Roads to Iraq

Jimmy Carter will visit Lebanon and Syria this month as revealed by Assafir, Gordon Brown visit is scheduled on 27 Nov. Hariri told the Russian newspaper RBCDaily that Lebanon is ready to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as two independent states. Russian political analyst says that Hariri is mediating between the West and Russia: Europe finally realized that the Georgian government is ...

As reported on Al-Akhbar today Western diplomat in Beirut told the newspaper that Syria is cooperating with European countries to capture Saudi-nationality members of Fatah al-Islam remnant in European capitals these elements have Saudi nationality. AL-Balad newspaper reported today that the spiritual leader of the group "Abd Audh" is disappeared from his hiding place in the Palestinian's refugee camp "Al-Badawi" in Lebanon ...

Syria-news has a video clip of the American attack on the Syria village [you can download the zip file here]. I don't think Joshua got it right this time with his analysis that this action is a "Goodbye" operation. The BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen said that add to the improving relations between Syria and Europe [see below], this operation connected to ...

Qatari newspaper Al-Watan says that European - Syrian communication will result in Europe-Syria summit at the beginning of the 2009. Interesting to read is that all these steps are coordinated with Washington in previous, the link said that the U.S. corrected is policy with Syria after pressures from Europe.

Assafir newspaper says that Syria feels the change of the international mood towards Damascus, revealing that a number of European officials will visit Damascus this month. Interesting is the Syrian reaction saying: The U.S. has a real problem of reading the development in the international political scene. Saudi Al-Watan quotes a Syrian source saying: We are tired from the American flip-flopping policy towards Syria, ...

Article on the Egyptian newspaper Dostor noticed the following on Biden-Palin debate: About the third of the debate time they talked about Islam and the Middle East; the war in Iraq, Iran nuclear threats, Israel security and the struggle in Darfur. If they talk about Europe then it was Bosnia and not Russia. He asks: Why Arab regimes do not take advantage of ...

This is very funny and on every Dutch newspaper for two days, the founding father of the Netherlands "Willem van Oranje" = "William of Orange" converted to Islam two years before his death and called himself "Yusuf Ibrahim van Oranje Nassau" according to Dutch historian Jochem van den Berg.

Al-Akhbar says that there are two reasons behind the Syrian military reinforcement on the Northern Lebanese borders. - To provide a geographic defense line for the Russian sea base in Syria's Mediterranean port of Tartus. - To confront armed groups oppose the regime in Syria, financed by some regional powers and the Americans. Syrian and Europeans want to act very fast before ...

Al-Hayat Washington Chief Bureau Raghida Dhrgam wrote the following in her long article today about the U.S. economy crisis: According to Iraqi sources, Iraqis are already started preparing to extend the mandate of the multinational forces in the Security Council. The Iraqi government wants to be removed from the UN mandate under chapter VII for political and sovereignty reasons get out from ...

I am not sure about the truth of Debka's report that Syrian troops to invaded part of Northern Lebanon, but what I know is there is a missing link in this report which reported by Al-Akhbar yesterday saying: Hariri speed up the reconciliation in North Lebanon, after receiving information from European sources saying; with the growing power of the extremists Salafi ...