Archive for February 14, 2008
Syria announced that it will form a special investigation committee to find the fact regarding the assassination of `Imad Mughniyyah. Syria media are speculating that the investigation will reveal that Syrian TV was playing: “The plums. From Where? From Where?” song at the same time of the assassination.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Finally. The queen of Jordan finally commented on the regular Israeli killing of Palestinians. She urged Palestinians to avoid…reckless driving.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Amer believes that a large number of comments written on Arab news sites, especially Al-Arabiya and Elaph, are written by members of Arab intelligence services.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
It is official: Lebanon is now made of two separate and distinct republics: a Sunni republic versus a Shi`ite republic, and each republic enjoys an outside regional and international patron. The Christians and Druzes are mere bystanders. Young people of both republics are eager for civil war: some of the demonstrators in the Hariri festival [...]
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Bono, who has finally decided to learn to play a musical instrument–he is learning how to play the triangle–meeting with Zionist dignitaries. This is a man who has never met a human rights violator that he did not like. (thanks Ali)
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Comrade Khalid succinctly summarizes the obscene Hariri festivities in Lebanon.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“The judges relied on Fawza Falih’s coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had “bewitched†them to convict her in April 2006. She retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and that as an illiterate woman she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint. [...]
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“ The group’s founder, former Air Force lawyer Mikey Weinstein, said he has documented 6,800 testimonies by military personnel — nearly all of them Christians — of sometimes punitive or humiliating attempts to make them accept a fundamentalist evangelical interpretation of Christianity.”
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Bin Ladenites kooks have threatened a concert by one of my favorite contemporary singers, the Syrian Asalah.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“For example, American officials discovered in 1995 that Mr. Mugniyah was on a commercial flight that was supposed to stop in Saudi Arabia, but Saudi officials refused to allow the plane to land, frustrating the attempt to arrest him.” No, New York Times. The plane landed but Saudi government turned down a US request to [...]
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“Customs agents have the prerogative to examine and even copy data from travelling citizens’ laptops they search, CNN’s American Morning reports.” (thanks Mouin) A:link {text-decoration: none} A:visited {text-decoration: none} A:active {text-decoration: none} A:hover {text-decoration: underline; } a.red:link, a.red:visited { color: #990000 ; } .style1 { color: #666666; font-size: 9px; }.style2 { color: #990000; font-weight: bold; [...]
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“it is reasonable to speculate that the information or aid needed to kill the Hizbullah leader might well have come from one of Damascus’s former allies in Lebanon”
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
“former CIA officer Robert Baer, in an email to [Laura Rosen] this morning: An old friend of mine. Friend may not be the word. Anyhow the Israelis persuaded him to set off a car bomb in a Damascus bus station. He used the Guardians of the Cedars, paid them something like $200,000. Bomb went off [...]
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad
Mini-Hariri said this to LBC-TV: “…But to attack kings and presidents who gave everything to Lebanon is not permissible…It is shameful for any person to speak ill about the king” of Saudi Arabia.
Posted on February 14, 2008 by As'ad