Archive for May 29, 2012

Syrian regime censorship

Just to show you the standards of the Syrian regime. Today, I learned that Ghassan Sa`ud, a writer in Al-Akhbar, has been banned from entering Syria although he is one of the few writers who supports the regime.

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

The candidate of the US (and counter-revolution) in Egypt

“But there was hope, he added: “The Egyptian people, contrary to the accusations, are obedient.””

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

US in Bahrain

“Anti-government protesters chanted against Washington for the planned [arms] shipments, even though U.S. official say they do not include crowd control weapons. Hard-line government supporters, meanwhile, blasted the U.S. for its remarks about righ…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Leon Panetta tells Pakistani what treason is

“The CIA secretly recruited the Pakistani doctor during the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He set up a fake vaccination programme, going from door to door in the northern town of Abbottabad, seeking a DNA sample from the house in which Americans suspected t…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Mubarak trial

“ Why are Mubarak and other high-ranking former government members being tried in ordinary civilian courts while political activists are being tried in military courts?”

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Zionist tools

I usually avoid mentioning those types: those handful of Arabs who do tours and gigs for Zionist entertainment. I tell Arabs that they should be ignored. Of course, Saudi media now take orders from Zionist handlers in the US–yes, I believe…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Liberal Syrian opposition

Haytham Al-Malih, a liberal Syrian figure tells the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, that he approves of the kidnapping of Lebanese pilgrims and that he told captors to not release them. You want me to support those types? Y…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Saudi media invent news and the Guardian and others carry it

So Al-Arabiyya (the site of the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) invented one of its regular stories about major admission by a commander of Al-Quds Force of the IRG in which he talks about “presence” in Syria. Such stories are daily i…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Yet another anonymous Syrian opposition "leader" speaks to an Israeli newspaper

“The opposition leader, a former senior officer in the Syrian Army, spoke to Haaretz on conditions of anonymity. “I personally have no problem speaking to Israelis,” he said, “but our countries are still officially at war, and there are too many …

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

The Pakistani doctor who is hailed as a hero in the US Congress

I have been thinking about the case of the Pakistani doctor who is hailed in US Congress for aiding the US government by giving Pakistanis ineffective medicine to obtain DNA data from the Bin Laden household . So I asked a friend who is a profess…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad

Easy target: on the hypocrisy of Nasrallah

This is an easy target, especially when the writer has not one original idea or insight. I mean, how brave it is to criticize Nasrallah on Aljazeera. He thinks that he stumbled on some fresh idea, when Jeffrey Feltman has been saying the sa…

Posted on May 29, 2012 by As'ad