The forgotten people: The start of 2009 offers little hope to the residents of al-Tanf, a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border housing more than 700 Palestinians who had fled persecution in Iraq. No country has given any concrete pledge to take any of the refugees for resettlement in 2009, leaving them to battle the…
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Salam Pax is back
Salam Pax, the famous exiled Iraqi blogger who endorsed my book The Blogging Revolution, returns to Iraq.
Are these days really over?
With Barack Obama now President of the United States, a necessary trip down memory lane: Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182 Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0 Number charged with an immigration violation: 762 Estimated number…
More than terror in name
When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? When the US can use them to potentially overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran. Welcome to the MEK.
Bloggers under fire
I was interviewed by Sarah Arnold in US magazine The Nation for an article published online on December 23: According to a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report released December 4, of the 125 media workers in prison – a list that includes Ibrahim Jassam, a photographer held in US custody in Iraq – more…
Zionists who murder
The neo-conservatives, many of whom are Jewish, are a little concerned that history will judge them as racists who aimed to destroy the Middle East by military means. They should be worried.
Saddam would be proud
A beautiful sign of “democratic” Iraq: U.S. forces in Iraq have detained 10,000 prisoners without evidence of their wrongdoing, a U.S. detention centers in Iraq commander said on Monday.
The policy on Israel
My following article is published in Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper: During this year’s US presidential campaign, both Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic contender Barack Obama expressed unwavering support for Israel. It was the only country in the world that required constant loyalty tests. Obama told the leading Zionist lobby, AIPAC, that he would…
The re-building continues
Ancient treasures stolen from museums in the anarchic aftermath of the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago have been found in Basra, in one of the biggest recoveries of the loot, The Independent can reveal.