Monthly Archives: January 2010

New Israeli attack on Gaza expected soon

Robert Fisk sees signs of war prepa­ra­tions between Hezbol­lah and Israel in his last arti­cle on the Inde­pen­dent “The bor­der looks peace­ful, but Hezbol­lah and Israel are prepar­ing for war”. But yet, there is another front pre­pares also for war, Hamas … Con­tinue read­ing

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Unsuccessful attempts to cancel the “exclusion” decision and score few election points

The cur­rent cri­sis will ease and end soon, politi­cians will accept the U.S. wishes (if you don’t like the word “orders”), from the pres­i­dent and the Pres­i­dency Coun­cil, to Maliki’s office all will use their author­i­ties to sus­pend the “J … Con­tinue read­ing

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Jordan’s new Anti-Aljazeera policy: The mistake and non-mistake

The release of the sta­tis­tics shocked the Jor­dan­ian Gov­ern­ment. The fig­ures show that Aljazeera is the most pop­u­lar TV Chan­nel in Jor­dan 65% of the Jor­da­ni­ans con­sider Aljazeera as the reli­able local, Arab, inter­na­tional news source. Jor­dan­ian writ­ers started to … Con­tinue read­ing

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More names, why did the U.S. allowed the existence of this law?

First, there are rumors cir­cu­lated today say, that Maliki ordered to stop the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity deci­sion before Biden’s visit, but the Com­mit­tee denied these reports. Alsumariya assured of the exis­tence of such order (I bet the prob­lem is how … Con­tinue read­ing

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Exclusive: All the names of the 511 excluded politicians

Not released to the pub­lic yet, all the names of the 511 excluded politi­cians, tomor­row we will go through these names, but for today Salih Al-Mutlaq’s name is in the image below. He is num­ber 220 in the list. Worth to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Anwar Al-Awlaki: Saved by a poem

I don’t under­stand why this sur­prise with “Shi’ite rebel leader Abdul Al Malik Al-Houthi is still alive”, we already reported here an inter­view with him on Al-Akhbar after his death announce­ment by the Yemeni Gov­ern­ment (the Gov­ern­ment killed him three … Con­tinue read­ing

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Jordan as proxy for Israel involvement in Iraq

In his fourth series arti­cles on Iraq affairs on Al-Akhbar, Ali Shi­hab wrote about the how Israel uses Jor­dan as a proxy to infil­trate Iraq. Hot spots of the Israeli pres­ence in Iraq: 1) Kirkuk is the strate­gic geo­graph­i­cal posi­tion (in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi’s threat to postpone the election

Three weeks ago, on the “Amer­i­can For­eign Pol­icy Coun­cil” some­body called Ilan Berman asked this ques­tion “Remem­ber Moq­tada al-Sadr?” First, where is Moq­tada? Here he is, hug­ging and kiss­ing Al-Asaib leader Qais Al-Khazaali in Qom — Iran. Moq­tada payed Al-Khazaali … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syria – Saudi Arabia improving relation, leaves Cairo behind!

The Geo – polit­i­cal analy­sis of the Syr­ian pres­i­dent Assad — Saudi King Abdul­lah Sum­mit, based on the regional polit­i­cal and the inter­na­tional polit­i­cal envi­ron­ments: — The tim­ing of the sum­mit comes at the moment, the Iran­ian nuclear cri­sis enters … Con­tinue read­ing

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Three Sunni candidates for the presidency, Zebari to the Vice-President

The image below is one of the evi­dence used by the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity against Salih Al-Mutlaq. It is a doc­u­ment from 2002 shows that Salih Al-Mutlaq was in con­tact with the Iraqi Intel­li­gence ser­vice, and as the paper says … Con­tinue read­ing

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