Monthly Archives: November 2008

Syria’s conditions to talk with the U.S.

Syr­ian sources said that Syria put two con­di­tions [the source says they are not con­di­tions but demands] for fur­ther talks with the U.S. — Remove Syria’s name from the list of coun­tries sup­port inter­na­tional ter­ror­ism. — Aban­don the “Syria account­abil­ity” law, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Hamas letter to Obama

Accord­ing to Al-Akhbar: Pales­tin­ian sources told the news­pa­per that Hamas leader Misha’l sent a let­ter to president-elect Obama via a Qatari offi­cial. The let­ter explains Hamas posi­tion from the Pales­tin­ian — Israeli con­flict, asks Obama not take the Israeli side … Con­tinue read­ing

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Not allowed to drive a car in UAE

Not allowed to drive a car in UAE: Nurses, cooks, car­pen­ters, house­maids, watch­men, tai­lors, cafe­te­ria wait­ers, unskilled labour­ers, gar­den­ers and bak­ers. What about the pros­ti­tutes work in broth­els funded by the Ruling-Family? They are not in this category.

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After SOFA

Quite day today, enough time to view some arti­cles pub­lished today. Not very opti­mistic view from Dr. Mas­souma al-Mubarak say­ing: The Agree­ment will be put to a ref­er­en­dum … the­o­ret­i­cally this is the top of democ­racy, but from prac­ti­cal side … Con­tinue read­ing

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Resistance group asks Shiite clerics: What to do with those who signed the Agreement?

I reported about the plot of the Islamic Party very briefly and cov­ered by Bad­ger in details, it seems that there is some kind of dis­pute among the “mother-organization” (Islamic Broth­er­hood) and the political-wing (Islamic Party). A state­ment released by … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Qaeda declares war on India

This is the title used by Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA). The report says that some Indian media received a video tape recorded by per­son called Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-Ansari claims that he is a high-rank leader of the orga­ni­za­tion, announces … Con­tinue read­ing

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Qatar Ambassador free

Egypt­ian TV revealed that Qatar Ambas­sador in India was among the hostages in one of the hotels. Free and safe but it is inter­est­ing see that Aljazeera kept silent and never reported this.

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Nasrallah Secretary-General Hassan for life

As reported on Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Jarida: Sources said that a deci­sion is taken in secretly held Hezbollah’s con­fer­ence, is to adjust the party’s law to appoint Secretary-General Has­san Nas­ral­lah for life. Nas­ral­lah ended his fifth term, extended three times.

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What next? Maliki after SOFA

On the front page, Al-Akhbar reported the best cov­er­age of what hap­pened yes­ter­day in the par­lia­ment. Started by count­ing the names of the MPs who rejected the Agree­ment (Sadrists and five inde­pen­dent) say­ing this is for the his­tory record. In … Con­tinue read­ing

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What next, any plan?

What next after SOFA approval is the ques­tion on many opin­ions and edi­to­ri­als on Arab news­pa­pers today, take Al-Quds Al-Arabi for exam­ple. The newspaper’s edi­to­r­ial today says: The sit­u­a­tion in Iraq after the approval of this Secu­rity Agree­ment will not going … Con­tinue read­ing

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