OxFan: "Important UN provisions, but unlikely to increase direct pressure on...
OXFAN: Excerpts: “… If the resolution is passed, its real significance will be seen not in the specific provisions that it contains, but rather in what it symbolises in terms of international agreement...
View ArticleWashington beware: Bashar Assad is scheming!
Seriously, I believe that Michael Young shows signs of dementia … Old scribblings like “controlling the Sunnis, … stifle Geagea’ … Hezbollah card” have been throttled to death ...Daily Star/ here “…...
View ArticleIran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Exchange Deal over new UN Sanctions
Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar warned Thursday that “If (the West) issues a new resolution against Iran, we will not be committed to Tehran’s statement and dispatching fuel outside...
View ArticleMid-East talks show no progress
US envoy ends a second round of indirect talks between Palestinians and Israeli without any outward sign of progress. Go to Source
View ArticleHalal food app
Eli Milchman, Cult of Mac, App OKs Food For Halal Or Vegetarian Eaters (Non-US Only, Though), 18 May 2010 "Halal Scanner Islamic (featured in the clip above) prompts the user to take a photo of an...
View ArticleTaliban Attack Qandahar Airfield; Parliament goes on Strike
Guerrillas fired mortar shells and used small arms to attack the major US military base in south Afghanistan, Qandahar Airfield, on Saturday. The operation was the third major attack by insurgents...
View ArticleIran looks for swap for ‘hikers’
An Iranian minister urges the US to propose a prisoner swap to secure the release of three US nationals arrested last year. Go to Source
View Article"…That clock is ticking. The Afghan insurgents can hear it ticking. The...
Lang at SST/ here “Some group of “Taliban” have now claimed yesterday’s attack on the airfield at Kandahar. Mortar fire, rockets and ground action around the perimeter marked the event. Evidently this...
View ArticleIsrael offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
A suppressed historical episode has emerged into the light of day in such a way as to deeply embarrass Israel and the United States in their campaign against Iran’s peaceful nuclear enrichment program...
View ArticleUS Afghan troops ‘more than in Iraq’
There are more US troops in Afghanistan than Iraq for the first time since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, officials say. Go to Source
View ArticleIs ElBaradei Running for President Everywhere but Egypt?
While I’m citing The National, I’d also note this piece about how Mohamed ElBaradei’s “prolonged absences from Egypt” are “confusing” his followers; he’s visited the US, Cameroon, and other places, and...
View ArticleOn the Hezbollah-Brennan ‘remark’: Codename: "If it looks & quacks, it’s not...
Josh Landis tagged this interview with Mark Perry on Al Jaz-English for us, in which Perry “doesn’t believe that Brennan is simply being naive; rather, he says the term is code for doing what has to be...
View ArticlePetraeus Memo Widens scope of US Military Covert Operations in ME
The 7-page memo seen by the NYT and signed by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus authorizes US troops to engage in clandestine intelligence-gathering in the greater Middle East. The article implies...
View Article"End game"
FB Ali via SST/ here The players involved in the conflict in Afghanistan have all concluded that neither side can achieve a military victory and that it will end in some other way, probably through a...
View ArticleNetanyahu Invited to Washington? For Next Tuesday
Ha’aretz is reporting (exclusively, they say) that President Obama has invited Binyamin Netanyahu to come to Washington following his visit to the OECD session in Europe and a previously scheduled...
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