Monthly Archives: August 2008

Failed military coup in Saudi Arabia

Saudi secu­rity source told Aafaq news­site that Saudi mil­i­tary offi­cers and mem­ber s of the National Guards tried to thwart a mil­i­tary coup to over­throw army offi­cers loyal to the cur­rent Saudi king Abdul­lah. The source said that Major Ahmed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Change the negotiation team, an American request?

We have three story ver­sions: This is the Kurds ver­sion: Accord­ing to Kur­dish MP Mah­mud Oth­man, Maliki is not sat­is­fied with the For­eign Min­istry team and want to super­vise the nego­ti­a­tion by him­self. That is why he chose the new … Con­tinue read­ing

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Bush may visit Baghdad within the next few days

Green Zone news­pa­per Al-Sabaah expects a visit from George Bush to Iraq in the com­ing days for SOFA nego­ti­a­tions accord­ing to the news­pa­per par­lia­ment source say­ing: Bush may visit Iraq soon to dis­cuss the secu­rity agree­ment between Iraq and the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki to the Kurds: Go back behind 1991 borders

Accord­ing to Aswat Iraq, Maliki warned the Kurds to go back behind the “blue line” and that is the 1991 bor­ders or they will be announced as out­laws. Sadrists said that Kurds sup­ported Maliki in his mil­i­tary cam­paign in Basra … Con­tinue read­ing

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American forces hinder the release of the five British hostages

Revealed today on Qatari news­pa­per Al-Rai, sources told the news­pa­per that the Amer­i­can forces con­tributed to a great extent to block the release of the five British hostages who were kid­napped in Bagh­dad in May of last year, by arrest­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama on Saudi Arabia

Another warn­ing for Saudi Ara­bia and this time from Obama: I will set a clear goal as Pres­i­dent: in ten years, we will finally end our depen­dence on oil from the Mid­dle East.

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Head of Badr Organization took the role of the Army Chief of Staff in Diyala

Sources from the Iraqi Staff Defense Office told Al-Sharqiya TV that they received instruc­tions to ignore the orders taken by the Chief of Staff “Babkir Zebari” [Kurd].The anony­mous source told the TV sta­tion that offi­cers in the Defense Min­istry and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Russia is back.….What a wonderful world

Al-Bayan writer Amrabi aks if the Arab adjusted their poli­cies to the Russ­ian — Amer­i­can new power strug­gle and how can they ben­e­fit from??

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American army recruits Egyptians

Accord­ing to Egypt­ian web­site Al-Mesryoon, last two months there was a cam­paign in Amer­ica to recruit Egyp­tians as inter­preters in the Amer­i­can forces and to be sent to Iraq. The Amer­i­cans offer Green Card to Egyp­tians who sign a con­tract to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sistani’s role and the pressure on Maliki to reject the agreement

A bit dif­fer­ent ver­sion of “jour­nal­ists meet Sis­tani” on Al-Fatehoon than the one reported on LAtimes. Al-Fatehoon says that in the meet­ing Sis­tani spoke Per­sian and his son Mohammed Ridha trans­lated to Ara­bic. Accord­ing to news site source [a jour­nal­ist … Con­tinue read­ing

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