Monthly Archives: March 2009

Saudi Arabia and the obligatory reconciliation

On Al-Akhbar “Saudi Ara­bia and the oblig­a­tory rec­on­cil­i­a­tion”: Big mis­take, if any­one thinks that the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion ini­tia­tive of King Abdul­lah of Saudi Ara­bia came because of his con­cern on the Arab issues. Iron­i­cally, his first rec­on­cil­i­a­tion call came after Hezbollah’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Palestinian talks in Cairo

Sources told Saudi news­pa­per Okaz that the Pales­tin­ian talks in Cairo will results that Hamas on the head of the Unity Gov­ern­ment and Fatah to take the For­eign Ministry.

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Former military officers return home

Accord­ing to the Yemeni web­site Nabanews: Start­ing from 25 March, Maliki’s gov­ern­ment will send air­planes to Yemen to trans­port for­mer Iraqi mil­i­tary offi­cers and fam­i­lies who wish to go back to Iraq. Accord­ing to the web­site, 70% — 75% reacted pos­i­tively … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama — King Abdullah’s phone call

Obama spoke to King Abdul­lah of Saudi Ara­bia is the head­line on every Saudi news­pa­per today. Maybe this explains the phone call: “Obama’s energy pol­icy will increase depen­dence on for­eign oil”.

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US aid destroys Egyptian agriculture

An Arab diplo­mat vis­ited the US recently to explore the US pol­icy in the Mid­dle East under Obama’s admin­is­tra­tion says that sur­prised that the senior U.S. offi­cials ask­ing ques­tions, instead of pro­vid­ing answers: For exam­ple, an offi­cial in the U.S. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sufis spread Shia’ism in Egypt

Accord­ing to Al-Mesryoon, Egypt­ian — Sudanese Shi­ite order “Tariqa Burhaniya” (Ara­bic details on their web­site, some Eng­lish infor­ma­tion) is financed by Iran to spread Shia’ism in Egypt. This is very strange, there is a his­tor­i­cal hatred between Sufis and Shiites.

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Gulf-States threatened

Three Gulf-States threat­ened to lower their rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the Arab upcom­ing sum­mit in Doha if Qatar invites Iran to the summit.

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Nasrallah: Not with the US conditions

No recog­ni­tion of Israel ’till the dooms­day, in Eng­lish and Arabic.

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Reconciliation conference in May

I don’t have much time today, for good read­ing you need to read Bad­ger last post he cov­ered Al-Hayat bet­ter than Al-Hayat itself. The one thing I can add is what Kuwaiti Al-Watan reported today: The United Iraqi [Shi­ite] Alliance, … Con­tinue read­ing

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FBI spy in Yemen

Yemen intel­li­gence arrested a British man – Yemeni ori­gin , works as a spy for the Amer­i­can FBI. He writes false reports accus­ing polit­i­cal and pub­lic fig­ures in Yemen with being mem­bers of Al-Qaeda.

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