Archive for October 15, 2011
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Behind the propaganda war
My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English on Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran.
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Ignatius
Read this column by David Ignatius. He tells you that you should believe the alleged Iranian plot in DC because…his Saudi sources told him it is true. He, for example, says that the Saudi ambassador in Beirut was threatened in May 2008 wh…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Akhbar English
If readers have comments or criticisms or suggestions about Al-Akhbar English please send them to me and I can transmit to the editors in Beirut.
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
No reform in Jordan
Aljazeera has just reported that armed goons of the Jordanian King set 40 cars on fire outside of a meeting by tribes calling for reform in Jordan.
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
To Field Marshal Tantawi: on massacring Copts
My colleague, Noha Radwan, a professor of comparative literature at UC, Davis wrote this guest piece for this blog: “Dear Field Marshal TantawiOctober 9, 2011 has become a dayof shame for the Egyptian Armed Forces. The Supreme Council must be helddirec…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Here is my question
“A week later, $49,960 was wired from a foreign bank account linked to Iran’s Quds Force to a man posing as a Mexican drug hit man…” If this was a foreign bank account “linked”–I don’t know what that means–to Quds Forces, why was it still op…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Title VI
“Just one year ago, establishment Jewish groups universally welcomed a decision by the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to expand his department’s interpretation of Title VI to include protection against “harassment of members of religious g…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Spying by Bahrain royal family agents in the US
Anonymous: ”first of all, please dont mention my name if you post this. I just read what your contact in Bahrain sent you and I can confirm that it is accurate. As a Bahraini in the US I do feel like I cant trust anybody. I make a consi…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Gary Sick on the plot
““The Iranians absolutely believe the U.S. and Israel have been carrying out a covert campaign against them,” said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University. “And clearly they are right.”Mr. Sick, like many specialists, said he had troub…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi ambassador in the US
“Outside work, he spent his time lifting weights…” So here is the deal. While at Georgetown U, Jubayr asked a fellow student out. She was a friend and reported to me about her date. She told me: it was so boring. All that he talked …
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Look how nice: US is sending "contractors" to Libya
If this is not an act of kindness, I dont know what is: ”The State Department is sending dozens of American contractors to Libya to help that country’s fledgling efforts to track down and destroy heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles loo…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
NATO fundamentalists thugs in Libya
Let us face it: NATO has given birth (just as in the war in Afghanistan against the reformist communist government there in the 1980s) to a monster: fundamentalist militias that may produce soon the likes of Al-Qa`idah. The NATO militias are now …
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
These are the names of Palestinian prisoners
Ask every and any Western reporter: he/she would only know the name of the Israeli terrorist in custody who was captured while in his tank on occupied Palestinian lands. Only the name of the Israeli terrorist is filling headlines and news stories…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Hillary
Days after the massacre of Copts by Egyptian army in Cairo, Hillary showers praise on the Military Council.
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Salman Rushdie
Where would Rushdie find a better place to talk about the backwardness of Arabs and Muslims except in the Israeli press. Notice how much the Zionist newspaper cares about Rushdie. You would think that the Israeli press is the bastion of fre…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Kim Kardashian in Dubai
The press of the ruling dynasties of UAE is abuzz with stories about the visit by Kim Kardashian. The Maktums had a private dinner with her the other night (the Nahyans had her for dinner the day before).
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Unleashing the Salafites
The show of force by Salafite hooligans in Tunisia yesterday is but an example of the sinister forces that the Saudi-Qatari alliance has been unleashing in the Arab world against the promises of the Arab uprisings.
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Jordan
There were several demonstrations in Jordan yesterday (of course, the Islamic fundamentalists were too busy prostrating before the King to participate). And there were attacks by armed goons of the regime against the peaceful demonstrators.  …
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
Only Syria
I was watching the news on Aljazeera Arabic this morning. They did not cover the demonstration against corruption in Jordan yesterday and the attack by regime’s goons on peaceful demonstrators but they covered a “demonstration” (by a dozen people…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad
The National: Sons of…Zayid
So the sons of Shaykh Zayid of UAE have chosen a new editor for the National: an English mouthpiece for the royal family. It is Claude Salhani, a right-wing Zionist who has been writing opinions in the Washington Times. Expect to read profi…
Posted on October 15, 2011 by As'ad