Public marks with tag middle-east Public marks with tag middle-east http://blogmarks.net/marks/tag/middle-east President Ahmadinejad's Count Down to War? http://opinionist.com/2007/01/24/president-ahmadinejads-count-down-to-war/ Ahmadinejad mind-map bullet points: - Holocaust denier - US/Israel “soon to be destroyed” - “one bomb” will destroy Israel - North Koreans assisting Iran’s nuclear program - Israel very quiet recently - Israel political will and military resources to attack Iran unilaterally? - 2nd U.S. carrier group en route Persian Gulf - U.S. defend Iraq’s Iran / Syrian borders in response? - 2009 term limit, Parliament shortened Ahmadinejad’s term? - ‘Hojjatieh’ ultra-conservative Shia believer of the 12th Imam/Mahdi - Ahmadinejad wants his administration to ‘pave way for 12th Imam’s return - His administration politically weaker; forcing his hand? - Inflation, unemployment, building opposition to his policies - Ahmadinejad even scares Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - Ayathollah’s recent overtures (”goodwill”) to U.S. via Saudi King - Sec. of State - Condi Rice - making trip to Riyadh next week 2007-01-24T17:04:08Z OPINIONIST iran, iraq, war on terror, middle-east, ahmadinejad, bush

President Ahmadinejad's Count Down to War?

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Ahmadinejad mind-map bullet points: - Holocaust denier - US/Israel “soon to be destroyed” - “one bomb” will destroy Israel - North Koreans assisting Iran’s nuclear program - Israel very quiet recently - Israel political will and military resources to attack Iran unilaterally? - 2nd U.S. carrier group en route Persian Gulf - U.S. defend Iraq’s Iran / Syrian borders in response? - 2009 term limit, Parliament shortened Ahmadinejad’s term? - ‘Hojjatieh’ ultra-conservative Shia believer of the 12th Imam/Mahdi - Ahmadinejad wants his administration to ‘pave way for 12th Imam’s return - His administration politically weaker; forcing his hand? - Inflation, unemployment, building opposition to his policies - Ahmadinejad even scares Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - Ayathollah’s recent overtures (”goodwill”) to U.S. via Saudi King - Sec. of State - Condi Rice - making trip to Riyadh next week

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]]> Nouvelles d'Orient http://blog.mondediplo.net/-Nouvelles-d-Orient- Depuis au moins quarante ans, le Proche-Orient est au centre de l’actualité internationale. Il passionne les opinions publiques du Vieux continent. Pour des raisons multiples : accumulation de crises et de guerres ; proximité géographique ; présence 2006-12-24T00:15:59Z jlemoine middle-east, actuality

Nouvelles d'Orient

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Depuis au moins quarante ans, le Proche-Orient est au centre de l’actualité internationale. Il passionne les opinions publiques du Vieux continent. Pour des raisons multiples : accumulation de crises et de guerres ; proximité géographique ; présence

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]]> Islamiqua http://islamiqua.canalblog.com/ Hamza Belloumi. Etudiant en sciences Juridiques, je m’intéresse depuis quelques années à l’étude du phénomène islamiste dans le monde arabo-musulman et au regain de religiosité des populations musulmanes ces dernières années. Mon ambition est 2006-12-19T23:43:44Z jlemoine middle-east, actuality

Islamiqua

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Hamza Belloumi. Etudiant en sciences Juridiques, je m’intéresse depuis quelques années à l’étude du phénomène islamiste dans le monde arabo-musulman et au regain de religiosité des populations musulmanes ces dernières années. Mon ambition est

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]]> Guardian | FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1921258,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report. But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties. 2006-10-15T02:56:03Z ravi israel, human-rights, hypocrisy, middle-east

Guardian | FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon

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Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report. But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties.

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]]> [NYT] Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/world/middleeast/25cluster.html?ex=1157169600&en=5b2fb7575062794b&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons... 2006-08-26T02:58:19Z ravi news, israel, terrorism, middle-east

[NYT] Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs - New York Times

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The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons...

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]]> Syria warns on peacekeepers http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1856719,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 [Guardian] The Syrian president, Bashar Assad, today warned he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a hostile move towards his country. 2006-08-23T19:46:49Z ravi middle-east, news, israel

Syria warns on peacekeepers

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[Guardian] The Syrian president, Bashar Assad, today warned he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a hostile move towards his country.

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]]> Angry White Kid: World powers unite to kill Palestinians http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2006/05/world_powers_un.html 2006-05-24T19:52:05Z mikepower race, poverty, politicsgovernment, politics, war, ethics, Palestinians, middle-east, israel, fromDel

Angry White Kid: World powers unite to kill Palestinians

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]]> A Just War? Hardly http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0510-33.htm 2006-05-11T06:24:38Z mikepower debunking, ethics, morality, middle-east, usa, war, iraq, fromDel

A Just War? Hardly

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]]> The Israel Lobby http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html BADSTRING 2006-03-23T22:25:51Z mikepower usa, middle-east, israel, fromDel

The Israel Lobby

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]]> Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article347806.ece Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed. 2006-02-27T10:02:56Z mikepower world, bush, politics, terrorism, war, humanrights, iraq, middle-east, t, fromDel

Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war

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Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.

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]]> The New Yorker: The Memo by Jane Mayer http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060227fa_fact How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted. 2006-02-21T12:53:35Z mikepower middle-east, war, terrorism, humanrights, u, usa, fromDel

The New Yorker: The Memo by Jane Mayer

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How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.

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]]> US troops taught Iraqi gestures http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4729262.stm The US military has funded a computer game to teach its troops how to use and decipher Iraqi body language. 2006-02-21T07:37:14Z mikepower iraq, war, usa, middle-east, t, fromDel

US troops taught Iraqi gestures

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The US military has funded a computer game to teach its troops how to use and decipher Iraqi body language.

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]]> Jasem al-Aqrab: The Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1710836,00.html Since April 2003, the people of Basra have consistently been bemused by reports that they and their city enjoy a state of calm and stability under the command of the British forces, in contrast to the north of Iraq and the so-called Sunni triangle. 2006-02-16T06:32:16Z mikepower war, middle-east, t, terrorism, fromDel

Jasem al-Aqrab: The Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie

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Since April 2003, the people of Basra have consistently been bemused by reports that they and their city enjoy a state of calm and stability under the command of the British forces, in contrast to the north of Iraq and the so-called Sunni triangle.

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]]> TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060203/washingtons_iraq_blindness.php The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart. 2006-02-03T22:55:33Z mikepower opinion, op-ed, middle-east, politics, bush, iraq, war, usa, u, fromDel

TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness

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The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.

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]]> Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1697825,00.html Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year. 2006-01-30T16:58:13Z mikepower Palestinians, humanrights, war, politics, terrorism, israel, middle-east, fromDel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians

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Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year.

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]]> Bush has backward view of dissent http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/256852_zimmerman25.html Did Bush deliberately deceive the American people to justify the war in Iraq? I don't know...and neither do you. But here's what we do know: The president doesn't think we should be asking in the first place. And that might be the biggest scandal of all. 2006-01-26T16:15:34Z mikepower mrp, fromDel, politics, middle-east, war, bush, usa, iraq

Bush has backward view of dissent

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Did Bush deliberately deceive the American people to justify the war in Iraq? I don't know...and neither do you. But here's what we do know: The president doesn't think we should be asking in the first place. And that might be the biggest scandal of all.

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]]> Independent: Palestinian with Aids barred from Israeli hospital http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article339575.ece A Palestinian Aids patient has been denied permission to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel despite warnings by senior Israeli clinicians that the case is urgent. 2006-01-19T00:22:03Z mikepower humanrights, ethics, israel, t, politics, health, middle-east, fromDel

Independent: Palestinian with Aids barred from Israeli hospital

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A Palestinian Aids patient has been denied permission to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel despite warnings by senior Israeli clinicians that the case is urgent.

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]]> Guardian: Official US agency paints dire picture of 'out-of-control' Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1688730,00.html An official assessment drawn up by the US foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, amounting to a "social breakdown" in which criminals have "almost free rein". 2006-01-18T15:36:57Z mikepower terrorism, t, middle-east, iraq, war, fromDel

Guardian: Official US agency paints dire picture of 'out-of-control' Iraq

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An official assessment drawn up by the US foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, amounting to a "social breakdown" in which criminals have "almost free rein".

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]]> D-squared Digest http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2004_05_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html#108573518762776451 Literally people have been asking me: "How is it that you were so amazingly prescient about Iraq? Why is it that you were right about everything at precisely the same moment when we were wrong?" 2006-01-11T23:46:49Z mikepower argument, iraq, middle-east, war, politics, fromDel

D-squared Digest

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Literally people have been asking me: "How is it that you were so amazingly prescient about Iraq? Why is it that you were right about everything at precisely the same moment when we were wrong?"

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]]> The Village Voice: The Bush Beat http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/002307.php A year after tearfully accepting a Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush for his disastrous reign in Iraq, preposterous pasha Jerry Bremer has rewritten history with a ghosted "diary" and started a book tour by saying, "I didn't do it." 2006-01-10T13:38:12Z mikepower middle-east, usa, iraq, t, u, fromDel

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

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A year after tearfully accepting a Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush for his disastrous reign in Iraq, preposterous pasha Jerry Bremer has rewritten history with a ghosted "diary" and started a book tour by saying, "I didn't do it."

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]]> Iraq's Death Squads http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120300881.html OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces. 2005-12-05T20:41:48Z mikepower usa, middle-east, op-ed, u, fromDel

Iraq's Death Squads

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OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.

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]]> Rev. William E. Alberts: the Forgotten Christmas Story http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts12032005.html Saying "No" to King Herod 2005-12-05T20:33:24Z mikepower u, middle-east, bush, usa, war, fromDel

Rev. William E. Alberts: the Forgotten Christmas Story

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Saying "No" to King Herod

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]]> How to Win in Iraq - Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050901faessay84508/andrew-f-krepinevich-jr/how-to-win-in-iraq.html U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis 2005-08-30T07:21:10Z mikepower middle-east, u, war, fromDel

How to Win in Iraq - Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

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U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis

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]]> The Propaganda Remix Project http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html Remixed posters galore 2005-08-05T10:29:02Z mikepower usa, middle-east, war, fromDel

The Propaganda Remix Project

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Remixed posters galore

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]]> Prospect - A muslim Journey http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6989 British Islam is dominated by culturally and theologically conservative south Asians. But the London bombs may help to make it more open to those who want to engage with the modern world 2005-08-04T09:21:41Z mikepower terrorism, op-ed, middle-east, politics, war, fromDel

Prospect - A muslim Journey

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British Islam is dominated by culturally and theologically conservative south Asians. But the London bombs may help to make it more open to those who want to engage with the modern world

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