Archive for November, 2006
Report: Pentagon investigates YouTube video of U.S. troops
The U.S. Department of Defense is investigating at least two video clips that appear to show American soldiers in an unfavorable light during contacts with Iraqi children, according to a report in the British newspaper, the Metro.
A clip found on YouTube titled “Iraqi Kid Runs For Water” appears to show U.S. soldiers amusing themselves [...]
Al Jazeera English Launches: Video of the launch
The long awaited Al Jazeera English has launched! This is the official launch video through to the first story.
Enjoy:
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Analysis - Iraq: What Iran and Syria want
Syria and Iran - two of the most vilified nations in the Bush administration’s political atlas - could hold the key to saving American plans in their neighbour Iraq.
Washington may need the two regional allies to help stabilise Iraq in order to pull its own troops back from an increasingly unpopular commitment there.
But given [...]
Beit Hanun Massacre
With the Israeli’s invasion, 30 deaths among of them children and women, and the US veto to license Israel their criminal actions…things are getting worse.
Everyone is speculating the world will no longer stand still, specially the Arab regimes, but in my opinion…HA! dream on! Here is a reason of why I am being pessimistic, during [...]
Batteries powered by water
Once I saw this video about a Japanese inventor showing his eco-friendly energy battery I was totally shocked, since then I knew things will end up differently regarding energy and so on. You never know, cold fusion might end up our way as well.
Basically what this invention is that with one single drop of water [...]
Al Jazeera and funny clips from Anchors
I thought I should add this short video regarding us & weird moments or such. Here it is, enjoy:
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Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006
Source: Sabbah.biz
In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.
Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst“:
Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria [...]