Tag: middle east
member name: Savo Heleta
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May 12, 2009 02:40 AM EDT --
If a wife is spending too much money, her husband is allowed to slap her, a judge in Saudi Arabia said recently during a seminar on domestic violence.
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily . . .
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November 17, 2008 09:55 AM EST --
Do you know the difference between the conflict in the Balkans and the conflict in the Middle East?
You can have a drink or two when dealing with the conflict in the Balkans!
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August 04, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
The US media is full of compassionate stories about the three Americans who were arrested in Iran as they illegally entered the country.
Why so much publicity? As if the Iranians did something wrong. . . .
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August 17, 2009 03:03 PM EDT --
The ex-wife of a groom at a wedding party in Kuwait has admitted to the police that she started a blaze that killed 43 women and children in just three minutes, according to Al Jazeera.
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December 02, 2008 03:08 AM EST --
In an interview that will be aired on ABC on Monday night (December 2), George Bush said that " the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq... I . . .
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July 15, 2009 06:02 AM EDT --
The Israeli human rights organization "Breaking the Silence" has spent months interviewing Israeli soldiers who took part in the Gaza war that took place earlier this year.
German Spiegel writes . . .
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July 24, 2009 09:51 AM EDT --
Just how bad are the torture and abuse photos which Barack Obama has barred from public view?
A senior Pentagon official told CNN that these images of torture and abuse at the hands of US troops have . . .
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August 15, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
Wasn't Afghanistan supposed to be a better place since the US government replaced the ruthless Taliban regime with the new "pro-democratic" government?
Not really!
Afghanistan has recently "passed . . .
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June 29, 2009 10:10 AM EDT --
When the president of Iran denies the Holocaust, the Western world screams at him in disgust.
But when an influential American-Jewish Rabbi calls for a total destruction of Palestinians of genocidal . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
People in Afghanistan say they are criminals and robbers.
But these same "criminals and robbers" have been given training, police uniforms, and equipment by the US forces in Afghanistan, writes the . . .
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July 26, 2009 07:58 AM EDT --
Despite having to fight Pakistan's security forces and facing attacks by the United States military, the Taliban are becoming more powerful in Pakistan with every passing day, writes German Spiegel . . . .
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August 07, 2009 12:16 PM EDT --
This week, a Virginia court "received sworn statements from former Blackwater employees alleging that Erik Prince, the company’s founder, views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating . . .
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June 22, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
Barack Obama's careful "wait and see" policy on Iran is a correct one.
As the Economist writes , Obama's "priority is to prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring a nuclear bomb. His preferred method . . .
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May 21, 2009 03:26 AM EDT --
Is America waging a religious war against Muslims?
Yes, at least according to the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
During the Iraq war, Rumsfeld used quotes from the . . .
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August 03, 2009 02:52 PM EDT --
Juan Cole, a professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan, asks in Salon is Sarah Palin America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
According to Cole, while different . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:37 AM EDT --
Driving around Baghdad, Blackwater mercenaries competed who can hit an Iraqi civilian with a water bottle or smash a windshield or a window.
Some fired their weapons indiscriminately in unprovoked and . . .
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January 12, 2009 05:03 AM EST --
Dear Mr. Wiesel,
First time I read "Night," your memoir that describes your horrific experiences during the Holocaust, was in 2003. In my opinion, two books everyone in the world should . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:54 AM EDT --
One of the reasons George Bush and the United States went to war in Afghanistan was to topple the ruthless Taliban regime with a long record of human rights abuses and bring "freedom and democracy" . . .
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May 20, 2009 02:49 AM EDT --
What is on the new 44 photos showing abuse and torture by the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that makes them so dangerous to publish?
German Spiegel writes that, "apparently, the photos . . .
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August 02, 2009 03:29 PM EDT --
It's not the attacks by the Taliban or roadside bombs that are hampering Afghanistan war efforts.
Rather, it's the obesity of the soldiers!
As the British Observer writes , Britain's war effort . . .
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