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Aoun: Integrate Lebanon into Hizballah

Thu, 2008-11-06 22:42 — chief

Naharnet reports:
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has proposed a defense strategy blueprint suggesting changing the whole of Lebanon into a resisting community…

…The daily al-Akhbar said Aoun's blueprint focuses on two main headlines: Collective resistance and defining threats that the Lebanese should be ready to confront.

Breaking News

Wed, 2008-11-05 06:03 — chief

Barack Obama has just been elected President of the United States.

One-Eyed Wonder

Sat, 2008-11-01 16:07 — chief

Have a laugh, BBCNews reports:
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.

Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.

The Lives of Foreign Wives

Fri, 2008-10-31 05:36 — chief

NOWLebanon takes a frank, light-hearted look at the lives of foreign wives in Lebanon.

Impenetrable Nukes in Iran?

Thu, 2008-10-30 20:59 — chief

Newsweek reports on Israel's inability to take out Iran's nuclear facilities and the inadvertent scuttling of a long-running nuclear spy:

IAEA to Request Probes Into Syrian Nuclear Program

Thu, 2008-10-30 05:55 — chief

In other news coming out of Syria:
Freshly evaluated soil and air samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel on suspicion it was a covert nuclear reactor provide enough evidence to push ahead with a U.N probe, diplomats said Tuesday.

The findings are important after months of uncertainty about the status of the investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

More on the US Raid

Thu, 2008-10-30 01:27 — chief

The LA Times brings us more details, corroborating the posts put up earlier, on the raid on Al-Qaeda members in Syria.
...Abu Ghadiyah, the chief of a Syrian smuggling network who was killed in the controversial operation Sunday, was "one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, facilitators of foreign fighters going into Iraq for Al Qaeda," a senior U.S. official said...

Video: May Chidiac Interviews Johnny Abdo

Wed, 2008-10-29 16:25 — chief

Head of Military Intelligence as the Lebanon's civil war came to an end, Johnny Abdo remains to this day a controversial figure. Following the end of his term he took up the ambassadorship to France, and following the end of that assignment he eventually came to be known for his close alignment with the late Rafic Hariri - appearing regularly on Lebanese television, from Paris, to provide [insider- and leak-enriched] analysis of ongoing security related developments in the country and the region.

Below is the first part of an interview conducted by May Chidia, who herself was the victim of a Syrian-cell assassination attempt that cost her an arm and a leg (literally).

For the complete interview see here:

The Sunday War

Wed, 2008-10-29 11:17 — chief

Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor for the Financial Times, recounts the story of the thousands of Lebanese families that chose to place their faith in their country and return to their homeland following the end the country's fifteen year civil war, only to find themselves ensnared in the new age of darkness precipitated by Hizballah's assault on Beirut, the Mountain, and the Lebanese state.

The article is long, personal, and touching. It reflects the strained emotions of everyone that has sought to build for [and from] our country something better than it has been served throughout its bloody past, but who witnessed the slashing of that dream in May, 2008.