Archive for July 17, 2007

My article in Al-Akhbar titled: “Did the Aggression on Lebanon have aides?” (My original title was “The aides of Aggression.”)

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

Top ten reasons why you should never stay in this hotel in Islamabad. 1) there is a horrible stench that hits you as soon as you enter the lobby; 2) When you ask for Nan bread they bring you the round bread; 3) The hotel hosts weddings daily, and invited kids get bored so to [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Poll: 55 percent of Poles oppose hosting U.S. missile defense base”

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Oil Workers Mount Protest in Basra” (thanks Amina)

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Did the UN Cave to Israel? Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms” (thanks Molly)

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

This blatantly sectarian article (by a reporter for sectarian LBC-TV) illustrates the sectarian bent of An-Nahar newspaper.

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Last Thursday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a notice in U.S. District Court in Miami of its “potential participation” in the lawsuit, which alleges that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, U.A.E.’s prime minister and vice president, and his brother, Hamdan, U.A.E.’s finance minister, enslaved boys as jockeys in camel races.” (thanks Wissam)

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

I mentioned that the book by former chief of Jordanian intelligence, Nadhir Rashid, has been taken off the shelves everywhere. Yesterday, I visited the publisher, As-Saqi books. I asked them and they confirmed that it is has been taken off the shelves. The Jordanian mukhabarat managed to resort to some legal maneuver (Jordan is a [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

Is there one redeeming quality about this entity? “Separately, dozens of Sudanese refugees in Israel demonstrated near Mr. Olmert’s office on Sunday, protesting plans to house them in a prison camp before returning them to Egypt. About 1,200 Sudanese refugees, including 300 from the war-torn Darfur region, have crossed into Israel illegally from Egypt. The [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

I received the following from Ibrahim Hamami who I had met in `Ayn Al-Hilwah refugee camp when I gave a talk there 2 years ago:“Press ReleaseIt seems that Mohammed Dahlan has decided to serve judicial proceedings against me in the English court of law according to a recent letter from his solicitor, which specified 27/07/2007 [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“As my blogging “Angry” friend says: “I kid you not”! While Lebanon anxiously awaits the outcome of any initiative whether its La Celle-St-Cloud’ or talks between “S & S” (as the Lebanese came to know Syria & Saudi Arabia), a MOST INFORMED source (NOT Saudi and NOT Syrian, but of “beltways and bottoms”) relayed that [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Besides, King Hussein was doing a fine job neutering the Palestinians, either making them Jordanians or prodding them to emigrate….(The army’s chief rabbi, Gen. Shlomo Goren, suggested blowing up the Dome of the Rock.)…Hopes that Palestinians would flee en masse, as they had in 1948 (the Israelis even had buses conveniently available to them in [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“Sarkozy’s Ambitions Reach Wide, but Where’s the Depth?” (Leave the depth to Mr. Bush, o New York Times).

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

If Muhammad Al-Maghut used to say about Adonis (his brother-in-law) that he just “baddu Nobel” (wants Nobel). I now can confidently say that Mahmud Darwish baddu Nobel.

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

Yesterday, Iraqi puppet prime minister (and Iranian stooge), Nuri Al-Maliki, declared that Iraqi puppet forces are ready to take over security in Iraq. Today, Al-Maliki misspoke: he said that Iraqi puppet forces are certainly not ready to take over yet. Upon hearing the news, Iraqi puppet foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, screamed: What about me? What [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

have all made bringing light to the dark continent their mission. They fly in for internships and fact-finding missions or to pick out children to adopt in much the same way my friends and I in “Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue [...]

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

NBN’s anchorwoman, Sawsan Safa Darwish, is back on the air. She said that she will not do it again. (Search archives for background of the story).

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad

“High price paid for cheap UK clothes”

Posted on July 17, 2007 by As'ad