Month: September 2008
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News and Analysis (9/10/08)
MFI advisor and spiritual leader of the American Muslims passes on: Allah Reclaims W.D. Mohammed (MFI blog) Zardari announces no “substantive policy positions” on Pakistani issues at press conference: Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan Promise Solidarity (LA Times) Political factions confer to determine country’s defense strategy and potentially integrate Hezbollah weapons into the army: Lebanon…
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News and Analysis (9/9/08)
Iranians suffering energy shortage see India’s special treatment for nuclear trade as double standard: For Iran, Energy Woes Justify Nuclear Push (CS Monitor) Stalled Iraqi legislation risks further delay of elections: Iraq Parliament Speaker Wants Poll Law Row Resolved (Reuters) According to Tariq Ali’s new book The Duel, “virtually every institution of the U.S. foreign…
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Dissident Spells Out Details of Egyptian Repression
Saad-ad-Din Ibrahim, Visiting Professor of Political Sociology at Indiana University and Founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today on “Freedom ‘After’ Speech.” He offered his own persecution by the Egyptian government as the tip of an iceberg and identified the enabling role…
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News and Analysis (9/8/08)
Egyptians remained frustrated at government’s efforts after massive boulders crush a slum neighborhood of Cairo: Cairo Disaster Leaves Many Blaming Mubarak (CS Monitor) The US Military agrees to review accusations of civilian deaths as new evidence emerges: U.S. To Look Again at Civilian Deaths in Afghan Raid (Reuters) While Iran is sanctioned for pursuing nuclear…
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What’s Next for Pakistan?
I was interviewed by PressTV today on the situation in Pakistan. Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Asif Ali Zardari, who has spent pent a total of 11 years in jail on charges including corruption to murder, but has never been convicted of anything, won 481 of 702 electoral college votes to become Pakistan’s new president. He…
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News and Analysis (9/6-7/08)
Iran looks “to maintain and upgrade the combat readiness” in the face of speculation of American and/or Israeli attacks … Iran to Hold Three-day War Games: Report (Reuters / Washington Post) … but, “[u]nder fire at home … over his government’s failure to rein in steadily climbing inflation,” Ahmadinijad may have a different sort of…
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News and Anaylsis (9/5/2008)
Bob Woodward reveals that “‘groundbreaking’ new covert techniques” rather than the surge are responsible for the victories against al-Qaeda in Iraq … U.S. Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says (Washington Post) … but military concerns suggest that there may be no improvement in stability by any account: Gen. Petraeus recommends delay in Iraq troop cuts…
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News and Analysis (9/4/08)
UNRWA defends its summer camps for Gaza’s children as an alternative to the alleged militancy of the Hamas camps: Will Summer Fun Foil Gaza’s Extremism? (CS Monitor) Unnecessary deaths result from poor communication between American and Iraqi forces: Iraq Reports 7 Killed by U.S. Friendly Fire (LA times) Another Iraqi journalists arrested after labeled a…
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News and Analysis (9/3/08)
Confronted with mounting evidence of grand jury abuse, judge expresses “significant concerns about (the) conduct of the prosecutor”: Al-Arian, ex-USF Professor, Released from Prison (St. Petersburg Times) Women’s rights are protected from shelved legislation, but four activists are sentenced to prison: In Iran, Women’s Rights Activists Score Victory On Marriage Legislation (LA Times) A Muslim…
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News and Anaylsis (9/2/08)
Reminiscent of Vietnam War tiger cages, a dog pen is even worse for Muslim POW: Australian Troops Held Taliban Suspects in Dog Pen (Washington Post) Government will not suspend hostilities in Ramadan, but … Philippines Scales Down Offensive in Muslim Areas (Reuters) … while India prohibits assemblies of more than four persons, but India Lifts…
