Monthly Archives: September 2009

Secret prison in South Baghdad run by the CIA

Reported by Al-Hayat : For­mer Iraqi detainees revealed that they spent about a month in a secret deten­tion facil­ity south of Bagh­dad run by the CIA. One of the detainees describes the cells say­ing: An iron box with less than … Con­tinue read­ing

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Jordan not included in the Palestinian refugees deal

Sources told Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Rai that the Israeli set­tle­ments in Pales­tine is easy to con­tain, but the real prob­lems are the “refugees” and “Jerusalem”: There are 400,000 refugees in Lebanon, which is the heart of the prob­lem … Some of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Failed assassination attempt on Ammar Al-Hakim

Accord­ing to Kuwaiti Aljarida: The plan was to smug­gle explo­sives inside cig­a­rettes boxes at one the ISCI cel­e­bra­tions this week to assas­si­nate Ammar Al-Hakim, but the secu­rity man­aged to arrest one of the three suspects.

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King Abdullah to visit Syria soon

Accord­ing to Assafir’s sources: King Abdul­lah of Saudi Ara­bia told Bashar Al-Assad that he will visit Syria in the com­ing days. Lebanese Anna­har reported a grim sce­nario about Al-Assad meet­ing with King Abdul­lah say­ing: The Saudi King refused to share the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iran’s final warning to Maliki

We know today that Maliki will par­tic­i­pate in the elec­tion under the “State of Law” form­ing his own coali­tion within a week, despite the final warn­ing sent to Maliki by Iran, as reported on Al-Quds Al-Arabi say­ing: Sources told Al-Quds … Con­tinue read­ing

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Secret meetings in New York

Pales­tin­ian Al-Manar con­firmed that a high ranked Arab offi­cial pres­sured Mah­moud Abbas head of the Pales­tin­ian author­ity to meet Netanyahu. Under per­sua­sion and threats, some Arab coun­tries also involved in con­vinc­ing Abbas of the impor­tance to allow George Mitchell’s mis­sion … Con­tinue read­ing

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Gaddafi and the “two-state” solution

Full speech of Muam­mar Al-Gaddafi’s excel­lent speech in the UN (video with­out tran­script link). The Ara­bic tran­script is on the Libyan News Agency. Inter­est­ing is that Al-Gaddafi said : “the Israel-Palestine “two state” solu­tion is fic­tion can not be imple­mented … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Hosni lost the UNESCO?

While Egypt­ian media speak about a US-Israel con­spir­acy behind Farouk Hosni fail­ure (the news of his fail­ure are cel­e­brated by the Egypt­ian pub­lic, ), Alger­ian TV critic Taw­fiq Rabahi, fol­lowed Farouk Hosni’s elec­tion cam­paign: After I saw the Egypt­ian min­is­ter … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi pre-election political map – The Shiites scene

The coali­tion encour­aged the adopt of this idea on grounds that it will encour­age more polit­i­cal par­ties to join a coali­tion for the flex­i­bil­ity in decision-making. — I pointed out that “Asaib Al-Haq” will be Sadrists’ future prob­lem (see below). … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lethal injection for AL-Zaidi (Bush shoe-thrower)

Tunisian news­pa­per Al-Chourouk respon­si­ble for the infor­ma­tion below: A source close to Muntad­hir Al-Zaidi said that the Amer­i­cans gave the jour­nal­ist five injec­tions of a med­i­cine with unknown source and descrip­tion few months ago. Al-Zaidi friend Hamza Has­san Shawqi, said yes­ter­day … Con­tinue read­ing

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