Sources from the Iraqi Staff Defense Office told Al-Sharqiya TV that they received instructions to ignore the orders taken by the Chief of Staff "Babkir Zebari" [Kurd].The anonymous source told the TV station that officers in the Defense Ministry and the Internal Affairs Ministry aware of the Dawa party and the United Iraqi Alliance domination on both ministries. Al-Sharqiya links this ...
A bit different version of "journalists meet Sistani" on Al-Fatehoon than the one reported on LAtimes. Al-Fatehoon says that in the meeting Sistani spoke Persian and his son Mohammed Ridha translated to Arabic. According to news site source [a journalist present in the meeting], it seemed that Sistani spoke few words and short sentences but the translation was longer than what Sistani ...
You see what is strange about this new Muqtada Al-Sadr's statement? It is written in a very plain, direct language and there is no use of verses from the Quran in the introduction and between the lines [which is unusual for Muqtada and for a cleric]. Greetings to my brothers in Mahdi Army First - The freeze of Mahdi Army is still ...
I will write what today's article on Al-Qabas to mention that the document uses ambiguous phrases and general terms, which can be interpreted in many ways. There is also no mention of the removal of Iraq from the UN's article seven. It seems also that there are some kind of differences between the Arabic version and the English version but since ...
Iraqi resistance group Salah Al-Din Brigades - part of the Iraqi Resistance Islamic Front - released a copy of SOFA dated 06 Aug. 2008 to the public about 30 minutes ago saying: Our intelligence managed to obtain a copy of the infamous SOFA agreement. You can find it here [21 pages, removed from the website but I still have a copy if ...
Breaking news reported few hours ago on Al-Sharqiya TV, Maliki sacked the whole Iraqi SOFA negotiation team including the head of the team "Al-Hamoud". Also there are rumors [denied by Maliki's spokesman Al-Dabagh] says that SOFA issue is transferred from Foreign Minister Zebari to the national security adviser Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie. Among the new team there is Maliki's Bureau Chief and member of ...
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According to Aswat Iraq, Maliki warned the Kurds to go back behind the "blue line" and that is the 1991 borders or they will be announced as outlaws.
Sadrists said that Kurds supported Maliki in his military campaign in Basra then they reject it in Khanikeen - Diyala.
Another warning for Saudi Arabia and this time from Obama:
I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Al-Bayan writer Amrabi aks if the Arab adjusted their policies to the Russian - American new power struggle and how can they benefit from??
Russian comeback will effects our region and issues:
Arab nationalist writer Nahid Hattar in his article "wonderful world, Russia is back" counts the positives of the Russian comeback:
Syria will be able to return to strategic balance policy with of "Israel". A policy that is now more realistic than ever, with the growing strength of Hezbollah. The Russian comeback will harden Damascus positions on foreign policy........No longer possible to talk about the withdraw of Hezbollah's arms in Lebanon or change the equation in Lebanon.
A boost for Hamas role in the Palestinian arena at the expense of Abbas "authority".....Modern Russian weapons will flow to Iraq and serious difficulties will face the American army in the ability of Iraqi fighters to destroy tanks and vehicles and helicopters, just as happened with the Israeli army in South Lebanon 2006.
According to Egyptian website Al-Mesryoon, last two months there was a campaign in America to recruit Egyptians as interpreters in the American forces and to be sent to Iraq.
The Americans offer Green Card to Egyptians who sign a contract to work for at least six months, and the recruiters can extend the period.
Egyptians in problems with the immigration office receive SMS messages or telephone calls ask them to think about this "job opportunity" and the green card.
Saudi Arabia intelligence hacked the Jordanian website "Left Jordan" owned by Jordanian writer Nahidh Hattar.
A statement on the website says:
The Saudi intelligence hacked our website because we revealed the Saudi -Israeli role of targeting the nationalist movements, and the Saudi role of waging sectarian tension in the Arab countries generally and in Iraq and Lebanon specifically.
We will back soon.
Two speakers in the American Democratic Convention attacked Saudi Arabia. That means we will see a real new Saudi era and a new equation in the Middle East.
The biggest deficit in our nation's history. Money borrowed from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis.
At the same time, billions of dollars that we spend on all that foreign oil seems to end up in the bank accounts of those around the world who are openly hostile to American values and our way of life.
According to Manar news, secret communications between Arab capitals to organize a mini-summit in Riyadh or Cairo and Syria will be invited also.
The attendees are:
Syrian President Al-Assad, Mubarak of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, Saudi King Abdullah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and probably Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.
Egyptian news website Al-Mesryoon confirmed the news saying that there is already an Egyptian official delegation visiting Syria to arrange for this summit.
Saadi Gaddafi
If he is just Gaddafi's son it will be OK, but the problem is that Saadi Gaddafi is the head of the Libyan intelligence service also.
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi
Quites politics, but his own newspaper asks him to reconsider saying: Take the book [Gaddafi's green book] and continues the revolution.
Hannibal Gaddafi
Arrested in Switzerland.
Jordan dig for Gas inside the Iraq's territories, According to Jordanian Minister of Energy Kutaishat: The digging is approved by the Iraqi government.
Communists joined the Islamists and the secular parties in one front, the most hilarious Anti-Bashir opposition alliance in Sudan.
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