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	<title>The Angry Arab News Service</title>
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		<title>Arab Wahhabi &#8220;liberals&#8221; wound not utter a word</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/arab-wahhabi-liberals-wound-not-utter-a-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the  execution of a Lebanese national, whose death sentence for charges relating to  "sorcery" was upheld by a court last week.  If the higher courts reject his appeal, 'Ali Hussain ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the  execution of a Lebanese national, whose death sentence for charges relating to  "sorcery" was upheld by a court last week.  If the higher courts reject his appeal, 'Ali Hussain Sibat, a former  television presenter for a Lebanese satellite TV station, who gave advice and  predictions about the future, could be executed at any <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/saudi-arabia-sorcery-death-sentence-upheld-2010-03-18">time."</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-4088012963447102998?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Robert Fisk: time for his retirement, again</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/robert-fisk-time-for-his-retirement-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fisk here is supposedly offering a reading list on the Middle East.  Notice that he identifies the Syrian Social National Party as "pan-Arab." I mean, come on.  I will pay for the watch to officiate on his retirement. (thanks Mahmoud)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fisk here is supposedly offering a <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-try-this-reading-list-if-you-want-to-understand-the-middle-east-1920689.html">reading</a> list on the Middle East.  Notice that he identifies the Syrian Social National Party as "pan-Arab." I mean, come on.  I will pay for the watch to officiate on his retirement. (thanks Mahmoud)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-8653112699186669746?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Fanatacism on line</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/fanatacism-on-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["“If you want to found a conservative website, go and found one. Don’t take over  Islam Online and try to change it,” one unnamed striker said on the video feed  on Monday."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["“If you want to found a conservative website, go and found one. Don’t take over  Islam Online and try to change it,” one unnamed striker said on the video feed  on <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7064682.ece">Monday."</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-4427614071416893348?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Flash from Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/flash-from-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon has officially cancelled Mother's Day.  It will now be celebrated as Bahiyyah Hariri Day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lebanon has officially cancelled Mother's Day.  It will now be celebrated as Bahiyyah Hariri Day.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-2201447918356438273?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Torrent of puke</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/torrent-of-puke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The idea behind human terrain teams, or HTTs, is to put a small army of  civilian social scientists (ideally anthropologists) and intel-savvy military  officers into the field to give brigade commanders a better understanding of  local dynamics. The t...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The idea behind human terrain teams, or HTTs, is to put a small army of  civilian social scientists (ideally anthropologists) and intel-savvy military  officers into the field to give brigade commanders a better understanding of  local dynamics. The teams are charged with “mapping” social structures,  linkages, and priorities, just as a recon team might map physical terrain. By  talking to locals the teams might help identify which village elder the  commander should deal with or which tribe might be a waste of time; which valley  should get a roads project and whether a new road might create a dispute between  villages. It’s all part of General David Petraeus’s doctrine of a smarter,  management-style counterinsurgency. There are now six five-to-nine-person human terrain teams in Afghanistan and  21 teams in Iraq. If the concept proves successful, the $120 million–plus  program would grow to 700 HTT and support staff in those countries and other hot  spots. The man charged with managing the program is retired special operations  colonel Steve Fondacaro. He is so passionate about it that when I interviewed  him back in the States, he held forth for nine hours straight. Seven hours in,  he walked into a door, breaking his jaw, but resumed talking. Fondacaro freely  admits that one of the biggest obstacles to injecting social science into the  military will be the military itself. “We are like a virus infecting the host,”  he told me. “Either the army will be inoculated and be stronger, or they will  expel us in a torrent <a href="http://www.mensjournal.com/new-war-for-hearts-and-minds/print/">of puke.”"</a> (thanks May)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-7077894073816060683?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ground truth</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/ground-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Under the heading of "information operations" or "force protection," the  military has launched intelligence activities that, were they conducted by the  CIA, might require a presidential finding and notification of Congress. And by  using contractors...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Under the heading of "information operations" or "force protection," the  military has launched intelligence activities that, were they conducted by the  CIA, might require a presidential finding and notification of Congress. And by  using contractors who operate "outside the wire" in Afghanistan and Pakistan,  the military has gotten information that is sometimes better than what the CIA  is offering.  A reconstruction of what happened, based on conversations with a half-dozen  military and intelligence sources, raises two crucial issues: What new military  procedures are needed to bring "information operations" and related activities  under better control? And how can the CIA improve its own collection efforts so  that private contractors aren't brought in to fill the gaps?  The outsourced intelligence operation described by the Times began in 2008  with a push from the Pentagon's Strategic Command, which oversees information  operations. A Stratcom civilian named Michael D. Furlong began funding former  journalists to provide "ground truth," with a planned budget of $22 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/16/AR2010031602625_pf.html">million."</a>  (thanks Laleh)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-2495244421711221103?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment resolution</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/uc-berkeley-student-senate-passes-divestment-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley  Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response  to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and  bombardment ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley  Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response  to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and  bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC Regents and  the Student Government to divest from General Electric and United Technologies.  General Electric manufactures Apache helicopter engines; United Technologies  manufactures Sikorsky helicopters and F-16 aircraft engines. In addition, the  bill creates a task force to look into furthering a socially responsible  investment policy for the <a href="http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/03/uc-berkeley-student-senate-passes-divestment-resolution.html">UC system."</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-1129324403503088398?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>This is Zionism</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/this-is-zionism-93/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader who should not be identified sent me this: "This is in regards to the Jerusalem demonstrations and Israeli censorship. I  received a frantic call from my sister notifying me that my cousin was captured  by the Israelis and severely beaten. The...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A reader who should not be identified sent me this: "This is in regards to the Jerusalem demonstrations and Israeli censorship. I  received a frantic call from my sister notifying me that my cousin was captured  by the Israelis and severely beaten. There were violent skirmishes between the  Israeli Offense Force and Palestinians in East Jerusalem. My cousin, who is from  the Mount of Olives neighborhood of East Jerusalem was involved in  demonstrations and was apprehended by undercover Israeli agents posing as  Palestinian protestors (with keffiyehs concealing their identities) who help  instigate violence, and turn around and arrest people. They instigate violence  so that the Israeli police/military can have "justification" to use brute and  disproportional force. Nonetheless, they beat him in front of press cameras, and  detained him. My aunt got word, and went to the Russian compound (detention  center) in E. Jerusalem and they did not allow family members to see him. After  much discussion, they allowed his brother to walk in to see him, and he swears  that he could not recognize his own brother from how badly they had beaten him.  Prior to going in, my aunt said she could hear her son getting beaten and  tortured in the other room. My cousin Maisa (his sister) said she was able to  watch a video of her own brother getting beaten on a website (presumably  Palestinian) that was based in Israel (with a ".il"), and there were pictures as  well. After getting so many views, the Israelis took down the videos and photos  (of course), which is commonplace. Censorship is rampant in Israel, and it's  media is far from democratic (contrary to what they want you to believe). I hear  from family members constantly that the Israeli authorities target sites that  show photos of demonstrations and the repugnant Israeli "response" to save face.  Anyway, my cousin is 17, and is currently awaiting trial (while in the  hospital). There is talk of a 3rd Intifada. Please post this. I do not want to  cheapen the cause by begging for "awareness", but just to inform."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-1435633845420101378?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Covert troops made mistakes</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/covert-troops-made-mistakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern  Afghanistan went on to inflict “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” on the  survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said.  The family of the victims in Pa...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern  Afghanistan went on to inflict “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” on the  survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said.  The family of the victims in Paktiya province have accused Nato of trying to  cover up the atrocity after an investigation by <i>The Times</i> revealed that  two men, who were also killed, were not the intended targets of the raid. One  was a police commander and his brother was a district-<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7063184.ece">attorney."</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-2332529861777588504?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sawsan Salim Sentenced to 300 Lashes For Complaining</title>
		<link>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/sawsan-salim-sentenced-to-300-lashes-for-complaining/</link>
		<comments>http://angryarab.net/2010/03/18/sawsan-salim-sentenced-to-300-lashes-for-complaining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>As'ad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Sawsan Salim was being harassed by local officials, so she went to the  government offices in Rass to complain. As a result, she was sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail for the  “crime” of visiting government offices without a male relat...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Sawsan Salim was being harassed by local officials, so she went to the  government offices in Rass to complain. As a result, she was sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail for the  “crime” of visiting government offices without a male relative. In a comically obvious failure of the Saudi “justice” system, one of the  judges in the case was Habib Abdullah al Aqsa — the original target of Mrs.  Salim’s harassment <a href="http://www.fortliberty.org/sawsan-salim-sentenced-to-300-lashes-for-complaining.html">complaint."</a> (thanks Ali)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5785362-7268771950489076497?l=angryarab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>]]></content:encoded>
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