Monthly Archives: August 2009

Syria and Iraq, strategies and tactics

Syr­ian news­pa­per Al-Watan reported that Iraqi Ambas­sador in Syria Al-Gawwadi said in his press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day that he will leave Dam­as­cus, but he refused to answer a ques­tion about the fate of the strate­gic coop­er­a­tion, between both coun­tries. But even … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia to pay for Mauritania’s arms purchase

Alger­ian news­pa­per Elkhabar: Arms ship­ments from the U.S. and France to Mau­ri­ta­nia. The same source revealed that an Arab Gulf state is likely Saudi Ara­bia, to finance the pur­chase of the arms at the request of the United States.

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Secret contacts Abbas — Netanyahu

Accord­ing to Saudi news­pa­per Okaz: Pales­tin­ian sources in Ramal­lah said that the secret con­tacts con­ducted by Yasser Abbas, son of Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Israeli offi­cials in prepa­ra­tion for a meet­ing between Pres­i­dent Abbas and Israeli Prime … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki wants to control the intelligence service

I believe the Iraqi government’s spokesman Al-Dabagh when he said that the head of the Iraqi intel­li­gence dis­missal is not related to the recent wave of explo­sions. The doc­u­ment I posted few days ago shows a date before the explo­sions. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Hakim clinically dead

Informed Iraqi sources in Tehran told Kuwaiti news­pa­per Awan that doc­tors told Al-Hakim’s fam­ily about his clin­i­cal death, with­out giv­ing fur­ther details. The offi­cial announce­ment of Al-Hakim’s death will be post­poned wait­ing for the appro­pri­ate moment.

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Syria will answer Iraq’s fabricated accusations

Infor­ma­tion leaked by Iraqi secu­rity to the Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Rai says that one car used in the explo­sion is reg­is­tered in Syria belongs to a Syr­ian man lived in Iraq for a long time. Syr­ian sources told Bab news­site that the … Con­tinue read­ing

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The new coalition, Sadrists still “undecided”

There are two or three inter­est­ing things about today’s announce­ment of the Shi­ites renewed coali­tion: — Inter­est­ing to see the polit­i­cal blocs in the Coali­tion chose Al-Jaafari to lead the “New Iraqi Coali­tion” (the new name). Al-Malafpress Aqeel Abdul-Hussein, head of … Con­tinue read­ing

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US-appointed head of the Iraqi Intelligence forced to retire

Secu­rity A doc­u­ment revealed by Iraqi web­site shows that the head of the Iraqi Intel­li­gence Al-Shahwani appointed by the US is forced to retire as ordered by Maliki him­self appoint­ing “Zuhair Fahdil Abbas” in his place. Another web­site reported that Shah­wani … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Hakim is knocking on the hell’s door

The supreme council’s web­site reported that the cleric is in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion and he is trans­ferred to a hos­pi­tal in Tehran. The report says that his con­di­tion is under con­trol and the web­site asks the Supreme Council’s fol­low­ers to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syria will mediate between Washington and Tehran

Syr­ian source told the Egypt­ian news­pa­per Al-shorouk that Syr­ian Pres­i­dent Bashar al-Assad, will play an impor­tant role in the dia­logue between the US and Iran. The source added that the Syr­ian ini­tia­tive is backed by France but stressed that Syria will … Con­tinue read­ing

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