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Afghan Girls Attacked with Acid for Going to School - AlJazeera »

By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 12, 2008 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Misogyny, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments

Dear lord.
I hope you saw Reverend Amy’s story many hours ago in which she recalled the great speech that C.J. gave to the press corps on “West Wing”: ““Those Women” * OPEN THREAD.”

Tribute to Iceland OPEN THREAD »

By NoQuarter on Sep 15, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, CIA, Iran, Saudi Arabia, counterterrorism | 20 Comments

Imagine the climate adjustment required for that solitary Icelandic soldier stationed in Iraq. The member of the “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” (Iceland doesn’t have a “formally constituted military”) is actually a media representative in Baghdad, but Bush used him to bolster his B.S. claim of a coalition of 36 countries in Iraq.
Thank you to everyone [...]

“U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia” »

By NoQuarter on Jul 28, 2007 in Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Israel, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments

UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian
NYT:
WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the [...]

Five Minus Four Equals Al Qaeda Squared »

By Larry Johnson on Jul 21, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia | 30 Comments

by
Larry C Johnson
Someone is not telling the truth and it is incumbent on Congress to get to the bottom of this nonsense.
Until recently George Bush insisted that there was steady progress in decimating Al Qaeda:
1 May 2003 the President claimed:
From Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down al Qaeda [...]

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