Monthly Archives: April 2009

Authority dispute

- Please, can any­body help me to decode or “crack” what is exactly Tal­a­bani try­ing to say here? Tal­a­bani tries to explain his and Maliki’s offi­cial author­i­ties (about the dis­pute between the two on who should rep­re­sent Iraq in Arab … Con­tinue read­ing

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The disappointments of Doha summit

Why the Arab sum­mit was very dis­ap­point­ing, this report on Al-Akhbar gives us the rea­son: — Doha Sum­mit doesn’t pro­tect Sudan. An Arab diplo­mat source, noticed that there was no enthu­si­asm by Arab lead­ers to put the Sudan issue as a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Taliban — Ba’ath Party are part of Obama’s deal with Iran

In his arti­cle today on Awan, Tunisian writer Taw­fiq Al-Madini asks if the U.S. will rec­og­nizes Iran’s role in the region. Iran is not in con­flict with Amer­i­can inter­ests in the region, Iran is a a prag­matic power opposes the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Speech of Hezbollah leader in London — video

Hezbol­lah Leader and Lebanese MP Hus­sein El Haj Has­san speech in Lon­don two days ago — Full speech video (Eng­lish, ± 23.31 minutes).

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No Obama – Assad meeting in Turkey

Accord­ing to Al-Khaleej: Amer­i­can source played down the expec­ta­tion of a meet­ing between Al-Assad and Obama in Turkey, and not even a visit from the US for­eign sec­re­tary Clin­ton to Syria, because there is no US ambas­sador in Damascus yet.

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American school in Damascus not functioning

Accord­ing to Al-Quds Al-Arabi: The re-opening of the Amer­i­can school in Syria is sym­bolic only, the school needs months to func­tion nor­mally because all the Amer­i­can school stuff left the country.

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Arabs authorized King of Jordan to negotiate with the US

On Assafir: Arab for­eign min­is­ters in Doha decided to autho­rize the Jor­dan­ian King to nego­ti­ate the Arab peace ini­tia­tive with the US. The sources said that there is a dead­line of three months set to the doc­u­ment, which is enough for … Con­tinue read­ing

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