June 2006

Raining Red Aliens in India

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2006

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water taken [...]

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Killing Iraqi Kids Requires Training

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2006

Search the news now and it will speak of itself. Innocent civilians, kids and mothers are slaughtered in Iraq, evidences are floating everywhere that the invader US army is behind the massacre, and no one call these a “war crimes”. But it’s ok, because US soldiers are now going to get ethics training of between [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices! This week in the Arabic Language blogsphere: Let’s start with the hard stuff. Tara from Iraq, has some rare seen images: Tara then writes: ????? ??? ??? ? ?? ???? ??? ????? ????? ????? ?? ???? [...]

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Iraq: The Women’s Story

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2006

The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story. By Zeena Ahmed This Channel4 Dispatches film provides a compelling account of life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on [...]

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JORDAN: Editors given two-month jail sentences for publishing Prophet cartoons

by Haitham Sabbah June 1, 2006

New York, May 31, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the sentencing Tuesday of two Jordanian editors to two months in prison for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Jihad Momani, former editor-in-chief of the weekly Shihan, and Hashem al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Mehwar, were found guilty by [...]

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