One of the founders of Algeria’s “Armed Islamic Group” revealed in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat that Usama Bin Laden gave monetary aid to the Algerian fundamentalists beginning in 1992. That was when the military government threw out the election results, in which the Islamic Salvation Front had won a majority in parliament and repressed […]
Rebellion Of Padshah Khan Zadran In
The rebellion of Padshah Khan Zadran in Eastern Afghanistan appears to have failed for the moment. The disaffected warlord, who has vowed to overthrow Karzai, had rockets fired into the middle of Khost. He was trying to take the city from Governor Muhammad Hakim Tanival, Karzai’s appointee. Tanival’s forces have fought off the challenge. But […]
Bin Laden Preaches Against U
Bin Laden Preaches against U.S. Asim Daraz, an Egyptian journalist who lived in Afghanistan and associated for a while with Usama Bin Laden, showed videotape excerpts in London yesterday that help explain Bin Laden’s hatred for the U.S., according to ash-Sharq al-Awsat. One was a sermon Bin Laden delivered in Jidda at his family’s mosque […]
Architecture Of Middle East
The Architecture of the Middle East It has been suggested that “American strategic planners intend to attempt to replace the existing Sykes-Picot/Balfour architecture of the region, which reflected British (and French) imperial primacy during and after WWI, with a revised system that would better reflect new global realities.” I don’t see any evidence that US […]
Instability In Afghanistan Ability Of
Instability in Afghanistan The ability of terrorist forces (whether al-Qaida or Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) to set off a huge car bomb explosion in Kabul, killing at least 30 and injuring 50, on the same day that President Hamid Karzai narrowly escaped being assassinated in Kandahar, demonstrates how much remains to be done there. U.S. preoccupation with […]
Iraqi Shiites And Hizbullah There Seems
Iraqi Shi`ites and Hizbullah There seems to me to be a contradiction between the stated plans of the hawks in the Bush administration to establish a post-Saddam democracy in Iraq on the one hand, and other goals of the administration on the other. For instance, President Bush put Iran in the “axis of evil” and […]
More On Sawa And Gutting Voice Of
More on Sawa and Gutting the Voice of America I’ve been listening to Radio Sawa, and the situation is even worse than I thought. It is available at: http://www.ibb.gov/radiosawa/index.html First of all, they play the Backstreet Boys. Even worse, the news breaks, at least on the Web service, appear to be much shorter and less […]
Al Qaeda In Holland Dutch Prosecutors
al-Qaeda in Holland Dutch prosecutors in Rotterdam said on Monday that they had arrested 8 persons who belong to a radical Islamic group that provided “logistical, material and financial support” to al-Qaeda, and recruited fighters for it. This cell is apparently unrelated to a previously apprehended group of 4 men. The previously arrested cell included […]
Gutting Voa And Radio Sawa Some News
Gutting VOA and Radio Sawa Some news reports from the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers this week have talked about the amazing success of Radio Sawa, the US government radio network that broadcasts on FM and AM in the Middle East. It plays music all day, mixing Britney Spears with local Arab pop stars, […]
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