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World Tribune 7/19/2012 NICOSIA — In an attack that could topple his regime, Syrian President Bashar Assad has been injured and his top military advisers killed in a suicide bombing. Western intelligence sources said Assad attended a July 18 meeting at the National Security Agency in Damascus when a suicide bomber blew himself up. They […] July 19th, 2012 | Tags: Assaf Chawkat, Assaf Shawkat, Bashar Assad, Daoud Rajiha, Hassan Turkmani, suicide bombers, Sunni, Syria | Category: Middle East, Military | 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
Douglas French The Circle Bastiat 3/23/2012 Just one visit to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar tells a visitor how Turks store value. The Turkish monetary authorities have a history of debauching their currency so Turks store their wealth in gold and rugs. There are 373 jewelers and 125 rug stores in the bazaar. In 1966, one US […] March 25th, 2012 | Tags: currency manipulation, gold, gold deposit accounts, Inflation, interest rates, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Sunni, Turkey, U.S. Dollar | Category: Banking and finance, Economy, Government, Islam | Comments are closed
There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad. Niall Ferguson Newsweek Magazine via The Daily Beast 2/6/2012 Jerusalem—It probably felt a bit like this in the months before the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel launched its hugely successful preemptive strike against Egypt and its allies. […] February 7th, 2012 | Tags: global economy, Hamas, mullahs, oil prices, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Shi'a, Strait of Hormuz, Sunni, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Category: Iran, Islam, Israel, Middle East, nuclear weapons, terrorism | Comments are closed
Gregory White Business Insider 3/16/2011 First, what’s happening right now: Protesters in Bahrain are being killed by police officers in street conflicts, in what appears to be a campaign of fear by the country’s authorities to thwart the sort of political revolution that was staged in Egypt. Saudi Arabian, UAE, and Qatari troops are also […] March 16th, 2011 | Tags: Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, oil shipments, Saudi Arabia, Shi'a, Strait of Hormuz, Sunni, U.S. Navy 5th Fleet | Category: Energy, Iran, Islam, Middle East, Military, State Department | Comments are closed
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