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President Gayoom spent most of the 1950’s and 60’s in the Middle East honing a reputation as an ’Islamic scholar’. But, amidst the tumult of Muslim Brotherhood activism, anti-British unrest and the Free Officers Movement of Gamal Abdel Nasser, it also provided the scene for his formative political experiences.

Thirty years on, as he watches his Egyptian counterpart..

Four Israeli soldiers was killed and eight others were wounded, some critically, in fierce battles between the Lebanese Hizbullah on the one hand, and the IOF troops invading Lebanon on the other hand near the Lebanese strategic village of Maroun Al-Ras at the borders, Hebrew sources affirmed.

Hizbullah sources affirmed that their fighters defending the town have killed more than t..

Whenever the United States needs assistance in establishing full military control over the oil-rich Middle East, it can always depend on Israel, its faithful attack dog. The United States desperately wants to control Iran. Iran is rich in oil and lies directly between the permanent US military bases and huge fortified US embassy now under construction in Iraq and the US and NATO bases in Afghan..

 The United States is using authoritarian Arab leaders, who fear that Iran could export its revolutionary political model to their disgruntled populations and are concerned about Washington’s reprisal against them a la Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as a buffer between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, Washington’s protégé in the Middle East, analysts here say.

"Saudi Arabia, Egypt, ..

Security agents in Jordan are torturing terrorism suspects on behalf of the United States in hopes of forcing confessions, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International contended in a new report Monday.
The report said its investigators had identified about 10 suspected cases of men subjected to rendition from U.S. custody to interrogation centers in Jordan, a close U.S. ally in the Middl..

Almost two weeks back, two terror acts took place. The first were the blasts in Mumbai and the second, the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Both were acts of aggression against specific countries.

But that’s where the similarity ended. While India reacted to the Mumbai blasts with tough talk but little action, Israel bombed Beirut for supporting cro..

When the 100 or so villagers from Qana sought refuge under the rubble of a recently demolished building on Saturday night, they must have believed in the notion that "lightening never strikes twice." How wrong they were. By the early hours of Sunday, dozens of bodies were being pulled from under the same rubble after anothe..

President George W. Bush has made democratization a central focus of his administration’s Middle East policy. He declared during his second-term inauguration: "It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of en..

LEBANON 2006

MiddleEast.Org - MER - Washington - 25 July 2006:     Call it Lebanon’s 9/11; call it Israel’s (and America’s) War on the Arabs and Muslims of 2006; call it the opening phases of a kind of new World War which may soon escalate to ..

In his article in the Hebrew daily Haaretz newspaper, the Israeli writer Reuben Beditsur stressed that the Israeli occupation government must immediately rectify their military mistakes they committed lately in the war on Lebanon and Gaza Strip.

He added that the mistakes haven’t only unveiled low levels of certain weapons in the Israeli army, but uncovered also a bad intelligence and a..

IOF troops’ use of forbidden weapons against Palestinians increase the number of martyrs, wounded
  
 Dr. Juma’ Al-Saka, deputy manager of Gaza city’s major Al-Shifa hospital, has asserted that IOF troops continue using internationally prohibited weapons, chemicals and phosphoric materials against Palestinians in the Strip, thus increasing the numbers of martyrs and the wou..

The UN assistant secretary-general for humanitarian aid Jan Egeland has urged the international community Tuesday to immediately force a ceasefire and stop the Israeli aggressions on both Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Egeland’s appeal came after a six-day-visit he made to the devastated Gaza Strip and Lebanon where he also asked for immediate provision of safe corridors to facilitate passing ..

Ethiopian Government has been continuously interfering Somalia, taking advantage of the prolonged civil war, political conflicts and absence of effective central movement in the country.
Certainly, the ongoing Ethiopian military intervention that was declared recently by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Mr. Melese Zenawi is the continuation of its sinister policies towqrds Somalia.
Therefore;..

 How to follow the crisis on Arab media? There is no question that AlJazeera has seen a most dramatic resurgence during this crisis. AlJazeera of course proved its lead in pan-Arab coverage in the past, but this is a story with local dimensions. So it was not clear that AlJazeera would win against the strong Lebanese TV competitors. But it won, hands ..