Posts Tagged ‘UAE’
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 [...]
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
Why Afghanistan is a lost cause
San Francisco Chronicle | By Joel Brinkley | 11 July 2010 As Gen. David Petraeus assumed his new command in Afghanistan earlier this month, he took up a strategy that has already failed - though not for the reasons most people assume. Certainly, as most everyone knows, the battle plan appears hopeless. Every night in Marjah, Taliban [...]
Asif Zardari Richer than Queen Elizabeth II
The Independent | By David Usborne | 19 May 2010 Rich and powerful: Obama and the global super-elite The US President's bank balance has been buoyant since he took office. But he is still some way short of rivalling the very richest world leaders Now the nation knows. That doggy in the White House window is worth $1,600 (£1,100). Pretty [...]
American Bribes Flowing from Kabul to Dubai
Washington Post | By Andrew Higgins | 25 February 2010 Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising [...]
Mossad Agent Used Nazi Guilt to get Genuine German Passport
Spiegel Online | 20 February 2010 | Quick Translation from German Assassination of Hamas official: Prosecutor initiates an investigation New evidence concerning the assassination of Hamas leader Mabhuh in Dubai: SPIEGEL has learned that the German passport of one of the alleged Mossad agents involved was genuine. The Cologne-based [...]
CCTV Footage of Mossad’s Murder
Gulf News | By Abbas Al Lawati and Wafa Youssef | 21 February 2010 Dubai's sophisticated security apparatus checkmates Mossad Since the killing of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room on January 19, Dubai Police have released pictures, images of their alleged passports and alleged names of 11 suspects, for whom arrest warrants have also [...]
The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
Foreign Policy in Focus | By Nick Terse | 11 February 2010 In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities. In December 2009, at this site in the Shinwar district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, U.S. troops joined members of the Afghan [...]
UAE Assassination: “Mossad knows how to get the job done” — Israeli Minister Daniel Herschkowitz
The Jerusalem Post | By Yaakov Katz | 7 February 2010 Security and Defense: Espionage, with a smile The smiles said it all. As ministers made their way down the hall of the Prime Minister’s Office to the cabinet room on Sunday – flanked on one side by reporters – they couldn’t stop smiling. “All the security services make, thank [...]
Dubai police chief: Mossad may have killed Hamas commander
Jerusalem Post | JP Staff and AP | 31 January 2010 Dhahi Khalfan tells AFP: "I don't exclude any possibility" in Mabhouh's assassination; Israeli officials say commander played key role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza. At least seven people were involved in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last week, according to Dubai [...]
