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Links for November 28th
Automatically posted links for November 27-28th:
- Critical writer jailed in Tunisia – On Monday, police in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, detained Slim Boukhdhir, a well-known blogger and contributor to the London-based Al-Quds Al Arabi.
- ‘Aqoul: Hirsi Ali: Ideological Chameleon – Holy CRAP! Hirsi Ali’s rightward shift
- tabsir.net » Al Qaeda?s generational split – Yemeni tactics for splitting jihadist groups
- Talking Points | National Security Network – Website of reality-based security types
- Le Monde.fr : Une vidéo-amateur contredit la version de la police sur l’accident de Villiers-le-Bel – Amateur video indicates initial shock of police car against motorbike not very violent, car was damaged with metal bars afterwards and police is lying about it
- WHO’S WHO OF PREZ CAMPAIGN SECURITY ADVISERS – New list of security / FP advisors to US presidential candidates, surprisingly does not include the more well-known rabid neocons in Rudy’s list
- Hillary Clinton’s advisers too gung-ho on Iraq war, critics say – Is Hillary Clinton the hawk masquerading as the dove?
- ‘Not very good’ Saddam spy gets 4 years – Yahoo! News – More examples of the terrible threat to the US that Saddam represented. Hmm, let me think, what other Middle Eastern country successfully infiltrated spies in critical national security institutions?
- Police say Paris rioters are armed as clashes escalate – Officials in Paris last night warned that rioters in the suburb of Villiers-le-Bel were armed with hunting rifles and air rifles as clashes with police continued to escalate.
- Boom fuels new Saudi spending spree | Business | The Guardian – Annual revenues of $165bn are funding six new cities to create jobs – but can it last?
- Cairo International Film Festival – Home Page – Schedules, events, etc. (apparently Morocco is focus of festival)
- In Annapolis, Conflict by Other Means by Robert Blecher and Mouin Rabbani – “As for the Annapolis meeting itself, it is being greeted with indifference, with few believing it will lead to either meaningful change in their daily lives or substantive progress toward the end of an Israeli occupation now in its fifth decade.”
Del.icio.us links for November 20th
Automatically posted links for November 20th:
- List of invitees to Mideast peace talks – Yahoo! News – How do I get an invite?
- Obama: I tried drugs as a teen (AP) – Kids: do drugs and drink, it doesn’t matter you might still be president or at least senator.
- Divorce in Egypt every six minutes (iafrica.com) –
- Islamists Today: The Man Who Once Secretly Ruled the Islamic Jihad Speaks out – Khalil Enani looks at the man at the center of the Islamic Jihad recantation
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After – ICG report suggests getting serious in Annapolis, notably by including Hamas and Syria
- Sandmonkey Tales: Abdel Monem and me – Sandmonkey is stirring shit again…
- In West Bank, Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy – WSJ.com – West Bank economy “shattered”, says World Bank
- Wealthy Nations In Gulf Rethink Peg to Dollar – WSJ.com – To peg or not to peg?
- FOXNews.com – Egyptian Woman Files for Divorce Over Husband’s Refusal to Shower – Another great headline
- Le Monde.fr : Les bars a  narguilés menacés de fermeture le 1er janvier – France to close down shisha bars