Archive for July 29, 2012
This is not the first pro-Western JIHAD
Laure sent me this: “It seems the Antakya area is becoming a magnet for foreign jihadis, who are flocking into Turkey to fight a holy war in Syria. One Turkish truck driver said he passed through the Bab al-Hawa border post on Wednesday night…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Greatest Achievement for the Free Syian Army
Akram, the Angry Arab correspondent in Syria, sent me this:”GOD IS GREAT!!!! The Free Syrian Army has achieved a strategic victory when a Japanese journalist who covers its activities converted to Islam “on the hands of Mamdouh Jolha Battalion activa…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Tlas family and the French far right
“”Tout général qu’il était, Manaf Tlass s’occupait en particulier de cet étrange attelage autour du Réseau Voltaire de Thierry Meyssan ainsi financé par Damas, et du site InfoSyrie.fr, « agence de réinformation » créée l’an…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian flag and bigotry toward Alawites
Murad sent me this: ”I would like to point out 2 things:1) For Akram from Syria, he (and other readers) should be reminded that the so-called “independence flag” was actually adopted in the 1930′s, well before independence. Syrian state TV is a…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Mishel Kilu
In his article in the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, Mishale Kilu promises in his first point of his program to “guarantee” the tranquility of the border “with the Zionist enemy”. So Kilu promises to basically follo…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian singer Asalah
I am a big fan of Syrian singer Asalah. I was never bothered by her stance against the Syrian regime in the last year (only). But her statement here undermines her credibility entirely: she says that she supports Gulf regimes. Enough …
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Deceptions and lies of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
Syrian opposition figure, Michel Kilu, writes about the deception of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.PS I have never been a fan of Kilu, mind you. He writes as a right-winger in Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, and writes as a progre…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
The lies of Najib Sawiris
Here is an account of the convenient political transformation of Najib Sawiris. (thanks Yusuf)
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Arabs are posting this picture all day on FB
I don’t know what “heat” means here and Israeli Air Force bombs well beyond Palestine.
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Zionists for military intervention in Syria…
on Aljazeera English website. Not surprising, of course. (thanks Christian)
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
BHL and Syria
One of the most offensive and repugnant elements of Syrian regime media is the notion that BHL or another Zionist is orchestrating the Arab uprising. This stupid notion insults all those brave and independent Arabs who defied the oppressive regim…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
terrorists and freedom fighters
When Islamist fighters infiltrated into US-occupied Iraq, they were consistently referred to as “terrorists” in the Western press. But when Islamist fighters (often the same people) infiltrate into Syria, they are referred to as revolutionaries.&…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Bahrain sent its royal reformers to UK
“A DRUNK Arab prince was threatened with 50,000-volt Tasers by gun cops after trying to storm the flight deck of a British Airways jet. The billionaire, 28 — who was sozzled by 10am — had jumped up from his 2,700 pounds [$4200] First Class seat …
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Western Media Coverage of the Syria war
I really believe that someone should write a book about Western media coverage of Syria in the last year. I wish I have the time to write it but I don’t. But if someone is interested, I have ideas. This is one of the lowest moments of Weste…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian "revolutionaries" post a threat to an American journalist
I heard from a well-known American journalist who sent me a an official FB page containing threats against him by Syrian “revolutionaries”. He does not want to be named for fear of jeopardizing his work in Syria.
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli ignorance
David sent me this: “This is David again; I saw this headline (originally reported by Reuters) in Haaretz which irked me to no end:”Iranian-Hindi shipping firm faces collapse due to sanctions”I am of Indian origin (albeit I don’t really identify…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Saudi censorship of a cross
A reader sent me this: “Hi As’ad, thought you’d find this interesting. I recently watched an interview with Madonna that MBC recently aired in which they blurred her necklace. Below is the interview without the blurring, revealing what mbc fou…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
US recipe for Syria
Bob sent me this: “As you said, the US does not want to change the regime. They only want to get rid a hated non-compliant dictator while keeping compliant dictators. So what’s the solution? keeping the Baath, Mukhabarat and the regime intact …
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Dinars in Syria
A source sent me this: “Dinars in Syria? Are they really this clueless? and he has been reporting from there for a while (very propagandistic by the way, imagine that you were tasked with writing a propaganda piece for the FSA, would you have …
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad
Christians in Qusayr
“”We’re too frightened to talk,” her daughter Rim explained, before mustering the courage to continue. “Last summer Salafists came to Qusayr, foreigners. They stirred the local rebels against us,” she says. Soon, an outright campaign against the Chr…
Posted on July 29, 2012 by As'ad