Monthly Archives: October 2008

Syrian ambassador in Washington

Syr­ian ambas­sador in Wash­ing­ton Imad Mostafa in his speech in the “National Coun­cil on US-Arab Rela­tions” told the for­mer Saudi ambas­sador in the U.S. Turki bin Faisal Al Saud: “You are the only I respect from the whole Saudi royal … Con­tinue read­ing

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The political map regarding SOFA

This is a good “heli­copter –view” of the Iraqi polit­i­cal scene regard­ing SOFA: — The Kur­dish nation­al­ist par­ties pub­licly announced their total sup­port to SOFA, and attacked SOFA’s oppo­si­tion polit­i­cal blocs. The Kur­dish Islamic par­ties, stayed silent. — Par­ties allied under … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki waits for Obama to sign SOFA

This is very impor­tant and not reported be the for­eign media. Reported today on the Green Zone news­pa­per Sabaah that Maliki ordered to acti­vate his pre­vi­ous deci­sion of halt­ing all the raids on Sadr fol­low­ers [which means Mahdi Army] and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Sudan prefers McCain as the new American president?

Sudan news­pa­per Al-Rai Al-‘Aam edi­to­r­ial prefers McCain as the new Amer­i­can pres­i­dent and not a Demo­c­rat pres­i­dent say­ing: Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion (1992–200) was very hos­tile to Sudan. Under his admin­is­tra­tion the U.S. put Sudan in the list of coun­tries spon­sor ter­ror­ism … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lebanese “14 March” leaders are invited to Iran

As reported on Al-Qabas today: Iran­ian sources told the news­pa­per that invi­ta­tions are sent to the lead­ers of the 14 March group to visit Iran. Among the invited is Walid Junblatt.

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Syria reduces the forces on Iraq border, Saudi media gives a new reason for the U.S. raid

Al-Arabiya reported that Syria reduced its mil­i­tary forces and bor­der guards on the Syria — Iraq bor­der [cut­ting diplo­matic ties with Iraq also], but what I heard [from my own sources] is that Syria with­drew all its forces from the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Miliband to Muallem: there is no message behind the U.S. raid in Syria

Accord­ing to Al-Akhbar sources, UK For­eign Min­is­ter David Miliband told the Syr­ian for­eign Min­is­ter Walid Muallem that there is no polit­i­cal mes­sage behind the U.S., it was a secu­rity inci­dent only. The news­pa­per noticed the defenses between the Saudi and the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Quds Al-Arabi edi­to­r­ial today agrees with MofA: Out of the sud­den we hear an Amer­i­can offi­cial say­ing that his coun­try is ready to talk with the “mod­er­ate” Tal­iban. There are no “Mod­er­ates” and “Extrem­ists” inside Tal­iban, the whole coun­try is … Con­tinue read­ing

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Clash of wills between Washington and Baghdad

The Amer­i­cans came with a “genius” idea to pass SOFA, accord­ing to this report on Al-Akhbar. The U.S. thought maybe if we change the name, then Iraqi par­lia­ment will swal­low this trick and pass the agree­ment. The sug­ges­tions are two … Con­tinue read­ing

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BBC’s South Ossetia investigation

This BBC News­night inves­ti­ga­tion [video] broad­cast yes­ter­day, not only pro­vides evi­dence that Geor­gia com­mit­ted war crimes in South Osse­tia but also proves that Geor­gia started the war.

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