According to the Italian newspaper "Corriere Della Sera" Hezbollah appointed an Iranian intelligence "Mohammad Raza Zahedi" aka "Hassan Mahdawi" as Imad Mughniyeh's successor. Lebanese newspapers reported that Hassan Nasrallah in a private meeting meeting said: We will not give up the revenge of Imad Mughniyeh's assaisnation and this will surprise Israel.
This is on the Yemen News Agency in Arabic [not available in English yet] which gives more details on the Israeli-linked terror cell "Jihad Islami" [as I reported yesterday]: The cell contains six persons led by Imad Ali Said Al-Rooni aka "Abu Ghaith Al-Muqdad Al-Yamani". The cell has already sent a number of threats to Arab and foreign embassies in Yemen, ...
Al-Akhbar says: At last the agreement confirmed an American aid to the Lebanese army. A63 Million Dollar, which equals the price of one F-18 fighter jet or three F-16 fighter jets, Washington gives dozens of these jets as gift to Israel. The 63 Million Dollar is 19 million Dollars more than the Saudi gift to the Lebanese schools. Assafir said: Even this amount ...
Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh revealed that the Yemeni security five days ago arrested a terrorist cell in Yemen connected to the Israeli intelligence using Islam to disguise their operations. Saleh promised that the public will hear the details of the trail.
Trying to score at least one tiny achievement, French sources told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat the following: The U.S. is putting pressure on the Palestinians to sign an agreement with the Israelis before the end of Bush term. The agreement contains the progress made in the peace process in Annapolis summit. The Palestinians refused to sign for two reasons: - It would be accepted by ...
Leader of Somalia’s Islamic Courts” in a short interview with Al-Hayat today showed his surprise about the escalating level of Somalia pirates attacks on ships saying: When the Islamic Courts was in power there were very limited attacks, but the recent repeated attacks.... a mystery we cannot understand. Yemeni news site nabanews reveals that recent visit of Yemen president Salih to Jordan ...
Reported today on news agencies the formation of a new Palestinian armed resistance faction called "Hezbollah in Palestine". The faction denies its connection to Lebanese Hezbollah saying they are Sunni jihadists reject the political process will follow Lebanese Hezbollah's path of resistance. The statement ends with the same slogan used by the Lebanese Hezbollah: "Death to Israel...Death to America".
Hassan Nasrallah in his speech yesterday: Lebanon should arm its army even "by obtaining arms from the black market as the resistance does." "Following the reports in Lebanon that Israel objects to the US equipping the Lebanese army with a number of arm systems, can we maintain the sovereignty of Lebanon and its people this way? Must we really wait for permission ...
Indirectly and unofficially, in it headline Syrian champress accuses Arabs [Saudi Arabia] participation in this morning car bombing near Shiites district "Sayda Zeinib" saying: Damascus crime....Although they speak Arabic. Something revealed today by Qatari newspaper Al-Rai about Bush and Lebanese president Suleiman which is related: Informed sources said that Suleiman asked Bush to end Syria's isolation just like France did...The source also added ...
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 and Suleiman do not mention Israel.
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Just listened to Zawahiri's speech after I read these reports say that he used "insult" words.
Zawahri uses the word "Abid" or "Abd" translated directly to English as "slave" but it also means "addicted" or "loyal".
You can find the same word in many Arabic names such as these of the King of Saudi Arabia or Jordan "Abd"dullah.
The English word "negro" transited to Arabic as "Zinji" is more racial and insulting than "Abd", because "Zinji" or even "Aswad" = "black" usually refers to an ethnic inferior minority.
According to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Davis Miliband in his visit to Syria, had a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to Bashar Al-Asad assured him of Israel's willingness to continue the negotiations.
According to Al-Akhbar, Gadhafi's son visit to the U.S. aimed to promote the transfer of power and to approve father-son succession in Libya, especially that he will visit Jewish activists in the U.S.
As reported on Al-Akhbar:
Western countries intelligence services and particularly France started to accuse Saudi Arabia of arming the fundamentals in Lebanon after they found special guns and arms sold by France at the time of the former President Jacques Chirac to Saudi Arabia.
Good report on the Palestinian newspaper Al-Manar on Hamas options and the next move:
Sources close to Hamas said that the movement is in a very difficult position, reluctant to launch attacks on Israel and would prefer to wait until the U.S. political situation to stabilize.
Hamas leaders in exile want to exercise restraint, but they are unable to control the military commanders. Hamas has three options:
1- To go towards Egypt and continue the peace dialogue [with Fatah] immediately and unconditionally.
2- To continue the "calculated" escalation, without pushing the situation to the exploding point.
3- Its called the suicidal option:
A- Armed operation in areas surrounds Gaza strip, joined by other armed factions, but any direct confrontation will hurt Hamas heavily.
B- To confront the Israeli pressure with attacks outside the Gaza strip, in the West Bank or inside Israel, trying to boost its negotiations demands.
The story of the hijacked Saudi oil tanker "Sirius Star" is escalating but yet there are few confusing reports on the Saudi media.
The strange thing is what Saudi funded newspaper AL-Sharq AL-Awsat reported this morning:
The Saudi border guards denied the reports of a hijacked Saudi ship; they [border guards] did not receive any distress call from any ship or Saudi oil tanker exposed to a piracy operation.
The most confusing is what Saudi newspaper reported this morning:
[Saudi oil tanker] "Sirius Star" is liberated.
A Saudi source confirmed the release of "Sirius Star".
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