Archive for October 13, 2011

The war on Copts in Egypt

My latest blog for Al-Akhbar English:  ”The War on Copts”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Kim Kardashian in Dubai

A source in Dubai sent me this (he/she does not want to be identified):  ”kim kardashian is visiting dubai to promote some place called a million milkshakes she was greeted by princesses from the nahyan family of abu dhabi who gave her suitca…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Iranian-US contacts

Qasim Qasir is a knowledgeable writer on “Shi`ite affairs” in the Middle East.  He wrote in As-Safir about something I have been hearing: that there have been secret US-Iranian contacts recently about Iraqi affairs.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

A crack in the Saudi-Qatari alliance

It is noteworthy that Aljazeera (the news station of Saudi Arabia’s new ally, Qatar), in its coverage of the plot, is rather skeptical.  

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Saudi Ambassador at the Arab League

In a press conference in Cairo today, he was said that the statement by the Arab League today in support of Saudi Arabia had the reservations of the Syrian ambassador.  He said that the Syrian ambassador asked for evidence for the plot against the…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Brave Saudi youth

Young Saudis have taken to Twitter and FB to express opposition to their government and to express rejection of the contents of the article by lousy House of Saud’s propagandist, Turki As-Sudayri in Al-Riyaydh (see post below).  There is a special…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Official policy of the New York Times

Do you notice that the New York Times never now refers to Hamas without reminding readers that it seeks “Israel’s destruction”?  As in:  ”Hamas, which rules in Gaza and calls for Israel’s destruction…” But why not then refer to Israel and…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

She has become an Arab heroine

“Sara Besbes, Tunis and Africa’s fencing champion, Tuesday refused to play against an Israeli player during the 2011 World Fencing Championship in Catania, southern Italy, according to Panorama.It website.  It said Besbes, who comes from a famil…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

So another question about the plot

So this Iranian-American who was not known by the Quds Force or the RGs, he just showed up in Iran and offered his services?  And the Iranians were just agreeable and did not fear a US intelligence agent trying to set them up?  How dumb is that?

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Baer on the Iranian plot in the US

“”There are very few groups operationally better than Iran’s Quds Force,” Baer told CNN.com’s Global Public Square. “They know what they are doing. The only proxies they use are ones they’ve vetted. They don’t let their own citizens get invol…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

For some reason the US embassy in Lebanon has circulated this

They have issued a warning to Americans in Lebanon and added information on Hizbullah’s history. Do you all smell a conspiracy here? A clumsy one at that? The release says:  ”U.S. citizens have been the target of numerous terrorist attacks in…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Now let us move to perhaps another lie by the US government

OK.  Here is the deal.  Of course, every Arab government maintains people from the mukhabrat at its embassy in Washington, DC.  Saudi Arabia has a special section to monitor and spy on Saudi students in the US, as any Saudi student in th…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

The Obama democracy agenda

“Finally, the President and the King reaffirmed the strong partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia.”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Harvest of resistance

The olives of Palestine.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Who are those idiots? I mean, that. Who are they?

“Officials said the poor tradecraft and loose talk by Arbabsiar left open a strong possibility that officials in Tehran believed the U.S. government would not necessarily view an attack on Saudi Arabia’s ambassador as an attack on the United States its…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

CRS Government expert

“Kenneth Katzman, an Iran specialist at the Congressional Research Service, said there were elements of the alleged plot that did not make sense.  ”The idea of using a Texas car salesman who is not really a Quds Force person himself, who has been …

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

So what does the estranged wife think?

“Arbabsiar’s wife, Martha Guerrero, told KVUE TV station in Austin, Texas, he was innocent. “I may not be living with him, being separated, but I cannot for the life of me think that he would be capable of doing that,” she was quoted as saying.”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Not on Aljazeera

“Clashes in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Provinceshow the urgent need for Saudi officials to stop arbitrary arrests of peaceful protesters, relatives of wanted persons, and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today.”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Not in the US press

“The families of five activists jailed six months ago for “publicly insulting” United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials made a joint plea on October 9, 2011, to the country’s rulers to stop the activists’ trial and release them, Human Rights Watch …

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad

Meet the religious zealot of the Quds Force

“That money was involved was not a surprise to Mr. Arbabsiar’s old friends, who said he had no interest in religion or politics, and smoked marijuana and drank alcohol freely.”  Let me tell you this: in the elite military forces of Ira…

Posted on October 13, 2011 by As'ad