Archive for August 26, 2006
How many of you know that during the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon, there were non-Hizbullah Lebanese fighters who died fighting Israeli occupiers? There were members of the Lebanese Communist Party, SSNP, and the Amal movement, among others.
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Abizaid: Pakistan Not Aiding Taliban” (Angry Arab: US Aiding Taliban)
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“One morning in 2002, Yadlin recalled, he “woke up horrified” to learn that 15 Palestinian civilians had been killed in an operation. That afternoon, Yadlin called Asa Kasher, a philosophy professor, and began working on ethical guidelines for fighting terrorism. They also asked a mathematician to write a formula to determine acceptable civilian casualties per [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“On their first day at the resort, the princesses were reported to have spent £676,000 on a single diamond pendant. Their fruit bill was put at £2,000 a day and fresh orchids every day cost £1,000. A retinue of 300 local servants has been hired, ranging from chauffeurs and butlers to hairdressers and nannies.”
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Tinseltown Backs Terror Fight — Thanks to Israel Consul General Danoch”
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Humbling of the supertroops shatters Israeli army morale”
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Amnesty International is alarmed at the recent measures of intimidation and harassment of human rights activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Over the last months the organization has received information about the arrest of a prominent lawyer and a court action against another in order to put an end to their human rights activism [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“A Syrian blogger has been arrested by the country’s security forces without explanation” (His name is `Ali Shihabi–reported on AANS two days ago).
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
US media are barely reporting the story of the return of the Taliban–brought (back) to you by George W. Bush.
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
Cedar Revolution: yet again. Some 18 tents where Syrian workers live in `Akkar were set on fire by Bush’s Cedar Revolutionaries in Lebanon.
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
Alexander Cockburn and the Humorless Left. Cockburn must have been deeply offended because I had declared a certain ostensible “interview” conducted by Turkish leftists with Hasan Nasrallah to be a hoax. I did not blame Counterpunch, and did not hold them responsible. I thought that I was doing them a free service. Here, Cockburn addresses [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
Avenue de l’Opera: Morning Sunshine,1898. C. Pissarro.
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
Highly-placed sources in Beirut inform me that the all “those suspects in Germany’s train bombings are members of” the political arm of Hariri Inc. So basically, US allies in Lebanon are now aligned with Al-Qa`idah–well, they have been for a while now.
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Confronted by Iraqi troops, the Iraqi major said, some looters continued to ransack the base, taunting the security men by saying, “Shoot me!” They then burned what remained of the facility, which had been an Iraqi army camp before the British moved in after the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.”
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
The New York Times identifies the reasons of conflict between Lebanon and Israel: the conflict is “a result of Hezbollah’s refusal to recognize Israel’Â’s legitimacy” (thousands of Israeli attacks on Lebanon prior to the founding of Hizbullah notwithstanding, of course).
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
The puppet (and former Taliban fundraiser) is not pleased: “President Hamid Karzai on Friday ordered an investigation into the deaths of eight people in a raid that the U.S. military said targeted al-Qaeda members but police said killed civilians. It was the second time in a week his government has questioned the military’s tactics. The [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
Sectarian Dirty Tricks. Did you see Ahmad Fatfat being interrogated on New TV? That was one of the best political TV I have seen. It was about Ahmad Fatfat’s role in the humiliating episode at Marji`yun barracks. The commander of the barracks–who does not belong to the Lebanese Army but to the Internal Security Forces [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Since the guns fell silent on Aug. 14, unexploded cluster bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes or duds fired by artillery have killed 12 people and wounded 39, according to Chris Clarke, head of the U.N. Mine Action Coordination Center attached to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. Of those, two of the dead and [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Then the French would send another 2,000, making their total contribution 2,600, including the company that has remained in Unifil since the French were hurled out of the peacekeeping organisation back in 1986 after fighting Shia militias in the Lebanese village of Marrake (of which no mention will be made, any more than it is [...]
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad
“Nato pilots have been accused of killing 13 Afghan civilians, including nine children, during an attack close to the British base at Musa Kala in Helmand province.”
Posted on August 26, 2006 by As'ad