Monthly Archives: December 2009

Al-Sadr’s last official statement: Is this the end of the Shiite coalition?

Despite join­ing a coali­tion with other Shi­ite polit­i­cal par­ties (INA), the Sadrists are try­ing to dis­tance them­selves from Al-Hakim’s supreme Coun­cil. In his last offi­cial state­ment The state­ment goes fur­ther to this very inter­est­ing part: There is no polit­i­cal bloc that … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Houthi not dead, released an audio message

After the news of his death, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi released an audio mes­sage and con­do­lences to fam­i­lies of the fight­ers killed in action (link to the Audio), he also accused the Yemeni gov­ern­ment of delib­er­ately tar­get­ing civil­ians to pres­sure the Houthi … Con­tinue read­ing

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Anbar’s explosion is expected

I will not re[port what the stream media already said about today’s explo­sion in Anbar (the fourth of today’s explo­sion wave), but the sur­prise is that the attack is expected. This is what al-iraqnews wrote yes­ter­day: Provin­cial police and mil­i­tary … Con­tinue read­ing

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Yemen, Houthis and Al-Qaeda

Off topic or not, while all eyes on Al-Qaeda and Yemen, another Al-Qaeda affil­i­ated branch is grow­ing in Lebanon: A well-informed secu­rity source told An Nahar: Al-Qaida mil­i­tants are plot­ting ter­ror­ist attacks against state insti­tu­tions and for­eign mis­sions… Syr­ian FMCon­tinue read­ing

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U.S. and Arabs orchestrate a new “peace” summit in Cairo

Embar­rassed by the world wide rejec­tion of the steel wall on the Gaza bor­der, one “genius” Egypt­ian politi­cian sug­gested to change the name from “Wall” to “facil­ity”, in the future the Egypt­ian media will say this: “Egypt builds a facil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

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Shiite parties and Fakka oilfield

Iraqi gov­ern­ment dis­trib­uted images like this one, to the pub­lic that Fakka oil well is under the government’s con­trol. Short lived pro­pa­ganda because at the same day Mis­san oper­a­tions mil­i­tary com­man­der announced that Iran still con­trols the well. Shi­ite reli­gious par­ties … Con­tinue read­ing

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Thousands of Shiite pilgrims chanted Anti-Iraqi government slogans

Demon­stra­tions of thou­sands of pro­test­ers dur­ing Shi­ite Ashura cer­e­mony in Kar­bala, chant­ing slo­gans con­demned the Iran­ian inva­sion of Al-Fakkah oil well, despite the attempts made by Maliki gov­ern­ment to pre­vent the broad­cast of what is hap­pened. Iraqi Shi­ite Satel­lite TVCon­tinue read­ing

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Iran and Mubarak’s tour to the Gulf-States

The tim­ing between Larijani’s visit to Cairo and the Houthis ini­tia­tive to with­draw from their posi­tions inside Saudi Ara­bia. Lar­i­jani deliv­ered a mes­sage from Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadine­jad to his Egypt­ian coun­ter­part Mubarak, which pushed the lat­ter to tour three of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq’s election: The lottery

Polit­i­cal polar­iza­tion dom­i­nated the com­mem­o­ra­tion of Ashura cer­e­monies this year, but the remark­able issue is the par­tic­i­pa­tion of sec­u­lar par­ties in the mourn­ing parades. Iraqi Com­mu­nist Party par­tic­i­pated in the pub­lic mourn­ing Ashura cer­e­monies, party mem­bers and sup­port­ers car­ried ban­ners … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Awlaki still alive, Gun fight and explosions in south Yemen

Gun fight and explo­sions tonight in Al-Dhali city — Yemen, in all the five mil­i­tary bases in the province, peo­ple reported hear­ing RBG, motors and grenades sounds but still unknown who is fir­ing on who. Ear­lier today, sep­a­ratists leader Al-Fadhli (descen­dant … Con­tinue read­ing

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