Jordanian Dailies on Cheney’s Middle East Trip The USG Open Source Center paraphrases reports in the Jordanian press on US Vice President Dick Cheney’s current round of diplomacy in the Middle East. Jordanian Dailies Comment on Cheney’s Middle East Tour, ObjectivesJordan — OSC SummaryFriday, May 11, 2007 Jordanian newspapers published on 10 May are observed […]
Archives for May 2007
Sciri Adopts Sistani Emphasizes
SCIRI Adopts Sistani, emphasizes Iraqiness Bombings kill 26, wound 60 The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq held its annual party convention on Thursday and Friday and, according to Mariam Karouny of Reuters has decided to make some significant changes. They will drop the part of their party platform where they say that they […]
Protest Over Detention Of Haleh
Protest over Detention of Haleh Esfandiari The Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association helped craft MESA’s letter protesting the detention by the Iranian government of prominent Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari. [Help MESA defend Academic Freedom.] May 11, 2007 President Mahmoud AhmadinejadPasteur AveTehran 13168-43311Iran Your Excellency, I am writing on behalf of […]
Congress Passes Short Lease Bill For
Congress Passes Short-Leash Bill for Bush 9 Iraqi captives executed Congress passed an appropriations bill that only funded the Iraq War for about three months on Thursday. Bush has said that he will veto it. Senate Dems are working to find 12 moderate Republicans who also want toe war to end. WaPo confirms the report […]
Radical Poem On Sharm El Sheikh Usg
Radical Poem on Sharm el Sheikh The USG Open Source center has paraphrased an ironic poem by a Muslim militant about the Sharm el Sheikh conference on Iraq. The frankly racist remarks about US Secretary of State Condi Rice and the implication that any male Middle Eastern politician who cooperated with her was effeminate and […]
Those Who Live In Glass Houses Is Mitt
Those who Live in Glass Houses Were Mitt Romney’s Remarks Anti-Muslim Bigotry? Mitt Romney has attacked Al Sharpton’s remark about his being defeated by those who ‘really do believe in God’ as a piece of religious bigotry. But first of all the remark came in the context of Sharpton’s debate with Christopher Hitchens concerning belief […]
Cheney Greeted By Mortars
Cheney Greeted by Mortars, Demonstrations: Iraqi Parliament pleads for US withdrawal Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that US Vice President Dick Cheney was greeted, on his surprise visit to Baghdad, by a rain of mortar shells on the Green Zone and by protests in several cities organized by Puritan Shiite followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. One […]
Kurdish Offered At University Of
Kurdish Offered at the University of Michigan Pardon the narrowcasting– this is a message primarily for University of Michigan students, who should please share it with potentially interested friends. We have just enough applications to offer Elementary Kurdish of Iraq this summer term but we would like to get the word out to University of […]
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Ft. Dix Plot is Milosevic’s Fault: Postcolonial Wars and Terror The small cell that plotted to attack Ft. Dix was made up of Albanians from Kosovo, along with a Turk and a Jordanian. Note that in the 1980s most Yugoslav Muslims were deracinated and secular. Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are really the same language, and […]
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