Archive for June 3, 2007
“I have just learned that my friend S, who is Palestinian and who was stopped earlier by the army (see “just one little cheese sandwish“) was stopped today arbitrarily and beaten by the Internal Security Forces, the official police force of Lebanon. I haven’t been able to talk to him but the story I have [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
“Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city’s neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment. The American assessment, completed in late [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Iranian president Ahmadinajad must be a man with a lot of free time on his hand. Today, he held a long meeting with Talal Arsalan. Talal Arsalan, for potato’s sake.
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Today, Fu’ad Sanyurah received a phone call from the prime minister of Pakistan. It was a frank talk. From one puppet prime minister to another puppet prime minister. But by the end of it, they got into a shouting match. You see, Sanyurah claimed that he is the best puppet there is.
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Google this in the news section, and you will find that it is only mentioned in the international press but not the in US press (call me conspiratorial–please do. I mean it). “US can forget about winning in Iraq: top retired general”
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
We need to send Anthony Shadid back to Lebanon. These articles in the Post have been merely repeating accounts of Fatfat. “The standoff at Nahr al-Bared began May 20 when Fatah al-Islam fighters attacked Lebanese forces in Tripoli and from inside the camp.” Well, no. The standoff began when the Lebanese Security Forces botched a [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Today, during the Democratic debate, Gov. Bill Richardson (who is well-known Darfur groupie) revealed that “there is sectarian conflict in Iraq.”
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
An Israeli torturer offers his opinion: “”You have to play by different rules,” the Israeli interrogator told an American visitor. “The terrorists want to use your own system to destroy you. What your president is doing is right.””
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
“In an uprecedented move, the agency that oversees public broadcasting has stepped in to arrange distribution for a TV documentary on Islam that PBS had rejected as unworthy. The federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting helped find a new distributor for “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices From the Muslim Center” after seven Republican members of Congress [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Today, my mother was complaining to me about impending speaking trip to Pakistan. She was trying to dissaude me from going. I told her: One more thing. I never had a chance to tell you, but I was invited to give a talk at Fallujah University. She was not amused.
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Boom in Damascus? (I dedicate this piece to the March 14th Movement in Lebanon)
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Lebanese innocent victims of Israeli land mines in Lebanon.In 2000: 7 killed; 112 injured.In 2001: 21 killed, 72 injured.In 2003: 10 killed, 16 injured.In 2004: one killed, 13 injured.In 2005: 4 killed, 22 injured.
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
“As a response to the challenges facing the country, the USAID program is contributing to the USG policy priorities of promoting democratic principles and free economies through investing in the people. It is helping the people of Lebanon by improving their standard of living, protecting their environment and health, building their local institutions, addressing their [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Plagiarism and the “poetry” of Prince `Abdullah Al-Faysal (thanks Kamal)
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
“In 1791, Olympe de Gouges, a radical pamphleteer, published a response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which proclaimed France a constitutional monarchy and gave all men of property the right to vote. “Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights,†reads the first article of [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
“”The civilians who are still in the camp refused to leave even though the army gave them the chance to,” said 31-year-old Houssam. “They should bring the camp down on their heads. They must be helping the militants.” “We need a B-52 bomber,” said his friend Mustafa. “We need to take out the whole camp. [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
I don’t like flags. I don’t like national anthems. I don’t like nationalism. But for the Palestinian people, I make exceptions.
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
According to this brilliant mind, there is one billion Arabs in the world. (thanks Yaman)
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
The Lebanese government issues an official statement on why it banned the movie, Angels in America, in Lebanon: it goes on to describe in graphic details sexual situations between “deviants” (the official Lebanese government word for gays and lesbians), and then–just to make sure–it adds that the movie offers “free propaganda” for Israel and that [...]
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad
Khalid Saghiyyah: a letter to the refugees in Nahr Al-Barid
Posted on June 3, 2007 by As'ad