Archive for February 17, 2007
“Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon’s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
Fair and Square. Guardian of the three sites (two holy sites and the IKEA store in Saudi Arabia) awards his own son a cup for a horse race.
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Exposed: a literary liar and her phoney love: When an author was accused of inventing her profitable memoirs, she turned to film to clear her name. Instead, she was exposed as a fake” (thanks Mouin)
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
2,000 homeless Asians including women and children living under a bridge inJeddah. (thanks Haytham)
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“A new UNICEF report on children’s well-being in rich countries found that the UK and the US are the worst places to grow up while northern European countries are the most children-friendly.” (thanks Julie)
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“At that, several of Rich’s teammates, from St. Bernard High School here, looked down at their feet. There is still some pain in watching a teammate being beaten by a girl — even a girl like Jessica, who has won 23 of her 35 matches this season.”
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Jailed 2 Years, Iraqi Tells of Abuse by Americans”
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Rice: Iraq crackdown is bringing hope”. Would that not be a perfect slogan for dictatorships around the world?
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Padilla’s lawyers disagree. They say their client was tortured by the military and they are asking the judge to order the government to fully account for its treatment of Padilla. “Mr. Padilla is suffering from mental defects stemming from his incarceration in the naval brig,” writes Anthony Natale, an assistant federal public defender, in a [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Documents show new secretive US prison program isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners”
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
I read the full text of the new Iraqi puppet law on Oil and Gas. There is an excellent critique of it by an expert that I shall link to soon. What struck me about reading it is this: it was clearly originally written in English, and then translated into Arabic (just like the Lebanese [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
Transparency in the House of Saud. I really like the transparency and honesty that characterize everything Saudi royals do. Here, in this interview with outgoing Saudi Ambassador in DC (a life-long fan of Bin Laden), he says that the real reason behind his resignation is that he used to come home tired every night. OK. [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
Unfortunately, I came across an author of silly book (Arabic for Dummies) called Amine Bouchentouf. He was on C-Span in some book festival. After two sentences, I knew that he was going to annoy me. He made such an effort to impress the American viewer, I felt–in accent and more. But then he talked about [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“Carter’s book, by the way, is mostly just Christian Zionism. It ignores 1400 years of Muslim history in Palestine and Jerusalem, accepts Peters’s false thesis of significant in-migration of Arabs in the interwar period, and only dares raise some timid protests about the execrable treatment of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories by Israeli occupiers [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad
“The first time that Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Muslim president of Sudan, met Franklin Graham, the prominent evangelical Christian, the conversation came to a kind of standoff. Graham, who has called Islam an “evil and wicked” religion, told Bashir in the 2003 meeting that he wanted to persuade him to become a Christian. Bashir, at [...]
Posted on February 17, 2007 by As'ad