Archive for the 'Middle East' Category

Syria will not attend Mid East peace conference

President Assad of Syria has stated that unless the Golan Heights, invaded by Israel in the 6 day war of 1967, are returned, Syria will not be present at the forthcoming Middle East peace meeting due to be held in November. 
Assad is also smarting after the Israeli raid to the north of Syria in September which left [...]

Cheney seeks Israeli help for Casus belli against Iran

Newsweek magazine has mooted the possibility that US Vice President Dick Cheney is pushing for Israel to strike at the nuclear sites at Natanz, Iran, ostensibly to stop the Iranians developing nuclear weapons, but in reality to provoke Iran to lash out at Israel militarily, thereby providing the casus belli for a major US attack [...]

Taleban to be included in Afghanistan Government

UK Defence secretary Des Browne says that the Taleban will have to be involved in any future Afghan government as, like Hamas in Palestine, they ‘will not go away’. Anyone who has seen  pictures of Taleban atrocities such as the filmed public execution of women for daring to assert their human rights will be dismayed [...]

Middle East roadmap back on track?

The Mid-East quartet, (The UN, US, Russia and EU), have agreed to a international conference in November to try and put the delayed roadmap to peace into action. Ten countries of the Middle East including Syria, provided, as US secretary Condaleeza Rice demands, they renounce violence, will be invited.
Egypt and Jordan are the only countries to have [...]

Iranians stirring up trouble in Iraq

One of the units in the Iran Revolutionary Guards most implicated in aiding terrorist activity in Iraq is the Quds force. The mission goal for the Quds (which means Jerusalem in Arabic) includes training  islamists to subvert foreign governments, so no surprise that they are all over the place particularly in Iraq.
Another Iranian officer smuggling IED’s [...]

Musharraf in Bin Laden’s sights

A new video hosted by Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy leader of Al-Qaeda, announced there will be an additional message shortly which will declare Jihad on President Musharraf of Pakistan. The video claimed that the US was being defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that further attacks will occur in the Dafur region of Sudan. The hatred of [...]