Category Archives: Middle East

Calm Down People

November 15, 2012 – 6:20 pm

In GIMME SHELTER, the epic 1969 film about the mayhem at Altamont, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane beseeched the unruly crowd and the pool cue-wielding Hells Angels from the stage, “Calm down, people.” There was no calming down that crowd. Nor do the parties of Israelestine seem interested in peace. Yesterday the Israeli Defense […]

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A State Of Alert

October 14, 2012 – 1:56 pm

On the evening of 9/11/12 unknown forces assaulted the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. A fierce mortar and RPG barrage forced local security forces to abandon their position, as attackers stormed the nine-foot walls topped by barbed wire and set fire to the diplomatic residence. Ambassador Stevens and Information Specialist Sean Smith perished from smoke […]

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You Go Your Way, I Go Mine

September 17, 2012 – 11:09 am

The United States and its allies are rattling the saber in the Persian Gulf by conducting naval exercises designed to thwart any attempt to close the vital sea lane should Israel decide to attack Iran to prevent their distant enemy from developing an atomic bomb. This weekend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in New […]

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Who Done It

September 16, 2012 – 12:16 pm

Violent protests against the film trailer INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS continue to plague the Muslim world and US officials have attempted to find out who made the incendiary fourteen-minute movie that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya along with two of his fellow countrymen. The blame has shifted from a fictitious filmmaker […]

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Good Man Down

September 12, 2012 – 5:00 pm

Yesterday mobs swept over the walls of the US embassies in Egypt and Libya. The crowds were enraged by an amateurish film insulting the Prophet Mohammad. Security forces were able to drive back the two thousand protestors in Cairo, but US consulate and safe house in Benghazi was overrun by attackers. The building was set […]

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