purchaser (Mr. Park).

Man of the UN: Maurice Strong -- Pro and Con: Strong isn't totally exonerated by this week's Volcker report - and nor are his views on an expanded UN

[The Volcker Report], however, concluded that Mr. Strong was "in a position to know or suspect the source of Mr. Park's funds." It also found that Mr. Strong received a personal "benefit." It also noted that "Mr. Strong provided inconsistent accounts of his receipt of the money from Mr. Park." [. . . . ]

Wires get crossed in Canada's relief effort -- Sailors can't reach Ottawa for supplies; they called wrong number, officials say Chris Wattie & Adrian Humphreys, National Post, Sept. 10, 05

[. . . . ] Navy personnel told the National Post that repeated calls to Public Security and Emergency Preparedness Canada went unanswered over the long weekend, meaning government supplies could not be accessed before the ship's departure.

When supply officers called emergency officials in Ottawa, the officials were not available, said a senior officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"We were calling them all weekend," the officer said. "All we got was voice mail ... [and] they never called back." [. . . . ]

I believe there is another story being told by those in charge of making sure there was someone to respond.




George Jonas: An ancient struggle continues National Post, Sept10, 05

I'm offering this potted history of the region because my reader is likely to be the product of what I've called "the 60-year gap." If born after 1918 (the year General Allenby rode through the gates of Damascus) but before 1979 (when the Ayatollah Khomeini deposed the Shah of Iran and the mujahadeen began resisting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan) he or she belongs to only about three generations in 1400 years during which the struggle between the Islamic and non-Islamic world was on standby: The only 60 years in which people could be blissfully unaware that their civilization was at war with another.

[. . . . ] "For a long time now there has been a rising tide of rebellion against this Western paramountcy, and a desire to reassert Muslim values and restore Muslim greatness. The Muslim has suffered successive stages of defeat. The first was his loss of domination in the world, to the advancing power of Russia and the West. The second was the undermining of his authority in his own country, through an invasion of foreign ideas and laws and ways of life and sometimes even foreign rulers or settlers, and the enfranchisement of native non-Muslim elements. The third -- the last straw -- was the challenge to his mastery in his own house, from emancipated women and rebellious children. It was too much to endure, and the outbreak of rage against these alien, infidel, and incomprehensible forces that had subverted his dominance, disrupted his society, and finally violated the sanctuary of his home was inevitable." [. . . . ]

What would Pearson do? by Russ Kyukendall, Sept. 9, 05, Western Standard Shotgun

Also, do not miss the entries by ET and Justzumgai on Martin-Chirac's agenda for Canada and the UN or something to replace it.




Tax regime under scrutiny -- Trust explosion: Ottawa seeking stakeholder input on revamping

[. . . . ] Observers say that if changes are contemplated for trusts, they will probably apply to new trust structures only. [. . . . ]

The consultation document -- which gives stakeholders until the end of the year to submit recommendations -- was released the same day as: CI Financial, the mutual fund giant, said it would pursue a trust conversion; CanWest Global Communications Corp. (the National Post's publisher) announced plans to spin off most of its newspapers into a trust; and Transat AT, the travel firm, said it was considering a conversion. [. . . . ]

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