Tag: military

Palestine updates يسقط عملاء أمريكا

Posted on By 3arabawy

Thousands took to the streets of Gaza to denounce Abu Mazen’s speech in Ramallah yesterday.

Meanwhile financial and political support from the Arab regimes, Israel, US, Canada, EU is flocking in, to shower the Fatah traitors in the West Bank and strangle the Islamic resistance movement Hamas in Gaza.

America’s Mubarak ordered his ambassador to relocate from Gaza to Ramallah, and will be hosting a summit next week in Sharm, to be attended by both Olmert and Abu Mazen, to boost the latter’s coup against Hamas.

Bush knew about Abu Ghraib

Posted on By 3arabawy

From Al-Jazeera:

The White House has denied assertions by a former leading military investigator of the Abu Ghraib scandal that the president and leading military officials knew about the abuse at the prison in Iraq before it became public.
A spokesman said George Bush first learnt about the abuse from media reports.
“The president said over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on television,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said in Crawford, Texas, where Bush is spending the weekend at his ranch.
Stanzel was responding to questions about a New Yorker magazine report quoting retired Major-General Antonio Taguba, as saying “the president had to be aware” of the abuse of prisoners by US military guards.

Abu Ghraib, Painting, by Fernando Botero

Around 100 Fatah officials flee to Egypt

Posted on By 3arabawy

From AP:

Close to 100 Palestinian officials from the moderate Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip in the early hours Friday, Egyptian police said.
Hours later, the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza also returned to Egypt after failing in its mediation efforts between the warring Palestinian factions, said an official at the Rafah border crossing.
The Egyptian border official said the delegation chief, Col. Burhan Hamad, and five other members were heading to Cairo.
Fleeing aboard a fishing boat on the Mediterranean sea, 97 senior members of Fatah’s security and administrative apparatus arrived in the Egyptian port of Arish hours after fighters from the militant Hamas group took control of Gaza, an Egyptian security official in Arish said.
The retreating Fatah members were transferred to camps affiliated to Egypt’s security forces, a police official in Cairo confirmed.

Flee you fucking cowards! Run away to Egypt where Mubarak’s Gestapo, your disappointed mentors, are waiting… Down with Fatah! Down with Dahlah!

I love the way AP is covering the events. Abbas’s Fatah are “moderates”?!!! Moderates!!!?! This reminds me of how the wires just love referring to Mubarak and Abdullah of Jordan, both bloody criminal dictators, as “moderates.” But after all, we know the barometer of “moderation” for AP and the other western news outlets is always how brown-nosed the Arab ruler is when he deals with Washington.