Monthly Archives: October 2009

Jordan’s role in Goldstone report

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Sappho

AL-Akhbar reported today: Obama called Abbas two times, on Wednes­day evening and Thurs­day after­noon, he told him that pre­sent­ing Gold­stone report to the UN will lead to a sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity and the U.S. finan­cial aid to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Yemen national reconciliation in Cairo

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Sappho

A Yemeni source told Qud­spress that Cairo will hold a meet­ing among the Yemeni gov­ern­ment, Houthis and South Yemen sep­a­ratists “Hirak Move­ment”. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of all sides from Yemen and abroad started to arrive to Cairo, “Hirak Move­ment” will ask for … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Information about the Saudi King’s state visit to Syria

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Sappho

King Abdul­lah — Saudi Ara­bia visit to Syria (last news says tomor­row — Wednes­day) will be reduced from three days to two days and will include Dam­as­cus only. Pales­tin­ian news­pa­per Manar says: Dur­ing a meet­ing, the Syr­ian pres­i­dent and Saudi King … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Abbas rejected an Arab summit on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Sappho

Egypt­ian news­pa­per Al-Shorouk Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Abbas rejected an Arab pro­pos­als for an emer­gency sum­mit to dis­cus recent  Al-Aqsa Mosque con­flict. A Pales­tin­ian source said that Abbas does not want to face an Arab crit­i­cism about the recent [Gold­stone] report deci­sion. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Election conflict puts Sistani in the middle

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Sappho

- 06-10-2009 — Recently formed “Turk­men National Bloc (con­tains many Turk­men known par­ties) joined INA — I think this more polit­i­cal moti­vated than reli­gious rea­sons — The Turk­men fear that Maliki will cut a deal with the Kurds on Kirkuk. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Palestinian Authority: When shame walks naked

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Sappho

Pales­tin­ian author­ity started to exchange accu­sa­tions, Pales­tin­ian Prime Min­is­ter Salam Fayyd accuses Abbas with order­ing to with­draw Gold­stone report, Abbas accuses Arab coun­tries with the order, while Al-Quds Al-Arabi says, Abbas advis­ers (Saib Erekat and Nimr Ham­mad) are the ones … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Last news from the election campaign

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sappho

I am not sure if the wave of arrests in Mosul and Tikrit [see “Talk fail­ure sparks wave of arrests in Iraq”] ordered by Maliki or it was the ISCI tries to pres­sure Maliki, but this cam­paign will put Maliki … Con­tinue read­ing →

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700 Jihadi “tourists” in Lebanon

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sappho

From 100,000 Gulf-States tourists in Lebanon this sum­mer, about 700 are miss­ing. Lebanese police and secu­rity ser­vice think they are con­nected to AL-Qaeda and other extrem­ist groups related to Al-Qaeda. Most of the “miss­ing tourists” are spread among sev­eral regions … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The US Administration close to name an ambassador in Syria, Saudi King in Damascus within two days.

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sappho

An offi­cial source in the White House told “Al-Khaleej” that the Amer­i­can Admin­is­tra­tion has started a review of a num­ber of names nom­i­nated for U.S. ambas­sador in Dam­as­cus, hours after the depar­ture of Deputy For­eign Min­is­ter Faisal Miq­dad. King Abdul­lah … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Talk failure sparks wave of arrests in Iraq

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sappho

A del­e­ga­tion led by the Min­is­ter of Tribal Affairs “Muham­mad Uraibi” in Amman — Jor­dan, sent by Maliki to con­vince Iraqi politi­cians and tribal lead­ers in exile to join Maliki’s “State of Law” coali­tion. The source said: Despite the gen­er­ous … Con­tinue read­ing →

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