Assaluallakum,

Recently I was robbed and the culprits took all my electronics. Allhumdulliah i am okay and i ask allah to forgive all the people who commit crimes and help them come on the right path, Ameen.

Because of this it has become harder and harder to post because i do not have a computer of my own. The computer’s at school are not sufficient because they limit you on what you are able to do.

Due to this

Islam|HD
and
Deen +Duniyah

Will be taking a break. I am very sad to do this right before TDC and winter break. I was very excited to be blogging live there but unfortunately I will not be able to. Inshallah I will try to have a computer by then. So, Until i get a new computer the post will become very scarce.

BUT i promise you inshallah
as soon as i get a new computer i will come back full force and not stop in helping the muslim ummah. May allah help all of us to achieve the best we can in the afterlife and this life. I am very sad to be writing this post because i had a lot of plans for TDC and the upcoming year of really energizing this blog. I wanted also to start helping people who wanted to blog and helping to finance them. Inshallah in the upcoming year all this will happen.

Please pray that i am able to come back so that i may began to blog again. It was a lot of fun and i want to continue. So until we meet again please keep reading listing and asking questions that will further your status in this Ummah. May allah help all of you, ameen.

Assaluallakum,
Abdullah Zain

PARIS: Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain grabbed the limelight from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France ahead of their meeting Tuesday, calling for China and the Gulf states to stump up more money to help the International Monetary Fund deal with the fallout of the credit crisis.

Sarkozy, who met with Brown at the presidential Lanterne residence in Versailles, southwest of Paris, called Brown’s proposal interesting and vowed to work “hand in hand” with the British prime minister – just as they had on a coordinated rescue plan for European banks.

Sarkozy said that he also believed that the fund needed “additional means” to help ailing economies.

“Our first priority at the moment is to stop the contagion to other countries, including in eastern Europe where there are problems emerging,” Brown said before the meeting with Sarkozy.

The talks were arranged to prepare the European Union’s position ahead of the Nov. 15 summit meeting in Washington, which is intended to explore ways to reorder the global financial system.

Brown’s appeal to resource-rich emerging economies to help pay for bailout plans highlights how stretched the Group of 7 industrialized countries have become in dealing with the global economic rout.

It also laid the groundwork for the type of grand bargain that may take center stage at the November summit: In return for a greater voice in an overhauled financial architecture, large developing countries will be asked to make a greater contribution.

The British leader, whose bank bailout plan has become a blueprint for the European Union and the United States, said the IMF needed a fund that was “substantially” larger than the current pool of $250 billion earmarked for nations in difficulty. Over the past month alone, several countries have appealed for emergency help, including Iceland, Hungary, Ukraine and Belarus.

“There are lessons to be learned from what happened in the subprime market,” Brown said. “We need to learn the lesson quickly. We will be looking at how we will reform the international financial system.”

In London earlier Tuesday, Brown said it was urgent to set up the IMF bailout fund “as quickly as possible.”

It will have to be “the countries that have got substantial reserves, the oil-rich countries and others, who are going to be the biggest contributors to this fund,” Brown said.

“China also has very substantial reserves,” he added. “There are a number of countries that actually can do quite a lot in the immediate future to make sure that the international community has sufficient resources to support countries that get themselves into difficulties.”

In an effort to sell his idea, Brown will travel to the Gulf region Saturday and confer with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China by telephone.

Sarkozy, in welcoming Brown on Tuesday evening, said, “We both want concrete decisions to be made” so that the causes of the financial crisis would “never” happen again.

Analysts warned that some of the countries cited as potential contributors might be more fragile than appeared at first glimpse.

While Chinese banks are less exposed to the subprime U.S. mortgage assets that have caused problems elsewhere, the country’s export-driven economy is vulnerable to falling demand in Western markets.

Oil-rich Middle Eastern countries, meanwhile, are concerned that the recent slump in energy prices will deprive them of significant revenues in the months to come.

The American political calendar could also stall any far-reaching agreements, analysts said. The new president is to be elected Tuesday but will only take office on Jan. 20.

WASHINGTON: A raid into Syria on Sunday was carried out by American Special Operations forces who killed an Iraqi militant responsible for running weapons, money and foreign fighters across the border into Iraq, American officials said Monday.

The helicopter-borne attack into Syria was by far the boldest by American commandos in the five years since the United States invaded Iraq and began to condemn Syria’s role in stoking the Iraqi insurgency. The timing was startling, not least because American officials had praised Syria in recent months for its efforts to halt traffic across the border.

But in justifying the attack, American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense providing a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries’ consent.

Together with a similar American commando raid into Pakistan seven weeks ago, the operation on Sunday appeared to reflect an intensifying effort by the White House to find a way during the administration’s waning months to attack militants even beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States is now at war. Administration officials declined to say whether the emerging application of self-defense could lead to strikes against camps inside Iran that have been used to train Shiite “Special Groups” that have fought with the American military and Iraqi security forces.

American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the secrecy of the mission said the mission had been mounted rapidly over the weekend on orders from the Central Intelligence Agency when the location of the suspected leader of the insurgent group, an Iraqi known as Abu Ghadiya, was confirmed. About two dozen American commandos in specially equipped Black Hawk helicopters swooped into the village of Sukkariyeh near the Iraqi border just before 5 p.m., and fought a brief gun battle with several militants, including Ghadiya, the officials said. It was unclear whether Ghadiya died near his tent on the battlefield or after he was taken into American custody, one senior American official said. One United States official described Ghadiya as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia’s “most prominent” smuggler of foreign operatives crossing the Syrian border into Iraq, and in February the Treasury Department named him as one of four major figures in that group who were living in Syria. The official said that Ghadiya was in his late 20s and came from a family of smugglers in Anbar Province in western Iraq. He was also suspected of having led an attack in May against a police station in western Iraq that killed 11 Iraqi officers, an American official said.

Spokesmen for the Defense Department and CIA declined to comment on the incident. On Sunday, an American military official had denied that American military helicopters had played a part in the raid.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States has attacked suspected terrorists in the ungoverned spaces of countries like Yemen and Somalia. But administration officials said Monday that the strikes in Pakistan and Syria were carried out on the basis of a legal argument that has been refined in recent months to justify strikes by troops and by rockets at militants in countries with whom the United States is not at war.

The justification is different from the concept of preemption the administration articulated immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, and which was used as the rationale for the invasion of Iraq. While preemption was used to justify attacks against governments and their armies, the self-defense argument would justify attacks on insurgents operating on foreign soil that threaten American forces or its allies and interests. Administration officials pointed Monday to a passage in President George W. Bush’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month as the clearest articulation of this position to date.

“As sovereign states, we have an obligation to govern responsibly, and solve problems before they spill across borders,” Bush said. “We have an obligation to prevent our territory from being used as a sanctuary for terrorism and proliferation and human trafficking and organized crime.”

In seeking to carry out cross-border missions inside Pakistan and now in Syria, the United States government is expected to make the case that these operations will help protect the lives of American troops. It is not clear how far-reaching the White House might be in seeking to apply the rationale, but several senior American officials expressed hope that it would be embraced by the next president as well.

The American military has on occasion mounted attacks on Syrian soil to support its military operations in Iraq, but they mostly have been cross-border missile strikes and there was a rare case of ground forces briefly crossing the frontier in hot pursuit of insurgents.

In London on Monday, Syria’s foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, accused the United States of “terrorist aggression” in the raid, in which Syria said eight civilians were killed. A senior American official all the people killed in the assault were militants, and that women and children living with the militants had been left unharmed.

In seeking support in international law for its actions, the Bush administration is joining a list of nations that have cited Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which enshrines the right of individual or collective self-defense to all member states.

Over the years, a growing body of legal argument has made the case that this right of self-defense allows a nation to take military action on the territory of another sovereign nation that is unable or unwilling to take measures on its own to halt the threat.

This argument was emphasized when the Israeli military mounted a hostage-rescue mission at Entebbe airport in Uganda, and similar arguments have been made to defend actions by the Colombian military against FARC guerrillas seeking haven in neighboring Venezuela, and Turkish troops pursuing Kurdish militants in their sanctuaries in northern Iraq.

Israel also made this argument when its warplanes last September attacked what Israel said was a nuclear reactor in Syria that was nearing operational capability.

Earlier this month, General David Petraeus, the former top commander in Iraq, said that the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq had dwindled to less than 20 a month from a peak of more than 120 a month a year ago.

But one military officer said Monday that while Syria had been able to take specific steps like detaining combat-aged men found flying into Damascus airport on one-way tickets, there had been less success in halting the flow of money and weapons to the insurgency.

The Iraqi government found itself in an awkward position on Monday as it sought at once to remain on friendly terms with Syria, which is a neighbor and now home to more than a million Iraqi refugees, but also to bolster the United States in going after people believed to be fomenting anti-government unrest in Iraq.

“This area was a staging ground for activities by terrorist organizations hostile to Iraq,” said Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman. He said that Iraq had previously requested that Syrian authorities hand over members of the insurgent group that uses Syria as its base.

Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting from Washington and Alissa J. Rubin from Baghdad.