Archive for June 24, 2012

Children who are 9 years old can smoke in Amman Airport

This is at Amman airport. (thanks Laure)PS OK, As many alerted me, it seems some funny person removed 1 near the eight and that it was supposed to say 18.

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Jittery???

“Israel jittery after Brotherhood victory in Egypt”.  Jittery? More like alarmed? Scared? Horrified?  

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Flash: Mursi newsreel

Egyptian Caliph, Muhammad Mursi, said that the US had offered him a starring role with Lindsey Lohan but that he refused.  

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Flash: Caliph Mursi again

Egyptian Caliph, Muhammad Mursi, said that the US had offered him to be a singer in Las Vegas but that he refused.  More on this developing story of principle.

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Flash: Caliph Muhammad Mursi

The new Egyptian caliph, Muhammad Mursi, said that the US had offered him the presidency but that he turned it down.

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Lies of Mursi

The campaign of Muhammad Mursi says that he was “offered” US citizenship but that he turned it down, as if citizenship is “offered” here in the US.  

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Flash: a new prime minister in Egypt

Muhammad Mursi has just asked Ayman Adh-Dhawhiri to form the first Ikhwan government.  Adh-Dhawahiri demurred.  

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Egypt under the Islamists

OK, the guy in the pocket is Mursi and is saying: “I am president”, and the guy (in whose pocket Mursi is) is the Field Marshal Tantawi (sorry, upon careful examination by readers, it says “Murshid” and not Mushir”–murshid is a reference to the Guide …

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Prisoner and ruler in Egypt

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Mossad tales

I must confess that I was not pleased at all with the coverage by As-Safir and by Al-Akhbar of this tale of Mossad success from the 1950s.  The source is an Israeli newspaper and can’t be corroborated by any other sources.  This coverage…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Clownish media

CNN continues to promote Gene Sharp.

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Prince Salman’s health

An Asian colleague sent me this:  ”But this note is in re to the story on Prince Salman’s health. I was at Hajj last year and attended a meeting that was scheduled to be addressed by King Abdullah. The king didn’t show up (although he was repor…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Sa`d Id-Din Ibrahim making a fool of himself

I detest the Ikhwan but this is ridiculous:  A. sent me this:  ”This article is full of Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s latest idiotic theories, like his claim that ‘Islamists, either MB or Salafists, laid siege to whole villages of Copts to prevent t…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Doubts about Hula?

Joerg in Berlin sent me this:  ”there are now more journalists with doubts about Houla. A. Hackensberger for example is a trustworthy journalist, here is his account:I guess one of the main questions remains: If the Syrian army checkpoint was a…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Zionist terrorist games

“As the Shawakha brothers rushed to protect their home from intruders, they had no clue they were unwitting participants in an Israeli army exercise that would leave one of them dead.  ”I saw two men dressed in ordinary clothes near the entrance…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

oil and gas media

I notice lately that on Saudi and Qatari media they say (daily) that the Syrian regime killed some 130 people and injured 343 and then they add: “at least”.  

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Mursi’s PhD

Correction.  I have received evidence that Mursi had received his PhD from University of Southern California.  The title of his dissertation in Engineering was:  ”The caliphate and engineering and the respect by Ikhwan for Egypt’s intern…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

Qadri Jamil: exposing the official Syrian opposition

Akram sent me this:  ”Qadri Jamil is playing politics. So let’s play politics starting with the following question: Is this “man of principles” starting to make “concessions” and “understandings”? And let’s talk about two subjects: The corrupti…

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

elections in the Arab world

So elections in the Arab world are now reduced to a contest between Saudi money and Qatari money.  Congratulations to Qatari money for winning the Egyptian election.

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad

options

“If the Turkish jet was the first foreign aircraft shot down in the Syrian conflict, the incident would serve as a reminder that the Assad regime has much stronger air defences than the former Libyan dictatorship, a factor which may be discouraging …

Posted on June 24, 2012 by As'ad