Archive for July 13, 2004

The Man Whose Back is Against the Wall by Libyan poet Muhammad Al-Fayturi (my translation): For whom? I embrace fire while dead… and fight I, who have no land, no country no face, no time no glory, no price For whom? Your eyes spit in my eyes.. I am the fugitive.. Stare in my eyes [...]

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

LA Times reports: Resentment Is Festering in ‘Little Falloujas’

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

New Iraqi puppet president (a junior aide to puppet prime minister/car bomber) says: “We have a very sharp sword ready for anyone who threatens the security of this country.” Is Saddam writing his speeches?

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

Gender, work, and Wall Street

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

Has anybody noticed this? Saudi government offers amnesty to Bin Ladin terrorists but NOT to liberal reformers in jail.

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

Will Bush (or Kerry) send armies to save them? Seven million people threatened as flood waters cut off whole of north-east India

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

Falling out of fashion: why African models are so last year

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Six-year-old children at the Saudi Islamic Academy in Alexandria, Virginia are taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism, according to a first-grade textbook obtained by the Saudi Institute.

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

British intelligence still talking to Iraqi source who made false claims

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France accuses US of Aids blackmail

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

First, I really do not like all this attention on Saddam’s trial. I care more about the legal rights of thousands of other Iraqis than for the right of this bloody dictator. One Iraqi intellectual (Fakhri Karim) suggested as a punishment that Saddam be let to roam the streets of Iraq protected for one year: [...]

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

THIS IS ZIONISM: A survey conducted at the University of Haifa, reveals that 55.3 % of Israeli Jews consider Israeli Arabs a security threat to the state; 45. 7% believe that Arabs should not be allowed to vote for or run for Knesset; 36.7 % believe that Israeli Arabs should be “encouraged” to leave the [...]

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

My interview with Nasrallah in Estonian. (How is the translation?)

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

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Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad

On my flight from London to US, I managed to read the latest massive version of `Aziz Al-Hajj’s memoirs. For those who do not know, he was a major leader of the Iraqi communist party before being arrested by Saddam’s henchmen in 1969 and after a few weeks of torture, he became a loyal advocate [...]

Posted on July 13, 2004 by As'ad