Friday, October 28, 2011


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China/Pakistan
    
Denmark
Islamists Pitch Tent in Denmark - Soeren Kern (Hudson Institute-New York)

Egypt
Poll: Egyptians Support Peace Treaty with Israel - Abdel Monem Said (Al-Ahram-Egypt-Al Arabiya)

India

Kazakhstan
Soldiers of the Caliphate threaten to attack Kazakhstan - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal) ...if it fails to retract a law banning women from wearing the veil.

Libya

Iran
Save Yousef Nadarkhani from being executed for Apostasy On October 29, 2010, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom asked President Barack Obama to press Iran to release Yousef Nadarkhani who is currently sitting on death row in Iran for the crime of converting to Christianity. (Care2 Petitionsite)

Palestinians/Hamas/Fatah
Hamas TV: Kidnap 6 more Israeli soldiers and free remaining 6,000 prisoners - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Turkey

UK
The BBC’s Heroic Terrorists - Simon Plosker (HonestReporting)
This is the most outrageous thing I've read in a long time!  The Guardian’s Anti-Semitic Explanation For Shalit Deal - Simon Plosker (HonestReporting)

USA
US Reapers flying from Ethiopia - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal)


Friday, October 21, 2011


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Austria
Saudi "Propaganda Center" Sets Up Shop in Vienna - Soeren Kern (Hudson New York)

Germany
Tank Exports to Saudi Arabia Signal German Policy Shift - Holger Stark (Der Spiegel-Germany)

Iran
Iran's Nuclear Program: The Full Picture - J.E. Dyer. (Hot Air)

Israel
Gilad Shalit Comes Home in the Eye of the Media - Simon Plosker (HonestReporting)

Libya
Libyan rebels drag Qaddafi's body through Misrata. More fighting ahead (DEBKAfile)

Mexico
The Destruction of Mexico - Joseph Bottum (Hudson New York)

Pakastan
Growing Numbers of Forced Child Marriages in Pakistani Society
-Tufail Ahmad* (MEMRI)

Palestinians/Hamas/Fatah

Indoctrination and Attack Follow Schalit Deal  (IPT News) A female would-be suicide bomber, recently released under the prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, encouraged a crowd of Gaza schoolchildren to follow her violent example

Friday, October 14, 2011

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Egypt
Geopolitical Journey: Riots in Cairo - Reva Bhalla (Stratfor)
Update from Tom Gross - Tom Gross (Mideast Dispatch Archive, Mideast Media Analysis)

Iran
Iran drops Chinese and Russians - Relying on Domestic Capability for Oil, Gas Production (FARS)

Iraq

Iraq, Siding with Iran, Sends Essential Aid to Syria's Assad - Joby Warrick (Washington Post) 

Israel
Israeli victims of violence feel mixed emotions on prisoner swap -
Sheera Frenkel (McClatchy Newspapers)
for more details on the prisoner swap from Tom Gross, click here

Jordan
In Jordan, Escalation in Anti-Israel Rhetoric, Threats  -
H. Varulkar (MEMRI)

Libya

Following calls for deportation, Gerbi to return to Rome - LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG (Jerusalem Post)

Palestinian Authority/Hamas/Fatah
Fatah Official: U.S. Is #1 Palestinian Enemy - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post) The U.S. is the number one enemy of the Palestinians because it supports Israeli "oppression," Tawfik Tirawi, a senior member of the Fatah Central Committee, said on Sunday. Tirawi, former commander of the PA General Intelligence Force in the West Bank, also said Fatah has not abandoned the armed struggle option against Israel. "Fatah hasn't thrown the rifle aside," Tirawi told thousands of university students during a rally in Hebron. Tirawi also criticized the PA leadership for refusing to allow Palestine TV to use the term "Israeli enemy" in its broadcasts.

Russia
Terror at the Beach - Anna Nemtsova (The Daily Beast)

Syria
Security Forces Abduct Thousands in Syria - Ashish Kumar Sen (Washington Times)  In the Syrian city of Daraa, some 8,000 to 10,000 people disappeared in a recent crackdown by security forces, residents said.
 
United States
ACLU and Islamists vs. the FBI...Yet Again  (IPT News)

Friday, October 7, 2011

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Afghanistan/Pakistan
Pakistan commission recommends treason charges for doctor who aided in hunt for bin Laden
- Bill Roggio (Long War Journal)
Karzai assassination plotters part of Kabul Attack Network
- Bill Roggio (Long War Journal) Linked to Pakistan's secret service

Egypt
Political parties blast Brotherhood's 'Islam is the solution' slogan - (Arabic Edition Al-Masry Al-Youm)
 
Egypt Re-arrests Hizbullah Spy - Khaled Desouki (AFP)
The Saudization of Egypt - Ali Alyami (Hudson Institute-New York)
The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood, Grim Prospects for a Liberal Egypt - Eric Trager (Foreign Affairs)

How Egypt remembers the Yom Kippur War: Egypt marks October 1973 war with army under fire; liberals end electoral pact with Islamists - (Al Arabiya News)

Israel
Remembering the Yom Kippur War (IDF)
MKs recall experiences from Yom Kippur War - Lahav Harkov (The Jerusalem Post)
Photos: The Golden Gate of Jerusalem's Old City - Lenny Ben-David (Jerusalem Post)

Jordan/Saudi Arabia

The Mounting Hizbullah Threat in Latin America - Roger F. Noriega and Jose R. Cardenas (American Enterprise Institute)

Libya
Six weeks after Gadhafi's fall, Libya's rebels can't get their story straight - Hannah Allam (McClatchy Newspapers)

PA
PA Ambassador in Brazil: "Israel Must Disappear" - Reinaldo Azevedo (Veja-Brazil [in Portuguese])  
Obama's Speech at UN Should Not Have Been a Surprise - Editorial (Albawaba-Jordan)
How Not to Help Palestinian Democracy - Elliott Abrams
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Turkey Seen Now as More Part of the Problem than the Solution - Michael Young (The National-Abu Dhabi)
Erdogan Playing with Fire - Alex Fishman (Ynet News
And yet, while Turkey's air force is harassing Israeli ships, Turkey and Israel's military are working together???Assad warns Jordan against holding a war game like Turkey and Israel (DEBKAfile)