Monthly Archives: March 2010

The end of Al-Azhar

Described by West­ern media as the new Al-Azhar Sheikh, who wants to cre­ate a dia­logue between Chris­tian­ity and Islam, This is a video clip from Nile­Sat, in which Al-Tayeb ridiculed Chris­tian­ity say­ing that Chris­tians doc­tored the Bible and changed it … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi and Maliki reached an agreement, Saudi Arabia asked Allawi to accept any deal

Syria asked Iran’s pres­i­dent Ahmadine­jad to ban Maliki’s sec­ond term as a Prime Min­ster, explain­ing that this is the wish of four coun­tries (Syria, Saudi Ara­bia, Egypt and Turkey). This story will be widely spread tomor­row or in the com­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Embarrassing results for some key political figures

First, for those who are look­ing for the last update on the elec­tion results, IHEC-Arabic page updates its data­base daily and Google Trans­late works on the page (and each province) very good (sev­eral attempts required, very heavy traf­fic). Despite that … Con­tinue read­ing

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The not very surprising results in Kirkuk

How Turkey helped Allawi in Kirkuk? Not very sur­pris­ing results for Al-Iraqiya in Kirkuk, espe­cially for those who watched Aljazeera’s Iraqi elec­tion reports from Turkey. Aljazeera core­spon­dent in Ankara “Omar Lafi” said this in three dif­fer­ent reports: While Iraqis abroad … Con­tinue read­ing

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The beginning of the election results deadlock

Some inter­est­ing devel­op­ment hap­pened today. Out of the sud­den, Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya started to talk about a wide range forgery dur­ing the count process. Using strong words, Al-Iraqiya threat­ened not to rec­og­nize the results only if the Com­mis­sion pub­lishes the results … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Sadr, the unknown Prime Minister candidate

First, as I expected “The U.S. post-election worst sce­nario: A Syria — Saudi Ara­bia agree­ment” — Syr­ian ambas­sador in Saudi Ara­bia told Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Dar: Dam­as­cus and Riyadh are coop­er­at­ing to sup­port Iraq’s nation­al­ists fac­ing those who are asso­ci­ated with … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election resulsts — Tuesday 09-03-2010 pm — Update — Chalabi in the parliament

Update — Just received these infor­ma­tion from Bagh­dad — Ahmad Al-Chalabi won a seat in the par­lia­ment and his head of the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Ali Al-Lami failed to obtain enough votes required to be in the par­lia­ment. Oth­ers also … Con­tinue read­ing

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Tantawi: Life in disgrace and collaboration with the occupation’s agenda

After a long dis­grace­ful life, Tantawi died today: Just before the US-British inva­sion of Iraq in March 2003, Tantawi sacked Sheikh Ali Abu Al-Hassan, Head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Com­mit­tee, after the lat­ter issued a fatwa in which he affirmed “the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Primary election results

Early results, not con­firmed yet: Seats per Bloc name: 104 — SoL 67 — Iraqiya 57 — INA 40 — Kur­dish Coali­tion 15 — Goran 12 — Unity of Iraq 10 — Tawafiq ?? — Others

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The U.S. post-election worst scenario: A Syria — Saudi Arabia agreement

After the end of the vot­ing pro­ce­dures, Iraqi elec­tion entered a new phase. A mes­sage from Saudi Ara­bia King Abdul­lah to Syr­ian pres­i­dent Bashar Al-Asad to update him on the cur­rent issue in the Mid­dle East, at the same day … Con­tinue read­ing

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