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December 1st was World AIDS Day, aimed at increasing awareness of the disease, remembering those who have died of it, and marking the progress made in the fight against it. The following are reports from the MEMRI Special Dispatch Series and TV Project related to AIDS and conspiracy theories involving AIDS in theMiddle East. The Middle East Media On the AIDS Conspiracy: From the MEMRI Archives
Egypt
India
India Monitoring Iranian Ship Carrying Armed Men - Frank Jack Daniel (Reuters)
Iran
Iran Threatens to Target Turkey's Missile Defenses - Ali Akbar Dareini (AP)
Jordan
Jordan: The Western Wall Is Muslim (Jordan Times)
UNESCO: Jordan Had Agreed to the Renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge - Akiva Eldar (Ha'aretz)
Lebannon
Bungled Headline of the Day - Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting)
Al-Qaeda Group Claims Responsibility for Rocket Fire from Lebanon - Mohammad Zaatari (Daily Star-Lebanon)
Libya
Libyan Islamist leader detained as tensions grow between rival factions - Richard Spencer (The Telegraph)
Morocco
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Victory of the Islamist Justice and Development Party in Morocco - Jonathan D. Halevi (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) The party's victory in Morocco constitutes a further triumph for the Islamist movement, so soon after the victory of the Ennahda movement in the Tunisian elections. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is expected to make substantial gains in the three-stage elections that began on November 28. In Libya, the new government has undertaken to make Sharia law a primary source of legislation. In Yemen, the Islamist movements have played a central role in the revolt against the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Earlier, in 2006, the Hamas movement - the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood - triumphed in the Palestinian Authority elections.
Pakistan
A Deadly U.S. Attack on Pakistani Soil - Nate Hughes (STRATFOR)
PA/Hamas/Fatah, etc.
The PA recognizes that Israel exists but utterly rejects Israel's right to exist - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)
The PA recognizes that Israel exists but utterly rejects Israel's right to exist - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)
Syria
Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr Reported Sending Fighters to Prop Up Assad Regime - Anissa Haddadi (International Business Times-UK)
Jordan Hosting 100 Syrian Deserters (AP)
Jordan Hosting 100 Syrian Deserters (AP)
Syria's Christians Side with Assad Out of Fear - Bastian Berbner (Der Spiegel-Germany)
Syrian Political Analyst Taleb Ibrahim: The Free Syrian Army Is an "Army of Donkeys Working for the Mossad" (MEMRI)
Syrian Political Analyst Taleb Ibrahim: The Free Syrian Army Is an "Army of Donkeys Working for the Mossad" (MEMRI)
United States
Obama Administration Bans Knowledge of Islam - Raymond Ibrahim (Hudson New York)
Islamist Group Hosts Tunisia's Muslim Brotherhood Leader on Capitol Hill - Andrew C. McCarthy (National Review)
MPAC Proud to Host Radical Tunisian Leader - Steven Emerson (Investigative Project on Terrorism)
New Oil Reserves Pose Threat to OPEC Dominance - S. Rashid Husain (Arab News-Saudi Arabia)
