Archive for March 5, 2010
The Planes of Elias Murr (Lebanese Minister of Defense)
My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: “The Planese of Elias Murr: Toward A (real) Defense Strategy for Lebanon”
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Repression that you find adorable
“An Iraqi government plan to impose restrictive rules on broadcast news media represents an alarming return to authoritarianism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ denounced the rules and called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and h…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Iran: supreme repression
“In response to the brutal crackdown against journalists, writers, and bloggers in Iran, a coalition of leading press freedom and free expression groups have launched a petition drive calling for the release of those imprisoned. More such professionals…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Mistakes happen, every single day
“As passengers scrambled for safety, survivors said, women in the second car used their head scarves to try to wave off the attack. “When they hit the first car, the women and the children came out of the second car so they could see women and child…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Like Iraq and Afghanistan?
“The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, laid out new principles Wednesday for how to use the military in meeting contemporary threats, saying that overwhelming force can be counterproductive if used recklessly. In a careful recal…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Rafic Hariri: legacy of corruption
So this issue of the Economist has a very tough piece against the Kirshners in Argentina. It gives this as evidence of corruption: “This showed an increase in the first family’s wealth from $2.3m in 2003 to over $12m.” But Rafiq Hariri started in g…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
“As’ad AbuKhalil, the Mossad, and Israel’s KoolAid”
“As I noted in this reflection on the recent Dubai affair, Israel’s spymasters and policymakers made the two fatal mistakes therein of underestimating both the capabilities and the intentions/commitment of the leadership of Dubai’s police authoritie…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Ethan Bronner: who serves the Israeli army more? Ethan Bronner or his son–who is an Israeli soldier?
The answer is easy. Ethan, of course. Why do you ask? This is now a classic and dumb Zionist poly. When Israel is about to bomb a Middle East country, or to invade a Middle East country, they supply their network of propagandists, like Ethan Bronner…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
We are not dumb
Hi. We are the dumb Mossad top secret hit team in Dubai. We are not really dumb. We just waved to our families through security cameras. Was that wrong?
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Dubai assassination
“”We have a number of DNA sample, but secondly – they all had real foreign passports whose details were forged. For example, the German one whose owner turned out to the Israeli. When it turned out that some of them were from Israel, so what do yo…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
This is for you, Jamal Mubarak
“Two missile ships belonging to the Israeli Navy passed through the Suez Canal sometime during the last few weeks, according to reports on several internet sites. In the past, the passage of Israeli warships southward through the canal, from the Med…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
This is an important article on the Mossad assassination in Dubai: Those Israelis who have been lying about their identities
“Melvyn Adam Mildiner, who immigrated to Israel on September 11, 2001, and who says he feels more at home there than anywhere else. Jonathan Lewis Graham, who immigrated to Israel with his parents and family three years ago; all said to be “devoutly…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
It is a lie, It is a lie
“He disputed Bush administration assertions that Kurdistan was a model for the rest of Iraq. “The American administration had to say . . . that one part of Iraq was a genuine democracy. They had nothing else,” he said. “I don’t say that. It’s not t…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Nir responds to Karsh: (Or why Nir does not work for the New York Times or the WP)
“Hizballah threatens a bloody revenge if Israel attacks Lebanon, but that’s it. And he is also lying when he says that Muslim states believe in some kind of holy war to prevent the loss of a part of the house of Islam. Which Muslim state? Nobody tal…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Hizbullah is not a Leftist party
“Hezbollah is not a revolutionary party of the labour movement in Lebanon, nor does it pretend to be, regardless of ethnic origin or religious affiliation. Nor should there be any expectation that it will change in the future into a socialist or soc…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
Mossad assassination: an update
I have it from a most reliable (and “direct”) source that the chief of police in Dubai is not happy because “higher authorities” in UAE have asked him to stop talking about the Mossad assassination.
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
For Palestine and the Palestinians
I really don’t like flags, and I don’t like nationalism, but…for Palestine and the Palestinians, anything and everything. (Al-Quds Al-`Arabi).
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad
How pathetic
This story about Mugabe has been all over Western media: “Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s supporters say they spent $300,000 to celebrate his 86th birthday in this impoverished country.” I mean, are they aware how pathetic they are. One Saudi p…
Posted on March 5, 2010 by As'ad