Monthly Archives: January 2009

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

Syr­ian source told Al-Watan that Syria put two con­di­tions for any future nego­ti­a­tions with the U.S. — The revival of the U.S. peace ini­tia­tive — Madrid Con­fer­ence 1990 –, which means the return of the U.S. as the major bro­ker of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Zahar injured in Gaza

Accord­ing to Awan’s report, Hamas leader Mah­moud al-Zahar [half Egypt­ian] is wounded in the last days of the Israeli aggres­sion on the Gaza Strip and secretly trans­ferred to Egypt by ambu­lances. One of many failed attempts to assas­si­nate Zahar, since … Con­tinue read­ing

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Thirteen new weapons provided by the U.S. to Israel to test on Gaza

Kuwaiti news­pa­per Awan reported that the U.S. has pro­vided Israel with 13 new weapons to test in Gaza, there were U.S. Army com­man­der pres­ence at the Israeli – Gaza bor­ders to observe the func­tion­al­ity of these weapons.

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Political blocs “flirt” with the Sadrists

I think this para­graph on Al-Akhbar explains why Maliki started to improve his rela­tion with the Sadrists a week ago []: Sources said that the cause of the armed con­fronta­tions occurred between Al-Sadr and the gov­ern­ment forces in Basra and … Con­tinue read­ing

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BBC problem is not the refusal

The prob­lem is not with the BBC refusal to air Gaza appeal, the prob­lem is with the BBC pre­sen­ta­tion at the war on Gaza. Since I am a BBC addict, I agree with this article

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Bahraini Interior Minister

infor­ma­tion on the terror-cell cap­tured Now, imag­ine this: Sunni fun­da­men­tal­ists AlQaeda-like in Nahr AlBarid trained Shi­ite extrem­ists con­nected to Iran.

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Iraqi resistance — Hamas dispute solved

Harsh words from the Iraqi resis­tance crit­i­ciz­ing Khalid Misha’al’s Deputy Mussa Abu Abu Mar­zouk. Mar­zouk told Aljazeera: “Gaza is not Iraq” in which he means that Gaza is not easy to invade. Prob­lem solved after a del­e­ga­tion from the Iraqi … Con­tinue read­ing

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Fayyad threatened with resignation

A good exam­ple shows how Abbas is not sup­ported by his own Fatah peo­ple, reported on AlKhaleej: Head of the PA gov­ern­ment Salam Fayyad threat­ened with res­ig­na­tion in case Mah­moud Abbas didn’t take the required mea­sure­ments to end the cur­rent … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Prince Turki?

It seems that Prince Turki’s threats worked behind the for­ma­tion and the finance of the so called Syr­ian opposition.

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ME envoy in the region coming Monday

The new Mid­dle East envoy George Mitchell appointed by Obama recently will visit the region on Mon­day as revealed by Anna­har. He will visit Israel, Egypt, Saudi Ara­bia, Jor­dan and Palestine.

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