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UAE extends military reach in Yemen and Somalia
ABU
DHABI (Reuters) - Military transport planes from the United Arab
Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week,
unloading tanks and troops as part of the Gulf Arab state’s drive to
extend its influence over a strategic waterway flanked by war zones.
But backing groups at loggerheads with their national governments threatens to bog down the UAE in the seemingly endless conflicts of two of the world’s poorest countries.
Lying between the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa, Socotra island, best known for its otherworldly plant life, appeared far from the war until the UAE troops arrived, in a landing reported by Yemeni officials and media.
The Yemeni government accused the UAE of seizing the island’s ports and airport. A government source told Reuters that the UAE move was a power-play for “commercial and security interests” and accused the UAE of trying to colonize Yemen.
“They won’t get that from Yemen,” the source said. “Yes, Yemenis are poor but they fight for their sovereignty,”
The UAE foreign ministry, in a statement on Socotra, said it backed Yemen’s legitimate government and sought “to establish peace and stability and to support developmental projects for the island’s residents”.
The UAE has built up local army units in Yemen, increasing its influence along the Red Sea coast, but also opening up a rift with the country’s exiled government.
Across the Bab al-Mandeb strait, through which much of the world’s oil flows, the UAE also has a foothold in northern Somalia, where Emirati firms have set up commercial ports and its troops conduct military and training missions.
Abu Dhabi, political capital of the seven-emirate federation, is moving assertively against the threat it sees from Islamist groups such as al Qaeda, while promoting itself as a stable, open and largely tolerant Muslim country.
It has allied itself with Saudi Arabia in the war against the Houthi group in Yemen, and with three Arab powers in a boycott of Qatar, accusing it of backing terrorism.
The UAE has hired senior foreign military officers to modernize its army, including Australia’s former top special forces general, Mike Hindmarsh, who reports to Abu Dhabi’s powerful Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
Hindmarsh oversees the Presidential Guard, the unit tasked with directing the UAE’s campaign in Yemen.
“They are taking the fight to the enemy around the region,” said a Western diplomat.
“The UAE is helping to develop economically viable zones that create jobs and improve standards of living while also providing humanitarian and financial aid.”
“There is a comprehensive Emirati approach to fostering long-term stability in the region,” the source said.
SOUTH YEMEN REVIVED
A monument of leaning pillars in Abu Dhabi shows the cost of this engagement: inscribed with soldiers’ names, the memorial pays tribute to the UAE’s “martyrs”.The vast majority - more than 100 - fell in the three-year-old war the UAE is fighting in Yemen alongside Saudi Arabia against the Iranian-aligned Houthis.
Saudi Arabia’s main ally in the conflict, Yemen’s heavily Islamist government, is struggling against the Houthis, who control the north of the country and the capital, Sanaa.
The UAE, which has made the only visible gains by the coalition along the southwestern coast, has adopted a different strategy and cultivated its own friends in the war.
Across a string of small bases from the volcanic island of Perim at the mouth of the Red Sea to the dunes of Rumah near the Omani border, the UAE pays salaries and trains troops.
At the beginning of the Yemen war, the UAE prised from Iran’s orbit a struggling secessionist movement which hopes to revive the former state of South Yemen.
The socialist movement’s leaders left Yemen after the north and south were unified in 1994, and wound up in Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold, from where they ran a low-level insurgency in Yemen, diplomatic and southern political sources said.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials and Hezbollah schooled the southern commanders in guerrilla tactics in hopes of destabilizing Saudi Arabia’s southern flank, the sources said.
But when the Houthis advanced into southern Yemen in 2015, promises of assistance from the UAE convinced the southern leadership to move to Abu Dhabi from where they could carry on the fight for their Yemeni homeland.
“They want to fight Iranian militias trying to seize our lands, and we do too. This is enough for the alliance to make sense for now,” one southern official told Reuters.
This alliance helped the UAE to seize the southern port of Aden in 2015. The UAE trained southern Yemeni forces who captured the other main port, Mukalla, from al Qaeda.
Mukalla airport, closed to commercial flights, now hosts Emirati helicopters, a training center, detention facility and also a small contingent of U.S. special forces helping to fight al Qaeda in nearby mountains.
SOMALIA TUG-OF-WAR
Raids by Somali pirates on trade routes along the Horn of Africa helped draw the UAE, home to the Middle East’s busiest port, into the tangled politics of Somalia, which has grappled for over a decade with al Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants.
The UAE is deepening ties with the semi-autonomous regions of Somaliland and Puntland after state-owned Emirati firms DP World and P&O Ports signed deals there in 2016 and 2017.
UAE troops quickly followed, and have begun building a military base in Berbera, Somaliland, the region’s President Muse Bihi Abdi told Reuters while on a visit to Abu Dhabi.
“It will be the guarantee for our security, for our development in any case of terrorism ... They have the resources and knowledge better than us. We are a nation after a war, rebuilding,” he said.
The relationship - which includes investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Somaliland for projects such as a highway to Ethiopia and new airport - has angered the central government in Somalia, and the UAE has ended its military training mission in Mogadishu.
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash told Reuters that support for the regions was not intended to split Somalia and his country had no quarrel with the central government.
“Our policy of recognizing a one-Somalia stands ... But at the same time we are able to support the people of Somaliland through humanitarian, developmental [projects].”
The president of Puntland, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, told Reuters in Dubai that UAE personnel were training local forces to combat piracy as well as Islamist groups in Yemen or Somalia.
He denied that the UAE sought a long-term colonial presence.
“They are not occupying as a military force in Somalia,” he said. “It’s impossible. We are fierce fighters, we will never allow that to happen.”
(This version of the story corrects place name in para 22 to Rumah.)
Additional reporting by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Ghaida Ghantous and Giles Elgood
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What does Islam and Quraan says about Sleep at night.?
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What does Islam and Quraan says about Sleep at night.?
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Kindly
illustrate. What does Islam and Quraan says about Sleep at night.? When and
what time a Muslim beliver should go to bed at night ?.What time our beloved
holi prophet used to go to bed at night ?. In the age of today,our fellows
brther n sister go to bed almost after mid night + without no valid reason and
get up next morning after sun rise.your fruitfull comments highly appriciated. Hope
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Best time to sleep at night
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Question: What
does Islam and Quraan says about Sleep at night.?
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 25 Surah
Furqaan verse 47:
47 And He it is Who makes the night as a robe for you; and sleep as repose,
and makes the day (as if) a Resurrection.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumar verse 42:
42 It is Allah that takes the souls at death: and those that die not
(He takes their souls) during their sleep: those on whom He has passed the Decree
of death He keeps back (their souls from returning to their bodies); but the
rest He sends (their souls back to their bodies) for a term appointed. Verily in this are Signs for those who
reflect.
Hudhaifah and Abu Dharr reported that when
the Prophet (saws) went to bed, he (saws) would say, "O Allah, by Your Name
I live and die." And when he (saws) woke up he (saws) said, "Praise
be to Allah Who gave us life (awakeness) after death (sleep), and to Him is the
return."
The Prophet (saws) instructed his companions
that when they go to bed they should supplicate, "In Your Name, O Lord, I
lay myself down to sleep. And by Your leave I raise myself up. So if You take
away my soul during sleep (and keep it, ie. bestow death), forgive it; and if
You return it back after my sleep, protect it just as You protect Your pious
servants."
Your Questions: When
and what time a Muslim beliver should go to bed at night ?.What time our
beloved holi prophet used to go to bed at night ?.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 1.88
One should not sleep before the night (Isha)
prayer, nor have unnecessary discussions after it. Abu Barza al-Aslami related that the Prophet (saws) loved to delay
the night (Isha) prayer, and he (saws) hated sleeping before it, and (unnecessary)
talking or discussions after it."
Related by Bukhari and Muslim.
Ibn Mas'ud reported, "The Messenger of
Allah (saws) ordered us not to talk (unnecessarily) after the night (Isha)
prayer." (Related by Ibn Majah.)
The wisdom behind this recommendation to sleep soon after
the Isha prayers are offered are: unnecessary talking or discussions or
socializing after Isha time would cause one to misappropriate a time from which
one could greatly benefit, ie. spending time with ones wife, the voluntary
night prayers of tahajjud, or even miss ones obligatory fajr prayers.
Said Ibn 'Umar, "The Prophet would
discuss with Abu Bakr some of the affairs of the Muslims during the night, and
I was with him."
Related by Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi.
Reported Ibn 'Abbas, "I slept in the
home of Maimunah (the wife of the Prophet (saws)) one night when the Prophet
(saws) was there. I watched to see how the Prophet (saws) prayed during the
night. He (saws) talked with his wife for a while and then slept."
Related by Muslim.
The absolute majority of the scholars and jurists of Islam
are of the opinion that the guidance to go to sleep as early as possible after
Isha prayers is one of preference and recommendation rather than of absolute
forbiddance. If one delays ones sleep after Isha due to the discussion of a
beneficial matter, or for the Cause of Allah, then it is not disliked.
Thus in conclusion, it is highly recommended and preferred
that unless one is held or delayed by some genuine need or doing something to
further the Cause of Islam, a believer should aim to retire to bed soon after
one has offered their obligatory Isha prayers.
Your Statement: In
the age of today,our fellows brther n sister go to bed almost after mid night +
without no valid reason and get up next morning after sun rise.
Beloved brother, your observation unfortunately is indeed
absolutely correct, and if one were to say today that they sleep soon after
Isha time, they would indeed sound strange in this day and age!!!
Sahih Muslim Hadith 270 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: Islam
started as something strange, and it would revert to its (old position) of
being strange! So good tidings for the strangers!
For those fortunate believers who truly comprehend the
guidance of Allah and His Messenger (saws), who realize the tremendous value of
worshipping at night, who realize the merits of sleeping early so that they may
wake up in a portion of the night to remember and worship their Lord at
tahajjud, who realize the rewards of attending their fajr prayers in
congregation, etcto such strangers are reserved the good tidings from their
Lord Most Merciful.
Abu Hurairah reports that the Messenger of
Allah (saws) said: "Our Lord descends to the lowest heaven during
the last third of the night, inquiring: 'Who will call on Me so that I
may respond to him? Who is asking something of Me so I may give it to him? Who
is asking for My forgiveness so I may forgive him?"'
Related by Bukhari and Muslim.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allahs Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Saturday, May 5, 2018
"I'm Your Mother," She Cried As Daughter Wept For Woman Who Kidnapped Her
Each year since, Mobley celebrated the girl's birthday with a cake she kept frozen for 18 years. She thought about what it would be like to see her daughter, whom she had named Kamiyah, take her first steps or to send her off to prom.
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Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped by Gloria Williams, who renamed her Alexis Manigo.
Shanara Mobley
never stopped thinking about her baby, who vanished from a Florida
hospital nearly 20 years ago, eight hours after Mobley brought her into
the world.Each year since, Mobley celebrated the girl's birthday with a cake she kept frozen for 18 years. She thought about what it would be like to see her daughter, whom she had named Kamiyah, take her first steps or to send her off to prom.
So when she was asked in a courtroom Thursday what sort of sentence her daughter's kidnapper, Gloria Williams, should face, her answer came easily.
"Death," Mobley said, eliciting gasps from the courtroom, according to the Associated Press.
The kidnapped girl's biological father, Craig Aiken, gave a different response.
"This is the part that she makes it hard for me, because my daughter doesn't want to see [Williams] get time," he said.
Williams had raised the kidnapped baby as her own in South Carolina and renamed her Alexis Kelly Manigo. When Williams, 51, was arrested on charges of kidnapping and interference with custody in January 2017, Kamiyah sobbed and told Williams she loved her.
But Williams had to pay, Aiken said Thursday, addressing Williams directly, the AP reported.
Williams pleaded guilty to kidnapping and interference with child custody and could face a maximum prison sentence of 22 years, according to AP.
The ramifications of Kamiyah Mobley's abduction in July 1998 - and the unsuccessful search for her in the decades after - were spelled out in court Thursday. Kamiyah's biological parents testified that they themselves were viewed as suspects by police, neighbors and even each other. Aiken's grandmother testified that Shanara Mobley had "turned on me" at one point, wondering if she was behind the kidnapping, the AP reported.
At one point, Shanara Mobley shouted out to her daughter, now 19, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom. "I am your mother, Kamiyah!" she cried. "I am your mother."
During a second hearing on Friday, Williams detailed the circumstances of the kidnapping. About a month before the kidnapping, Williams testified, she'd had a miscarriage. She had also lost custody of two other children and was in an abusive relationship that led to her miscarriage, according to the Associated Press.
After the loss of her pregnancy, Williams said, she felt her life was out of her control. She drove from South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, her mind on autopilot, with no intention of abducting a child, she said.
Yet on the morning of July 10, 1998, Williams posed as a nurse in a blue floral smock and green scrub pants and walked into a Jacksonville hospital's newborn ward, carrying a bag. She put the baby in the bag and left.
"What I remember is I was running, I was walking and at any time someone could grab my arm and say, 'What do you have in the bag?' " Williams said, according to the AP.
The abduction at the time gripped the attention of Florida and much of the country. Authorities sealed the hospital, stopped every visitor, halted buses and put airport police on alert for a baby. Row by row, trains leaving Jacksonville were searched. Room by room, the hospital was combed.
Officials were optimistic.
"There's a high percentage in getting these babies back," a Jacksonville sheriff's spokesman told reporters the day of the kidnapping. "We want to put our hands on that baby."
Shanara Mobley had given birth to Kamiyah hours before an impostor nurse snatched her.
"I wonder what she would look like," he told the paper from lockup in 1999. He had recurring dreams of holding his baby, playing with her, but could never attach a face to his child.
"The only thing I have to remember her by is her name," he told the paper at the time. "Kamiyah."
Posters of Kamiyah were plastered all over Jacksonville in the first year of her disappearance - and over many years to come. Authorities never managed to locate her - despite a $250,000 reward for her recovery, at least three appearances on "America's Most Wanted" and a search across multiple countries.
The child's family eventually sued the hospital, later settling in 2000 in a case that prompted hospitals across central Florida to tighten security for newborns, the Orlando Sentinel reported in 2000.
Williams told Kamiyah her true identity shortly before the arrest, after realizing Kamiyah couldn't get a driver's license without a valid birth certificate or Social Security card, according to AP. Kamiyah shared the secret with a friend but not police. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children eventually received an anonymous tips about Kamiyah's whereabouts, and authorities were notified.
A DNA test in early 2017 confirmed Kamiyah's identity, and authorities described her as "clearly a victim in this case," who was otherwise in good health and living as a "normal 18-year-old woman." It would be her decision to reunite with her biological family, they said.
She met her biological parents soon after through FaceTime, according to the New York Daily News. They were impressed by how intelligent and respectful she sounded, they told the paper.
In court on Friday, Williams apologized to Kamiyah's birth mother, according to the AP.
She then turned to Kamiyah.
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"I will always love you, always," Williams told her. "But you're not mine. Your mother and father are sitting right here."(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Main Accused Arrested In Gang-Rape, Murder Of Jharkhand Girl Burnt Alive
In Jharkhand gang-rape and murder, four accused are still missing, a senior police officer said.
A case was filed against 20 accused, a senior police officer said. "A special investigation team has been set up which is looking into the case," he said.
The incident took place in the Naxal-affected Chatra district of the state.
The girl's family said the four men, allegedly drunk, kidnapped the girl on Thursday night from her house when everyone was away at a wedding. The men allegedly took her to a deserted spot and raped her.
When the girl's father went to the village council head and other members of the panchayat, they asked the family to "settle the issue" and 'punished' the accused men by asking them to do 100 sit-ups and pay a fine of Rs. 50,000.
The accused, enraged over the girl's family for approaching the village council, barged into the 16-year-old's home, beat her parents and then set her on fire, the family said.
The action will also be taken against the village council leaders for trivialising the matter, police said. The district administration has also announced a financial support of Rs. 2.5 lakh to the victim's family.
The horrific incident emerges at a time there is public anger over child rapes this year, beginning with the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
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To
assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young
girls, the government last month cleared an ordinance, or emergency
executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape.The government has also raised the minimum jail term for rapists to 10 years if the victims are over 16 years old. People convicted of rape of a girl below 16 years will be sentenced for a minimum of 20 years. Also, the centre says rape probes and trials cannot take more than two months each.
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