Monthly Archives: April 2010

The timing of the “secret prison” story

The exis­tence of secret pris­ons is already reported on Al-Hayat and on this web­site: “Secret prison in South Bagh­dad run by the CIA” in Sep­tem­ber last year. Aljazeera released a video of an inter­view with some detainees Shortly after Maliki’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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What “the assassination of Al-Qaeda leaders” means to Maliki?

The Iraqi secu­rity scene wit­nessed a very inter­est­ing devel­op­ment, infor­ma­tion revealed by Bagh­dad and Wash­ing­ton that the mil­i­tary forces have suc­ceeded in the assas­si­na­tion of two top Al-Qaeda lead­ers in Iraq: What is the cred­i­bil­ity of this story and what … Con­tinue read­ing

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The seventh round of war in Yemen has already started

Shorter than I even expected “Truce vio­la­tions and the sev­enth round of war in Yemen”. With total media black­out, Yemeni news web­site Al-Adhwaa reported that the Yemeni army car­ried out a wave of aer­ial bom­bard­ment on the posi­tion of the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Would Maliki dare to turn the tables on Al-Sadr?

Since the emer­gence of the Iraqi elec­tion results, Maliki lived his worst days. The prime Min­is­ter who man­aged to win about 600 thou­sand votes (about 1/3 of the votes in Bagh­dad), now finds him­self pay­ing the price of his sweep­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Syria Scud rockets to Hezbollah and the Arab media propaganda

Iron­i­cally, is that all the reports addressed the issue of Syria send­ing Scud rack­ets to Hezbol­lah in Lebanon are based on a report pub­lished on two pro-U. S. And pro-Israel Arab news­pa­pers. The many reports of the Israeli news­pa­per Haaretz, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Increased his chances, Maliki’s next step is to exclude the Al-Sadr

Maliki announced today that 2 top Al-Qaeda lead­ers are killed, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi (who is already cap­tured before: April 24, 2009. The sec­ond is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who is also killed May 1, 2007 few times before (the death of … Con­tinue read­ing

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U.S.-Israel propaganda against Syria continues

With more attack threats against Syria, the Israel-U.S. pro­pa­ganda of Scud mis­siles to Hezbol­lah con­tin­ues, despite that the rock­ets mean noth­ing to Hezbol­lah. Accord­ing to Kuwaiti Al-Anba’a news­pa­per, the U.S. Ambas­sador in Beirut, Michel Sison told Par­lia­ment Speaker Nabih Berri … Con­tinue read­ing

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Washington hosts secret negotiations of the formation of the Iraqi ruling coalition

Adding to my pre­vi­ous argu­ment “Why the U.S. wants a coali­tion of Allawi and Maliki?”, it is revealed today that the U.S. is hold­ing secret nego­ti­a­tions between Maliki’s Dawa Party and Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya. Wash­ing­ton believes that such sce­nario would limit … Con­tinue read­ing

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Truce violations and the seventh round of war in Yemen

Despite the occa­sional truce vio­la­tions (reported last week), Saada region-Yemen, is rel­a­tively quiet, which is very clear from observ­ing the ongo­ing devel­op­ment that the three con­flict par­ties (the Saudi gov­ern­ment — the Yemeni gov­ern­ment — and “Ansar Allah” aka (Houthis). … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why the U.S. wants a coalition of Allawi and Maliki?

The U.S. stressed many on its neu­tral­ity in the cur­rent “coali­tion for­ma­tion” cri­sis, but deep inside they prof­fered to Allawi and Maliki in one coali­tion. This is expressed very plainly by the for­mer U.S. ambas­sador in Iraq Ryan Crocker in … Con­tinue read­ing

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