Monthly Archives: October 2009

Explosion in South Lebanon

Big explo­sion in South Lebanon tar­get­ing the house of one Hezbol­lah lead­ers “Abdul Nasir Issa”. The explo­sion caused the total destruc­tion of the house,  many dead and injured includ­ing Issa him­self, as reported on the Lebanese offi­cial news agency. Hezbol­lah denies … Con­tinue read­ing

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Mubarak and the Nobel Prize

Egypt pres­i­dent Mubarak was one of the nom­i­nees to share the Nobel Peace Prize with Sarkozy. source: Egypt­ian news­pa­per “Dostor”.

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Election conflict intensifies

- Under the title “Par­ties con­flict inten­si­fies”, Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal pub­lished a very inter­est­ing report about INA’s next plan to iso­late Maliki: The Iraqi pres­i­dency Coun­cil (Tal­a­bani, Adil Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi) to a new law before the Par­lia­ment that will … Con­tinue read­ing

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Palestinians defend Al-Aqsa — video clip

Rare video clip, con­fronta­tion between the Israeli army and the unarmed Pales­tini­ans cit­i­zens who are try­ing to defend Al-Aqsa mosque. Watch video here.

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Saudi Arabia mediates between Damascus and Cairo

Saudi King Abdul­lah bin Abdu­laziz gave Syr­ian pres­i­dent Bashar Al-Assad an invi­ta­tion from Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak to visit Cairo. The source also revealed that the Al-Assad in his turn invited Pres­i­dent Mubarak to visit Damascus.

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Abu Risha’s secret visit to Saudi Arabia

I am not sure if it is a Sunni-Sunni or Shiite-Sunni “war”, but who­ever did today’s explo­sion in Ramadi, prob­a­bly inter­ested in tak­ing Abu Risha down. Coin­ci­den­tally, There are reports pub­lished this morn­ing about the sink­ing pop­u­lar­ity of Abu Risha in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Egypt — Saudi Arabia movements against the Houthis

Egypt coop­er­ates with Saudi Ara­bia to dry Houthis sources, by pre­vent­ing the flow of Iran­ian mil­i­tary sup­plies and finan­cial assis­tance to the rebels. Egypt­ian head of the intel­li­gence ser­vice is try­ing to con­vince Eritrea to stop the flow of the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Tensions between rival Shiite parties

This is to describe the recent Shiite-shiite polit­i­cal mood in Iraq. Accord­ing to Al-Malafpress, INA has formed a com­mit­tee in order to dis­man­tle the exist­ing alliances in the provin­cial councils.The rea­son is very clear; to weaken Maliki-controlled Shi­ite provin­cial coun­cils. At … Con­tinue read­ing

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Abbas threatens to resign

Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Abbas is furi­ous because Arab coun­tries left alone to face the Gold­stone report. Pales­tin­ian sources in Ramal­lah, told Egypt­ian news­pa­per AL-Shorouk that Abbas keeps say­ing that he con­sulted Arab coun­tries before mak­ing a deci­sion, and now they … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia invited Hamas

Saudi Ara­bia invited Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to visit Riyadh and meet with Saudi offi­cials, the sources pointed out that there is an improve­ment in Hamas — Saudi Ara­bia rela­tions. Riyadh already gave instruc­tions to the Saudi media to lift … Con­tinue read­ing

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