Archive for January 29, 2006
“U.S. Fighter Jet Crashes Off Australia:…The ship, the USS Ronald Reagan, had been due to conduct naval operations in support of the war on terror as well as security commitments in the western Pacific, the ABC said.” (?!)
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
“Iraq sees ‘brain drain’ as professionals flee threats, violence”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
“Women of Gaza fear for their freedoms under new religious regime”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
“Netanyahu compares Hamas election win to rise of Hitler” (Is this not insulting to the victims of the Holocaust?)
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
“A mixed-sex marathon passed off peacefully in Pakistan yesterday, despite threats of violent disruption from Islamic conservatives. Crowds cheered as hundreds of women and thousands of men ran together through Lahore.”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
The Saudi King, letting his hair down, in Hong Kong.
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
So do Iraqis seem happy in their “liberated” country? Well, this picture was taken yesterday in Baghdad. Do they seem pleased with the fruits of “liberation”?
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
Israeli military jets violating Lebanese airspace yesterday (and every day).
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
Mukhabarat that you find cute: “Jordan: Editor Prosecuted for Posting Articles by MPs: Authorities Revert to Silencing Critics Through Repressive National Security Laws”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
Arab nationalist columnist (and Bin Laden and Saddam fan) `Abdul-Bari `Atwan is correct about one thing (in his column today): Israel and Arab governments will use the Hamas victory to justify and receive support for their own oppressive regimes.
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
A Palestinian girl was shot dead by Israeli occupation troops last week. There was no outrage in the Arab/Muslim world over that. The Arab/Muslim world was busy being outraged over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper. !##??&%%@#!!
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
The Hariri Inc hold on Lebanese (and some Arab) media is such that they can simply block the publication of any unfavorable or embarrassing news items that dealswith mini-Hariri. After meeting with Bush, mini-Hariri made a statement about Hamas that was not printed in any Lebanese newspaper. Only Muhammad Shirri in Ad-Diyar, mentioned it today. [...]
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
Between Garrison Keillor and Bernard-Henry Levy I am supporting Keillor. This is a devastating review of a poseur who acts like a “philosopher.” But then again, this “philosopher” has said some profound things, like “God is dead but my hair is perfect. Worse, this brilliant philosopher says somewhere that poverty will not disappear from earth [...]
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
Staffa, Fingal’s Cave, 1832. Turner, Joseph Mallord William.
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
The brilliant pundit of the Arab media. Today, I was astonished to listen to a `Ala’ Bayyumi, a pundit on AlArabiyya TV. He was introduced as a “journalist from Washington, DC.” . He did the best job (in terms of foolishness) of defending Bush and the neo-cons; better than Bush himself, but that is not [...]
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad
“Why did Slate hire Ahmad Chalabi’s daughter to write tediously about the Iraq elections?” (thanks Mark) “Weisberg also defended the idea of the daughter of a candidate reporting on her father’s campaign, an arrangement that I told him I thought was odd.”
Posted on January 29, 2006 by As'ad