Monthly Archives: May 2008

Haikal: Arabs today

Haikal again in the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Cairo [full speech in Ara­bic]: Arabs invested their money and future on Amer­ica, they changed their names, behav­ior, or did a plas­tic surg­eries just to fit in the image the U.S. wants sees … Con­tinue read­ing

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Jordanians not interested in politics

Reshap­ing pol­i­tics in Jor­dan, to fol­low recent Mid­dle East changes, please read the com­ments in Eng­lish at the end of the page: [The] peo­ple are hun­gry, the coun­try first should feed the peo­ple, the [b]ig brother Amer­ica should, feed the nation … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sistani to participate in the provincial election

It seems Sis­tani wants to know what it’s like to be a politi­cian, reported today on Al Hur­riya news that Sistani’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives will par­tic­i­pate in the provin­cial elec­tion in Basra, why in Basra and not in other provinces or Hawza’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Haikal: The U.S. to stay in Iraq for 12 years

This is pub­lished on many Arab news­pa­pers today, the speech of Moham­mad Has­sanein Haikal in which he explains the sit­u­a­tion in the Mid­dle East and Arab coun­tries, sadly we don’t have the full speech except some brief­ings and Three min­utes … Con­tinue read­ing

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This is an American military, economic, and cultural domination

For the first time, I see Muq­tada Al Sadr and Harith Al Dhari agree on some­thing, which is ht rejec­tion of the U.S. — Iraq long-term pres­ence treaty, this what the AMSI state­ment says: Despite con­tin­ues pub­lic rejec­tion of long-term … Con­tinue read­ing

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Inside Al-Hawza

Some­thing peo­ple need to know; Sis­tani and other Aya­tol­lahs’ images of hum­ble old men ded­i­cated their lives to ful­fill their “duty to God” and serve the Shi­ite com­mu­nity, is totally mis­lead­ing. In real­ity they are multi-millionaires, Hawza-barons with tur­bans, make … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sarkozy’s Mediterranean trap

Clo­vis Mak­soud warns of Sarkozy’s Union for the Mediter­ranean say­ing: It is a trap to force Arab coun­tries to rec­og­nize Israel.

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Barzani’s connection to Al-Qaeda in Mosul

I reported few days ago that Al-Qaeda in Mosul is the cre­ation of the Kur­dish offi­cials in Barzani’s PDK, Al-Akhbar gives a full details of this con­nec­tion [inter­est­ing you can’t find this in the west­ern media]: Con­fes­sions of the detainees … Con­tinue read­ing

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Izzat Al-Douri on AP News

Ap story on Izzat Al-Douri and Ba’ath Party, Ap news quotes Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi mag­a­zine but there is no such report in the news­pa­per or at least in the online ver­sion. Ap said they manged to obtain an audio record of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Muqtada responds after getting big boost from Nasrallah

If any­body both­ered him­self to ana­lyze Has­san Nas­ral­lah speech yes­ter­day, he will read the direct boost he gave to Muq­tada Al-Sadr [and other fac­tions]. Sad to see that Iraqi intel­lec­tu­als and pub­lic silence, not con­demn­ing this treaty. Just like Iraqi … Con­tinue read­ing

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