A U.S. officials told FoxNews said that the records currently in the hands of the United States contains the ideas and plot terror operations.
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From behind the walls of his hiding, bin Laden continues to communicate with the branches of Al Qaeda, particularly Yemen. And although not yet completed sufficient evidence, he allegedly was behind the terror business day of Christmas 2009 at the Detroit Airport, USA.
“Do not limit the attack to the City of New York,” said Osama in writing on the notes.Any other city in the journal is Los Angeles, or another small town. ”Spread the target.”
Osama also stressed to pengikutinya how many Americans who have become victims, in order to rid the country of the Arab world. He said, a small attack would not be enough. To his followers, he calls the thousands – the number of victims is not far different from the tragedy of 11 September 2009 terror attacks.
Meanwhile, as the site loaded CNN, bin Laden is known not only send messages on its network, the evidence also shows that he received a response to his message was.
Osama’s diary also refers to the important dates in the U.S. calendar: July 4 U.S. Independence Day, Christmas, and 10-year anniversary 9 / 11.
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He pointed the network in certain directions. One of his missives to his supporters was to stop focusing on the big cities, particularly New York, and instead target Los Angeles and other smaller cities.The missives were sent via plug-in computer storage devices called flash drives. The devices were ferried to Osama’s compound by couriers, a process that is slow but difficult to track.
Osama’s diary included significant dates that he preferred for attacking American targets, including the Fourth of July and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks.
He also urged his followers not to focus only on planes but to target trains too – an instruction that chimes with last week’s warning from the US authorities alerting people to be vigilant on trains, though they were not aware of any specific plot.
Osama also schemed about ways to sow political dissent in Washington and play political figures against one another, officials said.
Meanwhile, US Attorney-General Eric Holder has said the raid on Osama’s lair was “not an assassination”, the BBC reported.
Mr Holder told the broadcaster that the operation was a “kill or capture mission” and Osama would have been captured if he had surrendered.
He said the safety of the US special forces troops who carried out the operation was priority.
“If the possibility had existed, if there was the possibility of a feasible surrender, that would have occurred,” Mr Holder said. “But … the protection of the force that went into that compound, was I think uppermost in our minds.” Agencies
US senator describes ‘gruesome’ Osama photos
A Republican who sits on the United States Senate Armed Services Committee viewed the death photographs of Osama bin Ladenon Wednesday and said the pictures – some gruesome – leave no doubt the Al Qaeda leader is dead.”Absolutely no question about it … That was him. He’s gone. He’s history,” Mr James Inhofe said on CNN.
Mr Inhofe said he saw 15 photos – nine taken at the scene of the May 2 raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan; three from the USS Carl Vinson, where Osama’s body was prepared for burial at sea; and three older photos to compare for positive identification.
Mr Inhofe described some photos that showed brain matter protruding from an eye socket. But the senator, a proponent of releasing the pictures, said he has not changed his mind after viewing them.
He said he thinks at least two photos from the USS Vinson showing the body being cleaned should be released because they depict an easily identifiable Osama. Reuters
Unless these these eight steps are followed in order and you have a personal God Yoga will not be effective.
What is now being taught by so called Gurus is nothing but a fraud on Yoga.
Read Patnjali’s Yoga Sastra.
Yoga in this sense belongs both to Hindus and non Hindus if they follow it correctly.
Hinduism does not need labels;it does not need some one’s certification.
It is for your benefit.
Take it as it is.
Forward Received by me..
Sheetal Shah, an official with the Hindu American Foundation, hears a lot about the physical practice of yoga these days – but not much about its religious roots.
So her group, which seeks to provide what it calls “a progressive voice for American Hindus,” recently mounted a “take back yoga” campaign, including appearances at conferences and attempts to raise media awareness of the practice’s Hindu origins.
For Shah, who is the Hindu American Foundation’s senior director, yoga is primarily a moral and spiritual philosophy, a fact she says has been lost as the popularity of physical yoga has boomed in the West. “There has been a conscious De-linking between Hinduism and yoga,” in the United States and elsewhere, she says.
Yoga is mentioned in many of the ancient Indian texts that form the basis of the religion now known as Hinduism, which claims to be the world’s oldest religion – and which is the third most-practiced faith on the planet.
One main source of yoga philosophy is the sage Patanjali, who lived in the 2nd century B.C. and whose Yoga Sutras describe a philosophy comprising 8 limbs, one of which is the physical poses, or asanas, which are commonly referred to as yoga in the West.
Other elements of Patanjali’s yogic philosophy are concepts like the yamas, moral vows that include chastity and nonviolence.
Sheetal Shah of the Hindu American Foundationpractices yoga asanas in her home. She tries to incorporate yogic concepts like nonviolence into her life.
In a yoga class offered by the Hindu Temple Society of North America in a New York temple, yoga is taught as a spiritual practice in which the physical asanas are an essential component. But the practice is supposed to lead to meditation.
“Yoga is really a spiritual discipline,” says Uma Mysorekar, the Hindu Temple Society of North America’s president. “From its origin in Hinduism, yoga really originated from a Sanskrit word yuj, which means union.”
That union is supposed to happen, she said, “between individual being or the soul with Paramatman,” or cosmic being.
According to a 2008 study commissioned by Yoga Journal, there are roughly 16 million yoga practitioners in the United States. Those people spend $5.7 billion dollars a year on yoga classes and gear.
Most of that yoga is marketed as physical exercise as a health practice. Some Sanskrit terminology is usually used, and many practitioners in a non-religious context say they sense a vaguely spiritual aspect in the activity.
But most American practitioners wouldn’t go nearly so far as to label yoga as a religious act or even to relate it to a specific religious tradition.
“Yoga is a great thing, no matter what style you do, how you come about it, why you come about it, what you end up with spiritually from it,” says Donna Rubin, the founder of Bikram Yoga NYC, a New York chain of yoga studios offering yoga in the style of Bikram Choudhury, a contemporary Indian yogi who now lives in Los Angeles. “So to start nitpicking or criticizing this type of yoga or that type of yoga or what it’s not doing or what it should be doing, I don’t really see the point of that.”
Bikram yoga involves a set series of postures performed in a heated room.
“Bikram has developed this specific series so that it’s more accessible,” said Christopher Totaro, a Bikram Yoga NYC instructor. “It’s more palatable to a wider demographic of people by pulling that religious part or separating that religious part from it.”
Yoga students exercise at an Atlanta Hot Yoga class in Atlanta, Georgia. Classes are conducted in a room heated to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Among those that have taken up yoga in the United States are devout followers of Western religions.
Atlanta, Georgia’s Northside Drive Baptist Church holds a weekly yoga class.
Amanda Gregg, who instructs the class, says that she is respectful of Hinduism but argues that yoga didn’t “come from” Hinduism as much as it developed alongside the religious tradition.
“Although Hinduism and yoga grew out at the same time of the Indian subcontinent and there are references to yoga in the Upanishads and in the Bhagavad Gita, that doesn’t mean that Hinduism has the exclusive hold on yoga,” she said, referring to sacred Hindu texts. “Sort of like Jews don’t have the exclusive hold on prayer.”
Some churches attempt to “Christianize” yoga by adding Bible verses to the practice, but Northside Drive Baptist Church does not.
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Is Yoga a Form of Hinduism?
Is Hinduism a Form of Yoga?
– Wendy Doniger
Debates about these questions have been making headlines lately. Some American Hindus have argued that American yoga is not Hindu enough, that Hindus should “Take Back Yoga” (the label of a campaign by the Hindu American Foundation). Other Americans agree that the Hindus should take back yoga—but because yoga is too Hindu: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, advises Christians to abandon yoga if they value their (Christian) souls, for “yoga, as a spiritual practice, runs directly counter to the spiritual counsel of the Bible.” The problem should not have been breaking news; a spoof in 2003, “Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts,” depicted a Christian minister who was asked, “Should Christians practice Yoga?” He replied, “Are we going to have to bring this whole thing up about Yoga again? I thought our Sunday school curriculum included lessons about the evils of everything Oriental, including Yoga!”
But the issues involved are not trivial. Is yoga, in fact, “a spiritual practice”? More particularly, is it a Hindu spiritual practice? The word “yoga” originally meant “yoking” horses to chariots or draft animals to plows or wagons (the Sanskrit and English words are cognate). Though many yoga practitioners, particularly but not only Hindus, insist that their practice can be traced back to the Upanishads (c. 600 BCE) and Patanjali (c. 200 CE), the word “yoga” in these texts designates a spiritual praxis of meditation conjoined with breath-control, “yoking” the senses in order to control the spirit, and then “yoking” the mind in order to obtain immortality.
Buddhist sources in this same period also speak of techniques of disciplining the mind and the body, and the word “yoga,” owing as much to Buddhism as to Hinduism, soon came to mean any mental and physical praxis of this sort. (Similar disciplines arose in ancient Greece and, later, in Christianity, a subject on which Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault had a great deal to say). This is the general sense in which the word “yoga” is used in the Bhagavad Gita, a few centuries later, to denote each of three different religious paths (the yoga of action, the yoga of meditation, and the yoga of devotion). But these texts say nothing about the physical “positions” or “postures” that distinguish contemporary yoga. The postures developed much later, some from medieval Hatha Yoga and Tantra, but more from nineteenth-century European traditions such as Swedish gymnastics, British body-building, Christian Science, and the YMCA, and still others devised by twentieth-century Hindus such as T. Krishnamacharya and B. K. S. Iyengar, reacting against those non-Indian influences.
So there is an ancient Indian yoga, but it is not the source of most of what people do in today’s yoga classes. Contemporary yoga traditions are a far cry both from the Upanishads and from Hatha Yoga. Most twenty-first century American yoga practitioners have more in common with a jogger than with a meditating sage; they want to relax after a hard day at the office, tighten up their abs, and reduce their cholesterol and their blood pressure; their yoga of relaxation and stretching may also involve regular enemas, a cure for back pain, a beauty regime, a vegetarian diet with a lot of yogurt (which is not etymologically related to “yoga”)–oh yes, and a route to God.
Is yoga, then, for the mind or for the body? Is it like going to church or like going to the gym? Is it a spiritual praxis or an exercise routine? To all these questions, the answer is: yes. For some people (both in India and in America) it has been one, for others, the other, and for many, both.
What does the availability of the iPhone 4 on “Big Red’s” network mean for you? We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the Verizon iPhone.
Normally the news of a phone being picked up by another carrier barely makes the trades let alone mainstream media. But this isn’t any phone and Apple isn’t any company. The iPhone redefined the smart phone when it was introduced 3 ½ years ago and despite some excellent competition; it still dominates mindshare, if not market share of new purchases.
With the exception of the WiFi hotspot, there is nothing new about the Verizon iPhone except that it runs on the Verizon network which is good news to people who hate AT&T, who can’t get a decent AT&T signal where they are or who are locked into a Verizon contract and don’t want to switch.
Still, it’s not as if the iPhone is the only cool phone on the market. I’ve used all the iPhones along with Android phones running on AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile as well as various flavors of Blackberries and other phones. The iPhone’s IOS operating system, which is now a third of a decade old, is definitely more stable and less prone to crash than Android but it’s certainly not way ahead in features. In fact, Android phones have some features that iPhone users don’t have including true multi-tasking and a removable battery which can be a big plus. It also has an open marketplace which makes it easier for developers to create apps and get them to market, though it also makes it easier for malware to show up on the phone. And Google is constantly upgrading Android.
Even Windows Phone 7 – which is barely making an impact so far – has some great features not available on the iPhone including a very innovative user interface that makes it easier to keep up with your friends and colleagues.
Still, Apple seems to have a magic wand which it just waved at Verizon. That’s good news for Verizon and Apple, good news to people who have been waiting for an iPhone running on something other than the AT&T network and good news for existing AT&T customers who want to hang up on AT&T and say Hello to Verizon.
New York: Google Incorporated, owner of the world’s most popular search engine, completed the purchase of New York’s 111 Eighth Ave as the company expands its presence in Manhattan.
Taconic Investment Partners, Jamestown Properties and the New York State Common Retirement Fund sold the building, the companies said in a statement yesterday. They didn’t disclose terms.
Google agreed to pay about $1.8 billion (Dh6.6 billion) for the property, where it will be the largest tenant, a person with knowledge of the deal said earlier this month.
TIME has reported that Single,Young and Childless women earn 8% more than men.
Are they happy?
Be it men or women , money is not the criterion but happiness that comes out of contentment is important.
If you remain Single, afraid of commitments,you must remember having none to care for or even notice you for what you are will be a burden to you.
You shall not remain young forever.
We find people thinking about relationships, magnifying differences of opinion to be a cause for remaining Single and the mistaken notion of freedom.
Are we really free?
Are we independent?-the word’independent’ indicates we are ‘(in) dependent.
We can never be free from ourselves.Just as we adjust ourselves to us, we must adjust with others as love and happiness consists in accepting things as they are , accepting people with all their warts.
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