Archive for October 27, 2005

News from “liberated” Iraq: “23 dead as Shia and Sunni militia clash”

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

This is Zionism: press freedoms in Israel: “Shin Bet warns Arab journalist against talking to his editor.”

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

“Juan Anderson, 48, claims [Omar Sharif] punched him and called him a “stupid Mexican” after he told him he could not retrieve his Porsche from the parking lot with euros.”

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Two pro-US Syrian opposition figures, who have no support whatever inside Syria (outside of the US embassay that is) are in coflict it seems. Nabil Fayyad is accusing Farid Al-Ghadiri of collaboration with Israel. Fayyad actually accused Al-Ghadiri of being an “agent” for Israel.

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

I always say that there is no humiliation that is visited on Saddam that is sufficient to punish him for his crimes. I should add that there is no punishment sufficient for Saddam or his half-brother Barazan. This pathetic former head of Saddam’s intelligence apparatus, whose tenure witnessed an elaboration and development of torture techniques, [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Those who love wars: Another deception of the Iraq war. Al-Arabiyya TV aired a hagriographic “documentary” on Shaykh Zayid of UAE. I only watched the 2nd part of it, and it dealt partly with the Iraq war. In it, Abu Dhabi heir apparent, Shaykh Muhammad Bin Zayid, revealed, after a moment of hesitancy, that Saddam [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Where is the perspective? The statement by the Iranian president generated more Western outrage than the regular Israeli murder of Palestinians.

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Rafiq Hariri on Rustum Ghazalah and Ghazi Kan`an (and yet he is still referred to in the US press as “anti-Syrian”):I finally found it. On October 9th, 2002, Rafiq Hariri arranged for the Key of Beirut to be awarded to the head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon, Ghazi Kan`an, upon the end of his service [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

The Mufti of Lebanon, who has the intellectual abilities of…a potato, issued this declaration: نشرت جريدة < > نص المقابلة التي أجرتها مع مفتي الجمهورية الشيخ محمد رشيد قباني بتاريخ 8/10/2005ØŒ عن أوضاع المساجد وضبطها بالاوقاف الاسلامية وإداراتها، ولوحظ أن الصحيفة قد استبدلت في نص المقابلة المنشورة لفظ < > الذي يأتي بعد ذكر النبي [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

While Israeli planes freely roam the airspace of Lebanon, and while Israeli land mines fill the land of South Lebanon, and while Israeli warships intercept Lebanese boats and ships and regularly arrest and kidnap Lebanese fisherpeople, and while Israeli soldiers kidnap Lebanese shepherds, the brave soldiers of the Lebanese Army (who are too eager these [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Yesterday, women in the Hirmil area in Lebanon stoned convoys of the Lebanese Army as they were trying to intimidate Palestinian fighters who can defeat them, with their hands tied behind their backs. The women were furious because the Lebanese Army is closing all passage points between Syria and Lebanon, and poor Lebanese have for [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

The gifted artist of Lebanese police is back with a new sketch of yet another suspect. It is the previous suspect with a different shirt and less hair. Upon release of this sketch, 500000 Lebanese were arrested for resembling the above suspect.

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

What? You think that I have nothing better to do than to go over the articles of Hassan Fattah to locate errors, mistakes, and biases? Today, the highly incompetent Hassan Fattah of the New York Times was talking about the Ramadan TV serials and only mentioned one, of the tens of TV serials showing, that [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Freedom of Expression in the “new” Lebanon. The (unintentionally funny) spokesperson of the Ahbash Movement in Lebanon, `Abdul-Qadir Al-Fakhani, held a press conference the other day to explain the references to Al-Ahbash in the Mehlis report. Of course, his explanations were dubious; and he simply dismissed the phone calls from and to the `Abdul-`Al brothers [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Who Silenced Ibrahim Al-Amin of As-Safir? Hariri Inc Silenced Ibrahim Al-Amin. I just wish to confirm that Hariri Inc is indeed behind the pressures on As-Safir to ban Ibrahim Al-Amin from writing. Another (silent) victim of the Hummus Revolution. Will the US ambassador in Lebanon (who has visited May Shidyaq in the hospital 10 times [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

I will be signing my contract for my new Lebanon book this week. Here are some tentative titles. Let me know what you think: “When Hummus Hit the Fan”; “A Homeland Full of…Hummus;” “Gone with Hummus”; “Hummus of Arabia”; “Dude, where is my Hummus?”; “Drenched in Hummus”; and “Republic of Hummus”.

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Chagall’s “Juggler.”

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Rich Nations are accused of giving ‘nothing’”

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Terje Roed-Larsen: “The existence of armed groups defying the control of the legitimate government which by definition is vested with a monopoly on the use of force throughout its territory, is incompatible with the restoration and full respect of the sovereignty”. (Angry Arab: Roed-Larsen’s report is incompatible with the restoration and full respect of sovereignty.) [...]

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad

Political cowardice award: Sen. Kerry “says 20,000 troops should be sent home after December elections.” A year ago, while running for president, he called for an increase in the number of US occupation troops.

Posted on October 27, 2005 by As'ad