Archive for January, 2004
Let it be noted: I say that the Bush administration is merciful and compassionate: U.S. releases juveniles from Guantanamo prison. Official says trio returned to Afghanistan after more than a year in captivity.
Posted on January 30, 2004 by As'ad
This is bizarre: Japan Reportedly Paying Y10 Billion (75,052,849 EUR) to Iraqis to Guard its forces in Iraq
Posted on January 30, 2004 by As'ad
The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq will lead the United States and Britain to invoke humanitarian concerns as the war’s primary justification. The evidence of their long entanglement with Saddam’s regime tells a different story.
Posted on January 30, 2004 by As'ad
Comissar Ashcroft: Bush would veto bill scaling back Patriot Act
Posted on January 30, 2004 by As'ad
Just take the war to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: “While much of the U.S. military is currently focused on stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia pose a longer-term strategic challenge to American interests, the senior U.S. military commander in the region said yesterday. “
Posted on January 30, 2004 by As'ad
This man lost any credibility.
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that people concerned about losing freedom to government anti-terrorism efforts should speak out. Why does not she?
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
Remember to vote on the new Angry Poll, to the left below (I will make the 100 the cut-off mark).
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
For those who asked: this is from my new review essay on the Islam Industry in the Middle East Journal (footnotes not included): “…In present-day studies of Islam, one can easily cite as a source for research “a writer on a Muslim bulletin board.†In Islam and the West (1993), none other than Bernard Lewis [...]
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
By the way, on Saddam’s ambition to be a writer: his advisor Tariq Aziz told Chief Weapons inspector, David Kay, that up to the start of the war, Saddam was sending him his last manuscript to edit. I read Saddam’s first novel, Zabibah Wa-l-Malik, and it was such a boring and tedious narrative, very much [...]
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
From Maureen Dowd’s column of today: “These two would-be world-class tough guys were willing to go to extraordinary lengths to show that they couldn’t be pushed around. Their trusted underlings misled them with fanciful information on advanced Iraqi weapons programs that they credulously believed because it fit what they wanted to hear. Saddam was swept [...]
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
From the New York Times today: “President Bush plans to scale back requests for money to fight AIDS and poverty in the third world, putting off for several years the fulfillment of his pledges to eventually spend more than $20 billion on these programs. Hardest hit would be the United Nations-supported Global Fund to Fight [...]
Posted on January 29, 2004 by As'ad
Not to alarm you: but the US plans to take its war, or one of its many wars, into Pakistan. Pakistanis are thrilled: they want tons of US bombs and missiles to fall over their heads. They know they liberate.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
Voting Analysis of New Hampshire.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
For those who care: my review essay on the “Islam Industry” (good and bad books on Islam) appears in the new issue of The Middle East Journal.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
How often (per day) are we going to hear that John Kerry fought in the Vietnam War, and killed Vietnamese people. His country is very proud of him.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
French cabinet ministers on Wednesday adopted a bill to ban all conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. Good.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
Aramaic, language of Jesus, lives on in Cyprus (and in a few villages in Syria).
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
Buying what? Congress recently allocated $180 million for aid to be disbursed directly by US soldiers.
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad
The return of Iraqi communists. They could have had a chance of spreading their message had the silly leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party not served as mere tool of the US occupation. One of their leaders say about the Americans: “we are ready to be of service if we can help.” They were rewarded [...]
Posted on January 28, 2004 by As'ad