BEIJING — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.

“The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond any single issue,” Obama said in a joint appearance with Hu that followed about 2 1/2 hours of private conversations.

Both leaders spoke in bold terms of the growing relationship between the countries and emphasized cooperation on the economy, climate change, energy and the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea.

But in those areas and others, there remained differences that underscored that tensions would hardly be erased in Obama’s first, high-profile visit to China. Obama spoke at length about the nations’ joint interests and said, “I do not believe that one country’s success must come at the expense of another.”

Obama and Hu said they agreed on restarting the collapsed six-nation effort to rid North Korea of its nuclear programs. The Chinese said the effort was essential to “peace and stability in northeast Asia.”

Beijing has supported sterner sanctions against Pyongyang for its continued nuclear weapons program. And, as North Korea’s last major ally and a key supplier of food and energy aid, China is a partner with major leverage in six-nation talks with the North over the issue.

On Iran, where the U.S. needs China’s clout to help pressure the nation to give up any of its own nuclear weapons positions, Obama spoke with sterner language than Hu.

“Iran has an opportunity to present and demonstrate its peaceful intentions, but if it fails to take this opportunity, there will be consequences,” the U.S. president said. Hu made no mention of consequences, saying the Iran conflict is important to resolve through negotiations.

China has significant economic ties with Iran, and Beijing has appeared less willing to endorse a tougher approach to restrict Tehran’s uranium enrichment and suspected pursuit of atomic bombs.

In a minor step forward, Obama announced that the governments will reconvene their on-again, off-again human rights dialogue early next year. Previous rounds have fallen casualty to disputes over arms sales to Taiwan and other issues.

Hu expressed disappointment with the Obama administration over its decision to impose punitive tariffs and duties on imports of Chinese tires and steel pipes. “Our two countries need to oppose and reject protectionism in all its manifestations in an even stronger stand,” Hu said.

The Chinese president also called on the U.S. to respect China’s “core interests” — code for ending support for Taiwan and for the Dalai Lama, in his Tibetan government-in-exile.

On climate, Obama said the United States and China are looking for a comprehensive deal during next month’s climate change summit that will “rally the world.”

Obama said the goal at the Copenhagen meeting should be an agreement that has “immediate operational effect,” not just a political declaration. As the world’s two largest consumers and producers of energy, Obama said the United States and China must play a key role in negotiating an agreement.

Obama said China has helped the United States pull out of the worst recession in a generation. He said a revised economic approach will help increase U.S. exports and create jobs while helping bring about higher living standards in China.

Obama came to China seeking help with an array of global troubles. He and Hu sought to strike a balance between trading partners and competitors during Obama’s trip to China during his Asia tour.

A day before, Obama prodded China about Internet controls and free speech during a forum with students in Shanghai. His message was not widely heard in the country; his words were drastically limited online and shown on just one regional television channel.

He also suggested that China, now a giant in economic impact as well as territory, must assume a larger role on the world stage — part of “burden of leadership” it shares with the United States.

Eager to achieve a successful summit, the two leaders avoided spats on economic issues. With America’s budget deficit soaring to a yearly record of $1.42 trillion, China is the No. 1 lender to Washington and has expressed concern that the falling price of the dollar threatens the value of its U.S. holdings.

In the U.S., American manufacturers blame China’s own low currency value for contributing to the loss of 5.6 million manufacturing jobs over the past decade. During that time, America’s trade gap with China has soared.

With sightseeing in Beijing’s Forbidden City sandwiched in between their talks, the two leaders’ day was to end at a lavish state dinner in Obama’s honor.

Topmost on Obama’s ambitious agenda with Hu is the so-far elusive search for global agreement on a new climate change pact, stymied by disagreement between rich nations like the U.S. and developing nations such as China. Wealthier countries want legally binding greenhouse-gas reduction targets for themselves as well as for energy-guzzling developing nations such as China, India and Brazil. Those poorer nations say they will set only nonbinding goals and they demand assistance to make the transition to harder targets.

On the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir a ceremony will be held on December 6 in Bangkok.

The program will be held by Iran Cultural Center in Thailand for Muslims of the country as well as Iranian, Afghan, Indian and Tajik Muslims residing there.

Jalal Tamle, Iran Cultural attaché in Thailand, Hojjat-ol-Islam Amiri, representative of Al-Mostafa International University, Professor Ilyas, Thai intellectual and Hojjat-ol-Islam Sheikh Hussein bin Salem, a Thai cleric will present lectures on Imam Ali’s (AS) life, his Imamate and Velayah. They will also ntroduce Quranic and historical sources on the Ghadir event in both Persian and Thai.

Other programs of the ceremony will include a contest and a religious song to be performed by Abul Hasani a member of the Iranian center.

Saudi clerics have accused Yemeni Houthi Shias of working with Iran to try to spread Shi’ism, days before the start of the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage.

“Iranian cooperation with Houthi Shias in Yemen is collusion for sin and aggression,” Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh said in remarks published on Monday.

Riyadh launched an assault on neighboring Yemen’s Houthi Shias 12 days ago after they staged a cross-border incursion that killed two Saudi border guards.

“Houthi entered our territories, so … it is obvious that they should be fought since the kingdom here is defending itself,” Sheikh said.

The Houthi Shias said the Saudis had been allowing Yemeni troops to launch attacks against them from the mountainous territory they seized inside Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.

Saudi forces have been using fighter jets and artillery to pound Houthi hideouts to enforce a 10 km (six mile) deep buffer zone inside the Yemeni side of the porous border.

Iran boycotted hajj for three years after 402 pilgrims, mostly Iranians, martyred in clashes with Saudi security forces at an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Mecca in 1987.

Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally which sees itself as the guardian of Wahhabi Islam, has often been at odds with Shia Iran, particularly since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

In a statement issued over the weekend, about 40 Saudi clerics accused Iran “destabilizes Muslim nations by implanting, financing and arming its agents to spread” Shi’ism, a direct reference to Houthi Shias.

Both the Yemen government and the Shias have said that the conflict between them is not sectarian.

Yemen stepped up a military campaign against Houthi Shias in August. Fighting between Yemeni troops and Houthis, who belong to Yemen’s Zaidi Shia minority and say they suffer religious, economic and social marginalization and neglect and totally discrimination, has flared on and off since 2004 in the northern province of Saada.

Saudi Arabia and its ally, the United States, fear Shia are gaining the rule in Yemen.

There is just some pictures of Yemeni Shia civilians, where Saudi and Yemeni forces brutally attacked them. OH MY GOD, Just see and Judge????!!!

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Srinagar, November 17 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani was arrested in Srinagar, today.

The spokesman of the forum patronised by Syed Ali Gilani told media men that the senior Hurriyet leader was scheduled to address doctors and students of Government Medical College at Karan Nagar this afternoon.

He was taken into custody and lodged in police station Shergrahi.

He said that Syed Ali Gilani, who addressed students at Kashmir University recently, was getting invitations from different educational institutions to visit them. “Today he was scheduled to address in the GMC but was arrested near the main gate of the college,” the spokesman said.

Earlier, addressing a press conference at his residence in Srinagar, today, Syed Ali Gilani had announced that in the fifth phase of district-wise protests against the occupation of Kashmiris’ private land by Indian troops, complete strike would be observed in Pulwama district on Friday. He said that a mammoth rally would also be organised in Pulwama. »

NEW DELHI: India has put its nuclear installations on terror alert, the Press Trust of India said on Monday, citing home ministry sources.

It said the new measures were ordered after it was found that David Headley, a US citizen arrested by FBI on terror charges, had visited some states having atomic installations.

The PTI said the Indian home ministry had asked all state governments protecting their nuclear plants to step up patrolling and vigil around the facilities as a precautionary measure.

They said that Mr Headley, accused of plotting terror attacks in India on behalf of Pakistan-based LeT, had visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh — all with nuclear installations — raising suspicion that nuclear facilities could be on the radar of the terrorists.

‘The step is precautionary in nature. The states have been asked to increase the vigil and patrolling to thwart any sabotage attempt aimed at these vital facilities,’ a ministry official was quoted as saying.

The PTI listed six major nuclear energy plants operational in the country — Narora in Uttar Pradesh, Kaiga in Karnataka, Tarapur in Maharashtra, Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat and Kota in Rajasthan, besides several other research and development centres like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay.

Frail and frightened orphans of Heydan in Saada cry over the dead bodies of their mothers, fathers and sisters as Saudi fighter jets continue to bombard positions near the shared border with Yemen.
The tragic cries of women and children are silenced by the sounds of frightening Saudi rockets and cluster bombs falling from the sky, wounding more powerless civilians and leaving behind more destruction and carnage. Regrettably, the situation is all the same in other Shi’ite populated areas.
1-Since 10 days ago, the Saudi jets have been formally carrying out raids on Yemeni territory targeting Shi’ites of the Saada province and other areas in support of the central government in Sana’a.
The Yemeni soldiers, on the other hand, burn down the bodies of martyred men, women and children, or drag them around by cars in front of frightened children “to teach them a lesson.”
Powerless to face the fearless Shi’ite fighters of Saada on the ground, the coward Saudi pilots take it instead on the defenseless children or elderly men and women. The bloodthirsty Saudi puppet rulers are unmistakably carrying out the very same crimes that were committed against humanity by the criminal regime of Israel in Gaza, South Lebanon, Darfur, Kafar Qasem and many other civilian places.
The situation is so dreadful that prominent journalist Fahmi Hoveydai said, “Saada should be named the Darfur of Yemen. In Palestine we have the Zionists and in Saada we have the Saudis.”
2-Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, the man behind the theory of The Clash of Civilizations, which states that people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world, attended an international seminar on demography in February 2005 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Addressing the participants, he said, “Saudi Arabia, the most repressive regime in the Middle East, is a place where there are no general elections and citizens play no part in politics. A family is ruling the oil-rich country in the style of Dark Ages. It is the closest US ally in the region, though. At the same time, the US remains the arch enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the most democratic state in the region, in which people elect their members of the parliament and government. Of course, I am aware that the American policy vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia and Iran cannot be compared; still, we shall be hearing some interesting news coming out of Saudi Arabia in the near future.”
The Saudi foreign Ministry strongly condemned the comments made by Huntington and the US Department of State summoned him a few days later. However, the Associated Press, which had fully covered the international gathering in Nicosia, ruled out any mistakes in its quotes from Huntington, who passed away recently.
Weeks after Obama got into the White House, Simon Henderson, director of Washington Institute, which a joint intelligence bureau is run by the CIA and the Pentagon but bears the name of “Strategic Studies at the Department of State,” sent a comprehensive report to President Obama.
In his report, he wrote, “We predict major changes in the political arrangement of Saudi Arabia over the next 5 years. The country will possibly see a number of new kings during this particular period.”
Although the report does not talk about Huntington’s 2005 speech in Nicosia, it can still help bring to light some of the points not mentioned. Henderson discusses three major factors that could undermine the internal political dynamics in Saudi Arabia and consequently lead to the likely collapse of the Saudi regime. These three factors are:
A-The Impact of a Rising Iran on Saudi Arabia: Iran has taken huge steps towards technological/scientific advancements and growth despite 30 years of impasse with the United States. The parliamentary and presidential elections in Iran have equally encouraged the people of Arabia, especially young students, to fight for having a democratic country and be part of the political/democratic process.
The report goes on to state that Arab youth are somehow depressed and embarrassed that their counterparts in other parts of the world know that their country is being ruled by a family that decides their fate and they have no say in it.
B-The second factor is the rising wealth of Saudi princes in sharp contrast to the growing number of poor citizens, especially Shi’ites and non-Wahabi Sunnis. The report states that the central government in Riyadh has to some extent introduced social security programs to eradicate poverty and it has even allocated special budgets to improve public welfare and meet housing needs. But the report goes on to argue that these welfare programs have been ineffective in winning the much-needed approval of the general public.
C-The third factor is the close relations of the Saudi royal family with the United States and their pro-Israeli policy – despite the resentment of Muslim world. Accordingly, Muslims have some pressing questions from the Saudis with regard to their support of the Zionist regime – despite the fact that the royal family is caretaker of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest mosque in its holiest city.
Widespread protests as such have intensified, though, especially after the 33-day war on Lebanon and the 22-day war on Gaza by the Zionist regime. Interestingly, Iran, which is the powerful rival of Saudi Arabia in the region, has provided extensive support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Gaza’s Hamas government, thus winning Muslim admiration the world over.
Of course, it is exactly because of such humanitarian support that Iran has been branded sponsor of regional terrorism – a name that only suits the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
3-The above-mentioned report plus a myriad of others point to the obvious fact that the time for the puppet regime of Saudi Dynasty is indeed up and even if Washington seeks otherwise, it still cannot stop the regime from its imminent dissolution. Just as importantly, it seems Washington has got the Saudis involved in the Yemeni war on Shi’ites for a reason or two:
From one hand, Washington seeks to strike at the foundations of Houthi resistance movement by massacring Shi’ite populations in Saada, who have the full support of all Islamic resistance movements in the world – be it Sunni or Shi’ite. On the same token, if the Houthis defeat the Yemeni Army, they can easily become yet another powerful base for resistance in opposition to the hegemonic and pro-Western Arab political current.
On the other hand, the US is trying to hammer the Islamic resistance in Saada at the cost of the diminishing Saudi regime, whose time is running out fast.
4-Contrary to Western and Saudi media propaganda, the Shi’ite groups continue to resist the Saudi attacks coming from air, land or sea borders. So far, the invading Saudi Army has suffered heavy casualties – although its campaign of terror continues. These desperate acts of violence, however, merely draw attention to the inability of Saudi Army in overpowering the resistance.
In summation, many regional/international observers and sources have compared these hopeless Saudi acts to the barbaric invasions of Lebanon and Gaza by the criminal regime of Israel. They predict a similar defeat for the Saudi Army on the ground and an imminent collapse for the Saudi regime in Riyadh.