According to Saudi Al Watan, an Iranian source told the newspaper that the only thing they agreed to do is to continue the Iran - U.S. - Iraq negotiations. More information reported on Akhbar Al Khaleej, the newspaper says that both Iraqis and the Americans formed secret teams to revive some points in the agreement. The American team formed by the ...
It seems Sistani wants to know what it's like to be a politician, reported today on Al Hurriya news that Sistani's representatives will participate in the provincial election in Basra, why in Basra and not in other provinces or Hawza's strongholds Karbala and Najaf is not explained [oil? or preventing Al Sadr from dominating the votes]. What happened that Al Hakim ...
As I said before, the report of the false Fatwa issued by Sistani meant to embarrass the high Shiites institution Al-Hawza, without any details the Al-Arab Al-Youm reported that there is kind of unrest among Shiites about Sistani's denial of issuing such Fatwa, but it seems the pressure continues with another false report that Sistani rejects the U.S. - Iraq ...
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 collapse, and financial source; Kuwait is not interested to give money for free. The interesting thing is that Jordan throws all ...
How can I explain the confusing messages about what's really going on, without telling a short history of Mosul? About two days ago, news agencies reported that Iraqi security forces carried out mass arrests in Mosul, about 900 former-army officers (not connected to al-Qaeda) who are given "amnesty" few months ago, al-Hayat reported today: [The arrests] included former members of Ba'ath party, ...
I reported this story "Mosul Army commander asks Baath Party for help", weeks ago and today it seems Maliki don't need this cooperation any more, arresting every former Baathist.
2008 the fall of Maliki - It was true, Al-Maliki was unconscious for 30 minutes, according Kurdish sources the breakdown came after an argument about some unsolved issues with the Kurds and threatened him of withdraw from the parliament. This was confirmed even by Maliki's office accusing the Kurds [Barazani and Zeibari] of "cooking something" behind his back. Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish ...
Reported right now on Al-Sharqiya news channel that Al-Maliki transferred to London urgently for health problem. The interesting news is Al-Sharqiya added that his doctors asked the permission of his family to transfer him to London immediately. [Why asking his family's permission? Is he unconscious?]
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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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