Category Archives: Middle East

Shorter Question Everything

Teabaggers | Canada: CSE | China | Iraq and Responsibility • READ: Tea Party questionnaire reveals obsession with homosexuality: The Guardian blog adds, “There’s much to discuss with these questions, obviously. First, there’s the ordering of the questions in terms of their presumed priority. Second, there’s the, what would appear to be, obsession with homosexuality.” [...]
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Saudis amass U.S. weapons to confront Iran

UPI A proposed $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, one of the largest-ever U.S. weapons sales, marks the consolidation of America as the kingdom’s main arms supplier after years of strain following 9/11.
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Islamophobia | Georgia | Iran • READ: Fire and Gunshots at Tennessee Mosque Site Called ‘Terrorism’: On Sunday, one day after a fire at the site of a planned Islamic center and mosque in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Muslim community members reported hearing gunshots as they inspected the damage. Saleh Sbenaty, an engineering professor [...]
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The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing Afghans

Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com “Find, fix, finish, and follow-up” is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been given a mandate to pursue alleged members of the Taliban or al-Qaeda wherever they may be found. Some call these “manhunting” operations and the units assigned to them “capture/kill” teams. [...]
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Misdiagnosed anti-psychotic drug may be killing stressed veterans

The Associated Press Traumatized vets take potent drug to help them sleep, but questions loom about potential risks Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-psychotic called Seroquel. Thousands [...]
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