Archive for March 18, 2006
“In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What’s more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders.”
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
“Do you regret telling the president that the Iraqi people would “greet the troops with sweets and flowers? “I regret the phrase but not the intent behind the phrase. By and large, the Iraqi people received the United States very well in the first two or three months — before the occupation was enshrined.” (I [...]
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
This Washington Post article did not mention that it is largely derived from a long study by Khayr Ad-Din Hasib published in Al-Quds Al-`Arabi a year ago.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
A reliable source tells me that Muqtada As-Sadr has sent a message to Muthanna Harith Ad-Dari informing him that the Badr militia has infiltrated the ranks of Al-Mahdi Army and has perpetrated some of the “death squads crimes” in Iraq.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
“Iraq occupation: Three years on and still they’re lying to us”
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
The other day, I watched an hour of an itnerview with US ambassador in Iraq on AlArabiyya TV. He spoke extensively about Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs. In the same interview, he spoke about “the attributes” that he “likes to see” in the new Iraqi prime minister. He also admitted that he applies “intimate pressures” [...]
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
This is a sad story; the story of an Arab intellectual who now is willing to join the chorus of Arab/Muslim intellectuals who are willing “to dance with a rope” for the pleasure of Western audiences (I borrow that line from a letter that Jubran wrote expressing his fears of his celebrity in US). I [...]
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
These demonstrators are not drenched in Hummus: “Once again, French students are leading the march.”
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
The funeral of Palestinian girl, Akabir Zaydan (8). She will be remembered.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
…off to Houston, Texas. I will speak on the Middle East in the Age of the Bush Doctrine on Monday night at 7:00PM at Rice University (Fansworth Pavilion RMC/Ley Student Center). Returning on Tuesday night.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
Transcript of my last aljazeera appearance on Al-Ittijah Al-Mu`akis.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
My interview with aljazeera net.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
Sunday Times, 1987. Andrew Wyeth.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad
`Abdur-Rahman Zaydan with his child-girl, Akabir (8–or 10 in some Israeli accounts), who was killed by Israeli occupation troops.
Posted on March 18, 2006 by As'ad