The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh appears to have been badly misled on this story about a video of an alleged Hamas honor killing in the Gaza Strip. The paper’s Web site is currently leading with the story. Too bad the disturbing video looks to be a 2004 April 2007 clip of a Yazidi girl […]
Entries Tagged as 'Iraq'
Shame on the Jerusalem Post
September 29th, 2007 · 31 Comments
Tags: Media · Iraq · Hamas · Gaza
Throwing bullets
August 17th, 2007 · 11 Comments
I usually detest right wing bloggers’ ignorant attacks on the press, but this one is just too funny.
The next jihad
August 2nd, 2007 · 20 Comments
A pro-Lebanese army propaganda video denounces Fatah al-Islam as terrorists and defilers of Islam.
As the Lebanese Army’s battle with Fatah al-Islam militants in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp winds to a close, there is much chatter here about the long term ramifications of the over two-month long siege.
The initial take on the […]
Tags: Al Qaeda · Lebanon · Iraq
Slow blogging
July 11th, 2007 · 20 Comments
I’m on vacation on the Greek island of Paros so blogging will be very slow until I’m back in Jerusalem on Monday. In the meantime, there’s this latest sign that the Iraq adventure is going swell:
BASRA, Iraq, July 11, 2007 (AFP) - The Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war […]
Tags: Iraq
Quote of the Day
July 5th, 2007 · 22 Comments
I met in Amman today with Mohammad Bashar al Faidi, the spokesman for Hareth al Dhari, the influential head of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Association. We talked about the possibility that the London attacks last week were a first example of spillover from Iraq. It’s too early to say of course. Perhaps in the end these […]
Tags: Iraq
Are London attacks first case of Iraq blowback?
July 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
It looks like the ring leaders of the London terror plot were a Jordanian and Iraqi doctor. The obvious question is now whether or not these guys track back to the insurgency in Iraq, to Zarqawi and to Tawhid w’al Jihad, or other such groups. If so this could be the first direct example of […]
Don’t ask, don’t tell
June 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Did you know our troops in Iraq shave their legs? This note from a Lieutenant stationed north of Baghdad:
It gets a little bit hot here. After wearing body armor for a few hours our clothes are drenched… There are rumors among the locals here in some parts of the country that we have cold pills […]