Archive for March 5, 2006
Hamas will prove to be a more crude and more vulgar version of the Fath movement. You will say that Hamas is not corrupt: there is no evidence to that as of yet, although, like Fath, Hamas really enjoys Arab oil money, and its dependence on Gulf money explains its very polite language toward Saudi [...]
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat is reporting that Liz Cheney will meet with people from the Muslim Brotherhood in her next visit to Egypt.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“Death is the price for speaking out in Iraq” (via juancole.com)
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
Full text: “Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“The Attacks on Beyond Chutzpah”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“Cronyism and Corruption: Wolfowitz at the World Bank”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
This is a new public opinion survey among students of a private Lebanese univeristy. The sectarian differences of respondents are not surprising. I found interesting that the US is still quite unpopular among Sunni respondents.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
When attacked, change the subject. Ilyas `Attallah (a Hariri tool) was attacked in the radio program by Ziyad Rahbani. `Atallah responded by claiming that Rahbani was attacking the municipality of Rumaylah.Ù‹
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“A senior US military officer at Guantánamo Bay told a detainee that he did not care about international law and that the Geneva conventions did not apply to proceedings at the military prison, according to thousands of Pentagon documents released over the weekend by the US government after a court action by the Associated Press [...]
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“Sending the UN into Darfur is no solution at all”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
” Guantanamo man tells of ‘torture’”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
The Class Divide.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
The Nation Magazine: People Magazine of the Left. This is an analysis of Russian politics by the editor of the Nation: “But forget Putin’s telegram, or Kohl’s words or Bush’s video tribute. The high point of the evening came when Gorbachev’s twenty-something granddaughter, Oksana, took charge. Oksana is a kind of musical impresario, a booker [...]
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
“Mrs Clinton’s own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002. Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton’s presidential library in Arkansas.”
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
The new allies of Hizbullah in Lebanon. The media of Gen. Michel `Awn are run by a leader of the Guardians of Cedar.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
A Lebanese University professor mocks and refutes a petition circulating among Hariri members of parliament who now wants to justify their years of submission to Syrian mukhabarat in Lebanon.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
Lebanese demonstrators showing their deeds to lands they own in Shib`a Farms in South Lebanon. Yet, the UN (which does not have a say under international law in the demarcation of borders between nations which is an entirely bilateral issue) insists that the Farms are Syrian-owned, as if this statement justifies Israeli occupation of them.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
Friends in Washington, DC tell me that supporters of the Lebanese Forces militia are being quite hospitable to sectarian warlord/medieval feudal landlord, Walid Jumblat, in his excellent adventure in the US. I never enjoyed this man during his years of submission to the Syrian regime, and enjoy him even less in his time of submission [...]
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad
Apparently, in the session of Lebanese sectarian dialogue on Saturday, Samir Ja`ja`, the notorious war criminal, was blaming the Lebanese for Israeli crimes in Lebanon. Hizbullah helped Lebanese Forces achieve political representation in the last election. They thought that they were being shrewd.
Posted on March 5, 2006 by As'ad