Monthly Archives: April 2010

Fake Najaf 9/11-style plot

Iraqi secu­rity uncov­ered a 9/11 style plot to hit Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, this is what the news agen­cies reported quot­ing the Iraqi gov­ern­ment. Here is a video clip [Ara­bic] of the Iraqi Defense Min­is­ter Abdull Qadir Al-Ubaidi speak­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Israel’s anti-Syria propaganda at the eve of Syria-Egypt reconciliation

Syria already said that the renewed Israeli pro­pa­ganda is part of divert­ing atten­tion from its nuclear arse­nal Part, Egypt sees this Israeli pro­pa­ganda as a start of an Israeli cam­paign against the improved Syria-Egypt rela­tions. Israel raised the issue of … Con­tinue read­ing

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The new rumor of a Shiite ruling coalition

It started with an arti­cle pub­lished on the “Green Zone” news­pa­per Al-Sabah, says the fol­low­ing: Polit­i­cal sources close to the ongo­ing nego­ti­a­tions between INA and the “State of Law” revealed that the next 48 hours will wit­ness the offi­cial announce­ment … Con­tinue read­ing

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Meet “Ansar Allah” aka “Houthis”

Sada­hon­line The arti­cle denied that Houthis demand is the cre­ation of self-governing zone in Saada, or they are against the con­sti­tu­tion, which they believe does not apply. The arti­cle also says that the Yemeni unity, is a trick, to cheat the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi politicians to Saudi Arabia

Jalal Tal­a­bani, already fin­ished his visit to the Saudi King­dom at the invi­ta­tion of Saudi King Abdul­lah,. After 24 hours a sim­i­lar call also to Kur­dis­tan Region Pres­i­dent Mas­soud Barzani, and today Ammar al-Hakim headed to Saudi Ara­bia. Sources revealed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Suspicious U.S. military movements in the Gulf

Al-Manar news­pa­per, sees the real rea­son behind the Russ­ian warn­ing to the U.S. and Israel against attack­ing Iran. The news­pa­per reported that secret secu­rity meet­ings took place recently between Israel and “some” regional secu­rity agen­cies, at the time France started a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Back to the previous quartet coalition government

Ammar Al-Hakim’s last state­ment, in which he rejected to asso­ciate Al-Iraqiya List with the Baath, doesn’t mean that he accepts Al-Iraqiya as part of the rul­ing coali­tion (read the hid­den lines in his last inter­view on Al-Rashid TV): … The … Con­tinue read­ing

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The deportation of the Palestinians before Obama’s guarantees to Israel

Israel started to esca­late the depor­ta­tion of the Pales­tini­ans from the West-Bank, which accord­ing to Aljazeera the cam­paign will start in Tues­day, came and timed before Obama presents his “let­ter of guar­an­tees” to Netanyahu’s gov­ern­ment. Pales­tin­ian Al-Manar revealed that Obama’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Play with the big coalitions

As I expected, The Sadrists used Al-Ja’afari nom­i­na­tion to com­pro­mise a deal with other fac­tions. Al-Sharq Al-Awsat revealed that the Sadrists demand at least 10 min­is­te­r­ial posi­tions (the offer came from Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya). Also, men­tioned ear­lier that Hakim man­aged to … Con­tinue read­ing

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U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan moves to Kuwait

State of emer­gency at the air­ports and oil instal­la­tions in Kuwait, inspec­tion teams search all air­planes and trav­el­ers. Accord­ing to Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Dar that these secu­rity mea­sures are related to threats by Al-Qaeda against U.S. forces in the Gulf States, … Con­tinue read­ing

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