Being the second of my dispatches from Turkey, this time from Ankara… The call for prayer is echoing outside my window, I’m staying with Aykut and his wife and I�ve just seen on the news that the UN has failed to reach an agreement with Iraq on the return of arms inspectors and that the New York Times has published a front-page story outlining plans for a three-pronged attack on Iraq. … I’ll be there in a week.
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The End of an Era, and the Beginning of a New One
By Iraqi Dinar
09/11/2009 5:20 amThanks for the post and look forward to following you on insurgency watch. Hopefully Iraq can become a prosperous place that is truly free and safe.
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Qatar coup a plot of the Saudis?
By Steven BJ Yeoh
09/10/2009 5:56 amYou may find this interesting but I was in detention recently in Doha Qatar (something I’m not very proud of but relevant to this comment). I was in the same jail block as the above mention coup plotters (1996 counter coup). I would like to say that I those guys are not the assume militant types but very rational and well educated. I will have to say that they are victims of circumstances and not evil conspirators as many assume them to be.
Along with these guys there is an American (www.johnwdowns.com), he is charged with espionage. If you read through his website (it will offer you a more detailed/clearer explanation than anything I could explain), the charges charged against him are based in such ridiculous evidence (talk to his daughter Margaret Downs) but still he is spending a full life sentence in Doha, Qatar.
If only more people take notice and follow-up on cases like this then you will see the inequality so evident in Qatar and most gulf countries.
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Welcome back, habibi
By Wahabi
07/10/2009 1:03 amwelcome back.
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Official Numbers on Iraqi Casualties from U.S. Government?
By rashard
22/09/2009 9:42 amI feel that it does not make much sense to keep fighting the war in Iraq. Everything that we mess up we have to re-build it so why keep fighting if we don’t have to. The casualties that are shown in this blog are deaths that could have been well avoided. Alot of money problems should not be blamed on Obama but Bush.
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Pierre Gemayel has been assassinated
By Blogs of War
21/11/2006 7:27 pmAnti-Syrian Lebanese Minister Pierre Gemayel Assassinated
[Developing] It’s getting very tense in Lebanon:
Industry Minister and Christian leader Pierre Gemayel was gunned down as his convoy drove through the Christian Sin el-Fil neighbourhood.
The shooting comes at a time when Lebanese political and se…
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