Archive for December 31, 2005
The Syrian regime. The Syrian regime, according to the well-informed Al-Hayat correspondent Ibrahim Humaydi, will officially take legal action, NOW, against `Abdul-Halim Khaddam for a financial scandal in which he (and his son) were reportedly paid off to bury nuclear waste in Tadmur back in 1996. But the Syrian regime in 2001 arrested a Syrian, [...]
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
The Posts, 1910. Leon Spilliaert.
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
“Spielberg is plainly nervous about the impulse behind this film, which is why he tosses in wisecracks, further flashbacks to Munich, soft chats between Avner and his mother, and anything else he can, so as to honor and legitimatize a series of state-approved kills. If he had told the story straight, without such hedging, and [...]
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
“Palestinians in Iraq Pay the Cost of Being ‘Saddam’s People’” (What an insult. “Saddam’s people”? They are their own people.)
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
“Women’s Rights Laws and African Custom Clash”
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
“Fuel Crisis Deepens in Iraq With Lines Forming at Pumps”
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
“Kurds in Iraq prepare to form state in north” (thanks Tara)
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad
His last hurrah: “As a fuel crisis deepened in Iraq, the government replaced its oil minister with controversial Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, whose poor performance in the Dec. 15 elections was a setback in his recent attempt at political rehabilitation.”
Posted on December 31, 2005 by As'ad