Monthly Archives: October 2007

Heikal’s “Bridges and Barriers”

Very pow­er­ful lec­ture by Heikal in the Oxford “Arab Media” con­fer­ence called “Bridges and Bar­ri­ers”, Heikal denies the exis­tence of “Clash of Civ­i­liza­tions”, and blames the rich “north­ern” coun­tries of cre­at­ing such clash: Sud­denly the world woke to a new image … Con­tinue read­ing

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What is wrong with this map?

A map with an agenda, Abu Aard­vark wrote about this image [reported by qawim] which is cir­cu­lat­ing around Iraqi and Arab web­sites, but there one impor­tant point Abu Aard­vark missed in the map, about the half of Ramadi province was … Con­tinue read­ing

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What happened in Basra few days ago?

- Iraqi writer Daoud Al-Basri [he is from Basra him­self] writes about what hap­pened in Basra few days ago when Mahdi army took con­trol of Basra and attacked the police. Al-Basri says this a train­ing for sleep­ing Iran­ian cells in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Resistance group: There is nothing called “Higher National Iraqi Resistance Council”

- This is sup­posed to be the most accu­rate news agency, but for some rea­son they got this one wrong 11 Sunni tribal chiefs kid­napped in Bagh­dad They are not 11 Sun­nis, there were only 8 Sun­nis and 3 Shi­ites … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Kingdom: The new portrait of the Arab collaborators

Extracted from Dr. Ibrahim Alloush recent Ara­bic arti­cle “The King­dom: A pro­pa­ganda, invit­ing Amer­i­can minori­ties and Arabs to join the neo-cons wars” crit­i­ciz­ing Hollywood’s new pro­pa­ganda movie The King­dom. There are no com­plex plots or con­cerned char­ac­ters, but a movie … Con­tinue read­ing

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Occupation forces killed a woman and her child in Fallujah

- Although PKK spokesman told Radio SAWA: We do not have any offices in the Iraq cities, and we said that before. We heard that Turkey and Iraq met and agreed to close PKK offices in Iraq, we do not … Con­tinue read­ing

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Cole bomber Al-Badawi was pardoned by the US

Since yes­ter­day and news agen­cies report­ing the release of Jamal Al-Badawi, and as reported by the CNN quot­ing the US Jus­tice Depart­ment say­ing: We are dis­mayed and deeply dis­ap­pointed in the gov­ern­ment of Yemen’s deci­sion not to imprison [Jamal al-Badawi] … Con­tinue read­ing

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The “Green Zone” government negotiates with the Ba’ath Party

This is what alkhaleej news­pa­per reported today: Accord­ing to Iraqi news reports: the Iraqi gov­ern­ment headed by Nuri al-Maliki has opened of com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels with the Iraqi Baath Party, urg­ing them to engage in the polit­i­cal process. The meet­ings to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lebanese army fired at Israeli airplanes, sends a message to the US

Excel­lent, great sym­bolic answer from the Lebanese army show­ing the Amer­i­cans that the army don’t not change its prin­ci­ples and ide­ol­ogy. Wash­ing­ton seeks that the Lebanese army changes its loy­alty Mil­i­tary sup­port from the US but not to the Lebanese … Con­tinue read­ing

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Google updated Syria satellite images 5x sharper

Since yes­ter­day night, Google updated their Syria satel­lite imagery for Syria 5 times sharper from 25 meter per pixel up 5 meters per pixel. It is pos­si­ble to see all Syria mil­i­tary air­ports and even count how many war­planes on the … Con­tinue read­ing

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