Archive for April 9, 2007
“Iraqi soldiers in uniform joined the crowd, which was led by at least a dozen turbaned clerics — including one Sunni.”
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
I have noticed that US media are barely marking the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war. Not so in the Arab media. All Arab media, including in the pro-Bush Al-Arabiya TV, are marking the event with extensive coverage and interviews with Iraqis. Do the US media ignore it because it is largely embarrassing for the [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
“Given that Mr. Imus spent part of last week describing the student athletes at Rutgers as “nappy-headed ho’s,†you might think he’d have trouble booking anyone, let alone A-list establishment names. But Mr. Imus, who has been given a pass for this sort of comment in the past, also generously provides airtime to those parts [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
“The special tribunal for Lebanon would be the first international jurisdiction established exclusively to prosecute less serious crimes that are only international because the Security Council decided they should be so. It would be the only international court with the task of enforcing national law, with the addition of provisions excluding capital punishment. This measure [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
In Memory of the victims of Dayr Yasin.
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
“But Fox has had plenty of help. Even Time’s Joe Klein, a media insider if anyone is, wrote of the Pelosi trip that “the media coverage of this on CNN and elsewhere has been abysmal.†For example, CNN ran a segment about Ms. Pelosi’s trip titled “Talking to Terrorists.—
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
“A long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen prisoners subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees say. Lawyers for several hunger strikers said their clients’ actions were driven by harsh conditions in a [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
Evidence of torture. Read all about it. Iranian captors dared to take her measurements. Now, that would never happen in US-run jails around the world, where (revised versions of) Geneva Conventions rule. “She told the British tabloid paper The Sun: “One morning, I heard the noise of wood sawing and nails being hammered near my [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
From NYT: “Large crowds marched in the city of Najaf today, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, to protest the American occupation of Iraq.”PS NBN TV showed a section where an Israeli flag was drawn on the ground, so that people would stomp on it. That brought back memories: do you remember how [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
The new security plan: “For American troops, Baghdad has become a deadlier battleground as they have poured into the capital to confront Sunni and Shiite militias on their home streets. The rate of American deaths in the city over the first seven weeks of the security plan has nearly doubled from the previous period, though [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad
Syrian workers in Lebanon. What has not been covered in the Western press, is the extent to which the “Cedar Revolution” has brought about the lynching of Syrian workers in Lebanon. But the racism against Syrians (and Palestinians) in Lebanon is such that even members of the opposition remain silent about the abuse and murder [...]
Posted on April 9, 2007 by As'ad