Archive for May 27, 2006

While visiting Poland, the current Pope confirmed that the previous Pope will be declared a “saint.” Why do I have the feeling it is going to be very easy to attribute those three miracles to the pope? Has it ever been difficult to find those needed “three miracles?”

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

“”We Specialize in Access, Insight and Intelligence into the Defense Industry, DoD and Government programs,” the Web site for a Cohen investment advisory service said until recently. The Web site said the Cohen Group’s “Competitive Advantage” included “Senior level relationships throughout industry and government.” One day Cohen is appearing at a Lockheed Martin Corp. event [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

“US Marines could face the death penalty after one of their number took horrific photographs of a massacre in Iraq on his mobile phone, The Independent on Sunday has learned. The photographs, seized by the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), show many victims shot at close range in the head and chest, execution-style, according [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

“The children of Guantanamo Bay: “The ‘IoS’ reveals today that more than 60 of the detainees of the US camp were under 18 at the time of their capture, some as young as 14″

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

“FORCES loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, are preparing for an onslaught against the military wing of the Islamist rival group Hamas in a desperate attempt to sustain his waning power. “Civil war is inevitable,” a senior Palestinian security official said last week.”

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

No credence should be given to any political “iniative” coming from Palestinians in Israeli jails. They are in prison, which means that they are NOT free. Yet, Abu Mazen-Dahlan Mafia wants to use a “statement” by prisoners in Israel for their own purposes.

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

The Palestinian people are starving, and the Jordanian king is on a mission in Washington, DC. Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat reports that “Official Jordanian sources told Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat that the Jordanian King, `Abdullah II, will discuss during his visit to Washington which began yesterday, Palestinian developments with President George Bush, especially the desperate need for aid by [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Imagine: the so-called Presidential Force of the “leader” of one state is intended to protect another (occupying) state. That is called a surrogate Israeli occupation force. “Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas intends to expand the Presidential Guard directly under his authority with thousands of new members, with the ultimate goal of a 10,000-strong force. Abbas [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

I was quite pleased to be in the same program with Iraqi poet, Lami`ah `Abbas `Amarah. I was ten years old when I heard her read her poetry in 1970 on Lebanese TV. And I was so impressed, and even developed a crush on her at the time. I ran to get a copy of [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Fatwa-for-a-fee. Even prior to the arrival of dirty oil money, many clerics would issue whatever fatwa for a fee. Take the Lebanese Shi`ite cleric, Hani Fahs: he has been a cleric-for-hire all his life. From `Arafat, to the Iranian regime, and for Hariri Inc.

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

From Economist of this week: “In the 1980s America let the USSR “secretly” buy banned technologies—but only after it had sabotaged them so that they failed to work properly. And in 2001 a Boeing plane built for China’s then-president Jiang Zemin was rejected after it was found to be stuffed with surveillance devices.”

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

From Economist of this week: “Repeatedly, small groups of demonstrators in central Cairo have been blocked by serried ranks of riot police, then charged, beaten and dragged off singly by young, club-wielding plainclothesmen. Some 400 peaceful protesters are now in prison under the same emergency laws that ministers say are wielded only against terrorists and [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

I read somewhere that Ahmad Chalabi did not win more than 600 votes in the last election-under-occupation. And he probably spent $10,000.00 per vote.

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Hani Al-Hasan, one of the historic figures of the Fath Movement, warned in a meeting with Fath cadres that the US government is trying to control the movement through generous funding and buying of elite members of the movement, Al-Quds Al-`Arabi reports. How things have changed in Fath: from the strugglers like Abu Yusuf, Majid [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

It is official. The best manaqish in the whole of the US are found in San Diego at Mama’s Berkery and Lebanese Deli. I have been there before, and I had a delicious meal today. The masses everywhere may celebrate.

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Kooky news from An-Nahar: An-Nahar, the right-wing, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people), sectarian Christian newspaper, reports with a straight face that the Lady of Bishwat Church in Lebanon keeps performing miracles and curing the sick. Her pictures have mysteriously been dripping Hummus and olive oil at night. And this person came to the church with crutches [...]

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Ricky Martin feels that he was an Arab in a past life (thanks Shant) And mini-Hariri feels that he was (fill in the blank) in a past life.

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

“Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, then the top U.S. commander in Iraq, signed a memorandum in Sept 2003 allowing soldiers to “exploit Arab fear of dogs”, but withdrew the reference in a revised version a month later.” (thanks Maryam) (Unfortunately, I am afraid of dogs too.)

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

Kissinger: “Second, in 1976 [the Israelis] want to provoke the Arabs–in Lebanon, in Syria–because they think if there is war they can win and create great turmoil. Third, they want to pass legislation in America to antagonize as many Arabs as possible.”

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad

From yesterday’s USA Today (find me the link, please), p. 4A: “Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., cautioned against precipitous action because the United Nations supports many U.S. interests.”

Posted on May 27, 2006 by As'ad