Monthly Archives: September 2009

Iraqi former army officers in Yemen

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Sappho

This is reported on the Kur­dish Puk­me­dia web­site: 3500 Iraqi for­mer army offi­cers are get­ting inten­sive mil­i­tary train­ing in a secret mil­i­tary base in Yemen.

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Obama keeps the pressure on the Palestinian Authority

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Sappho

Accord­ing to Al-Manar, the US wants to “float” the Israeli set­tle­ments issue and keep it uncer­tain to force the Pales­tini­ans to talk and reach an agree­ment with Israel. The web­site also added that Wash­ing­ton has started to pres­sure on the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Syria ready to smuggle Baathists to Sudan, US raid in Ramadi, Baath Party secret meeting in Jordan

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Sappho

- Syria asked Tal­a­bani to medi­ate in the Iraq — Syria polit­i­cal cri­sis accord­ing to Al-Watan. I don’t think the Syr­ian gov­ern­ment is worry about Maliki’s threats with the “Inter­na­tional Court”, Syria is more worry with the US silence. Syria … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Image of Hannibal Ghadhafi in detention

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Sappho

Swiss news­pa­per “La Tri­bune de Genève” released a black and white image of Gadhafi’s son “Han­ni­bal Ghad­hafi” made by the Swiss police in his one night 15. Juli 2008 in police detention.

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The true reason behind Maliki’s campaign against Syria

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Sappho

At least we have the true rea­son behind “why Maliki started this cri­sis with Syria?” Akhbar Al-Kaleej asked the ques­tion to the Ba’ath Party lead­ers in Syria, and the answer was: A high-ranked offi­cer from Iraqi for­mer army said that … Con­tinue read­ing →

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France wants Syria to hand over Khaled Meshaal

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Sappho

France is ready to ask Syria offi­cially to hand over the polit­i­cal leader of Hamas Khaled Meshaal, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Mar­zouk to the French jus­tice, for “plan­ning and facil­i­tat­ing the kid­nap­ping” the kid­nap of the French / Israeli … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Truce violation in Yemen after army mutiny

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Sappho

We can start with video released by the Houthis show­ing bomb­shells with Saudi flag seized from the Yemeni army. The truce between the Houthis and the Yemeni gov­ern­ment col­lapsed after 4 hours, but the strange thing is that the Yemeni … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Jihadis in Lebanon

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Sappho

Accord­ing to Al-Akhbar: Saudi Ara­bia reor­ga­nizes itself in Lebanon, while Dam­as­cus review the last months, but there is another group who works silently in the under­ground to reor­ga­nize itself are the Jihadis. Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s words of the need to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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U.S. — Iraqi troops at the Syrian border

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Sappho

There are more evi­dence today on what I said yes­ter­day that polit­i­cal blocs in Iraq are using the Syria — Iraq cri­sis to dis­tance them­selves and iso­late Maliki. Jabir Hab­bib Jabir, mem­ber of the UIA For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee in the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Major security operation in the Gulf to siege Iranian ports

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Sappho

Secu­rity sources informed Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Qabas Al-Manar sources say that these inten­sive meet­ings are con­ducted between the GCC coun­tries, the US and Israel at the high­est lev­els exchang­ing intel­li­gence and the mil­i­tary infor­ma­tion to siege the water­ways that lead to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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