Mideast
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Created By: boatsie
Last Modified: 09/11/06
Summary: civil war: was this US ultimate goal? divide and conquer?

note - Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:45:56 GMT

Israel using banned weapons

Lebanese military experts confirm the use by Israel of implosion bombs and white phosphorus in its airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs. Reporters have seen at the facades of at least 20 eight-story apartment houses blow off in the Haret Hreik and Bir al-Abed neighborhoods.

Meanwhile 15 thousand refugess have arrived in Tyre, which the Israelis immediately upgraded to "prime target".

From: http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2006/07/israel-using-banned-weapons.html

note - Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:43:50 GMT

Lebanon Stuck in the Same Place

The Lebanese blogosphere is deafeningly silent.

From: http://lebop.blogspot.com/

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:39:02 GMT

US Soldier Killed, among 28 Others
Sadrists Reject Draft Law on Confederacies


Guerrillas bombed a minivan carrying recruits for the Iraqi army, killing 16.

Other Sunni Arab guerrillas staged a a mortar attack on a Shiite mosque Monday in Bani Saad, Diyala Province, killing 7 persons.

Altogether, wire services reported 29 dead in civil war violence on Monday, including one US soldier who fell victim to guerrilla sniper fire.

Al-Zaman / AFP report that [Ar.] Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for a postponement of the subject of regional confederacies to some other time. The call came during a visit to the head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the United Iraqi Alliance, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

Juan Cole

Juan Cole

Summary: Juan Cole
From: http://www.juancole.com/




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