Archive for the 'world' Category

Hassan Belfkir passes away

December 3, 2008

by Mimi Bradley
Our Condolences to the Hassan Belfkir Family
Dear Friend ,
It is with deep sorrow and regret that the Moroccan Community in Central Florida announces the death of Mr. Hassan Belfkir. Hassan was the loving husband , devoted father , beloved brother . He is also the dear friend.
Hassan passed away from heart attack . [...]

Don’t bomb Iran, Bush warns Israel

July 5, 2008

BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 9:47 PM
President Bush and the top U.S Military commander warned Israel Wednesday against bombing Iran, suggesting the U.S doesn’t want to get involved in a third war.
“This is a very unstable part of the world and I don’t need it to be more unstable,” Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs [...]

Double bomb blasts kill 26 in Alger

December 12, 2007

Latest reports say a Senegalese and a Danish citizen were among the 26 killed Tuesday morning in a double bomb blast which injured 177 others in the Algerian capital, Algers, an interior ministry statement quoted by the country’s press agency (APS) reports.
The Senegalese national was a UN official working in the Algerian capital city, the [...]

Moroccan American Officer faces deportation after Afghan service

December 5, 2007

Highly decorated sergeant ordered to stand trial
Anti-discrimination committee protests
Ed Pilkington in New York
Monday December 3, 2007
The Guardian
A highly decorated Moroccan-American sergeant in the US army, who is currently serving as a paratrooper in Afghanistan, faces deportation on his return to the United States because of an irregularity in his immigration papers.
Sgt Hicham Benkabbou has [...]

PRESIDENT SIGNS DOCUMENT EFFECTIVELY MAKING IRAQ A COLONY OF THE U.S.

November 28, 2007

I’m not sure that I’ve read a more sickening document than the one that was released by the White House yesterday entitled ‘Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America’. Encapsulated in this document is the geo-political reality of what the [...]

A Picture is Worth Thousand Words

November 28, 2007

look at the suits, the ties and the handshake…..

the knights

November 28, 2007

The following is a list of the heads of delegation  participating in the Annapolis Conference:

Description
Delegation
Title of Head of Delegation
Name

Parties
Israel
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert

Palestinian Authority
President
Mahmud Abbas

Quartet
United States
President
George W. Bush

EU Commission
Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
Benita Ferrero-Waldner

EU High Rep
High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council [...]

Iran: The uninvited guest at peace summit

November 28, 2007

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Tuesday’s Arab-Israeli peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland, is supposed to be about resolving long-standing Palestinian issues, the Golan Heights, and other contentious matters. But, increasingly, it is framed in the United States and Israeli media as a dual-purpose conference, the other being the containment of Iran.Thus, an editorial in the Jerusalem Post [...]

“Deus le volt! – God wills it!”

November 28, 2007

On Novemeber 27,1095 Pope Urban II launched 200 years of the Crusades at the Council of Clermont, France.In one of history’s most powerful speeches ,he urged the knights and noblemen to win back the Holy Land, to face their sins, and called upon those present to save their souls and become “Soldiers of Christ.” 912 [...]

an underground oasis in Saudi Arabia

November 25, 2007

                  unbelievable but true!!