Monthly Archives: July 2008

Kurds withdrew the announcement, Muqtada rejects any kind of agreement with the occupation

Kurds with­drew the announce­ment With war songs to mobi­lize the Kur­dish pub­lic, Kur­dis­tan TV announced their take over on Kirkuk province. Later Kurds offi­cials with­draw the announce­ment say­ing that it was a request from the Kirkuk province gov­ern­ment coun­cil [or … Con­tinue read­ing

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American forces wiped out a whole family in Samarra

Why the so called Mid­dle East experts don’t trans­late this for you? from Al-Hayat. Amer­i­can forces wiped out a whole fam­ily in Samarra. The forces raided the house of Jasim al-Isawi killing his 77 years old wife and his two … Con­tinue read­ing

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Mahdi Army and Hezbollah unarmed parades

Al-Hayat reported about an unarmed Mahdi Army parade in Najaf, was it an answer to the “A Shi­ite Mili­tia in Bagh­dad Sees Its Power Wane” report? Inter­est­ing is that yes­ter­day Hezbol­lah also orga­nized an unarmed parade in Ba’lbak.

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Reason why Maliki sent military forces to Kirkuk

News­pa­per Alkhbar Al-khaleej explains the real rea­son why maliki sent the none-Kurds army troops to Kirkuk: Hun­dreds of Kurds mili­tia mem­bers “Pesh­mer­gas” entered the city dis­guised as para­medics help­ing the explo­sion vic­tim, the mili­tia mem­bers were instructed by Barzani and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kirkuk name change

The writer put the wrong year of Kirkuk province name changed to Ta’mim. It is not 1969 it was 1976.

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Ammar al-Hakim wants to build a bridge

Ellaph answers this ques­tion­able issue about the split between Hakim’s SIIC and Al-Amari’s Badr Org. on the “provin­cial elec­tion” vot­ing, where Badr voted in favor of the law and SIIC rejected the law [read miss­ing links for the details]. Sources … Con­tinue read­ing

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Doubts in Abu Khabab’s death

This is widely reported today and yes­ter­day that Al-Qaeda high rank mem­ber Abu Khabab al-Masri is killed. Egypt­ian ter­ror­ism expert Dhia’ Rash­wan spoiled the party, ques­tion­ing the cred­i­bil­ity of the Amer­i­can story say­ing: The way in which they announced the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi commercial centers around the American military bases as defense zone

It seems that the Turk­ish Prime Min­is­ter Tayyip Erdo­gan met with Hashimi in Turkey and expressed his con­cerns about Kirkuk events but there is one inter­est­ing devel­op­ment: Maliki sent the Iraq army to Kirkuk to sta­bi­lize the city and this … Con­tinue read­ing

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Does Chahine deserves this publicity?

All Arab news­pa­pers reported the death of Youssef Chahine. I don’t think he deserves all the fuzz, his early movies were good but later he made some movies with­out any mean­ings or objec­tives. Most of his late movies includes his … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi fatwas against soapseries and pets

Saudi Mufti is an idiot but I totally agree with his Fatwa against watch­ing Turk­ish soapseries, I wished he included all soapseries even the Ara­bic. Today the reli­gious police orga­ni­za­tion issues a law for­bids peo­ple from pos­sess­ing cats and dogs … Con­tinue read­ing

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