Monthly Archives: October 2009

Tunisia election: Why the ballot boxes are open?

Aljazeera reported about a book released in France called La regente de Carthage (You can down­load the book here), which shows that the President’s wife Lyla (for­mer hair­dresser) is the one who rules Tunisia. Al-hdhod asks: Why the bal­lot boxes … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arab experts advise Obama

Three Arab experts from three Arab coun­tries (one of them is a for­mer Prime Min­is­ter) advised Obama’s Admin­is­tra­tion to coop­er­ate with Arab coun­tries and impose a solu­tion on both Israel and the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity because there is no hope of … Con­tinue read­ing

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US and Egypt pressure on Saudi Arabia

Pres­sure from the US and Egypt pushed Saudi Ara­bia to halt its rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with Syria, wait for the Lebanese gov­ern­ment cri­sis. Most of the dis­cus­sions between King Abdul­lah and Bashar Al-Asad were about the Iraqi issue.

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Understanding today’s explosions, Maliki wants to join INA

Secu­rity Min­utes after today’s series explo­sions, and to gain the inter­na­tional sup­port for an inter­na­tional tri­bunal, AL-Dabag reac­tion was the explo­sion tar­geted a con­fer­ence of for­eign ambas­sadors in Man­soor Hotel, while in real­ity the bomb exploded kilo­me­ters away from the Hotel. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Analysis: Maliki’s Visit to Washington

This analy­sis orig­i­nally released in Ara­bic (All rights reserved, please do not cite or dis­trib­ute with­out per­mis­sion). Received a spe­cial treat­ment, held meet­ings with top US admin­is­tra­tion, Maliki’s visit to the U.S. turned into an occa­sion to show the United … Con­tinue read­ing

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Egypt takes a new position on Yemen war, Houthis take military bases without a fight

Iran started offi­cially to accuse Saudi Ara­bia with recruit­ing thou­sands of Mili­tia men and a bud­get of $5 Mil­lion to assist the Yemeni army in the war against the Houthis. These offi­cial accu­sa­tions came after Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan pub­lished an … Con­tinue read­ing

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US ambassador in Lebanon surprise visit to the UNIFIL

After the dis­cov­ery of Israeli spy devices in Al-naqora — South Lebanon, the US ambas­sador Michele J. Sison made a sur­prise visit to the UNIFIL Head­quar­ters. The visit with secu­rity mea­sures is reported by the media, the UNIFIL com­man­der Glau­dio … Con­tinue read­ing

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Another U.S. raid inside Syria, with Iraqi approval?

Coin­ci­den­tally, Van­i­ty­Fair took us back to the US raid inside Syria last year “The Mur­ders at al-Sukariya”, while today’s news on Al-Sumaria TV reported that Iraqi deployed 5 Thou­sand mil­i­tary, police and bor­der guards on the Syr­ian bor­der joined by … Con­tinue read­ing

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More deadlocks to come

Update.…Mistake made in this post corrected.….End More bad news for Maliki, Bolani the Inte­rior Min­is­ter formed his own coali­tion, two days after Maliki asked the Par­lia­ment to ques­tion Bolani’s cred­i­bil­ity. While Abu Risha and oth­ers joined Bolani’s “Iraq’s Unity”, the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kirkuk discussion

First — The ISCI liked the Sadrists’ pre-election nom­i­na­tion idea and started their own pre-election to choose can­di­dates to com­pete for the com­ing elec­tion. What is going on in the Par­lia­ment for days (and I think this will take at … Con­tinue read­ing

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