The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.

Monday, December 24, 2012

an Israeli expert: Syrians are not capable of using equipment

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" " Guy Ben-Ari, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said: "They don...

German foreign poilcy objectives in the Middle East

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"He says the German government is currently guided by five policy objectives: economic cooperation, migration and refugee policy, com...

Those Gulf dictatorships

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"BAE Systems Plc (BA/)’s 2.5 billion-pound ($4 billion) order to supply fighter planes to Oman will assure British military-jet produc...

The case of Jihad Makdisi

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When media of Saudi royal family members, like the crude and vulgar Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) make u...

arrest in Saudi Arabia

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"Saudi authorities have arrested writer Turki al-Hamad today based on orders from Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Naif, accord...

Now we know how Rami Abdelrahman of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculates his estimates of casualties in Syria

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"Rami Abdelrahman, of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the casualty figures were still unknown but added: ...

US coup in Egypt

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My article on US coup in Egypt, in Turkish .

John Kerry as secretary of state

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My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English on John Kerry.

civil war in Syria

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Comrade Amer has an important piece on the civil war in Syria.

The Zionist entity is desperate to host any Arab

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"The visit to Israel by Egyptian blogger and political activist Maikel Nabil Sanad has drawn reactions ranging from a cool reception ...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Lebanese immigrants

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My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "Against voting by Lebanese immigrants ".

Jihaz Al-Ma`lumat wants to obtain this information about all Lebanese

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(thanks Evelyne)

Arabic in Latin Alphabet?

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From Ahmet in Tunisia:   " Asad, this guy is trying to convince us, thinking this is 2004, that the actually declining trend of wri...

cyber terrorism by US and Israel

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" "Former senior CIA officials close to the investigation have told ISSSource that the US and Israel are behind the attack, but ...

using torture

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""Despite Foreign Office lawyers admitting all three were tortured by British colonial authorities, the government has decided t...

They found the formula. They found the formula.

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""After 11 years of war, the U.S. military is applying a strategy in Afghanistan that works, based on gradually empowering the A...

Israel and Turkey

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""NATO is a consensus-based organization where any one of its 28 full members can veto a proposal, though often opposition is co...

another perspective on Syria

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" " "It's a propaganda war," said Cengiz Günay, a Middle East expert at the Austrian Institute for International P...

Muslims and extremism

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" "In Europe and North America, Muslims are not the largest group of immigrants at all. And among immigrants, what we're see...

Lousy reporting by Neil MacFarquhar (and his token Arab side-kick): bigotry against `Alawites

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This article has nothing new whatsoever: it merely parrots and highlights the bigoted anti-`Alawite sentiments of sectarian Syrian armed gr...

War crimes by South Sudan Army: where are the Darfur groupies?

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The Darfur groupies have gone silent: they don't speak out against the war crimes of the South Sudan Army.  The crimes of the South Sud...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Dubai

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Based on the new billboard warning against public "display of sentiments" (see below), it is clear now: you may hit a woman in pu...

In support of the Bin Ladenites in Syria: not in the Western press

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How come the Western media does not cover the proliferation of messages and statements in support of the Bin Ladenites in Syria from the to...

End of the world

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I was looking forward to the end of the world as it would have permitted me--even for a second- -to witnes s the end of the Zionist entit...

House of Khalifah and their cheap propaganda

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" " "I believed Bahrain TV that the demonstrators had weapons and they took blood bags from the hospital and poured it on t...

Potential threat to Turkey

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From a reader:  " "Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Yes. I can confirm that we have detected the launch of scud-type missiles. We strongl...

US military and sexual violence

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" "Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta called for "a strong and immediate response," after a Defense Department report r...

urinating on Muslims will cost you $500

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" "A U.S. Marine court-martialed for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for pictures with them in Afgh...

Salafis and Al-Azhar

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Basim sent me this:  (all are his words in this post) "That reputation is under threat, as far more hardline elements of Egypt’s Is...

Display of sentiments is banned in Dubai

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It seems that the lousy Dubai government hired some lousy Western PR firm to market its lousy moral code, and its PR firm hired some lous...

The UN report on Syria: scandalous

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A seasoned NGO person in the Middle East wrote me this about the UN report on Syria: "What do you expect if those who wrote this repo...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Barry Obama goes to war, again

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Another war: this time in Mali .  The US tried to recruit the Algerian army for the mission (just as they had recruited the Ethiopian army ...

Bashshar is a horse?

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" “Bashar is a horse,” Mr. Farouh said, almost spitting with disgust as he said the president’s name. “He is a donkey. ”"  There ...

correction from the Times

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" Correction: December 21, 2012 An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Scuds. They are ballistic missiles, not c...

Let us face it. They are cute even when they threaten civil aviation

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" Syrian rebels fired warning shots at an airliner preparing to take off from Aleppo airport in the first direct attack on a civilia...

Free Syrian Army thieves in the Turksih press

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  From Ali, a Turkish journalist:  "We cover the theft of FSA... The headline "Free Bread Thieves" Also our journalist in ...

former crown prince of Jordan

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" Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan found himself in hot water this week after his participation in a Jewish charity event in the U...

The chief defamer

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" " The other thing you should know about Foxman is that he's head of the Anti-Defamation League. So far as I can tell, tha...

Why he hates Muslims

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""An Indiana man convicted of setting fire to a mosque in Ohio told a judge on Wednesday that he committed the crimes because Fo...

The pious Prince

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" "A total of five luxury suites as well as a prayer room with electronic mats which automatically turn to face mecca "...

The Islamic state of Syria

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" "A week after the announcement of the new coalition, a group of Free Syrian Army commanders in Aleppo came together to announc...

I wonder why they are there. The draw of liberalism and secularism?

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" "Most of the "foreign fighters" slipping into Syria to join rebel groups, or fight independently alongside them, are...

Syrian defector

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Yesterday, I learned that former Syrian diplomat, Riyad Na`san Agha, is now a leading opposition figure.  There has been nobody who has spe...

intellectual support?

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" Iran has also confirmed that members of its Revolutionary Guards Corps are providing the Assad government with “intellectual and ad...

Canada's support for Israel

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" "What remains unspeakable in mainstream politics in Canada was recently uttered, in a moment of rare candour, by former Prime ...
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