February 2005

UPDATE: Captain ‘R’ is FREED

by Haitham Sabbah February 7, 2005

In a dramatic about-face, one of the soldiers who testified that he had seen Capt. R., the Givati company commander, shoot 13-year-old Iman al-Hams to death at point-blank range last October near the Girit outpost close to Rafah, admitted to the Southern Command Military Court on Sunday that he had lied. Following the developments, the [...]

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What did the Palestinians and Iraqis Vote for?

by Haitham Sabbah February 6, 2005

Nevertheless, those Palestinians and Iraqis who decided to cast their vote, and those who were able to get to the polling stations in spite of the difficulties and dangers, did so for one overriding reason: to get rid of the foreign occupiers.

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Riyad Municipality Elections and Arablogger.com

by Haitham Sabbah February 6, 2005

Our Best Arab Blog Awards (arablogger.com) is now so popular. This candidates to Riyad-Saudi Municipality Board Members is spaming us. He sent below attached letter to “admin [at] arablogger [dot] com”. requesting to vote for him. I found this very funny. He does not look to know how to switch on a PC. I advise [...]

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Guess Who Is Behind The Iraqi Insurgency?

by Haitham Sabbah February 4, 2005

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JordanPlanet; what next?

by Haitham Sabbah February 2, 2005

Isam had a nice post regarding the new revisit of JordanPlanet. So this is my comments to his post, which did not make it there, maybe it is too lengthy. Anyway… The fact that you are using Drupal gives you a powerful tool in hand, yet it all depends on the mission of JP. For [...]

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FBI Invistigating a Jordanian Website Probed in Hossam Armanious Family’s Death

by Haitham Sabbah February 2, 2005

An FBI spokesman confirmed Monday that federal investigators are probing whether the site -which is run by a Jordanian -played any role in the murders of Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife, Amal Garas, 37, and their daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8. The family was discovered bound and stabbed to death in their Jersey City [...]

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They proudly did!

by Haitham Sabbah February 1, 2005
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Congratulations to the winners of the 1st BABAs

by Haitham Sabbah February 1, 2005

Congratulations to the winners of the first ever Best Arab Blogs Awards. Well done all and hard luck to everyone else. We hope that next year’s will be bigger and better. Thanks of course also go to everyone who participated in nominating and/or voting. It wouldn’t have happened without your support.

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