Archive for April 28, 2009
Husayn Musawi
Husayn Musawi is now heading the Hizbullah list in Ba`albak. He was leader of Islamic Amal and later merged with Hizbullah. This story about him from the archives: “In the late 1980s, when Husayn Musawi (then leader of Islamic Amal and now Executive…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
US Ambassador in Lebanon (II)
New TV added more details about the failed visit by the US ambassador in Lebanon to South Lebanon. It showed a group of angry female demonstrators making threats against the ambassador, and there were shoes hailed in the air. When the ambassador made…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan army
“The United States plans to expand a programme to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s security forces in the occupied West Bank, the general in charge of training and equipping them said on Monday. “We have plans to train at least three mor…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
US Ambassador in Lebanon
US ambassador in Lebanon was inaugurating some theater in some schools in `Aba in South Lebanon earlier today. As soon as she arrived, reporters gathered and showered her with questions about American support for Israeli war crimes in Lebanon. Sudden…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Wahhabi standards
“Many women-only sports clubs and gyms in Saudi Arabia face closure under a government clampdown on unlicensed premises, Saudi media have reported.”
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Numbers
“Today, 66 percent of Jerusalem’s residents are Jews and 34 percent are Arabs. By 2020, the Jews are expected to comprise 60 percent of the city’s population, while the Arabs are expected to reach 40 percent.” What would it be in 2050 or 2080, I won…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
To wear or not to wear…the abayah
“Although many Western women do choose to wear an abaya while traveling in Saudi Arabia, and the Foreign Office recommends “conservative dress,” the airline’s requirement that female flight attendants consider the abaya “part of the uniform” upon ar…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Sons of…………………Abbas
“Reuters’ recent review of U.S. aid programs in the Palestinian territories uncovered two USAID contracts made with the sons of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that are involved with the agency’s attempts to promote a better public image of …
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan
A group with Fath insists on the exclusion of Dahlan gang from the Fath conference. Mahmud Darwish’s closest friend, Akram Haniyyah, is a Dahlanist. (thanks Mirvat)
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
What?
” An anti-Israel student event was planned, and then canceled Monday, at New York University (NYU). The student, who has asked to hold an event unrelated to Israel, was actually planning an event to explore Israeli “brutality” against the Palestinian…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Swine
“One Monday, Israel’s deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman, who belongs to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, said the outbreak should be renamed “Mexican flu” in deference to Jewish and Muslim sensitivities over pork.” (thanks Sarah)
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“Israeli settlers destroyed Palestinian farmers’ crops and took over land that belongs to farmers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while soldiers searched homes in the old city part on Tuesday.”
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Tunnels
“Once a profitable business, Abu Abdallah’s tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip has been out of work for three weeks due to an Egyptian security crackdown on smuggling.” Bullshit. For $10 I can still arrange for the body of Prin…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Israel’s demise: or the demise of the usurping entity
“Israel’s current policy is leading toward the country’s demise, journalist and head of the WorldNetDaily Jerusalem bureau claims in his newly-released book…” News? This is news? I was a toddler when I first predicted Israel’s demise.
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi-US conspiracy?
US-Saudi conspiracy? What US-Saudi conspiracy? I have noticed that all pro-US occupation media (Saudi and Hariri) now consistently publish pictures of US occupation soldiers playing with Iraqi children. It has become a standard picture that accompany…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Mubarak rule
Egyptian authorities arrest a Saudi physician in Egypt because he had a picture of Hasan Nasrallah. He was later released. Human Rights Watch and Freedom House both considered the arrest a sure sign of democratic reform and progress under Mubarak. I…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Ready for burial
“Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, who had surgery in New York in February, will return home soon, one of his sons said in remarks carried by the official SPA news agency on Tuesday.” You know what that means, don’t you? It only mea…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Corporate Swine
“The boy’s hometown, La Gloria, is also close to a pig farm that raises almost 1 million animals a year. The facility, Granjas Carroll de Mexico, is partly owned by Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based US company and the world’s largest producer a…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan, O Dahlan
“This can be best illustrated by a non-event, namely the sixth Fatah general conference, which some 20 years on since the last such meeting, continues to be bereft of a firm date or location. Rumours come and go about when – or even if – the confer…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat: the (former?) ally of the US
Here, Walid Jumblat calls on Jihadi groups to send car bombs to “the [American] occupation” in Iraq instead of civilian targets. This one phrase in his long weekly article for Al-Anba’ has not received much attention in the Arabic press.PS This will n…
Posted on April 28, 2009 by As'ad