Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
How lovable can you get?
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Iraq's resistance fighters
Monday, December 24, 2007
A nostalgic nod to Baghdad College
هـبـي نـيـو يـيـر ... سودة علينا
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Correction-an old recording: Sahwa (awakening) or Haswa (pebble) ... صحوة أم حصوة
Correction:
Thanks to this comment by Abu Hassan (see Comments section below: December 15, 2007 9:18 PM):
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"The source’s claim (in Arabic) that this was a “Secret recording” done by one of the “a’loo-cha” (i.e. U.S. military)...etc, is preposterous, and frankly verges on the comical.
This video/program was produced by PBS’ Frontline under the title “A Company of Soldiers”.
Filming began in November 2004, over three years ago, and well before so called “Awakening (Sahwa)” became a part of the lexicon.
Please see the attached link: A Company of Soldiers-Part 4
Please advance the time counter to about 8:50 to see the exact portion.
To understand the context of the meeting, more of this clip (12:50 minutes) should be watched.
Here is also the Frontline link to the transcript, and all video portions of this 90 minutes program.
The broadcast occurred in February 2005. Transcript
A highly dubious source got its message propagated, nonetheless."
I fully concur with Abu Hasan and it is a discredit to the source mentioned below. I have left the posting, nonetheless, for its significance.
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أود أولاً، وبكل وضوح، أن أنىء عن علاقتي أو إرتباطي مع مصدر هذا الفيديو الوثائقي ، إلا أنني أنشره (بالرغم من إسلوب إخراجه الضعيف والتكرار الممل) لأهمية توضيح مدى الإذعان والتعاون والذ ُل ِّ مع المـُحتل الأمريكي، وما الحصى إلا للرمي بعيداً...ـ
Sunday, December 09, 2007
"And no one forced them to take a job with the Danish troops.".. "لم يجبرهم أحد أن يتعاونوا مع القوات الدنماركية في العراق"
"Like many of the thousands of Iraqis who chose to work with U.S. and other coalition troops, they put themselves at risk, often with the explicit goal of helping to build a better Iraq. Their hopes were lost amid the confusing, violent aftermath of the invasion, and they turned out to be nobody's heroes, despite their sacrifices.
Now they find themselves facing a future in a country that is, at best, ambivalent toward their presence."
Iraqis get a chilly welcome as refugees in Denmark, Novenber 26, 2007
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Notice the similarity?
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Nuclear Iran ... النووي الإيراني
Israel believes Iran continues to work, however limited by international pressure and economic and technical difficulties, on all phases of building a nuclear weapon. Iran denies ever having had a nuclear weapons program and says its nuclear program is focused on generating electricity."
PS: A comment arrived by email:
"He [author] really only establishes that Iran chose a path to nuclear energy which would provide them with the CAPABILITY of changing over to a bomb program IF they decided to do so. This is essentially what Arnold Evans has argued - that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons CAPABILITY on a par with that of Japan or other nations who have nuclear energy but not a nuclear weapons program. Not quite the same thing as having a nuclear weapons program. It might have made sense for Iran to have a weapons program when Iraq did, but since Iraq no longer has one, Iran doesn't really need one. Israel is a sufficient reason as well, but there Iran knows that it will never match the arsenal Israel has. Therefore at most Iran would need only one deliverable bomb in order to take regime change off the table. And since its program is under such tight examination now, it has probably decided that it would be better off not having a bomb and relying on its asymmetrical retaliatory capability".Response:
Why does Iran need to match Israeli nuclear arsenal? These are not bullets or missiles. One would be sufficient for deterrence and attack.
With no "Human Intelligence" on the ground, the American Intelligence (a pun) might as well look into a crystal ball. Who exposed Arak after 8 years of construction? American satellites? Israeli Intelligence? No, Iranian opposition in Paris.
Who knows where the secret nuclear establishments are in Iran? Nobody but the Iranians, no matter what "tight examination" you throw at them.
The political positioning of Iran, strategically, does not preclude, but rather dictates, nuclear deterrence.
See also MadAsHell's comment (13th down in bold December 05, 2007 4:06 AM) in the Comments section.
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