Monthly Archives: March 2009

Withdrawal or redeployment?

A good argu­ment by Al-Jaml say­ing that the so called US mil­i­tary with­drawal from from Iraq is in real­ity a rede­ploy­ment of the Amer­i­can forces in the region. Notice the con­nec­tion between this study and the pre­vi­ous report of the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Shiite cleric arrested

Top Saudi Shi­ite cleric, who threat­ened to split from Saudi Ara­bia (read this: Saudi Shi­ite top cleric, inde­pen­dent threats) is already arrested yes­ter­day accord­ing to eyewitness.

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Iran — Arabs mini-summit

Accord­ing to the Kuwaiti Al-Jarida: Qatar will invites the Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadine­jad as a gust of honor of the Doha Arab Sum­mit next month, expect­ing a mini-summit between the Iran­ian pres­i­dent and Arab lead­ers focuses on the sit­u­a­tion in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iran and the presence of the US forces — A different view

In this post “Iran’s Pol­icy Towards Iraq”, “Mus­ing on Iraq” argues that Iran sees the pres­ence of the US troops in Iraq is a major threat on its national secu­rity. A clas­sic view by many US — Iraq — Iran … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia not in FT list

Saudi Ara­bia is really upset about the absence of Saudi Ara­bia from the Finan­cial Times top 50 ranks, while the Qatari For­eign Min­is­ter Hamad Bin Jasam included in the list, Saudi Elaph says: This list is not a trust­wor­thy; there … Con­tinue read­ing

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Comoros passports to the Biduns

Accord­ing to the French Le Monde: Related Kuwait to sell the bidun

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Barghouti included

Accord­ing to AKI: Israel approved the release of Mar­wan Bargh­outi, Ahamad Saa­dat. Israeli news­pa­per reported today about an Israeli ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion to assas­si­nate the released-to-be Palestinians.

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A new militia in Gaza to fight Iran

A new mili­tia called “Al-Tawheed Brigades” announced itself today in Gaza, not to resist the Israeli aggres­sion on Gaza or the occu­pa­tion of Pales­tine, but to resist the “Iran­ian occu­pa­tion”. The state­ment says that Brigades are Sunni — Salafi move­ment, … Con­tinue read­ing

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US – Iran scenarios to oust Maliki

Iran sce­nario First time admis­sion by Dawa Party #2 Al-Adeeb in his inter­view with Al-Khaleej say­ing: There is an attempt by the Supreme Coun­cil – Kurds Coali­tion – Islamic Party to oust Maliki or at least to make it a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Shiite top cleric, independent threats

Reuters missed the best part of state­ment of the Saudi Inte­rior Min­is­ter Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Cit­i­zens in this coun­try have duties as well as rights, they must not con­front the ide­ol­ogy of this nation, which is the Sunni Salafi ide­ol­ogy. … Con­tinue read­ing

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