Archive for July 18, 2012

The Arab bloody season

We may have just entered a full-fledged Arab Bloody Season: that will spread from Syria to Lebanon and beyond.  Brace yourselves for a tough Ramadan.

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

German media and two bombings

Karim sent me this:  ”Dear Asad,  following your text about two bomings and two reactions (above link): and only for the bombing in Bulgaria german media like “der Spiegel” is using the word “Terroranschlag” (terror attack – http://www.spi…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

covering Syria

From Angry Arab correspondent in Syria:  ”There are too many lies, misleads and dishonest practices when it’s about Syria. Here are some examples for the last couple of days: 1. Two or fifty?Sana, July 13: an eyewitness told the Syrian TV that…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Serving on the Golan

From Akram:  ”This is simply an immoral lie no less… Service in Golan is the toughest at all in the Syrian army, regarding the harsh climate, the lousy infrastructure available for the soldiers there and the conditions of the service (leaves…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

In Syria today?

From Angry Arab correspondent in Syria:  ”I’m (and most of the Syrians are) shocked… I’m not sure I can add something useful about what happened today.. TVs and websites do enough to cover this…But here is something I can’t confirm for the m…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Tlas family show

From Akram:  ”Some media outlets indicate that “defected” Manaf Tlas is the mastermind of the attack that hit key persons of the Syrian security apparatus (Arabic, Arabic).My impression is the following:Every Syrian knows that Manaf’s father, M…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Where is the Syrian cabinet?

From Akram, the correspondent in Syria:  ”From all the parties involved in the terrorist attack that hit the “nervous system” of the Syrian security body, the big, or possibly petty, absent party is: the National Coalition cabinet that we were t…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Muslim Brotherhood on sectarianism

Listening to a Syrian Muslim Brotherhood type talking about sectarianism of the Syrian regime is like listening to George W. Bush talking against war.  

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Worse than Saddam’s media

Without exaggeration, Aljazeera Arabic as a news outlet is more vulgar and more crude and more dishonest and more propagandistic than Saddam’s media.  

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Good news for Arab peoples

“The Americans remain committed not to “democracy” but to stability, a strategy identified by US academic and government consultant Samuel P Huntington in his classic academic book of 1968 on the importance of political order and stability in the chang…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Two bombings and two reactions

So there were two bombings today: one in Bulgaria and another in Damascus.  Western governments and media strongly condemned the first and strongly cheered and celebrated the second.  (thanks Michele)

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Bahrain Update

From Bahrain chief correspondent in Bahrain: “Sometimes I wonder, if the Bahraini regime extremely dumb or if it has some grand plan that we all don’t understand. I think about it for a while, and then come to the conclusion that no, they are just…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

US shooting in the Gulf: UAE censors its finding

Sources (well-placed) in the Gulf tell me that independent UAE investigation into US shooting at Indian ship contradicted the official US military account, but an order was transmitted from “above” down to media to not make any mention of it.  Med…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Saudi media flatters Israel

Bob sent me this:  ”Look at this Israel flattering article by Al-Arabiya. They invented a 14 years old boy and attributed the logic to him. This is one genius boy who, one day, will figure out how to fly to space, into a black hole and come b…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

The White Man hearts Africa

“”However, in more unguarded moments, officials have been more straightforward: Vice Admiral Robert Moeller declared in a conference in 2008 that Africom was about preserving ‘the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market’, and tw…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Interests of the US and….

“The Pentagon is building a missile defence radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal has reported.  The site will be part of a system intended to defend the interests of the United States and its allies a…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Is the US military ever not justified in its shootings and bombings EVER?

“In a statement, the embassy said the United States was launching its own investigation, but repeated previous U.S. suggestions that the use of force was justified given that the small motorized vessel was approaching the Navy fuel resupply ship Rappah…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

The sponsors of the FSA kidnapping gangs

““In response to the calls by the committee of Muslim scholars in Lebanon we will release two of our guests to their families under the auspices of the committee … and the state of Qatar,”the statement, the third to be carried by the Doha-ba…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Gilles Jacquier was killed by FSA

John sent me this:  ”In case you haven’t seen this: The French journaliste Gilles Jacquier was killed by FSA shelling an Alawite neighbourhood and not by the army as was hysterically reported in January (it was almost as casus belli for Franc…

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad

Who rules Egypt?

Look at the front page of Al-Ahram: Tantawi news is the lead headline, while Mursi is covered in the corner to the left.  

Posted on July 18, 2012 by As'ad