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Scud missiles to pave the way for a UN resolution to deploy troops on the Lebanon – Syria border

There is one expla­na­tion of why some Arab politi­cians who are counted as “mod­er­ates” (pro-U.S.) started to change posi­tions. Hariri made it very clear in his indi­rect warn­ing to the U.S. of “stop believ­ing every­thing Israel says”, and Egypt­ian FM Abu Al-Gheit call­ing Israel “enemy” (and the recent Egypt’s let­ter to the U.S.). Kuwaiti Al-Rai gives us the rea­son behind Israel-Syria-Lebanon cur­rent Scud pro­pa­ganda and the sur­pris­ing Hariri posi­tion. Accord­ing to the news­pa­per: Israel-U.S. goal is to pave the way for the prepa­ra­tion of a UN res­o­lu­tion to deploy troops on the Lebanon — the Syr­ian bor­der. Accord­ing to the same source, both Lebanon and Syria will reject this pro­posal. The above can explain Hariri’s new posi­tion sup­port­ing Hizbal­lah “resis­tance” in …

The return of the “Death Squads” and a civil war — the U.S. scenario

The ingre­di­ents required to start a civil war are here: The new exclu­sion of the 52 Iraqi politi­cians (among them Salih Al-Mutlaq brother “Ibrahim Al-Mutlaq”), Al-Iraqiya hold an urgent meet­ing to dis­cuss the with­drawal from the polit­i­cal process. An alter­na­tive for Al-Iraqiya is reported by Al-Nujaifi say­ing: The pos­si­bil­ity to restore the entire elec­toral process under a “tem­po­rary” gov­ern­ment. Al-Iraqiya, also put five con­di­tions to accept the re-count of the votes: 1. Board of Com­mis­sion­ers should vote a unan­i­mous deci­sion on the mech­a­nisms and con­trols adopted in this re-cpunt. 2. That the process of being re-counting under: A — the super­vi­sion of inter­na­tional observers. B — the super­vi­sion of observers of polit­i­cal enti­ties. C – the approval of the United Nations on …

The “round-table” rejection

Adding to my pre­vi­ous post about Al-Iraqiya’s rejec­tion of the round-table talks. If any­thing agreed upon by both “State of Law” and “Al-Iraqiya” then the rejec­tion of the “round-table”. Why this rejec­tion, while both insist on a gov­ern­ment with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of all polit­i­cal blocs, which the core of the “round-table”. When we talk about the round-table idea pro­posed by Ammar Al-Hakim the leader of the Supreme Coun­cil. This table, which can be estab­lished on the fol­low­ing rule: All par­ties who par­tic­i­pated in the elec­tions to sit at a round-table and those who man­aged to obtain 90 seats in the elec­tion will be equal to those who man­aged to obtain two or three seats, since the 90 seats bloc rep­re­sents a …

Clinton: war in the Middle East, this year, at any time

Accord­ing Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Dar: Diplo­matic sources in Cairo told the news­pa­per that the U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton told her Egypt­ian coun­ter­part Ahmed Aboul Gheit and the Saudi intel­li­gence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz dur­ing a pri­vate meet­ing in the Nuclear Secu­rity sum­mit last week, that the Israeli-Iranian armed race is accel­er­ated towards a regional war in the Mid­dle East, dur­ing this year, at any time. Clin­ton warned both Egypt­ian and Saudi offi­cials to take extra care and cau­tion, and define their strat­egy to for­mu­late the posi­tion of their coun­tries in the event of such a war. Ear­lier this year, Joe Biden warned of a pos­si­ble Israeli attack this year, which involves Syria and Lebanon. Clinton’s infor­ma­tion alerted Egypt, and …

Al-Sadr’s sarcastic message

There are few inter­est­ing devel­op­ments in the Iraqi scene, not reported by the media: — Some good news for Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya List, Inte­rior Min­is­ter Al-Bolani and “Unity of Iraq” Bloc will join Al-Iraqiya in the com­ing days, this is announced by Bolani’s ally and head of the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” Ahmed Abu Risha. Will change change the elec­tion results, It is more a sym­bolic gain. — Al-Iraqiya rejected Ammar Al-Hakim’s round-table plan, Osama Al-Nujafi said: The round-table is based on equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion in the for­ma­tion of the gov­ern­ment, which will will abol­ish the right of Al-Iraqiya. P.S. More on this tomor­row. I couldn’t find a hon­est trans­la­tion, report and expla­na­tion of Muq­tada Al-Sadr mes­sage (image above) after the last explo­sion wave in Iraq. Many …

Syria’s military plan to confront Israel

After the Israeli accu­sa­tions of Syria trans­ferred Scud mis­siles are ridiculed even by Israel’s clos­est Arab coun­try ally Egypt say­ing these accu­sa­tions are laugh­able, and even Israeli Defense Min­is­ter Ehud Barak started to play down these accu­sa­tions say­ing that Israel assumes that Syria trans­ferred these Scud mis­siles to Hizbal­lah (funny: a week ago Israeli offi­cials told the media that Syria began to train Hizbal­lah how to oper­ate the Scuds). Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Rai pub­lished today the Syr­ian mil­i­tary plan to con­front any Israeli attack on both Lebanon and Syria: Israel, is not aware of the sur­prises of the Syr­ian mil­i­tary lead­er­ship because Syria says very lit­tle about its mil­i­tary power. Syria will divide the mil­i­a­try oper­a­tions into two mil­i­tary fronts: A: the Lebanese front, …

The Iraqi security forces failed to prevent the bombings, despite the secret warning note

Police source revealed to an news­pa­per (image above) that today’s wave of bomb­ings, which left scores of civil­ians dead and wounded in had been expected since Fri­day night. Mes­sages has been cir­cu­lated to var­i­ous mil­i­tary units in Bagh­dad, there is a plan to bomb a num­ber of Sunni and Shi­ite mosques in Bagh­dad on Fri­day and the mil­i­tary ser­vices placed on high alert. Despite the inten­sive mil­i­tary and police patrols, which roam in var­i­ous areas through­out the night, mil­i­tants were able to carry out ter­ror­ist oper­a­tions accord­ing to their sched­ule and in many areas of the cap­i­tal Bagh­dad at the time of Fri­day prayers. There are strong doubts in the Iraqi street, the pos­si­bil­ity that polit­i­cal dis­putes behind the bomb­ings, especially …

The U.S.-Israel and the recreation of Camp David talks

Is it a coin­ci­dence that a rocket hit the Jor­dan­ian ter­ri­tory two days after Jor­dan announced that it will not allow Israel to deport any Pales­tin­ian from the West Bank to the King­dom, under the recent Israeli mil­i­tary deci­sion. And threat­ened Israel to freeze Wadi A’araba peace Agree­ment with Israel. Jordan’s King Abdul­lah went even fur­ther telling the media that Jor­dan was bet­ter off before the peace treaty with Israel, describ­ing Israel as worst that N. Korea in its inter­na­tional rela­tions. On the Pales­tin­ian side, George Mitchell’s visit to the region (again) is described by Pales­tin­ian news­pa­per Manar as to announce the con­tin­u­a­tion of the peace talks between Israel and the Pales­tini­ans. Manar added that there were secret prepa­ra­tions between …

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 press con­fer­ence in which he announced the assas­si­na­tion of the two Al-Qaeda lead­ers, Latimes pub­lished a story about a secret prison estab­lished by spe­cial forces work under the prime Minister’s com­mand. The tim­ing of the story is not coin­ci­dence, we don’t know who leaked the story, but it is polit­i­cally moti­vated action meant to take Maliki back to earth after his (U.S. boosted) few hours of vic­tory. An offi­cial in the Human Rights Min­istry told AKI that there are political …

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 the polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of this secu­rity event? Accord­ing to the infor­ma­tion reported by the media, the Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Al-Maliki, as well as U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, both have announced the death of the two Al-Qaeda men. The most inter­est­ing and remark­able this time is that the announce­ment of the news didn’t came from the secu­rity and mil­i­tary forces as usual, but announced by Maliki him­self in a press con­fer­ence, show­ing images of the two dead Al-Qaeda lead­ers to confirm …


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