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May 21, 2008

The U.S. to preview its relation with Syria, and new information revealed on Aljazeera

Aggregated from: Roads to Iraq

Although Saudi Arabia keeps the same aggressive attitude on the Lebanese crisis as told here on Al-Akhbar saying that Saudi Arabia advised its Lebanese allies who are negotiating Qatar to maneuver and gain time ‘till the Saudi [sick] mind thinks of an alternative plan, but I have a reason to think...

April 6, 2008

Qatar: US Military Aircrafts Crash Lands

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Emgee at Qatar Living links to an Al Jazeera story which says: “A US military aircraft has crash landed at the al-Udeid military base in Qatar. The B1 bomber reportedly suffered technical difficulties and exploded as it attempted to land at the base about 35km from the capital Doha late on Fri...

April 1, 2008

Qatar: Sami Alhajj's Hand Drawings Censored

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

US authorities have stopped the publishing of hand drawings by Sami Alhajj, Aljazeera cameramen imprisoned in Guantanamo, depicting his hunger strike and how he was tortured, reports Abdulrahman Warsame, from Qatar. ...

March 21, 2008

Support for Obama at U.S.-Islamic World Forum

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution, blogs about her positive experiences at the 5th U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Qatar: "Quite honestly, though, I don’t think the relative love-fest at this year’s meeting is all ascribable e...

March 7, 2008

Turban Obama

Aggregated from: No Longer at Ease

"A shameful and offensive fear-mongering" is the statement that the official Barak Obama camp proclaimed yesterday on the distribution of a photo of Presidential candidate Barak Obama dressed like a Somali elder in a turban. The photo, taken in 2006 during a visit to Kenya, is speculated to have bee...

February 27, 2008

Iraq: They are All the Same But ..

"Be it Obama, McCain, or Clinton, they are ALL the same for me. Be it a black man, a white woman, or a yellow transvestite, I don’t care. I honestly don’t cuz at the end of the day, none of them can fix what's broken," says Iraqi blogger Neurotic Iraqi Wife. Fellow blogger Raed Jarrar sees a silver lining and says a third party might generate some hope for a political revolution in the US. Read the rest of this post to see what Iraqis and Arabs are saying about the elections.

February 22, 2008

Middle East: Wishing Kosovo all the Best!

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Bloggers and some politicians in the Middle East were quick to draw parallels between Kosovo's independence from Serbia and the Palestine Question. Following the news from the Balkans, here's a snapshot of more reactions from Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Israel: From Israel, Auss...

February 13, 2008

CNN website stats on Super Tuesday

Aggregated from: Web Analysis By Morad

Straight from Lost Remote: CNN.com sent us its Super Tuesday stats: 97 million page views, 11.9 million unique visits (both are new records since CNN.com relaunched on July 1st), 600,000 live streams and a total of 2.7 million video streams served. CNN.com’s blog Political Ticker generated just...

February 6, 2008

Super Tuesday : Your Vote for the next US President

Aggregated from: Qatar Living

Hillary Clinton (D) 31% (30 votes) Barak Obama (D) 45% (44 votes) John McCain (R) 4% (4 votes) Mike Huckabee (R) 1% (1 vote) Mitt Romney (R) 0% (0 votes) Ron Paul (R) 2% (2 votes) It doesn't make a difference... 16% (16 votes) Total votes: 97 ...