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Lethal injection for AL-Zaidi (Bush shoe-thrower)

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Sappho

Tunisian news­pa­per Al-Chourouk respon­si­ble for the infor­ma­tion below: A source close to Muntad­hir Al-Zaidi said that the Amer­i­cans gave the jour­nal­ist five injec­tions of a med­i­cine with unknown source and descrip­tion few months ago. Al-Zaidi friend Hamza Has­san Shawqi, said yes­ter­day … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Al-Zaidi — video and speech — update with the English video

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Sappho

First, here is the video of Al-Zaidi speech as released by Al-Baghdadia in Ara­bic of course but here is the high­light of what he says (notice he wears the old Iraqi flag on his shoul­ders): Update ~ Full trans­la­tion here … Con­tinue read­ing →

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No celebration order with Zaidi’s release

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Sappho

Offi­cial sources in the gov­ern­ment told Muntadar al-Zaidi’s [the shoe thrower] fam­ily to sign a pledge which con­firms that they will not cel­e­brate the release of Zaidi “for secu­rity rea­sons”, but the fam­ily will defy the order and cel­e­brate the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bush — Suleiman deal

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Sappho

Assafir says other than the hand­shake his­toric image, Suleiman got noth­ing from Bush except shal­low promises to pro­vide the Lebanese army with mod­ern weapons. Both cut a deal to avoid the embar­rass­ment, Bush do not men­tion Hezbol­lah in his speech … Con­tinue read­ing →

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why is the U.S. angry with Jordan?

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Sappho

After the U.S. Depart­ment of State report on Jor­dan: “Abus­ing labors phys­i­cally and sex­u­ally”, Jor­dan­ian media very worry and still puz­zled with the ques­tion; “why is the U.S. angry with Jor­dan?”. A full study about the recent Jor­dan­ian — U.S. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Attacks on Bush continues by Saudi media

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Sappho

For the sec­ond time Saudi Ara­bia media attack George Bush, Al-Riyadh news­pa­per edi­to­r­ial today “Bush and polit­i­cal extrem­ism journey”

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Bush to clean his mess before he leaves

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Sappho

Accord­ing to Al-Arabiya, a major oper­a­tion on its way to cap­ture Bin Laden after a meet­ing a meet­ing held in the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary base Al-Udeid in Qatar between Amer­i­can mil­i­tary, intel­li­gence ser­vice and Afghan secu­rity forces, the meet­ing also attended … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Arab media and the Saudi disappointment

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Sappho

Here are some of the Arab media reac­tions on the Lebanese agree­ment reflect the Saudi [and the U.S.] dis­ap­point­ment, but first let’s start with the rumors cir­cu­lat­ing in the Arab streets: — There are talks about Syr­ian rep­re­sen­ta­tives invited Michel … Con­tinue read­ing →

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More on the “moderate Arabs” defeat

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Sappho

For the sec­ond day, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported about the Jordan’s mis­cal­cu­la­tion in their rela­tion with the U.S., and Saudi Ara­bia try­ing to open com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels with Iran. The Saudi are not flirt­ing with Jor­dan as before, Olmrt’s gov­ern­ment is about to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bush revealed the future plan in Lebanon

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Sappho

Is it a slip of the tongue from Bush say­ing this in his inter­view with BBC: [The U.S. is pre­pared to strengthen the Lebanese army so it could dis­arm Hezbol­lah], a hint that he rejects the Lebanese army pre­sen­ta­tion?, or … Con­tinue read­ing →

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