Musharraf and the Media: Journalists leave a press conference to find a single bullet sitting in their automobiles. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, democracy in Pakistan, and the challenges of the free press.
Guns of Hizbullah: Lebanese officials seize a truckload of weapons (headed for Nasrallah’s group) and a huge cache of explosives (property of Fatah al-Islam.) [...]
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Good Reads
Posted in Good Reads, Hizbullah, Pakistan, Syria, Terror Groups on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Right of Return: Moot?
Posted in Human Rights, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Question: What is the only issue in the Palestinian conflict that has its own interest group here in the U.S.?
That would be the Right of Return (the group is Al-Awda.) And they should find new jobs, according to Saudi columnist Yousef Nasser al-Sweiden. While al-Sweiden doesn’t call out al-Awda, he does argue, in two separate [...]
Only 50?
Posted in Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, Terror Groups on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a little dated, but I wanted to bring it up: Hassan Nasrallah, Grand Poo-bah of Hizbullah, gave a speech to college graduates on April 8 that generated 160 comments on this Naharnet article. In it, he says Hizbullah will stay is current course for at least the next 50 years, pushed for early [...]
Nancy Pelosi in Syria
Posted in Lebanon, Syria, The United States in the Middle East on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been much ado about Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria and Bashar Assad (Pelosi went with 5 other Democrats, and 6 Republicans, but really, only Democrats can be “appeasers”). But first, let me get to the actual news in this whole deal:
Keith Ellison (D-Mn.), the first Muslim congressperson in U.S. history, accompanied Pelosi. Isn’t this [...]
