Roads to Iraq

Under this title "Seymour Hersh fabricates a report about the connection between Damascus bombing Al-Mstaqbal Trend", Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai wrote: The newspaper learned from an American source that the New Yorker's journalist Seymour Hersh, has recently finished a tour in Lebanon and Syria, where he met a number of security officials, to write a long report about the connection between Damascus ...

U.S. embassy in Beirut – Lebanon released images of the missing journalists.

After the assassination of Imad Mughniyah, and exactly after Kuwait started the witch-hunt against Mughniyah's mourners, an article appeared on Kuwaiti newspaper annahar with a title "If you are a Shiite in Kuwait" by Kuwaiti writer Dashti [the article on his Blog], few hours later, the newspaper removed it from the Inernet-version, an apology to Saudi Arabia published instead, ...

Rumors say that Aljazeera was responsible for the arrest of Sami al-Hajj their Cameraman by leaking false information about money-laundry in Afghanistan, I don't know if its true or not but there is one question here: Why this "exaggerated" receive of al-Hajj that Aljazeera director "Wadhah Khanfir" went to Sudan waiting for al-Hajj arrival while they totally forgot Taysir Alluni ...

Reported, that warlords Talabani and Barazani will sue Michael Rubin for the report he wrote early this month called "Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?" [read the article], also to sue Kurdish newspaper Hawlati for translating the report from English to Kurdish. Both warlords started also a court process against Lebanese two-monthly newspaper Al Adab for publishing an article criticizing the ...

AL-Hayat reporter and corespondent Raghida Dergham a paid PR agent for neocons ideology and married to an Israeli man, wrote the following on Al-Hayat reporting the last Brammertz report saying: In regard to Syria, Brammertz said : "Syria and other countries continued to provide responses", without mentioning, as he said in the past, that Syria was cooperative. Find this line: [، وفي ما ...

- An explanation of the failed assassination attempt against Al-Hayat corespondents "Abd Al-Wahid Tuma" and "Soudad Al-Alihi" yesterday as reported today by the "Iraqi Assembly for the Defense of the Journalists Rights" after they revealed today to Al-Hayat that 9,000 government officials are holding false school-graduation certificates among them Maliki's top advisors and two ministers. The first victim of the forgery ...

Sadly I couldn't find the whole transcript, but it seems that Aljazeera corespondent Yosri Fouda lecture in the American University in Cairo two days ago "Covering Al Qaeda: Reality and Spin Doctoring" was very interesting. One of the points he mentioned was the connection between Ba'ath Party and the Islamic Army, saying something like: Insurgents from the Islamic Army in Iraq shooting ...

Aliraqnews reported that Iraqi journalists said that the American and Iraqi forces arrested the former journalist Sabah Al-Bazi in his work at the Bajji refinery and broke one of his hands. In a telephone conversation Al-Bazi said the reason was about a year ago he filmed a scene of dead American soldiers, added that the American troops stole fifty ...

Very powerful lecture by Heikal in the Oxford "Arab Media" conference called "Bridges and Barriers", Heikal denies the existence of "Clash of Civilizations", and blames the rich "northern" countries of creating such clash: Suddenly the world woke to a new image of the Muslim, Arab and non-Arab alike....Last year Pope Benedict XVI stood before a German university....delivered a message that the ...