Posts Tagged ‘Jordan’
Americans funding expanding Israeli occupation (“settlements”)
Der Spiegel | By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult | 23 July 2010 US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving [...]
Divide and Rule the Muslim World
Spiegel | By Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand | 15 July 2010 Persian Isolation A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East Israel and the Arab states near the Persian Gulf recognize a common threat: the regime in Tehran. A regional diplomat has not even ruled out support by the Arab states for a military strike to end [...]
“This guy doesn’t get it, does he?” — Netanyahu, on Obama’s first criticism of Israel
The Independent | By Robert Fisk | 17 July 2010 They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason It is the season of grovelling. Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the [...]
The price of truth in Anglo-America
Jordan Times | By Rami G. Khouri | 16 July 2010 Two fascinating yet troubling incidents took place in the past week related to American and British public figures - a British ambassador and an American journalist - who had their fingers burned for acknowledging the deep respect that the late Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese [...]
CIA’s Heads of State
Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets Allegations that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother worked for the CIA are a reminder of a long list of distinguished and not-so-distinguished assets There was little surprise among Afghanistan experts and longtime CIA watchers [...]
Jordan arrests more than 40 in connection to Afghan attack
Jerusalem Post | By JP Staff | 31 January 2010 More than 40 suspects were arrested in Jordan in connection with the December terrorist attack on a CIA meeting in Afghanistan, AFP reported Sunday night. "More than 40 Jordanian jihadists, including ex-convicts, have been arrested," an official told AFP. The attacker, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal [...]
War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying "terrorism" every time we're attacked. Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. The CIA called it a "terrorist attack." So did the Associated Press in a report published in dozens of news [...]
Jordanian Khost Bomber Linked to CIA Killing of Baitullah Mehsud
Xinhua | 9 January 2010 CIA bomber calls for attacks on U.S. in video BEIJING, Jan. 9 -- The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said all jihadists must attack US targets to avenge the killing of the Pakistani Taliban leader, according to a video that appeared posthumously Saturday on an Arabic [...]
Is CIA’s Private Army, Blackwater/Xe, Still on Contract?
The Nation | By Jeremy Scahill | 6 January 2010 Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress? “At this time, Blackwater is not involved in any CIA operations other than in a security or support role.” — CIA spokesman George Little, 11 December 2010. A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on [...]
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Criticises Government for Being on the Wrong Side in Iraq and Now Afghanistan
BBC Monitoring (via COMTEX) | 6 January 2010 Jordan Muslim Brotherhood figure asks government to clarify role in Afghanistan Zaki Bani-Irshayd, Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council member and former secretary general of the Islamic Action Front Party has expressed surprise at the presence of Jordanian forces in Afghanistan. In a statement [...]
