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Arab forces to Syria? The mistake of 1976 once again

Image above from the head­line of the Guardian 1976 Race against time before the com­ing Arab Sum­mit in Bagh­dad next March (Three GCC coun­tries Saudi Ara­bia, Qatar and Bahrain are already plot­ting to post­pone the Sum­mit, accord­ing to to Al-Seyassah). … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi Kurds play untraditional regional game in the struggle for power in Syria

Using every oppor­tu­nity to seize the power to their side play­ing the king­maker role, Iraqi Kur­dish Coali­tion right now plays a deci­sive role in future of Maliki’s gov­ern­ment, but on the regional arena and look­ing to Syria, the Iraqi Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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Feltman’s Militia” aka “Free Syrian Army”

Turk­ish Sabah news­pa­per con­firmed what I reported ear­lier. The video above is broad­cast recently on BBC4 shows the so-called “Free Syr­ian Army”. The clip reveals two real­i­ties, 1) The gun­men are based in north Lebanon, an area thrives with Sunni … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Syria decided not to attend the AL meetings in Morocco?

What changed that made Syria decide not to attend the Arab League meet­ing in Morocco hours before its start? Even the Arab meet­ing in Morocco meet­ing started to take a “softer” tone against Syria [accord­ing to the lat­est news, Arabs … Con­tinue read­ing

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US pressure on Iraq to sanction Syria

Pres­sure from the US on Syria’s neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, send­ing US Trea­sury Assis­tant Sec­re­tary to Jor­dan and Lebanon. No need to report the posi­tions of the Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs and coali­tions which are already known but as part of the pres­sure … Con­tinue read­ing

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International solution for Syria: A dysfunctional State

As Simon Tis­dall described the sit­u­a­tion in Syria as: Syria is mov­ing inex­orably from Arab spring to an ever darker, dan­ger­ous win­ter of dis­con­tent. Sources say that Arab and inter­na­tional com­mu­ni­ca­tions to find a solu­tion for the polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in Syria. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadr to accept the US presence in Iraq! Syria is toying with the Americans

After less than a day since he released his state­ment vowed that Iraq to become a grave­yard for Amer­i­cans, Muq­tada Al-Sadr changed his posi­tion to accept the pres­ence of the US troops in Iraq. Sadrist leader in the Iraqi par­lia­ment said … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arab security report, week 26

From Lebanon, Syria to Libya, in his arti­cle count­ing the UN “blame-game” of Hariri’s assas­si­na­tion , Roberts Fisk for­got to count one more attempt reported by the Saudi media back in 2001.

Why the Libya fight­ing in Mis­rata can be solved in Jor­dan? And why the Qatari Crown Prince “Mini-banana” held a secret meet­ing with the Egypt­ian rev­o­lu­tion activists?

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Sadrists suicide bombers, part of the region divide and unrest politics

At a time when Moq­tada al-Sadr, blessed a group of sup­port­ers ready to carry out sui­cide bomb­ings against “infi­del occu­pa­tion” Amer­i­can tar­gets in Iraq (image above), he did not give the green light to do so. Sadr responded, say­ing: .. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arab security report … week 25

Syria Rare videos of armed Syr­ian rebels in the Syr­ian city Banias. It is clear that the group is highly orga­nized, dressed in semi-uniform, and car­ry­ing ammu­ni­tion as well as machine guns. And more impor­tantly, they are using wire­less devices … Con­tinue read­ing

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