:
Mon/Tues - Nov 9 -
TWO PERSPECTIVES ON FALLUJAH -
*Iraqi government television has repeatedly broadcast confessions of what it says are foreign terrorists who allegedly infiltrated the country's porous borders to fight U.S.-led forces.*
:: From article posted at Rantburg ::
* * * * *
*The BBC spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic.*
:: Eyewitness in Fallujah ::
...
Tuesday, November 9
Monday, November 8
:
Mon - Nov 8 -
BLACK WATCH DISPATCH -
*In the early hours of yesterday, guided only by the night vision goggles strapped to their helmets, a company of Black Watch soldiers walked silently through the desert hoping for a small success story at the end of a grim week..*
-- From Richard Lloyd Parry in Camp Dogwood --
[This pool dispatch was compiled under Ministry of Defence restrictions]
:: As dawn breaks... ::
* * * * *
MEANWHILE . . .
Riverbend's family is hosting some folks who left Fallujah.
*'Umm Ahmed and her lovely children are here until things are better in Falloojeh,' my aunt declared.*
:: Some Terrorists... ::
* * * * *
AND FROM SOME IVORY TOWER . . .
*Now the camp's dream-like unreality is distorting every news report filed on the preparations for the onslaught on Falluja. We don't know, and won't know, anything about what happens in the next few days except for what the US military authorities choose to let us know. It's long since been too dangerous for journalists to move around unless they are embedded with the US forces. There is almost no contact left with civilians still in Falluja, the only information is from those who have left.*
+ I'm sure that if you have a little patience, people will eventually communicate and describe their experiences to us over this new-fangled thang called the Internet.
I mean, doesn't this woman seem oddly disconnected from the current information technology?
There has been military censorship as far back as I can remember, even during WWII.
-- From Madeleine Bunting at The UK Guardian --
:: Screams will not be heard ::
...
Mon - Nov 8 -
BLACK WATCH DISPATCH -
*In the early hours of yesterday, guided only by the night vision goggles strapped to their helmets, a company of Black Watch soldiers walked silently through the desert hoping for a small success story at the end of a grim week..*
-- From Richard Lloyd Parry in Camp Dogwood --
[This pool dispatch was compiled under Ministry of Defence restrictions]
:: As dawn breaks... ::
* * * * *
MEANWHILE . . .
Riverbend's family is hosting some folks who left Fallujah.
*'Umm Ahmed and her lovely children are here until things are better in Falloojeh,' my aunt declared.*
:: Some Terrorists... ::
* * * * *
AND FROM SOME IVORY TOWER . . .
*Now the camp's dream-like unreality is distorting every news report filed on the preparations for the onslaught on Falluja. We don't know, and won't know, anything about what happens in the next few days except for what the US military authorities choose to let us know. It's long since been too dangerous for journalists to move around unless they are embedded with the US forces. There is almost no contact left with civilians still in Falluja, the only information is from those who have left.*
+ I'm sure that if you have a little patience, people will eventually communicate and describe their experiences to us over this new-fangled thang called the Internet.
I mean, doesn't this woman seem oddly disconnected from the current information technology?
There has been military censorship as far back as I can remember, even during WWII.
-- From Madeleine Bunting at The UK Guardian --
:: Screams will not be heard ::
...
Saturday, November 6
:
Fri/Sat - Nov 6 -
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT ! -
The recent terrorism in The Netherlands
is being monitored by the Dutch blog Zacht Ei.
An exerpt from that blog follows:
** ... there's a radical Islamist hit list
which contains the names of other
prominent Dutch that should fear for their lives.
They are:
+ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch M.P.,
..... a former Muslim and a vocal critic of radical Islam;
+ Geert Wilders, Dutch M.P., also critical of radical Islam;
+ Rita Verdonk, secretary of Immigration;
+ Job Cohen, the Jewish mayor of Amsterdam;
+ Ahmed Aboutaleb, Moroccan vice mayor of Amsterdam;
+ Frits Barend, left-wing talk show host. **
I don't seem to be able to find any permalinks on that blog, so here is the General URL Address for it:
:: ZACHT EI ::
-- via BuzzMachine --
...
Fri/Sat - Nov 6 -
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT ! -
The recent terrorism in The Netherlands
is being monitored by the Dutch blog Zacht Ei.
An exerpt from that blog follows:
** ... there's a radical Islamist hit list
which contains the names of other
prominent Dutch that should fear for their lives.
They are:
+ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch M.P.,
..... a former Muslim and a vocal critic of radical Islam;
+ Geert Wilders, Dutch M.P., also critical of radical Islam;
+ Rita Verdonk, secretary of Immigration;
+ Job Cohen, the Jewish mayor of Amsterdam;
+ Ahmed Aboutaleb, Moroccan vice mayor of Amsterdam;
+ Frits Barend, left-wing talk show host. **
I don't seem to be able to find any permalinks on that blog, so here is the General URL Address for it:
:: ZACHT EI ::
-- via BuzzMachine --
...
Friday, November 5
:
Fri - Nov 5 -
ARAFAT TREASURE HUNT -
*Suha Arafat, wife of ailing Yasser Arafat, requested her husband this week draft a will leaving his multimillion dollar fortune to her, but Arafat refused, a Palestinian source told WorldNetDaily.*
:: WND - THE WILL ::
-- From a story by Aaaron Klein --
...
Fri - Nov 5 -
ARAFAT TREASURE HUNT -
*Suha Arafat, wife of ailing Yasser Arafat, requested her husband this week draft a will leaving his multimillion dollar fortune to her, but Arafat refused, a Palestinian source told WorldNetDaily.*
:: WND - THE WILL ::
-- From a story by Aaaron Klein --
...
:
Thurs/Fri - Nov 5 -
ARAFAT - "DEJA DIED OR DYING?"
*The issue of the transfer of the body is one of the reasons which is delaying this process [pulling the plug]. According to the rules of Islam, the burial must take place as quickly as possible after the announcement of death. Whereas the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, publicly opposes a Jerusalem destination for Arafat, negotiations, in which France does not play any role, are going on... with the Palestinian leaders trying to convince Israel that a refusal to receive Arafat's remains could be more detrimental than beneficial to the Hebrew State.*
A Kind of Google-ish Translation
From Liberation of a report
By Helene Despic-popovic - LINK:
Translated version of http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=251620
* * * * *
But what if . . .
the ancient Romans had had helicopters?
There is a genre of science fiction called Alternate Universe, Alternate History or Alternate Worlds.
And so, the following is merely one hypothetical scenario of what's going to happen:
Arafat dies. Upon the announcement of his death, PM Sharon refuses to allow Arafat's remains to be interred in Jerusalem.
Sheikh Tantawi in Egypt announces that in Arafat's absence, Al-Aksa Mosque is completely unprotected and vulnerable to the ravages of the "Monkey Israelis." He exhorts the Arabs in surrounding countries to rush to Jerusalem in order to protect the mosque.
As a result of Tantawi's hortatory rant, thousands of Arabs converge on Jersualem.
The fragile and crumbling old building, unable to withstand the tumultuous crowds, collapses, crushing and killing thousands of Arabs. And then cholera breaks out among them . . .
No? Then what do you predict will happen?
Can you construct a probable scenario that will unfold?
If the scenario which I described above unfolds, do you think Tantawi would ever be indicted for Mass Murder? Would he be held accountable at all for the resultant death toll? Would he resign or be removed from his position?
What do you think will happen?
...
Thurs/Fri - Nov 5 -
ARAFAT - "DEJA DIED OR DYING?"
*The issue of the transfer of the body is one of the reasons which is delaying this process [pulling the plug]. According to the rules of Islam, the burial must take place as quickly as possible after the announcement of death. Whereas the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, publicly opposes a Jerusalem destination for Arafat, negotiations, in which France does not play any role, are going on... with the Palestinian leaders trying to convince Israel that a refusal to receive Arafat's remains could be more detrimental than beneficial to the Hebrew State.*
A Kind of Google-ish Translation
From Liberation of a report
By Helene Despic-popovic - LINK:
Translated version of http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=251620
* * * * *
But what if . . .
the ancient Romans had had helicopters?
There is a genre of science fiction called Alternate Universe, Alternate History or Alternate Worlds.
And so, the following is merely one hypothetical scenario of what's going to happen:
Arafat dies. Upon the announcement of his death, PM Sharon refuses to allow Arafat's remains to be interred in Jerusalem.
Sheikh Tantawi in Egypt announces that in Arafat's absence, Al-Aksa Mosque is completely unprotected and vulnerable to the ravages of the "Monkey Israelis." He exhorts the Arabs in surrounding countries to rush to Jerusalem in order to protect the mosque.
As a result of Tantawi's hortatory rant, thousands of Arabs converge on Jersualem.
The fragile and crumbling old building, unable to withstand the tumultuous crowds, collapses, crushing and killing thousands of Arabs. And then cholera breaks out among them . . .
No? Then what do you predict will happen?
Can you construct a probable scenario that will unfold?
If the scenario which I described above unfolds, do you think Tantawi would ever be indicted for Mass Murder? Would he be held accountable at all for the resultant death toll? Would he resign or be removed from his position?
What do you think will happen?
...
:
Thurs/Fri - Nov 5 -
A CALIPH CHAT POSTSCRIPT -
I had wanted to comment further on Bin Ladin's video address, but the hour grew late, and I grew too tired, so I gave up.
I think Bin Ladin's "explanation" for how and why the WTC Twin Towers were selected as targets was disingenuous. I don't mean that he was lying. I mean that I don't "buy" his version of the process which he gave us. I had a much different sense of it because: I know what I saw. And regardless of what Bin Ladin says now, there is very little possibility that he could persuade me that I didn't see what I know I saw.
When I witnessed the second jumbo jet bash into the WTC building (on live TV), my immediate reaction was that Muslims must have done this. I initially attributed the act to the group which had demonstrated in Manhattan against Salman Rushdie, burning him in effigy and rioting in the streets. I was wrong about which specific Muslim group had done it. But my visceral sense that Muslims had done this was correct. What was it based on?
The event intensely evoked the image for me of a religious ritual central to Islam: stoning the Devil, although I realized that this behavior could not be of a religious nature. What, then, was it?
I was convinced from first sight of it that I was witnessing the commission of an act of Ritual Magic. And, I knew, the FBI has an established profile of those who commit crimes involving acts of Ritual Magic. What does this profile tell us?
The subjects tend to be, predominantly, adolescent or post-adolescent boys. And they tend to come from chaotic and unstable home environments which are out of their control. Part of the cause for this genre of behavior, the experts tell us, is a misguided but desperate attempt to gain control over their world.
Do the perpetrators of this atrocity match the already established profile? Yes, they do.
But if this act was supposed to "bankrupt the US," this magic could not be effective. It simply shows a complete lack of understanding of the American system. The mysterious "magic" of American prosperity is not in the buildings here. Its source is in the Freedom here.
Then Bin Ladin made a point of saying that he and his pals do not hate Freedom. Maybe not directly. But they obviously hate what that Freedom produces: Creativity, Abundance, and Prosperity.
And this is their fatal character flaw-- this twisted envy. Because it is an acknowledgement of their own inadequacy. What do they produce? In this act they are admitting that they produce nothing. But whose fault is that?
Do you think that Atta was suppressed? Or that he lacked opportunity? He could have designed and built beautiful buildings in the Middle East. Unfortunately, he was just too screwed up to accomplish that. And then he fell in love with Bin Ladin who gave him an excuse and rationalization for destroying instead of building. It was a sick chemistry Atta became addicted to so that he could avoid responsibility for his own life.
What a pathetic waste he turned his life into! All his cultivated potential was ultimately scraped from the streets and gutters in bits and shreds.
And you know the rest.
...
Thurs/Fri - Nov 5 -
A CALIPH CHAT POSTSCRIPT -
I had wanted to comment further on Bin Ladin's video address, but the hour grew late, and I grew too tired, so I gave up.
I think Bin Ladin's "explanation" for how and why the WTC Twin Towers were selected as targets was disingenuous. I don't mean that he was lying. I mean that I don't "buy" his version of the process which he gave us. I had a much different sense of it because: I know what I saw. And regardless of what Bin Ladin says now, there is very little possibility that he could persuade me that I didn't see what I know I saw.
When I witnessed the second jumbo jet bash into the WTC building (on live TV), my immediate reaction was that Muslims must have done this. I initially attributed the act to the group which had demonstrated in Manhattan against Salman Rushdie, burning him in effigy and rioting in the streets. I was wrong about which specific Muslim group had done it. But my visceral sense that Muslims had done this was correct. What was it based on?
The event intensely evoked the image for me of a religious ritual central to Islam: stoning the Devil, although I realized that this behavior could not be of a religious nature. What, then, was it?
I was convinced from first sight of it that I was witnessing the commission of an act of Ritual Magic. And, I knew, the FBI has an established profile of those who commit crimes involving acts of Ritual Magic. What does this profile tell us?
The subjects tend to be, predominantly, adolescent or post-adolescent boys. And they tend to come from chaotic and unstable home environments which are out of their control. Part of the cause for this genre of behavior, the experts tell us, is a misguided but desperate attempt to gain control over their world.
Do the perpetrators of this atrocity match the already established profile? Yes, they do.
But if this act was supposed to "bankrupt the US," this magic could not be effective. It simply shows a complete lack of understanding of the American system. The mysterious "magic" of American prosperity is not in the buildings here. Its source is in the Freedom here.
Then Bin Ladin made a point of saying that he and his pals do not hate Freedom. Maybe not directly. But they obviously hate what that Freedom produces: Creativity, Abundance, and Prosperity.
And this is their fatal character flaw-- this twisted envy. Because it is an acknowledgement of their own inadequacy. What do they produce? In this act they are admitting that they produce nothing. But whose fault is that?
Do you think that Atta was suppressed? Or that he lacked opportunity? He could have designed and built beautiful buildings in the Middle East. Unfortunately, he was just too screwed up to accomplish that. And then he fell in love with Bin Ladin who gave him an excuse and rationalization for destroying instead of building. It was a sick chemistry Atta became addicted to so that he could avoid responsibility for his own life.
What a pathetic waste he turned his life into! All his cultivated potential was ultimately scraped from the streets and gutters in bits and shreds.
And you know the rest.
...
Thursday, November 4
:
Wed/Thurs - Nov 4 -
CALIPH FROM A DISTANT PLANET -
Saturday Night Live TV Show did a satirical spoof "translation" of Osama Bin Ladin's little "fireside chat" with us, which, I can only hope, gets circulated around the souks in the Gulf and around the Khyber Pass because I wish I could see Osama's reaction to it :-)
His narrative about the American Election, I thought, showed only a very simple-minded understanding of it.
And his use of a term which I associate with the Ottoman Empire made me feel like he regarded me as one of his subjects :-(
:: Uncle Osama's chatty-poo ::
* * *
Did the Arab Terrorist Factor have any influence in this set of elections? Locally in Florida, TV commercials used in a Senate race may have played a role in the contest.
*More importantly, Martinez's victory comes after achieving two major campaign accomplishments: He made his own life story a central theme, and he used harshly negative attack ads to derail Castor's campaign for months...
While the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee launched blistering attacks on Castor's handling of an alleged terrorist at a state university she headed, Martinez spent millions of dollars from his own campaign account focusing on his storybook biography, which included his flight from Fidel Castro's Cuba at age 15 and his early years in this country with foster parents in Orlando...*
:: Martinez Victory ::
...
Wed/Thurs - Nov 4 -
CALIPH FROM A DISTANT PLANET -
Saturday Night Live TV Show did a satirical spoof "translation" of Osama Bin Ladin's little "fireside chat" with us, which, I can only hope, gets circulated around the souks in the Gulf and around the Khyber Pass because I wish I could see Osama's reaction to it :-)
His narrative about the American Election, I thought, showed only a very simple-minded understanding of it.
And his use of a term which I associate with the Ottoman Empire made me feel like he regarded me as one of his subjects :-(
:: Uncle Osama's chatty-poo ::
* * *
Did the Arab Terrorist Factor have any influence in this set of elections? Locally in Florida, TV commercials used in a Senate race may have played a role in the contest.
*More importantly, Martinez's victory comes after achieving two major campaign accomplishments: He made his own life story a central theme, and he used harshly negative attack ads to derail Castor's campaign for months...
While the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee launched blistering attacks on Castor's handling of an alleged terrorist at a state university she headed, Martinez spent millions of dollars from his own campaign account focusing on his storybook biography, which included his flight from Fidel Castro's Cuba at age 15 and his early years in this country with foster parents in Orlando...*
:: Martinez Victory ::
...
Tuesday, November 2
:
Mon/Tues - Nov 2 -
G. GOES TO SCHOOL IN SADR CITY -
*He says the madrasas help the kids in these huge slums. They stop them becoming street waifs...
'From religion comes all knowledge,' the schoolmaster adds while fiddling with his beard.*
:: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - Tigris Tales ::
-- At The UK Guardian --
...
Mon/Tues - Nov 2 -
G. GOES TO SCHOOL IN SADR CITY -
*He says the madrasas help the kids in these huge slums. They stop them becoming street waifs...
'From religion comes all knowledge,' the schoolmaster adds while fiddling with his beard.*
:: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - Tigris Tales ::
-- At The UK Guardian --
...
:
Mon/Tues - Nov 2 -
DISTAFF MIDDLE EAST -
Would-Be Masterminds -
*Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for an international treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence. It also calls on the Security Council to set up a tribunal to try "the theologians of terror."*
:: From a Qatari Gal ::
* * *
Another Baghdad Diary -
*In August CJR asked Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal’s Middle East correspondent, to keep a journal of her life in Iraq, where she had been since before the war, and where reporters were finding it difficult to do their job.*
:: From CJR ::
...
Mon/Tues - Nov 2 -
DISTAFF MIDDLE EAST -
Would-Be Masterminds -
*Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for an international treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence. It also calls on the Security Council to set up a tribunal to try "the theologians of terror."*
:: From a Qatari Gal ::
* * *
Another Baghdad Diary -
*In August CJR asked Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal’s Middle East correspondent, to keep a journal of her life in Iraq, where she had been since before the war, and where reporters were finding it difficult to do their job.*
:: From CJR ::
...
Saturday, October 30
:
Sat - Oct 30 -
"WE WILL CHOP THEM UP" -
*Parties were cancelled and the restaurants were deserted in Kabul this weekend. The Delhi Durbar, usually heaving on a Friday night with aid workers, United Nations staff, diplomats, and international consultants, looked cavernous with just a couple of Afghans eating in a corner. Its regular clientele were elsewhere, cooped up in safe houses with strict instructions not to go out, forced to watch DVDs to take their minds off worrying that the Afghan capital is becoming the new Baghdad...*
Nick Meo reports in an atmospheric dispatch from Kabul at the Sunday Herald which will enhance Osama's popularity even more. Oh, yeah!
:: Taliban group claims hostages ::
...
Sat - Oct 30 -
"WE WILL CHOP THEM UP" -
*Parties were cancelled and the restaurants were deserted in Kabul this weekend. The Delhi Durbar, usually heaving on a Friday night with aid workers, United Nations staff, diplomats, and international consultants, looked cavernous with just a couple of Afghans eating in a corner. Its regular clientele were elsewhere, cooped up in safe houses with strict instructions not to go out, forced to watch DVDs to take their minds off worrying that the Afghan capital is becoming the new Baghdad...*
Nick Meo reports in an atmospheric dispatch from Kabul at the Sunday Herald which will enhance Osama's popularity even more. Oh, yeah!
:: Taliban group claims hostages ::
...
:
Sat - Oct 30 -
AL-ARABIYA TV BAGHDAD BOMBED -
An Internet group calling itself the National Islamic Resistance - 1920 Revolution Brigades called the TV station a 'treacherous network' and 'the mouthpiece of the American occupation in Iraq'...
An observer on the scene said the first floor of the office had collapsed on the employees inside...
:: Arab TV network bombed ::
...
Sat - Oct 30 -
AL-ARABIYA TV BAGHDAD BOMBED -
An Internet group calling itself the National Islamic Resistance - 1920 Revolution Brigades called the TV station a 'treacherous network' and 'the mouthpiece of the American occupation in Iraq'...
An observer on the scene said the first floor of the office had collapsed on the employees inside...
:: Arab TV network bombed ::
...
:
Sat - Oct 30 -
OBL RESOURCE -
This is a :: resource page ::
concerning the video of Osama bin Laden
that surfaced on October 29, 2004.
Posted by Mike
:: at Rantburg ::
...
Sat - Oct 30 -
OBL RESOURCE -
This is a :: resource page ::
concerning the video of Osama bin Laden
that surfaced on October 29, 2004.
Posted by Mike
:: at Rantburg ::
...
Thursday, October 28
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
AZZAM THE ANIMATRONIC ?
Is this guy a real human bean or
computer-generated ???
You decide!
*A man wearing dark glasses and an Arab headdress wrapped around his face claims to be an American member of Al Qaeda and promises attacks that will make the streets of America 'run red with blood' in a video aired Thursday night by FOX News.*
I don't like to send people to the ABCNews website which I have found to be horribly assaultive, so I'm leaving a link to FOXNews instead. There is a video link there, too.
A good Blog source often for this type of information is Rantburg which is listed on my Left Sidebar.
:: FOXNews - Azzam the American Threatens US ::
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
AZZAM THE ANIMATRONIC ?
Is this guy a real human bean or
computer-generated ???
You decide!
*A man wearing dark glasses and an Arab headdress wrapped around his face claims to be an American member of Al Qaeda and promises attacks that will make the streets of America 'run red with blood' in a video aired Thursday night by FOX News.*
I don't like to send people to the ABCNews website which I have found to be horribly assaultive, so I'm leaving a link to FOXNews instead. There is a video link there, too.
A good Blog source often for this type of information is Rantburg which is listed on my Left Sidebar.
:: FOXNews - Azzam the American Threatens US ::
...
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
BAHRAIN HIGHWAY DEMONSTRATION -
Chan'ad Bahraini Blog has more
information about the arrests.
And photos, too.
:: Chan'ad Bahraini ::
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
BAHRAIN HIGHWAY DEMONSTRATION -
Chan'ad Bahraini Blog has more
information about the arrests.
And photos, too.
:: Chan'ad Bahraini ::
...
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
TV -- HOT OR NOT ???
Issandr El Amrani reports some disaffection rumbling around the Al Hurra TV channel where *...most of the staff are Lebanese Maronites who come from the MBC channel in Lebanon, which was closed by the authorities for being critical of Syria... They also have a tendency to promote Arab and Arab-American reporters who have a history in Arab Christian activist movements, not only Maronite but Coptic too...*
I found his comments illuminating, but a bit
puzzling, too.
First, it's interesting that it turned out to be a
Christian station.
But second, what's wrong with that? Why can't the Christian Arabs have a TV station, too? I mean, what's the problem with that? I guess I just don't get it.
The classic solution is: if you don't like what a station is presenting, switch the dial to another station you prefer.
Now, here's the kicker: When I first heard the name Al Hurra or Free Spirit, I expected that maybe they were going to be the new Gay TV channel for the Middle East. Was I so wrong? Yeah, obviously, I was. LOL !
:: The Arabist Network - TV agit-prop ::
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
TV -- HOT OR NOT ???
Issandr El Amrani reports some disaffection rumbling around the Al Hurra TV channel where *...most of the staff are Lebanese Maronites who come from the MBC channel in Lebanon, which was closed by the authorities for being critical of Syria... They also have a tendency to promote Arab and Arab-American reporters who have a history in Arab Christian activist movements, not only Maronite but Coptic too...*
I found his comments illuminating, but a bit
puzzling, too.
First, it's interesting that it turned out to be a
Christian station.
But second, what's wrong with that? Why can't the Christian Arabs have a TV station, too? I mean, what's the problem with that? I guess I just don't get it.
The classic solution is: if you don't like what a station is presenting, switch the dial to another station you prefer.
Now, here's the kicker: When I first heard the name Al Hurra or Free Spirit, I expected that maybe they were going to be the new Gay TV channel for the Middle East. Was I so wrong? Yeah, obviously, I was. LOL !
:: The Arabist Network - TV agit-prop ::
...
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
PRODIGAL IQ PROGRESSIVE -
Al-Mashriq reports that Mithal al-Alousi,
who visited Israel for a terrorism conference, is forming a new political party.
:: IWPR compilation ::
Omar at IRAQ THE MODEL reports
:: further information :: about this today.
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
PRODIGAL IQ PROGRESSIVE -
Al-Mashriq reports that Mithal al-Alousi,
who visited Israel for a terrorism conference, is forming a new political party.
:: IWPR compilation ::
Omar at IRAQ THE MODEL reports
:: further information :: about this today.
...
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
~~ BAHRAIN - FROM TICKER ~~
Haaretz is currently reporting:
*00:51 - Police in Bahrain arrest 30 anti-government demonstrators protesting the imprisonment of a human rights activist.*
:: Haaretz Flash News ::
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
~~ BAHRAIN - FROM TICKER ~~
Haaretz is currently reporting:
*00:51 - Police in Bahrain arrest 30 anti-government demonstrators protesting the imprisonment of a human rights activist.*
:: Haaretz Flash News ::
...
:
Thurs - Oct 28 -
MOSUL - VIOLENCE AND HIJAB -
Azzaman in English reports that the Interim Iraqi Government has sent two commando units into Mosul which is violently deteriorating into anomy.
*...many of the city’s nearly 1.8 million inhabitants are fleeing, particularly members of Christian and other faith minorities...
The city and its suburbs have a sizeable Kurdish minority and are home to more than 100,000 Iraqi Christians and almost the same number of a secretive sect known as Yazidis.*
Military operations are currently underway.
:: AZZAMAN on MOSUL ::
Meanwhile, Dr Zeyad at the Healing Iraq Blog reports that triumphal elements represented by Ansar Al-Sunni are attempting to dominate thousands of female Christian students at Mosul U by requiring them to wear headscarves starting this Ramadan.
He then explores some of the recent assassinations.
And, turning to Baghdad Metro news, he reports:
*Fundamentalists in Baghdad have been touring several coffee shops (which usually prosper during Ramadan after the Iftar) around the city warning customers from playing dominoes, backgammon or cards because that is 'haram'...*
+ Sounds like tons of fun for the holiday.
:: HEALING IRAQ blog ::
...
Thurs - Oct 28 -
MOSUL - VIOLENCE AND HIJAB -
Azzaman in English reports that the Interim Iraqi Government has sent two commando units into Mosul which is violently deteriorating into anomy.
*...many of the city’s nearly 1.8 million inhabitants are fleeing, particularly members of Christian and other faith minorities...
The city and its suburbs have a sizeable Kurdish minority and are home to more than 100,000 Iraqi Christians and almost the same number of a secretive sect known as Yazidis.*
Military operations are currently underway.
:: AZZAMAN on MOSUL ::
Meanwhile, Dr Zeyad at the Healing Iraq Blog reports that triumphal elements represented by Ansar Al-Sunni are attempting to dominate thousands of female Christian students at Mosul U by requiring them to wear headscarves starting this Ramadan.
He then explores some of the recent assassinations.
And, turning to Baghdad Metro news, he reports:
*Fundamentalists in Baghdad have been touring several coffee shops (which usually prosper during Ramadan after the Iftar) around the city warning customers from playing dominoes, backgammon or cards because that is 'haram'...*
+ Sounds like tons of fun for the holiday.
:: HEALING IRAQ blog ::
...
:
Wed/Thurs - Oct 28 -
IRAQI TV GAL WHACKED -
Leqaa Abdul Razzaq, an anchorwoman for Al-Sharqiyah television, was killed about 6 p.m. en route to the Dora district...
:: From WTOPNEWS :: via Rantburg
...
Wed/Thurs - Oct 28 -
IRAQI TV GAL WHACKED -
Leqaa Abdul Razzaq, an anchorwoman for Al-Sharqiyah television, was killed about 6 p.m. en route to the Dora district...
:: From WTOPNEWS :: via Rantburg
...
:
Wed/Thurs - Oct 28 -
SEPARATIST CLERICS -
Eighty Shiite clerics in Bahrain have set up their own council in a country run by a Sunni clan.
*But the Islamic affairs minister has said the council was unconstitutional and sanctioning it would 'undermine national unity and (negatively) affect inter-denominational rapprochement'.*
:: From AFP via YahooNews ::
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Wed/Thurs - Oct 28 -
SEPARATIST CLERICS -
Eighty Shiite clerics in Bahrain have set up their own council in a country run by a Sunni clan.
*But the Islamic affairs minister has said the council was unconstitutional and sanctioning it would 'undermine national unity and (negatively) affect inter-denominational rapprochement'.*
:: From AFP via YahooNews ::
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