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Saudi Arabia’s embarrassment on Syria

Inter­est­ing, Saudi Ara­bia denied the reports that it sub­mit­ted a U.N. draft res­o­lu­tion on Syria two days after the Saudi media pub­lished (Eng­lish) the Draft res­o­lu­tion say­ing that KSA dis­trib­uted the Draft res­o­lu­tion on the U.N. mem­bers. Is the denial … Con­tinue read­ing

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Remember the fake “dying babies” story in Iraq? Now they are in Syria

Read this Wik­ileaks cable from US Embassy in Dam­as­cus back in 2006 and com­pare it with the recent events in Syria: Pos­si­ble action: PLAY ON SUNNI FEARS OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE: There are fears in Syria that the Ira­ni­ans are active in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Russia’s Syria plan: War escalation and UN cease-fire

Arabs for­get that a new world order is emerg­ing led by the new pow­ers (China and Rus­sia) who will decide the new rules of the game, which left West­ern coun­tries in “hys­te­ria”, and the US is first world power who … Con­tinue read­ing

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Jordan’s King should step down

For sure this is not in the West­ern media. Jordan’s king Abdul­lah was the first Arab leader who call say Syrian’s Pres­i­dent Assad should step down, but now the table is turned. Video clips show Jor­dan­ian demon­stra­tions call to oust … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kidnapped Iranians in exchange for the 49 arrested Turkish intel officers in Syria

News reports cir­cu­lated by Aljazzera said that the Free Syr­ian Army kid­napped Ira­ni­ans in Syria (Iran and Syria say that the kid­napped are engi­neers). Later the so called “Free Syr­ian Army” denied the report See­ing that the Russ­ian jour­nal­ist who … Con­tinue read­ing

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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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A threat of a Sunni-Kurdish confederation or a test balloon?

Another Turkish-Iraqi ties hec­tic day as Iraq sum­moned the Turk­ish ambas­sador to express unease over Turkey’s poli­cies towards Iraq, while Ankara and Irbil become closer as Turkey’s most senior diplo­mat held unan­nounced meet­ing with Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kur­dis­tan … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Syria, Iraq and Russia tricked the Arab League and the Anti-Assad camp!

On Wednes­day, Decem­ber 14, Qatar, who chairs the Pres­i­dency of the Arab League (the pres­i­dency will end in March this year and goes to Iraq) decided to trans­fer the Syr­ian unrest to the UN-Security Coun­cil after Dam­as­cus refused to sign … 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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Iraqiya List” tiny split

Pathetic arti­cle on the NYTimes. The way Al-Iraqiya-trio describe them­selves as “nation­al­ists, sec­u­lar and lib­er­als” is a sad indi­ca­tion shows that they are out of touch with the cur­rent world and regional devel­op­ments. In less than 24 hours after I … Con­tinue read­ing

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