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David E. Sanger The New York Times 10/14/2012 Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials […] October 22nd, 2012 | Tags: al Qaeda, Bashir Assad, Benghazi, David H. Petraeus, debate, jihadists, Libya, Mitt Romney, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, weapons | Category: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Foreign Policy, Islam, Middle East | Comments are closed
Toby Harnden The Daily Mail [UK] 18 October 2012 President Barack Obama, during an interview to be shown on Comedy Central, has responded to a question about his administration’s communications after the Benghazi attack, by saying: ‘If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.’ Obama was speaking to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show for […] October 18th, 2012 | Tags: "Innocence of Muslims", al Qaeda, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Benghazi, Glenn A. Doherty, Jon Stewart, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sean Smith, Syria, The Daily Show, Tyrone S. Woods, weapons | Category: 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Education, Foreign Policy, Islam, Ohio, State Department, terrorism | Comments are closed
Joel B. Pollak Breitbart.com Big Peace 11 Sep 2012 Not only is Barack Obama violating his pledge not to campaign on 9/11, but he is also using the day to issue greetings to the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, seemingly oblivious to the importance and solemnity of the day, as well as the context of […] September 11th, 2012 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 9/11, Ahlam Tamimi, Anti-Terrorism Act 18 USC Sec. 2332, Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, Attorney General Eric Holder, Benghazi, campaigning, Charles Krauthammer, Egypt, Emir of Qatar, Libya, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Qatar | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Elections, Foreign Policy, Iran, Islam, Israel, Media accountability, Middle East, nuclear weapons, United Nations, Video | Comments are closed
Saudi Arabia tells citizens to leave Lebanon immediately Asma Alsharif, Raissa Kasolowsky Reuters 8/15/2012 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia–Saudi Arabia has ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon “immediately”, the state news agency reported in an SMS alert on Wednesday. “The Saudi Arabian embassy in Lebanon calls all Saudi citizens to leave Lebanon immediately,” the alert said, without […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: civil war, Damascus, feudalism, Free Syrian Army, Hassan Meqdad, Hezbollah, kidnapping, Lebanon, Meqdad clan, Najib Miqati, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Shariah Law, Turkey | Category: Islam, Middle East, Politics, religion, terrorism | Comments are closed
Eager to end reliance on Russian natural gas, and largely untroubled by environmentalists, Polish officials are embracing hydraulic fracturing to unlock potentially huge deposits beneath their soil. Henry Chu Los Angeles Times 7/15/2012 GDANSK, Poland — Dreams of freedom from Soviet oppression were nurtured and realized in the shipyards of this seaside city, where the […] July 15th, 2012 | Tags: fracking, Gazprom, hydraulic fracturing, Ireland, natural gas, Poland, Qatar, rationing | Category: Energy, Europe, Great Britain, Russia | Comments are closed
Walid Shoebat Shoebat.com 4/2/2012 Syria is not the only place where the Sunni / Shiite divide is heating up. It’s also manifesting itself at the highest levels of government in Shiite-controlled Iraq. Last December, it was learned that an arrest warrant had been issued for Iraq’s Sunni Vice President – Tariq al-Hashemi – who fled […] April 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Egypt, Hadi al-Ameri, Huma Abedin, Hussein al-Shahristani, Muslim Brotherhood, Nouri al-Maliki, Qatar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Tariq al-Hashemi | Category: Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Politicians, State Department, terrorism | Comments are closed
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