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{ Monthly Archives } October 2005

Halloween 2005 in Bahrain

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My kids having a great Halloween night along with our neighborhood gang!

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2005 10 31 Haitham Sabbah Bahrain
Good News
Photos
Sabbah Comments (12)

Global public Intellectuals Poll

So who won the Prospect/FP Global public intellectuals poll? It's Noam Chomsky, with amazing 4827 votes out of the 20,000 people voted for their top five names from a longlist of 100.
Shirin Ebadi - the Iranian human rights and democracy activist, and a lawyer - who was awarded 2003's Nobel Peace Prize, came 12th. [...]

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2005 10 31 Haitham Sabbah Good News
Media
Sabbah Comments (4)

Arabic Teachers Needs Arabic Teaching

I could not resist but blog this.
Background:
Nooreldin (my eldest son), is now in Grade II. He goes to a private English school, which obviously teaches everything in English, except Arabic and Islamic are in Arabic of course.
Anyway, tonight he was studying for his tomorrow Arabic exam. He came across a word he wrote in his [...]

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2005 10 29 Haitham Sabbah Bahrain
Bleeding Edge
Education
Failures
Regional
Sabbah Comments (40)

Flock!

And I'm now FLOCKing. And with Akismet, WordPress.com is up to something… Nice!

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2005 10 29 Haitham Sabbah Good News
Internet 'n Computers Comments (4)

Fox News!

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History… Hilarious!

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2005 10 29 Haitham Sabbah Failures
Media Comments (0)

Terrorism Threat in Morocco

Foulla writes that Al-Salafiyah al-Jihadiyah in Morocco Declares Jihad on the Moroccan Government. They issued a statement, declaring that the time has come to announce the �jihad on the government of disbelieving and oppression,� for the heads of government have allegedly �sold the country to the infidels after they cleared the area from the real [...]

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2005 10 29 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Failures
Islam
Morocco
Politics Comments (1)

Saudi Arabia: 14-Year-Old Boy Faces Execution

A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today.
Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in April [...]

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2005 10 28 Haitham Sabbah Arab
Bleeding Edge
Egypt
Failures
Human Rights
Islam
Middle East
Religion
Sabbah
Saudi Arabia Comments (3)

An Eye for an Eye and a Tit for Tat Attacks

But whose eye, and whose tat was it first?
Oct. 24: A few hours after its troops killed three Palestinians, including a senior Islamic Jihad leader (Louai Saadi, overall commander of the Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank), an international envoy blasted Israel for foot-dragging on opening Gaza Strip border crossings following its withdrawal. [...]

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2005 10 28 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Gaza
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Sabbah
War Crimes Comments (15)

RSF activists protest outside Algerian embassy in Paris

Unfurling banners and handing out leaflets, a score of Reporters Without Borders activists demonstrated outside the Algerian embassy in Paris today to mark Algerian newspaper editor Mohamed Benchicou�s 500th day in prison.

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2005 10 28 Haitham Sabbah Algeria
Bleeding Edge
Human Rights
Media Comments (1)

Sabbah in the Spanish Media

This time Spanish newspaper. Lali Sandiumenge writes at "Avui" means "Today" in Catalan, the language that they speak in North-East of Spain (Catalonia). Lali told me that this newspaper is the main newspaper written in Catalan in Barcelona.
Here is the full interview transcript, part of which was published in last Sunday edition beside other parts [...]

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2005 10 27 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
Internet 'n Computers
Media
Sabbah Comments (19)

Mr. Bush, This Is Pro-Life?

If only President Bush could see the results of withholding funds from the U.N. Population Fund. Somewhere in the world, a pregnant woman dies like that about once a minute, often leaving a handful of orphans behind. Call me na�ve, but I think that if Mr. Bush came here and saw women dying as a [...]

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2005 10 26 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Failures
Human Rights Comments (1)

Once Again, The American Public Wises Up Too Late

NOW they get it!… A new Harris Poll published in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, gives Bush's negative rating stands at 66% for his handling of events in Iraq, the lowest of his presidency, and for the first time, a majority (53%) of adults feel that military action in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. [...]

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2005 10 26 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Failures
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Iraq
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Sabbah
USA Comments (2)

Japan to finance renovation of PA's Muqata headquarters in Ramallah

People Daily Online: Japan will finance the rebuilding of Muqata with an undisclosed amount under coordination between the The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on renovating Muqata, Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas Office Director said, "We need a new headquarters for the president, where [...]

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2005 10 26 Haitham Sabbah Good News
Palestine Comments (0)

Protest action against the Nobel Prize for Prof. Aumann and Thomas Schelling

Please sign the statement at:
http://www.sd-il.com/politics/campaigns/signStatement.php?cid=2
A large number of signatures can be influential
Enclosed is also a sample protest letter by the Israeli peace and anti nuclear activist Gideon Spiro.
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics
To The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
We, the undersigned, protest your decision to award the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic to Professors Robert [...]

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2005 10 26 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
Politics
Science and Technology Comments (10)

Blogger in Jail

Blogger Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Seraji has lost his appeal and is now to serve 18 months of jail (and receive 30 lashes), on charges of attempting to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran and insulting the Supreme Leader, Shahram Kholdi reports.

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2005 10 25 Haitham Sabbah Bleeding Edge
Failures
Human Rights
Internet 'n Computers Comments (1)