Archive for July 1, 2007
Look how ridiculous he sounds: “He said the government “refuses” to permit the U.S. to “carry out any military operation in any Iraqi province or city without first acquiring permission from the leadership of the Iraqi forces.””
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“Details surface in Haditha killings: Hearings and interviews provide a clearer picture of the day in Iraq when Marines from Camp Pendleton killed 24 civilians”
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Dalai Lama was interviewed on AlJazeera English. He was asked about this contradiction: he ostensibly he is opposed to war and violence and yet when it came to Iraq and Afghanistan wars this consistent puppet of US foreign policy could only say: let us wait and see. He answered that there are positive signs in [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Just yesterday, Prince Nayif Bin `Abdul-`Aziz, defended the moral police. “The National Society for Human Rights, a nongovernment body, has issued a report which, according to the daily Arab News, levels a string of allegations at the religious police: abusive language, unsubstantiated accusations, humiliation of people during interrogation, beatings, unnecessary body searches, forced entry into [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“NATO has admitted that some civilians were killed Friday but says the number is far fewer than 45.”
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“My win-a-trip journey to Africa, with a teacher and a student.” You call that “win-a-trip”? Are you serious? I would call it “lose-a-trip”. I would call it the “miserable trip.” I would rather spend a week with a baboon than a day with Nicholas Kristof. But I do believe that the teacher and the student [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Very Angry Arab. When I arrived in Islamabad, I was taken to a government guest house (provided to guests of the state universities). They come with servants and cooks. I was told that I can tell them a dish, and they would prepare it for me (I was not all too comfortable with that. Like [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“A journalist who worked for the Al-Arabiya television network in the Gaza Strip is seeking asylum in Norway, saying his family was threatened because of his reporting, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK reported.”
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“But the size of the decline was hard to gauge because death counts in Iraq are highly inaccurate. Some bombing victims’ bodies are never recovered, families often collect their dead before they are counted by officials, and the dead bodies found around Baghdad, while generally taken to the city morgue, are sometimes taken to hospitals [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
This is an (not totally accurate) account of a talk I gave here in Islamabad.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“”We have sent that message [to Israel], and we are waiting to get started with this,” Fayyad said in his first interview with a Western network since he was appointed to the post more than a week ago. Fayyad rejected the notion that his stance on dealing with Israel might be seen by some Palestinians [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal, absolves Ashraf Marwan. Conspiracy? What conspiracy?
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Do you notice that there is a new formula adhered to by both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: they can never criticize Israel without having to criticize Palestinian groups. What false symmetry between the occupiers and the occupied.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Look at the cartoon at bottom of the page. An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper prints a cartoon in which the Nahr Al-Barid camp is portrayed as a monster with the name of “terrorism”.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Israeli occupation soldiers killed her relative in Gaza.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Displaced refugees from Nahr Al-Barid living amid the garbage in Baddawi camp.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
Kamal Khalaf At-Tawil provides a full account of the career of Ashraf Marwan.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“Abu Henry, it seems, “told how the probe might cause Riyadh to cancel security and intelligence co-operation, potentially depriving London of access to vital surveillance of terror suspects during the haj pilgrimage to Mecca… The ambassador had even suggested (that) persisting with the SFO probe could endanger lives in Britain”. According to a person “closely [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
“With the above examples in mind, readers should take bloggers, especially the self-righteous ones like this Angry Arab Abou Khalil, with a grain of salt.” The fellow was puzzled as how Hariri media advisor, Hani Hammud, was able to prevail on March 8th media. Simple. He threatened lawsuits, and his lawyer sent legal notices to [...]
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad
This is hilarious. Now Thomas Friedman is obtaining insights from Hazim Saghiyyah. This is like Bernard Lewis obtaining insights from Fouad Ajami. How refreshing.
Posted on July 1, 2007 by As'ad