Archive for September 12, 2005
The Dilemma of Lebanese Journalists: so, as is well known, Lebanese journalists are not happy with the new decision by the Saudi King to ban the kissing of his hands. Lebanese journalists offered a compromise. They offered to kiss the hands of his subordinates instead. The king is mulling the offer.
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Pape’s survey reveals that there is nothing intrinsically “Islamic” about the suicide bomber. By his estimate, Islamist groups account for no more than 34.6 percent of the suicide terrorist attacks staged in the past twenty years.”
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“A review of the records and accounts of over 180 Palestinian suicide bombers confirmed that close to half of them—and a larger number during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada—embarked on their suicide missions shortly after they had lost a very close person. This person could have been a friend, family member or lover.”
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
Zarqawi? The last audio speech by Zarqawi did not sound like Zarqawi. The tone was weaker. I am reading the new (and only) biography of Zarqawi by Fu’ad Husayn (a Jordanian journalist and his former jailmate–and I wrote about him before when he produced the Zarqawi documentary for LBC-TV). He is too much of a [...]
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Genetic Analysis Suggests Human Brain Is a Work-in-Progress”
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
Cypress Trees at Cagnes. 1908. Henri-Edmond Cross.
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
It is a sad day when Anderson Cooper is considered the “anchorperson of the future.” The article does not tell you that his mommy, the socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, got him every job that he has ever held. Two years ago when I was about to be interviewed by him on CNN from my house (see [...]
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Emmanuel Todd voit poindre le spectre d’une crise à la soviétique” (thanks Karim)
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
How simple and how silly Lebanese history looks in this dumb Washington Post’s editorial. You would not know that Rafiq Hariri was a linchpin of the Security Order set up in Lebanon by Syria and its cronies, notably Hariri, from this piece. And can you explain to me why all of a sudden US government [...]
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
The brilliance of occupation: “thousands of American and Iraqi troops who entered the city this weekend found that many insurgents had fled and that its most dangerous neighborhood was largely deserted”
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Arabs Take Byte at Regimes” (As if this is new. How many Arabs died in Arab jails resisting and fighting those regimes?)
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Scotland Yard was thwarted yesterday in its attempt to seize a former senior Israeli army officer at Heathrow airport for alleged war crimes in occupied Palestinian lands after a British judge had issued a warrant for his arrest.” (This offcer will probably be invited by US Congress and given the Medal of Freedom. Such are [...]
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
“Mother orang-utans shot dead so infants can be traded as pets”
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
These are the Palestinians: a group of Palestinians trying to stop an Israeli occupation theft of their land in West Bank.
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
An Iraqi man refusing an offer of “liberation” from a US soldier. He refused to leave his house in Tal Afar. He probably is dead by now.
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad
What Hassan Fattah of the New York Times will never report. The Hummus Revolution continues: tents belonging to poor Syrian farm workers were set on fire yesterday in `Akkar.
Posted on September 12, 2005 by As'ad