Monthly Archives: November 2009

What happened today?

What hap­pened today is a dra­matic twist in the events, the Kurds and the Shi­ites are in one front to face the Sun­nis. seats from Nin­eveh, Salahud­din and Tamim provinces are given to the Kurds. We don’t know what is Hashimi’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Parliament reached an agreement, law passed

Tarek Al-Hashimi’s web­site is blocked since yes­ter­day to pre­vent Iraqis [espe­cially abroad] from read­ing his update or to show their sup­port, so I can not con­firm all the infor­ma­tion I will report here. The par­lia­ment reached an agree­ment (while I am writ­ing this), … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kuwait to mediate between Iran — Saudi Arabia

Senior gov­ern­ment source told Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Jaridathat the Iran­ian vice pres­i­dent asked the Kuwaiti prime min­is­ter to medi­ate between Iran and Saudi Ara­bia to resolve the dis­pute between the two coun­tries, espe­cially after Saudi Ara­bia accused Iran of being behind … Con­tinue read­ing

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Supreme cleric returned from death to condemn the Yemen rulers

For the sec­ond day Houthis manged to halt the 3rd Saudi mil­i­tary advance towards the Yemeni bor­der, Houthis talk about take­ing Saudi pris­on­ers, which con­firmed by sources said that Yemeni tribal chiefs medi­ate with Houthis for the release of the … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. role in the election crisis

I will explain this before I start today’s devel­op­ment. Maliki and the Shi­ite par­ties are head­ing to veto Hashimi’s veto, this very sim­ple and they are already man­aged to obtain the sim­ple major­ity to do this, but Hashimi’s sec­ond veto … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sarkozy — Al-Bashir to meet in February

Informed revealed to Sudanese news­pa­per Al-Raed that Sudan Pres­i­dent Omar Al-Bashir will meet the French Pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy in Sharm el-Sheikh in Sharm el-Sheikh next Feb­ru­ary. The medi­a­tion between the two is an ini­tia­tive from Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak, the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Fake clip of Algerians with knives in Sudan

Riot around the Alger­ian embassy started in Egypt after Egypt­ian com­mer­cial satel­lite TVs showed video clip of Alger­ian foot­ball fans rally around the foot­ball sta­dium in Khar­toum — Sudan carry knives (where are the flags?)- Egypt­ian TV even reported that … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki has succeeded to achieve the required votes

Con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion, avail­able from Fri­day and Saturday’s meet­ings among polit­i­cal Blocs and par­ties, reveal that the Par­lia­ment is going to veto Al-Hashemi’s veto despite the call of Jalal Tal­a­bani to dis­cuss the veto pos­i­tively. Shi­ite par­ties will use the Fed­eral … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi newspaper “Riyadh” removed this image

Under the title “Princess Al Anood Orga­ni­za­tion pro­vides finan­cial assis­tance for the dis­placed in Jizan Province”, Saudi news­pa­per Riyadh showed this image which shows an elderly poor man dis­placed by Saudi-Yemen bor­der war kiss­ing the “money” enve­lope and the orga­ni­za­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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Current situation and the three options

The cri­sis — The absence of a con­sti­tu­tional pro­vi­sion allow­ing the exten­sion of the Par­lia­ment term until the elec­tions, which means that the coun­try will be with­out a par­lia­ment and Maliki’s gov­ern­ment will turn into care­taker gov­ern­ment until elec­tions are held. … Con­tinue read­ing

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