Monthly Archives: April 2008

Sadrists negotiate the disband of Mahdi Army

It is not only that al-Sadr tried to crit­i­cize and dis­tance him­self from Iran yes­ter­day, even his information/cultural advi­sor wrote an arti­cle with harsh critic on his group the Sadrists, al-Marwani under the title “We are pay­ing the price of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Bush – Hakim are up to something

In one day al-Hakim met the Amer­i­can ambas­sador in Iraq Ryan Crocker, no details about the rea­son of this meet­ing, only some gen­eral infor­ma­tion like they dis­cussed the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion in Iraq, few min­utes after this meet­ing al-Hakim answered a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi media “designed” fatwa spe­cially for Mubark of Egypt: Low class cit­i­zens not allowed to demon­strate against the “head of the state”.

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Death Making: The ex-member and al-Qaeda recruitment in the American prisons

Answered al-watan [Their influ­ence is decreas­ing] for sev­eral rea­sons: The Amer­i­cans have achieved their inter­ests [they left the Awak­en­ing behind], some of the Awak­en­ing lead­ers are busy col­lect­ing money with­out shar­ing it with the peo­ple who helped them to fight … Con­tinue read­ing

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Turkey refused Cheney’s request to use the airspace to bomb Iran

Accord­ing to French weekly mag­a­zine Le Canard Een­chaine [via al-Akhbar], Turkey rejected an Amer­i­can request to use the Turk­ish Incir­lik air-base and the Turk­ish air space to bomb Iran. The source who is a French com­mu­ni­ca­tion and plan­ning high rank offi­cer … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Sadr to end the Mahdi Army freeze today…update

Update: It turn out to be false, in al-Sadr state­ment today he asked his fol­low­ers to calm-down and said that in is pre­vi­ous state­ment an “open war” meant a war against the occu­pa­tion forces only and not against the Iraqis. Accord­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Intensive mortar barrage hits the Green Zone today

Sources from inside the green Zone told albadeeli­raq that the Iraqi resis­tance bom­barded the Green Zone at 3.15 pm today with mor­tar fires tar­get­ing the Iraqi Coun­cil of Min­is­ters build­ing and the Iraqi par­lia­ment build­ing… I am not sure if … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi For­eign Min­is­ter Hush­yar Zebari expels the cor­re­spon­dent from the Bahraini paper Akhbar Al-Khaleej from the press con­fer­ence, telling the cor­re­spon­dent that he [Zebari] don’t deal with peo­ple like you [later he said that he meant the chief edi­tor of the news­pa­per … Con­tinue read­ing

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I don’t think this is reported by west­ern media, the Lebanese army open fire and anti-aircrafts on two Israeli air­planes vio­lated the Lebanese airspace.

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Excel­lent move from Libya backed up by Syria reveals the dou­ble stan­dards of the west.

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