…of armed vehicles, which were moving towards our border…with the clear intention of attacking one of our positions,” Mauritania’s military said in a statement. (Middle East Online, Sept. 19) See…
…the International Committee of the Red Cross shut its operations in Misrata after armed assailants laid siege to a staff residence. (Middle East Online, Dec. 31; BBC News, Dec. 30)…
…three people passengers and a by-stander. The bombs went off next to the Nakheel public market, although it is believed the car was headed for a police station. (Ahram Online, June 30)…
…judge counselor. (Middle East Online, USA Today, March 16) See our last posts on the Bahrain and the new regional revolutions. Please leave a tip or answer the Exit Poll….
…who had occupied Manama’s financial center on March 13. Unprecedented protests are also breaking out in Saudi Arabia itself, two days after an online call for a “Day of Rage”…
…March 10; Middle East Online, March 9) See our last posts on Mauritania, the Sahel states and the regional wave of revolution. Please leave a tip or answer the Exit…
…denied by the US. (Islam Online, June 11) Since then, statements have been published on Islamist Web sites naming Abu Hamza al-Muhajer as the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq….
…made the front page of the New York Times yesterday (online at Kurdish Aspect). But will it make any difference? In its inimitably annoying way, the Times buried some of…
…days before these vandal attacks, the New York Times reported (online at World Wide Religious News) how revelations of police spies infiltrating Brooklyn’s Muslim communities are leading to increased tensions….
This online debate between John Ross and Al Giordano, two veteran alterno-journalists who have long covered the Zapatista movement in Mexico, is a bit incestuous (and certainly long-winded), as well…
This Reuters story that ran in the Washington Post June 19 (online at Chiapas95) is typical of the hegemonic mainstream media line (north of the border, at least) that the…
…gotten into customer accounts online, tricked phone companies into revealing information and even acknowledged that their practices violate laws, according to documents gathered by congressional investigators and provided to The…
