Monthly Archives: November 2009

Houthis display a Saudi POW

Houthis dis­play Saudi POW 1 — 2 his iden­tity and two cap­tured Saudi mil­i­tary Humvee. Houthis deny the Saudi claims of retake the Dokhan Moun­tain — Yemeni sources said that the Houthis are using Hezbol­lah war­fare tac­tics against Israel, Houthi … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election law, a first view

Des­per­ate attempts to give the US ambas­sador Christo­pher Hill all the cred­its, but Lar­i­jani just left the coun­try today after meet­ings with the Par­lia­ment and Sis­tani, the Iraqi par­lia­ment approved the elec­tion law … Which means Iran gave the green … Con­tinue read­ing

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Houthis dictate the course of the war in Yemen

A video shows that the Houthis man­aged to con­trol “Dokhan Moun­tain” on the Saudi bor­der with­out fir­ing a sin­gle shot, they just sim­ply nego­ti­ated with the Saudi bor­der guards. Many reports on the Saudi involve­ment in Yemen-war after the Houthis … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi parliament, the new Iran — U.S. conflict arena

I can imag­ine that Ali Larijani’s visit to Iraq is to pres­sure the “State of Law” to join the INA, but I don’t think that this is the rea­son behind the cir­cu­lat­ing news of Maliki’s deci­sion (already reported here two … Con­tinue read­ing

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The election law today

- The only rea­son not reported in the Times “Iraq Gov­ern­ment bans alco­hol sale” is reported here few weeks ago “The opposition’s strat­egy to crash Maliki’s gov­ern­ment”. — What is going on right now on the elec­tion law is fol­low­ing: … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syria: no Assad visit to Cairo soon

Sayr­ian news­pa­per Al-Watan denies the reports that say Bashar Al-Assad will visit Syria soon. Sources told the news­pa­per that Syria-Egypt rela­tion is not very good these days but it is very bad also

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Religious blocs in chaos after the announcement of Allawi coalition

The announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of the (Iraqi National Move­ment) set the elec­tion plan of the Iraqi polit­i­cal Islam (espe­cially the Shi­ites par­ties) in more chaos than it already is. The Shiite-Shiite par­ties equa­tion itself in a com­plete dis­ar­ray, bypass­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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