Roads to Iraq

Head of the Badr Brigade "Hadi Al-Amri" said that Saudi Arabia is the obstacle behind the US forces withdrawal from Iraq by financing the terror in Iraq.

Al-Akhbar called the American military withdrawal: "in name only", which means they will not sleep in the Iraqi cities anymore, but the forces will continue to operate in and out the cities. Nikola Nasir on Al-Arab Al-Youm says: What we see right now is redeployment of the American forces in Iraq, which means the American forces will stop plying the policeman in the ...

In this interview by Saudi website Lujainiat with Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Talal, he said that his brother Al-Walid Bin Talal is mentally sick and should be punished. This first public crack inside the Saudi royal family is even reached the Western media.

Reported by Al-Hayat today: The Americans opened a new contact channel with the Ba'ath Party. The Ba'ath Party is right now split among the Party's both wings, to join the political process in Iraq and another wing who wants to choose a new leadership for the party.

According to Jordanian newspaper AL-Helal: The US is using pressure on the Arab Gulf States to lower their financial aid to Jordan, to force Jordan to accept the Palestinian refugees as citizen and cancels their right of return.

Old title popped up again today after an Iraqi high rank military officer from the current army revealed that the U.S. Military bribed International and local journalists to hide the true numbers of the US losses in the Fallujha battle. The Army officer from the Seventh Battalion promised to reveal the names of the journalists who received bribes.

Assafir says: Netanyahu’s speech was a declaration of war against the Palestinians… But he [Netanyahu] achieved his goal to close the gap with the Americans. Al-Akhbar described Netanyahu’s speech as a slap in Obama’s face. The word "slap" is also used by Al-Quds Al-Arabi’s Chief Editor Bari Atwan saying: He said nothing about the "Arab Initiative" and not a single word about the Roadmap The ...

Assafir newspaper says that Saudi Arabia and Syria reached an agreement about Lebanon: The Lebanese economy to Saudi Arabia, the Lebanese security to Syria.

A Sadrists delegation recently in Amman – Jordan is visited by the Saudi ambassador in the delegation’s resident in the Holiday Inn Hotel to transfer the Saudi government invitation to Riyadh. The delegation promised to review the invitation with the Sadrists leader Muqatada Al-Sadr to appoint the right people for this visit.

AlHayat poll [left sidebar] shows that the majority of the Arabs (34% till writing these lines) think that Obama's speech is only words well put together but don't change the reality. On the same newspaper Walid Shuqair acknowledge the importance of the speech saying that this the first time a US Administration includes a self-criticism on its policy in the region ...