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Iran Faced with Tough Choices in Iraq Syria Rejects Lebanon's Idea
Iranian Strategists likely See an Opportunity
in the Latest Crisis to Wrest Iraq Away From
American Military Influence. But this is a
Risky Strategy
nity to deepen its influence in Iraq and to
extract vital concessions from Iraqi leaders in exchange of decisive Iranian military
support.
But the biggest challenge to Iran is to
manage demands and expectations that it
should cooperate with the United States to
tackle the widespread and unprecedented
terrorist challenge in Iraq. Even minimal
coordination with America at this point is
tantamount to falling into a deep and dangerous trap which would not only diminish
Iranian influence in Iraq, but would impact
negatively on broader Iranian strategic posture in the region.
An implacable foe
By: Mahan Abedin
The sweeping advance of militant Sunnis
across much of northern and central Iraq has
rang alarm bells across the international community and touched off a flurry of anxious
analysis on the potential collapse of the Iraqi
state and the emergence of a radical Islamic
regime in the Arab Sunni heartlands of Iraq.
For Iran, the most influential power in Iraq,
the latest Iraqi insurgency holds both peril
and promise. On the one hand, the coalition
of Sunni Arab tribes, ex-Baathists and assortment of extremists fighting under the banner
of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)
are natural enemies of Iran who given the
slightest opportunity wouldn’t hesitate to
bring the fight inside Iran’s borders.
On the other hand, the staggering incompetence of the Iraqi government and the mood
of panic, fight and flight which has gripped
the country presents Iran with an opportu-
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Although the mainstream Western media
is exaggerating – and to some extent misrepresenting – the nature and scale of the
terrorist and insurgent threat, there is no
denying the seriousness of the situation.
Entire cities and large swathes of territory
in the Sunni Arab heartlands of western and
north-western Iraq have fallen to a radical
movement spearheaded by a ruthless and
genocidal-minded terrorist group in the
form of ISIL.
What is referred to as the Sunni “revolution” by sympathisers in Iraq and their supporters in the region, is foremost the result
of incompetence and mismanagement by
the government of Iraqi prime minister
Nouri al-Maliki. By alienating Sunni Arabs,
Maliki has created fertile ground for the
growth of extremist groups.
However, not all the problems can be laid
at Maliki’s door. Many Sunni Arab elites
still dream of regaining their lost dominion;
theirs is not a movement based solely on
legitimate grievances, but more accurately
it is a quest to disrupt the natural balance of
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of Refugee Camps on Border
Damascus rejected the Lebanese government's suggestion of setting up refugee
camps for displaced people along its borders
with Syria.
The rejection came after Lebanese Foreign
Minister Gebran Bassil met ambassadors of
the five permanent member states earlier in
the day and discussed the possibility
of setting up refugee camps along its
borders.
The refugee camp idea was rejected
by Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali
Abdul Karim Ali during his talks with
Bassil.
Karim said Syria was against setting
up camps for the displaced Syrians, as
they would be "able to go back to their
homeland".
"Syria is a big country that can apprehend its entire people," he said. "Syria
is the wide home that can provide the Syrians
with all his or her needs."
According to the UN Higher Commission for
Refugees, Lebanon now hosts over 1.1 million Syrian refugees. The World Bank estimates that the direct losses inflicted by the
Syrian refugee issue on Lebanon's economy
have amounted to about 7.5 billion dollars.
Human Rights Group Locates ISIS
Massacre Site in Just Two Weeks
Earlier this months, the Islamic State of Iraq
and al-Sham posted a series of grisly photos
purportedly documenting the execution of
Iraqi soldiers. Those images, reportedly
taken in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, show a group of militants herding their
captives toward a ditch to be executed. The
militants seem to execute about 150 men but
ISIS claimed they killed as many as 1,700
Iraqi soldiers.
Now, in an incredible piece of detective
work, Human Rights Watch has, in part, verified the heinous claims. In a report released
Friday, Human Rights Watch pinpointed
the exact location in which the images were
taken. Corresponding satellite images show
ground disturbance that apparently matches
what the area would look like if mass graves
had been dug and heavy vehicles -- as seen
in images posted by ISIS -- had been driven
there there.
Human Rights Watch determined that the
photographs were taken a stone's throw
from the Tigris River and a former Hussein
palace. The group's analysis picks out individual captives and militants who appear
across the photographs, seemingly bolstering the photos' authenticity. The analysis
suggests that between 160 and 190 men were
killed between June 11 and June 14, though
the actual death toll from ISIS executions
in Tikrit could be significantly higher. The
slides documenting the analysis are reproduced at the bottom of this post.
"If ISIS is serious about executing 1,700
people in Tikrit, then it would be the largest
single killing of people in Iraq since 2003,"
Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at
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US Presbyterians Vote
to Divest from Firms to
Pressure Israel
Presbyterian Church USA to Divest
from Three Companies –
HP, Motorola Solutions and
Caterpillar –
Over Israeli Supplies in Occupied
West Bank
WASHINGTON - The nearly 1.9 million
member Presbyterian Church USA voted
after a contentious debate to divest from
three companies that provide supplies to
Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied
West Bank.
The 310 to 303 vote at the influential Protestant denomination's meeting in Detroit,
Michigan, means the group will pull financial investments out of Caterpillar, HewlettPackard and Motorola Solutions, the
church's official news service said.
The church has about $21 million invested
in the three companies.
Assembly moderator Heath Rada emphasized that the decision "in no way reflects
anything but love for both the Jewish and
Palestinian people," the church's news service said.
The measure also included a reaffirmation
of Israel's right to exist, an endorsement of a
two-state solution and encouraged interfaith
dialogue, The Times reported.
It also included a provision to encourage
"positive investment" to improve the lives
of Israelis and Palestinians, the Times said.
The close vote came after a week of intense
lobbying and "most contentious debate of
this assembly," the church's news service
said, noting that divestment has historically been seen as a "last resort" after "other
engagement tools have failed."
Hewlett-Packard, it said, "provides electronic systems at checkpoints, logistics and
communications systems to support the
naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, and has
business relationships with illegal settlements in the West Bank."
And Motorola Solutions "provides military
communications and surveillance systems
in the illegal Israeli settlements."
At the 2012 General Assembly, Presbyterian USA voted to boycott products made
in the Israeli settlements and to "begin positive investments in Palestinian businesses."
Companies react
HP spokeswoman Kelli Schlegel said that
"respecting human rights is a core value at
HP."
The HP systems used at checkpoints allow
people to "get to their place of work or to
carry out their business in a faster and safer
way," Schlegel said.
Motorola Solutions said it has long worked
in the Middle East and "supports all efforts
... to find a peaceful resolution" to conflict.
It also said that its human rights policies
are designed to ensure that its "operations
worldwide are conducted using the highest
standards of integrity and ethical business
conduct."
Caterpillar, which described itself as "a
values-based company," said it has "deep
respect and compassion for all persons
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Iran Secretly Flying Surveillance
Drones Over Iraq
Israeli soldiers arrest a young Palestinian boy following clashes in the centre
of the West Bank town of Hebron
In a statement ahead of the vote, Presbyterian Church USA said it was considering
divestment in Caterpillar because the company provides the bulldozers "used in the
destruction of Palestinian homes, clearing
land of structures and fruit and olive tree
groves, and in preparation for the construction of the barrier wall."
affected by the political strife in the Middle
East and support a peaceful resolution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"However, we believe it is appropriate for
such a resolution to be reached via political and diplomatic channels," the company
said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia Prepares to Launch First
Sovereign Wealth Fund
Fund will manage budget surpluses from
rise in crude prices estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars.
The central bank has managed investment of the
kingdom's foreign currency reserves until now,
much of it in US Treasury bonds.
The report gave no indication of whether any
change in investment strategy was envisioned.
The newspaper said the fund will start with capital representing 30 percent of budgetary surpluses accumulated over the years in the kingdom, the world's largest
exporter of crude oil.
Riyadh has built up significant foreign currency reserves because of rises in the
price of crude oil on the international market.
There are no official figures available, but financial experts estimate its combined
assets at around $700 billion (515 billion euros).
In the past three years alone, the kingdom has announced budget surpluses totalling
some $232 billion.
But she said "anyone in the region shouldn't
WASHINGTON - Iran is secretly flying
do anything that might exacerbate sectarian
surveillance drones over Iraq and sending
military equipment there to help Baghdad in
divisions, that would fuel extremism inside
its fight against Sunni insurgents, The New
Iraq."
York Times reported.
The United States has for two weeks said
A "small fleet" of Ababil drones was
Iranian aid for the Iraq crisis should be done
deployed to the Al Rashid airfield near Baghin a nonsectarian way -- by pressuring the
dad, the newspaper said on its website, citing
Iraqi government to adopt a national unity
anonymous US officials.
government and not fuel the Sunni and
Tehran has also installed an intelligence unit
Shiite conflict.
at the airfield to intercept electronic comWe "believe Iran could play a constructive
munications between ISIS fighters and comrole if it's helping to send the same message
manders.
to the Iraqi government that we're sending,"
Ababil drones, less sophisticated than US
Harf said.
unmanned aircraft, are designed in Iran and
A lightning offensive by Sunni insurgents
have a nearly 10-foot (three-meter) wingled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the
span. They are used for surveillance and are
Levant has overrun swathes of land north
unarmed.
and west of Baghdad this month and threatAbout a dozen officers of Iran's paramiliens to tear the country apart.
tary Quds Force, have
also been sent to Iraq to
advise Iraqi commanders
and help mobilize Shiite
militias in the south of the
country, the paper said,
adding that Iran's General Qassem Suleimani
recently made two trips to
Iraq.
Iran is also sending two
flights daily to Baghdad
with 70 tons each of military equipment and supplies.
"It's a substantial amount"
of material, a US official
told the newspaper. "It's
not necessarily heavy
Report Tehran has installed intelligence unit at Al
weaponry, but it's not just
Rashid airfield to intercept militants’ electronic comlight arms and ammunimunications, sent military equipment to Baghdad.
tion."
Tehran has massed 10
divisions of its army and
The United Nations says at least 1,075
its Quds Force troops along the border, ready
to act if the Iraqi capital or Shiite shrines are
people have been killed, an estimated
threatened, The New York Times added.
three quarters of them civilians, and
Asked at a briefing, US State Department
658 wounded in Iraq between June 5
spokeswoman Marie Harf said she "can't
and 22. Hundreds of thousands more
confirm the specifics in those reports."
have been displaced.
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Another Russia-China Energy Deal?
Russia is talking up prospects for a second
natural gas pact with Beijing, but this one
might be a tougher sell.
BY Keith Johnson
If Vladimir Putin gets his way, Russia's eastern
energy pivot is just beginning. That could make
Russia a swing natural gas supplier between
Europe and Asia -- good for Russia but potentially bad for Europe, which could see what leverage it has over Russia's energy sector wane.
Mere weeks after Russia and China inked a historic $400 billion natural gas deal, Russian officials are talking big about sealing another huge
energy contract with Beijing.
"If it materializes, it will be a dream situation
for Russia but will be a nightmare for Europe,"
said Keun-Wook Paik, an expert on Sino-Russian
energy issues and a fellow at Chatham House.
Russia would get another outlet for its gas
exports, possibly regaining some leverage over
Europe, and China could further free itself from
coal's chokehold.
Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov said on
Wednesday that the successful conclusion of the
first gas deal in late May, coupled with China's
seemingly insatiable appetite for gas, could open
the door to a stalled project Russia has dreamed
about for at least a decade.
"Considering the pace of China's economic
growth and the agreed pricing formula, I'd say it
is very likely that we will soon conclude a contract to build a western [pipeline] before long,"
Ivanov told reporters, according to Russian and
Chinese media.
Ivanov's comments echo what Putin said immediately after finalizing the Shanghai deal: "This
gives us the chance to start work on our next project with our Chinese partners, namely, planning
a western supply route from the resource base in
western Siberia."
Moscow favors this so-called western route
because it requires less investment and would
allow it to supply Europe and Asia from the same
gas fields; theoretically that could give it greater
market power and enable it to play two big customers against each other.
That is no small matter when European demand
for gas is sluggish, and when many European
countries are searching for alternative energy
Warlords
Endangering Lives
of 50,000 Children
A French soldier waves to children as
his jeep patrols between the airstrip and
a makeshift camp housing an estimated
100,000 displaced people, at Mpoko Airport, in Bangui, Central African Republic
An international organization says a surging
fight between two warlords in South Sudan
could leave thousands of children starving, even
dead, by the end of the year. The report from
UNICEF calls out South Sudan President Salva
Kiir and his former vice president, Riek Machar,
and blames their confrontations for the fact that
as many as 50,000 children will be facing starvation over coming months. The fighting has
left the production and purchase of food below
needed levels for the long-troubled African
region. The inevitable result is starvation.
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sources after Russia's annexation of the
Crimean peninsula and given its hardball tactics over gas exports to Ukraine. Russian reliance on revenue earned from energy exports
to Europe ties its hands in much the same way
that reliance on Russian energy ties Europe's.
China's sparsely populated west hasn't been
particularly thirsty for natural gas. But Beijing
has clamored for Russia to ship to its denser,
more industrial northeast.
Though the two sides signed a preliminary
deal in 2010 on the so-called Altai pipeline in
the west, the project basically died last year.
Then, after more than a decade of haggling,
Russia finally agreed in May's deal to develop
new gas fields in eastern Siberia and feed China's northeast.
But Russian officials' remarks about reviving
the Altai pipeline don't mean China's ready
to play ball, especially after securing 38 billion cubic meters of Russian gas for 30 years.
And bringing the Altai project to fruition still
requires significant Russian investment.
"It might be less capital-intensive than the
eastern one, but it's no doubt going to cost us
tens of billions of dollars," Ivanov said.
Gazprom needs recapitalization in order to
deliver on the first deal, according to Putin,
so where Russia will find billions more is
unclear.
Equally unclear is how much more Russian
natural gas China needs. Central Asia has
guaranteed it large amounts and China is
building terminals to import liquefied natural gas to the coasts. Beijing also hopes to
develop its own shale gas reserves, which, on
paper, are among the world's largest.
And Russia already made concessions to
secure the existing deal with China, agreeing to a lower long-term price than it receives
from European customers. Shipping to China's sparsely populated west, far from the centers of Chinese energy demand, will hardly
command a price premium.
"Unlike the eastern route, the Altai pipeline
will hit the Chinese border in the middle of
nowhere, far from gas-consuming regions,"
said Mikhail Korchemkin, the head of East
European Gas Analysis, an energy consultancy. That means Russia might have to offer
an even lower price to secure a second deal,
he said.
That could benefit Europe. If the first gas
deal promised to lower prices in both Asia
and Europe, a second pact at an even lower
price would embolden buyers from Brussels
to Berlin.
"Europeans would use the low price of gas sold
by the Altai pipeline to China to lobby for lower
prices of Russian gas," Korchemkin said.
Turkey Ready to
Accept Kurdish
State in Historic
Shift
Kurdistan regional government president Massud Barzani made the trip
to inspect Kurdish security forces
deployed near Sunni Arab militant-controlled areas south and west of the city
and raise morale, an official from his
Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Turkey’s ruling party has signalled it is
ready to accept an independent Kurdish state in what is now northern Iraq,
marking a historic shift by one of the
heavyweight powers of the Middle East.
A Kurdish state in northern Iraq could
also serve as a buffer against the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (known as Isis), which Turkish
officials increasingly see as a threat and
which is holding more than 80 Turks
hostage in the area of the now Isis-run
city of Mosul.
Turkey has a more than 300km long
border with Iraq and a roughly 900km
long border with Syria, where Isis also
controls territory.
In strongly worded comments for a
Nato member, Mr Celik blamed not
just Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime
minister, for Iraq’s growing fragmentation, but also the US: “They didn’t
bring peace, stability, unity, they just left
chaos, widows, orphans. They created a
Shia bloc to the south of our country.”
Russia's Quiet War Against European
Fracking
BY Keith Johnson
Russia is trying to maintain its energy
stranglehold over Europe by backing movements across the continent to
demonize fracking, the head of NATO
alleged. It is part of Russia's broader use
of soft power and covert means to complement its more overt efforts to reassert
influence in Europe and keep countries
there from developing alternatives to an
energy addiction worth $100 million a
day to Moscow.
"I have met allies who can report that
Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations,
engage actively with so-called non-government organizations -- environmental
organizations working against shale gas
-- obviously to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas," NATO
chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after a
Chatham House speech last month.
"There is a lot of evidence here; countries
like Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine being at
the vanguard of the environmental movement is enough for it to be conspicuous,"
she said.
"There is a lot of evidence here; countries
like Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine being at
the vanguard of the environmental movement is enough for it to be conspicuous,"
she said.
Bulgaria's anti-shale movement is particularly telling. The country initially
embraced fracking as a way to develop
its own energy resources and reduce reliance on Russia, even signing an exploration deal with Chevron in 2011. But then
came an eruption of seemingly grassroots
environmental protests and a televised
blitz against fracking. In early 2012, the
government reversed course and banned
the practice.
Environmentalists trying to block shale gas exploration across Europe are
unknowingly helping Putin maintain his energy leverage over the continent.
NATO officials said Rasmussen's remarks
were meant to underscore NATO's growing unease with Europe's energy security situation. "Clearly, it is in the interest of all NATO allies to be able to have
adequate energy supplies. We share
a concern by some allies that Russia
could try to obstruct possible projects
on shale gas exploration in Europe in
order to maintain Europe's reliance on
Russian gas," a NATO official said.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,
has unleashed an energy boom in the
United States. But the practice, which
is designed to tap previously unreachable stores of natural gas by injecting
a chemical cocktail at high pressure
to break apart shale formations deep
underground, also generates plenty of
environmental opposition. Critics say
fracking can poison underground stores
of drinking water.
In Europe, that opposition is particularly fierce, both because environmental groups have more political power
than in the United States and because
higher population densities magnify the
possible damaging effects of the drilling
practice. Some countries have banned
fracking outright; others, including
France and Germany, have imposed
onerous regulations that effectively
make the practice illegal, though they
are reconsidering fracking in light of
the standoff with Russia over Ukraine.
Russian energy firms and officials, as
well as Kremlin-controlled media, have
lambasted fracking on environmental
grounds for years. Top Gazprom officials and even Russian President Vladimir Putin have attacked the technology,
which, if adopted, could ease Europe's
dependence on Russian gas.
But one thing has for years puzzled
energy experts: Well-organized and
well-funded environmental opposition
to fracking in Europe sprang up suddenly in countries such as Bulgaria and
Ukraine, which had shown little prior
concern for the environment but which
are heavily dependent on Russia for
energy supplies. Similar movements
have also targeted Europe's plans to
build pipelines that would offer an alternative to reliance on Moscow.
"It's very concrete; it relates to both
opposition to shale and also trying to
block any alternative pipelines with
environmental challenges," said Brenda
Shaffer, an energy expert at Georgetown University.
Researchers who've worked on the ground in
Central and Eastern Europe say there is plenty
of anecdotal evidence, if no smoking guns, of
Russian financial support for some environmental groups that have recently mobilized
opposition to shale gas development.
In Ukraine, for example, anti-fracking movements became more organized and better
funded just as the government worked to finalize shale gas deals with Western energy firms,
officials there say. In Lithuania, "exactly the
same thing is happening," said a government
official, who described the mushrooming of
anti-shale billboards and websites there as "an
integrated, strategic communications campaign." As in Bulgaria, the well-funded groups
organized screenings of Gasland to galvanize
opposition to fracking.
"All of a sudden, in societies that never did
grassroots organization very well, you saw
all these NGOs well-funded, popping up,
and causing well-organized protests," said
Mihaela Carstei, an energy and environment
analyst at the Atlantic Council.
To be sure, much of Europe's anti-fracking
movement is motivated by genuine environmental concerns, just as in the United States;
much of that opposition was catalyzed by the
controversial 2010 anti-shale documentary
Gasland. There are fears about fracking's
effect on groundwater and the link between
fracking and increased seismic activity.
France, for instance, banned fracking before
Bulgaria. And despite the Ukraine crisis and
the rumblings of pro-fracking sentiment from
some senior government officials, which
could open the door to France rethinking the
ban, fracking is still off the table there for
now. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace scoff at the NATO chief's allegations,
saying that they oppose fracking for sound
environmental reasons. What's more, there's
little love lost between Greenpeace and
Russia, because Moscow detained dozens of
the group's green activists last year.
"I wouldn't underestimate the role that Russia
plays in shale gas in Europe, but I wouldn't
overestimate it, either," said Andreas Goldthau, an energy expert at Harvard University's Belfer Center who has extensively
researched shale gas policies in Europe.
"Overall, particularly in Bulgaria and Romania, the causes of shale's problems are varied;
it's not only the Russians coming in and
trying to start protests."
Ultimately, Russia's efforts to derail Europe's
alternative pipeline projects, more than its
possible support for anti-fracking groups,
represent a more immediate threat to Europe's
efforts to diversify its energy supplies, Shaffer said.
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Health / Social
Science & Technology
Watching 3 Hours of Daily TV Doubles
Early Death Risk
Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside
American Spies
Those who watched television more than
three hours per day were more than twice
as likely to die young as those who watched
an hour or less, the report said.
WASHINGTON: People who watch three or
more hours of television daily may be twice
as likely to die prematurely than people who
watch less.
The research in the Journal of the American
Heart Association is the latest to describe
the potential dangers of a sedentary lifestyle,
which include high blood pressure, obesity,
cancer and heart disease.
"Our findings are consistent with a range of
previous studies where time spent watching
television was linked to mortality," said lead
author Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez, chair of
the department of public health at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
The research was based on records from more
than 13,000 people who had graduated from
Spanish universities. Their average age was
37, and 60 percent were women.
Researchers wanted to find out if there was
any link between dying young and the amount
of television watched.
They also looked at how long people spent
at a computer and daily driving time and
whether these influenced death risk.
Participants were healthy when they began
the study and were followed for a median,
or midpoint, of 8.2 years.
Those who watched television more
than three hours per day were more than
twice as likely to die young as those who
watched an hour or less, the report said.
The most common cause of death was
cancer, which killed 46 people. Thirty-two
died of other causes, and 19 deaths were
linked to cardiovascular problems.
Research did not find any association
between computer time and premature
death, or between driving and dying
young.
It also did not prove that television watching caused the early deaths, just that an
association could be found between more
TV-viewing and a higher chance of dying,
even when researchers adjusted for other
potentially confounding factors.
"Our findings suggest adults may consider
increasing their physical activity, avoid
long sedentary periods, and reduce television watching to no longer than one to two
hours each day," said Martinez-Gonzalez.
The American Heart Association recommends people do some form of moderate
exercise for nearly two hours each week.
Inside Captured Mosul, Iraq Militants
Turning Back Clock
In the two weeks since it was seized by Sunni
militants, some residents of the northern Iraq
city of Mosul feel the clock has been turned
back hundreds of years.
The militants, led by the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL), have begun imposing
an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in the
days since they took the city.
"These militants will return us and our country
hundreds of years backwards, and their laws
are the opposite of the laws of human rights
and international laws," said Umm Mohammed, a 35-year-old teacher.
"We live in continuous fear of being subjected
to new pressures," she said. "We are afraid of
being prevented from working and contributing to building the community."
The city, known before 2003 for its historic
sites and parks and, in later years, as a hub for
deadly violence, fell on 10 June to the militants, who subsequently overran surrounding
Nineveh province and swathes of other territory.
Security forces in Mosul, a city of some two
million people before the offensive, collapsed
in the face of the onslaught, in some cases
abandoning uniforms and even vehicles in
their haste to flee.
After seizing control, gunmen declared
Nineveh a part of their Islamic state and issued
a document outlining new rules.
The 16-point document announced the prohibition of the selling and consumption of alcohol and drugs as well as smoking, and forbade
gatherings and carrying weapons.
Women are to wear non-revealing clothes and
keep to their homes, while "shrines" are to be
destroyed.
Statues of poets removed
All depictions of people are considered idolatrous under the militants' extreme interpretation of Islam, and gunmen have removed
various statues from the city in recent days,
including some depicting famous poets.
Abu Ramzi, one of Mosul's Christians who
did not flee the city, said militants destroyed
a statue of the Virgin Mary in front of a
church.
"We have not received any threat from
any side yet," Abu Ramzi said. "We will
not leave our houses and city even if they
slaughter us."
The militants also distributed a document to
mosques in the city ordering that they not
make or publish any statement not approved
by ISIL, and designated a specific mosque
for the acceptance of the "repentance of
apostates".
ISIL has also appointed representatives for
different areas of the city who are to conduct
a survey of its residents.
One resident who fled said a neighbour told
him that gunmen came to check empty houses
in the area and find out who owns them.
"They asked about my house, my (religious)
sect and my phone number," he said.
The gunmen left a message that he had
two days to return and renounce his Shiite
faith, or the house would be burned.
Militants are deployed in most areas of
Mosul, some on foot and others moving
either in civilian vehicles or those captured
from security forces when they withdrew,
one resident said.
First Crimea, now Iraq. Why does America's $50
billion Intelligence Community Keep Getting Taken by surprise?
BY Shane Harris
United States intelligence agencies were
caught by surprise when fighters from the
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
seized two major Iraqi cities this week and
sent Iraqi defense forces fleeing, current and
former U.S. officials said Thursday. With U.S.
troops long gone from the country, Washington didn't have the spies on the ground or
the surveillance gear in the skies necessary
to predict when and where the jihadist group
would strike.
The speed and ease with which well-armed
and highly trained ISIS fighters took over
Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and Tikrit,
the birthplace of former Iraqi ruler Saddam
Hussein, have raised significant doubts about
the ability of American intelligence agencies to know when ISIS might strike next, a
troubling sign as the Islamist group advances
steadily closer to Baghdad. And it harkened
back to another recent intelligence miscue, in
February, when U.S. spy agencies failed to
predict the Russian invasion of Crimea. Both
events are likely to raise questions about
whether the tens of billions of dollars spent
every year on monitoring the world's hot
spots is paying off -- and what else the spies
might be missing.
The CIA maintains a presence at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad, but the agency has
largely stopped running networks of spies
inside the country since U.S. forces left
Iraq in December 2011, current and former
U.S. officials said. That's in part because the
military's secretive Joint Special Operations
Command had actually taken the lead on
hunting down Iraq's militants. With the JSOC
commandos gone, the intelligence agencies
have been forced to try to track groups like
ISIS through satellite imagery and communications intercepts -- methods that have
proven practically useless because the militants relay messages using human couriers,
rather than phone and email conversations,
and move around in such small groups that
they easily blend into the civilian population.
Policymakers in Washington and other allied
capitals were similarly unsure of the group's
true strength or how to respond. In late May,
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met
with defense officials from Arab countries
in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they agreed
that ISIS and other Islamic fighters in Syria
and Iraq posed a threat to the entire region, a
senior U.S. official said. But no plan on how to
counter those groups emerged from the meeting, and there's no indication that U.S. intelligence agencies stepped up monitoring of ISIS
fighters in Iraq, who also seized control of Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in January.
"We got caught flat-footed. Period," said
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism analyst and senior fellow at the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies, who studies ISIS
and other al Qaeda-linked groups. Although
for the past three years U.S. officials had
assessed that ISIS was strong enough "to go
toe-to-toe" with the Iraqi military -- a fact
the group demonstrated with its operations
in Fallujah and Ramadi -- there has been no
indication that the U.S. intelligence agencies
knew ISIS was about to mount a major offensive to take over two more cities simultaneously, Gartenstein-Ross said.
Two senior U.S. officials acknowledged that
the intelligence agencies' assessment of ISIS
has been overly broad and lacked the type
of specifics that could have actually helped
the Iraqi military know when and where to
expect an attack. But the greater concern
to the Obama administration has been the
strength of the Iraqi forces and their actual
will to fight, they said.
"This has never been about whether we
thought ISIS had the capability to launch
attacks. It's always been, do the Iraqis have
the capability to defend their country?" one
official said. On that score, the U.S. assessment was more on the mark. Obama administration officials have hesitated to provide
Iraqi military forces with advanced weapons
including fighter jets and attack helicopters
because they've never shown an aptitude
for using them or sufficient resolve to fight
their enemies, the officials said. The Obama
administration had also long feared that Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite with
clear antipathy towards the country's Sunni
population, would use the armaments against
his own people.
The intelligence agencies' inability to predict
the latest crisis in Iraq is likely to fuel critics
of the Obama administration's management
of other global crises, including in Syria
and Ukraine. In the case of Russia's seizure
of Crimea, in which U.S. spies were also
caught by surprise, sophisticated electronic
eavesdropping systems run by the National
Security Agency were of little use because
Russian forces limited their time on telephones and adopted the techniques of jihadists, sending couriers back and forth between
their units.
But the responsibility for failing to counter
ISIS in Iraq cannot solely be placed at the
feet of U.S. intelligence agencies. When
American forces were stationed in the country, they built one of the most successful
battlefield intelligence systems in the history
of American warfare. The NSA monitored
every phone call, email, or text message in
Iraq, and it provided leads on the location
of jihadists and insurgents to drone pilots
and special operations forces, who captured
or killed them. U.S. commandos working
hand in hand with the CIA also developed an
extensive network of human spies.
But when U.S. forces left Iraq in 2011, all
that intelligence power went with them. The
Iraqi government failed to secure an agreement that would have allowed the United
States to maintain some physical presence in
Iraq, which it needed to run the intelligence
networks at full throttle. Today, that intelligence capability has withered.
"The United States has so many intelligence
collection efforts occurring simultaneously.
It's especially difficult to collect in a place
where we have no presence," said Christopher Harmer, a former Navy officer and an
analyst with the Institute for the Study of War.
Given the lack of human spies in particular,
Harmer said that the United States would be
outmatched in Iraq against ISIS because of
its reliance on couriers and the diligence with
which it avoids phones and email, which can
be tracked. "What ISIS is best at is exactly
what we are worst at. We just don't have a
good human intelligence network" in Iraq,
Harmer said.
If the United States has any hopes of gaining
some intelligence insights into Iraq, it might
look to the autonomous Kurdish region in the
north. "The Kurds begged the U.S. to keep
a base in Kurdistan" prior to the troop withdrawal, said David Tafuri, who served as the
Rule of Law Coordinator for Iraq with the
State Department in 2006 and 2007, and is
now a partner with the law firm Squire Patton
Boggs. "They would have given the U.S.
whatever it wanted to have a base here. And
if we did, we'd be in a much better position to
monitor this situation," Tafuri said.
Iraqi officials have been eager to get their
hands on U.S. military and intelligence
equipment to assist in their struggle against
jihadists. On May 8, Foreign Policy reported
that the Iraqi government was actively seeking armed aerial drones from the United
States to combat al Qaeda militants in the
increasingly violent Anbar province, where
fighters from Syria were believed to be spilling over into Iraq. And in a significant reversal, Iraqi officials said they would welcome
American military drone operators back
into the country to target the militants on its
behalf, according to people with knowledge
of the matter. But to date, the United States
has only agreed to give Iraq 10 small ScanEagle drones, which are launched from a
catapult and carry no weapons. Those should
arrive by the end of the summer, the White
House said Thursday.
Iran, the United States' most nettlesome
adversary in the entire region, is moving
much faster. According to press reports, a
150-man unit of the Quds Force, the elite
wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, had been
sent to Iraq to bolster the Maliki government
and fight ISIS. Other accounts suggest that
a joint Iranian-Iraqi force has retaken all or
most of Tikrit.
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Human Rights Group Locates ISIS Massacre Site
Continued from page 1
Human Rights Watch
said.
The analysis by the
execution site in
Tikrit marks a major
step forward in the
use of social media
and satellite imagery to authenticate
atrocities. According
Bouckaert,
his group's analysis of the Tikrit
events is the first
time Human Rights
Watch has used
such techniques to
not just locate killings but determine
where the bodies
may be buried. The
group did similar
work in Sri Lanka
in 2009 when the
army defeated the
Tamil Tigers, a rebel
group.
Although
that work showed
the use of artillery
to target civilians,
the Tikrit analysis is
unprecedented in its
identification of a
large execution site.
In the history of
documenting mass
atrocities, that's an
incredible
thing.
"At the time of
Srebrenica, satellite imagery was
not available to
nongovernmental
organizations
so
obviously we didn't
have the capacity
to do this kind of
work," Bouckaert
said, referring to
the 1995 massacre
of more than 8,000
Bosniaks in Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
Now, massacre sites
can be identified
within hours. Two
weeks later, exact
geographic coordinates can be determined.
When Hussein brutally put down a
Shiite uprising in
1991, human rights
advocates, including
Bouckaert, couldn't
investigate the incident until after the
2003 U.S. invasion.
Chillingly, Bouckaert says ISIS executed its prisoners
in much the same
manner
Baathist
troops
executed
Shiites in the early
1990s. "We haven't
seen a single execution using this
modus operandi
in Syria," Bouckaert said. "We
have to remember
that the fighting in
Iraq also involves
Baathists
who
were involved in
1991."
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Iran Faced with Tough Choices in Iraq
power in Iraq. It is difficult to envisage how
any Iraqi government representative of the
demographic balance could accommodate
chauvinistic and irredentist Sunni Arab aspirations.
For Iran, the situation is potentially serious in
so far as the consolidation of the irredentists
and extremists’ gains in northern and central
Iraq will pose a direct security and possibly
even military threat. ISIL has made no secret
of its desire to attack Iran directly, and there
is no reason to believe that under the right
conditions they would not carry through with
their threat to launch attacks inside Iran.
Iran has a direct stake in helping the Iraqi
government and military to push back
against the extremist aggression and to minimise the scope of ungoverned or more accurately extremist governed spaces. To achieve
this aim, Iran will take stock of the actual
and potential behaviour and capability of all
key players, in particular the Kurds who have
exploited the instability to secure yet more
territorial gains at the expense of the Iraqi
state.
There are indications that Iran has already
intervened in Iraq, in the form of over 100
Qods force special forces operatives and
counter-insurgency specialists. It is alleged
that the Qods force commander, General
Qasem Suleimani – the most powerful military and security figure in the Middle East –
is in Baghdad leading the counter-insurgency
effort.
In view of the balance of power on the
ground, and the inflamed sectarian mood, it
is difficult to envisage Iran intervening more
openly, in the form of entire armies crossing
the border to shore up Iraqi defences. The
Iranian calculus may change however in the
event of a credible threat to Baghdad and to
the all-important shrine cities of Najaf and
Karbala.
The bigger foe
As in Syria, the latest crisis in Iraq has exposed
the limitations of American power and influence
in the Middle East. There is no getting away
from the fact that the United States is a fading
power on the Middle East stage, bereft of the
ability to decisively alter the course of events on
the ground.
In view of the fact that the cardinal goal of Iranian policy in the region is to engineer the complete withdrawal of the United States from the
Middle East, Iran would be the last country to
call for American military intervention in Iraq.
Not only would this intervention – likely in the
form of air strikes - inflame sectarian tensions
but it would not in any case improve the position
of Iranian allies in Iraq.
Iranian strategists likely see an opportunity in
the latest crisis to wrest Iraq away from American military influence. However, this same
opportunity is potentially a very dangerous trap
if Iran over-reaches and intervenes too deeply
in Iraq. Doubtless the United States and Israel
want Iran to be drawn into a long and costly
counter-insurgency operation in Iraq – similar
to the Iranian effort in Syria - thus draining Iranian resources on two fronts.
More broadly, even as Iran and the United
States engage on resolving the nuclear dispute,
speculation on security and military cooperation is both ill-informed and spectacularly
wishful. The factors militating against sustained security engagement centre on a foundational ideological conflict between Iran and the
United States.
Whilst the United States crafts its policy in
the Middle East and elsewhere on the exclusive premise of national interest, Iran’s strategy
and policy is much more complex and in part
reflects the country’s profile as a revolutionary
and ideological power. Simply put this makes
sustained cooperation with the United States all
but impossible.
Obama Requests $500 Million to
Train and Equip Syrian Rebels
U.S. President
Barack Obama
requested $500
million
from
Congress
to
train and equip
"moderate" and
"appropriately
vetted" members
of the Syrian
opposition
as
concerns grow over the spillover of the
Syrian conflict into Iraq. According to
Obama, arming the opposition would
"help defend the Syrian people, stabilize
areas under opposition control, facilitate the provision of essential services,
counter terrorist threats, and promote
conditions for a negotiated settlement."
Previous U.S.
assistance
to
the
Syrian
rebels
has
been focused
on non-lethal
aid.
Though,
Obama
suggested a plan
to increase help
for the opposition in May during a speech at the West Point
military academy. The request for funding has come as the head of the opposition
government, Ahmad Tohme, disbanded the
Supreme Military Council over allegations
of corruption within the ranks of the Western
and Arab supported Free Syrian Army.
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Egyptian Protesters Demand End to
Sexual Harassment
Faces of Iran
Claudio Silighini takes us on a visual journey that brings to life the
vibrancy of Iran’s people
Women in Cairo demand greater protections from sexual harassment
Protesters took to the streets of Cairo to call
for more protections against sexual harassment which is seen as a critical problem the
country.
The marchers’ demands included stricter
punishment for sexual offenders, and an end
to sexual violence as well as discrimination
against women.
The protest was sparked by the uploading of
a recent video on YouTube which showed
a mob of men surrounding a 19-year-old
woman and gang raping her in Tahir Square
where crowds had gathered to celebrate the
election of the President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
last month.
The protest movement is being spearheaded
by Deena al-Shabba a student who set up the
"Walk like an Egyptian Woman" campaign in
response to the video.
Latin America Leads the Way
Claudio Silighini is an Italian photographer
passionate about capturing emotions and
sensations via powerful images in his travels through the Middle East
Iran is a fascinating place rich of history
and contrasts. I witnessed a country that is
modern and antique, innovative yet traditional. Its citizens live within intertwined
layers of contemporary living, religion, and
politics amongst a backdrop of colourful
territories united by history, but different in
George Wassouf Makes Buzz with
Facebook Photo of Maher Assad
Africa was Supposed to be the Next
Hotbed of World Soccer. It’s not.
Whether it's a World Cup year or not,
everybody knows where to find the
world's best soccer players: Brazil. But
during this tournament, some of Brazil's
less-fancied neighbors in the Western
Hemisphere are also getting into the act.
Colombians, Costa Ricans, Ecuadoreans,
and Mexicans are all impressing the pro
scouts. The question is, can these fresh
talents from the Americas really cut it in
Europe's top leagues?
So far this has been Latin America's
World Cup, with seven of the nine teams
progressing to the knockout stages. That's
more than Europe managed from their
13 representatives in Brazil. As clubs run
through their talent assessments, don't be
surprised if it means further cherry-picking from the Americas.
Back in 2002 Africa was seen as soccer's
great untapped resource. Senegal's debut
appearance at the World Cup in 2002
compelled Liverpool to spend £15 million on El Hadji Diouf and Salif Diao.
In 2010 it was tiny Slovenia attracting
attention, having qualified for a second
World Cup in eight years. "There's a lot
of trend scouting in football, now Slovenia are in fashion," wrote respected scout
Tor-Kristian Karlsen in his Calcio Italia
column the following year.
The evidence suggests Latin America
can expect to be the focus for soccer's
money men in 2014. Uruguay continues to punch above its weight despite a
population of a little under four million
people, while Costa Rica topped a group
that included three former champions.
While the global icons such as Lionel
Messi and Neymar have delivered, new
talents have announced themselves too.
Ecuador's Mexico-based striker Enner
Valencia has scored three goals, Joel
Campbell set the tone for Costa Rica in
its opening win over Uruguay, and young
Colombian playmaker James Rodríguez
has arguably shone brightest of all: three
goals and two assists in just two and a
half matches. With many World Cup participants still playing domestically, their
teams' successes reflect well on the talent
still in the Americas, not just those who've
sought their fortunes in Europe.
Few expected such an impact. This is the
first World Cup in Latin America since
1986 and the first in South America since
1978. Argentina won both of those, but
with widespread globalization since then
the advantage of teams from the Americas
might have been overstated. Nevertheless, though almost 5,000 miles separate
Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, Latin
American sides have adapted better. By
contrast, no Asian teams made it through,
and England, Spain, and Italy
exited together in the group
stage for the first time since
1974.
Despite that failure, those last
three countries remain the top
three markets for club soccer.
Though the Latin American
talent pool may be vast, the
question of adaptability in the
other direction will be the main
concern for players. World Cup success
doesn't guarantee consistent levels of performance over an exhausting European
season.
Indeed, the record on this point is spotty
at best. Chile has impressed at the World
Cup, but Jean Beausejour and Gary
Medel have suffered relegations from
English football's Premier League. Their
teammate Gonzalo Jara already played
second-tier soccer in England and is now
without a club. Ecuador's Antonio Valencia is one of the most polarizing figures
at Manchester United. Even Guillermo
Ochoa, the Mexican goalkeeper who so
spectacularly shut out Brazil, was relegated from the French top bracket with
Ajaccio last term.
As a result, any conclusions from a
month-long festival of futebol or fútbol
must come with caveats. But so far, a
clear message is emerging: Just as the
Amazon rainforests are the Earth's lungs,
Latin America continues to breathe new
life into the global game
terms of morphology, latitudes, ethnicities and
tribes. The elegant women of Iran are strong
and proud.
Among the picturesque landscapes there are
many colours, feelings, desires and hopes.
It is a continuous coming and going of wellinformed and noble people that are looking for
harmony and balance in a region that is never
banal. Iran is beautiful because its streets are
always beaming with life.
Singer George Wassouf downloads
on Facebook picture showing Maher
wearing navy blue T-shirt, jeans and
looking relaxed.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's feared
younger brother Maher has re-emerged in
public two years after he was said to have been
seriously wounded in a bombing, in a picture
on the Internet.
Beirut-based Syrian singer George Wassouf
downloaded on his official Facebook page a
picture showing Maher wearing a navy blue
T-shirt, jeans and looking relaxed.
The picture shows Wassouf standing next to
the two brothers on a recent visit to Damascus.
On July 18, 2012, a powerful bomb struck a
senior command centre in Damascus where
Syria's top brass were meeting.
State media said the attack killed defence minister General Daoud Rajha, Assad's brother-inlaw Assef Shawkat and General Hassan Turkmani, head of the regime's crisis cell on the
uprising against the regime.
Media reports have said Wassouf travelled to
Damascus to congratulate Assad on his election victory.
CULTURE
Phoenician Alphabet,
Mother of Modern Writing
The Phoenicians were not mere passive peddlers in art or commerce. Their
achievement in history was a positive
contribution, even if it was only that of
an intermediary.
Phoenician words are found in Greek
and Latin classical literature as well
as in Egyptian, Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew writings. The language is written with a 22-character
alphabet that does not indicate vowels.
Phoenician scribe writing the Phoenician alphabet while a parrot dictates!
Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what
we call Ugaritic, they also produced
a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was
used at Byblos - Lebanon as early as
the 15th century B.C. This method of
writing, later adopted by the Greeks,
is the ancestor of the modern Roman
alphabet. It was the Phoenicians' most
remarkable and distinctive contribution
to civilization.
The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder
was a great admirer of the Phoenicians,
he credited them with many discoveries, including the invention of trade.
Although Pliny was not adverse to
exaggerating, scholars do accept his
evidence that Phoenicians were the
first traveling salesmen. Because they
needed an efficient method of keeping
records, they invented an alphabet from
which every alphabet of the world has
descended. Along with an
alphabet came the equipment for using it: pen,
ink and, of course, papyrus, parchment and finally
paper. A wax-writing
tablet was found in an
ancient Uluburun shipwreck (most likely to have
been Canaanite Phoenician) off the coast of Lebanon.
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The purpose of placing jokes in this section is to put a smile on your
face.
Jokes are NOT intended to humiliate anyone. Certain groups of people
located in a particular geographical area are distinguished due to their
trait and reputation.
A young lady gets on a bus but it's A cop was hiding in his usual spot
standing room only.
when he saw a car speed by at 90 mph.
Quickly turning on his sirens, the cop
A middle-aged man seated next to her pulled over an old lady. “License and
is ignoring her, and she says "Excuse registration please” said the cop in a
me, sir, would you mind standing so tough voice. “I’m sorry” responded
a pregnant lady can sit?". He excuses the lady “I forgot to ask him where
himself and stands for her. As she's he keeps his registration before I shot
sitting down, he realizes she doesn't him.” “You what!” Hollered the cop
look pregnant at all.
nervously holding onto his gun.”I shot
him” she responded “I stuck him in the
He asks her, "Excuse me miss, but trunk if you want to see.”
how long have you been pregnant?"
She says "About 15 minutes, and boy Within 2 minutes there were 8 police
are my legs tired!".
cars pulled up behind her and a police
talking into a megaphone “Come out of
the car with your
hands up.” While
One day, a man
one cop watched
walked into an
the lady, another
appliance store.
opened the trunk.
“Um mam” said the
"Do you sell color
second cop “there’s
televisions?" "Yes,"
no dead man in this
said the clerk. "Yes,
trunk.” “Well why
we do." "Then give
would there be?”
me a green one."
she asked.
*********
*********
“Excuse
me,”
said another cop,
A man goes to the eye doctor. The
receptionist asks him why he is there. “this car seems to be registered in your
name?” “Well why wouldn’t it be”
The man complains, “I keep seeing
repeated the lady.
spots in front of my eyes.
“Well,”
they both responded “the cop
”The receptionist asks, “Have you
said that you told him you killed the
ever seen a doctor?” and the man
owner and put him in the trunk.”
replies, “No, just spots.”
“Humph” said the old lady with a wave
of her hand, “I bet that old liar told you
I was speeding to!”
***************
A young blonde woman went into a
bank to withdraw some money. For
security purposes the cashier asked
A guy walks into a bar and takes a seat.
her if she could identify herself.
Before he can order a beer, the bowl of
pretzels in front of him says "Hey, you're
She opened her handbag and took out
a handsome fellow." The man tries to
a small mirror, looked into it and said,
ignore the bowl of pretzels, and orders a
"Yes, it's me all right."
fine Pilsner beer.
The bowl of pretzels then says "Ooooh,
a pilsner, great choice. You're a smart
A father sends his kid to bed. Five man."
minutes later, the boy screams, "Dad! Starting to freak out, the guy says to the
Can you get me a glass of water?"
bartender "Hey what the hell, this bowl
of pretzels keeps saying nice things to
The dad says, "No. You had your me!"
chance."
A minute later the boy Bartender says "Don't worry about it, the
screams, "Dad! Can you get me a pretzels are complimentary."
glass of water?" The dad says, "No.
You had your chance. Next time you
ask, I'll come up there and spank
A fellow was very much in love with
you." "Dad! When you come up to
a beautiful girl. One day she told him
spank me, can you bring me a glass
that the next day was her birthday. He
or water?"
told her he would send her a bouquet of
roses... one for each year of her life.
**************
**************
**************
***************
There was this guy at a bar, just lookThat evening he called the local floing at his drink. He stays like that for
rist and ordered twenty-one roses with
half of an hour.
instructions that they be delivered first
Then, this big trouble-making truck
thing the next morning. As the florist
driver steps next to him, takes the
was preparing the order, he decided that
drink from the guy, and just drinks it
since the young man was such a good
all down. The poor man starts crying.
customer, he would put an extra dozen
The truck driver says, "Come on
roses in the bouquet. The fellow never
man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy
did find out what made the young girl so
you another drink. I just can't stand to
angry with him.
see a man cry."
"No, it's not that. This day is the
worst of my life. First, I fall asleep,
and I go late to my office. My boss, Girl: If we get married, you must stop
outrageous, fires me. When I leave smoking. Boy: Ok.
Girl:
the building, to my car, I found out Girl: Drinking too. Boy: Ok.
it was stolen. The police said that Going to night clubs too. Boy: Ok. Girl:
they can do nothing. I get a cab to and watching Cricket with your friends
return home, and when I leave it, I too. Boy: Ok. !! Girl: What else can
remember I left my wallet and credit you leave? Boy: The idea of marrying
cards there. The cab driver just drives you.
away."
"I go home, and when I get there,
I had a fight with my wife. I leave Teacher: Where's your text book?
home, and come to this bar. And just Student: At home.
when I was thinking about putting Teacher: What's it doing there?
an end to my life, you show up and Student: Having a better day than I am.
drink my poison."
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KIDZ CORNER
The Breathing Stone!
In their search for a viable
place that offers food
continuously a family
of squirrels migrated to
the lakeside and started
living there on the Palm
trees. The favorite place
for the kids in this squirrels family is the Palm
tree that leans towards
the lake almost touching
the surface of the water.
On the second day of their moving to the
lakeside place and living on the palm trees,
the baby squirrels found a long rocklike
thing floating on the water near the palm
tree that leaned towards the water.
Without a second thought the three baby
squirrels jumped onto the long rocklike
thing floating on the water- half submerged.
The squirrels ran all across and they found
an up and down movement in the middle
of the thing. The squirrels stood there for
sometime to experience the movement and
felt happy. With call of their mother the
squirrels jumped back to the palm tree and
went away.
No sooner did they see their mom, they
competed with each other to narrate their
unique experience. One baby squirrel said
“ Mom it is a breathing stone floating on
the wall.
Next day
it
was
noon, the
crocodiles in
the lake
had their
lunch. Three of them swam across the
lake and reached the other side of the lake
where the squirrels live. The baby squirrels came out with their parents in amazement to find the three long black rocklike
bodies floating on the water near the palm
tree. The baby squirrels jumped on to one
of the crocodiles with
merriment and soon followed their parents.
All the squirrels experienced the up & down
movement to their joy
and returned to their home after an hour or
so.
In the morning they came out to check
whether these three crocodiles look like
long black rocks floating on the water.
They did not find any. As they were preparing for their lunch they saw their old
friend Dr.Dove their longtime friend. All
the squirrels shared with the Pigeon their
experiences of playing on the breathing
black long rock that floats on the lake near
the leaning palm tree. They had compelled
Dr.Dove to have lunch with them. Soon
after having the lunch the baby squirrels
lead Dr. Dove to the leaning palm tree.
They found – this time – six black long
bodies floating on water.
The squirrels were lost
at the sight of this. Dr
.Dove understood the
reason for their exhilaration. It took some
time to dissuade them
to continue playing on
the floating crocodiles
in the water.
Once the squirrels
came back to the palm tree Dr. Dove
told them the reality.
You were living in the middle of the
forest so far and have not seen the crocodiles that live in big lakes, streams in
the forest and prey on animals that pass
through. Now I shall prove how they
look like. Saying this Dr. Dove started
looking in all directions. The squirrels
were yet to come to terms with what Dr.
Dove described.
In the meantime Dr. Dove spotted an
elephant. elephants
Do not go anywhere and stay here. I
shall bring that elephant here to help
you see the crocodile. In a few minutes time Dr. Dove returned by sitting
on the scalp of an elephant that holds a
big stick with its trunk.crocodile
Please disturb these crocodiles with this
stick My Dear Elephant – said Dr. Dove
The elephant executed its request by
giving a jolt to the crocodile that floats
in the middle of six. With this the crocodile surfaced its huge long mouth and
opened it in a swift movement. This
sudden movement, made the remaining
5 crocodiles move towards the stick.
Thus they have shown their full bodies
to the squirrels.
The squirrels got frightened with the
movement of crocodiles and requested
Dr. Dove to bring
back Mr. Elephant.
With in a few minutes the crocodiles
calmed down. One
of them came out
and said: Actually
we feel the feather touch of these little
squirrels when they play on us. We do
not eat them. They can play on us when
we come here to rest after lunch.
The baby squirrels jumped with joy and
said: Thank you crocodiles. You do not
frighten us when you sleep. But sleep
always by floating near this palm tree
that leans to the water.
The crocodiles laughed and said OK;
and submerged into the water.
The elephant felt happy for the gesture
of the crocodiles
The squirrels family thanked Dr. Dove
for the help it rendered to educate them.
As it was noon and sun was severe all of
them rested in the shade of the nearby
banyan tree.
My Little Teddy Bear
By Grace de Koekkoek
I understand your sadness,
My little teddy bear.
I feel as sad as you.
And from where you
look at the world,
I can see your loneliness,
too.
Your eyes are filled with
tears,
Yet no one knows you
can cry.
Nobody knows when
you’re lonesome,
For you cannot tell...
You’re too shy.
You cannot ask to be
held.
You cannot say you’re
lonely.
Those sad brown eyes of
yours
Speak thus to me only.
I understand, my blue
teddy bear.
It feels like forever to
wait.
That boy with the glittering eyes,
He always comes too
late.
Then he’ll hold you so
tight
That your heart will start
beating.
His magic can turn you
Into a living thing…
When, suddenly,
Too soon,
It’s time he turns to go,
Leaving you to the world
With a tiny magic glow.
So, hold on, my baby,
There’s nothing you can
do.
The world is such a wild
place
For someone as soft as
you.
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Liwa Date Festival will be Held During
Holy Month of Ramadan for the
Second Year in a Row
ABU DHABI - Preparations are underway
for the launch of the 10th edition of the Liwa
Date Festival, which will be held for the
second year in a row during the holy month
of Ramadan. Under the patronage of Sheikh
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs,
the Cultural Programs and Heritage Festivals
Committee – Abu Dhabi will organize the
upcoming edition from 12th until the 18th of
July in Liwa city in Al Gharbia (The Western
Region) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The Festival features a wide range of popular
heritage and art activities, notably Al Ratab
Beauty Competition (half-ripe dates Mazayna), Best Lemons and Best Mangoes competitions, and the Traditional Market. It comes
as part of the celebration of customs and traditions and the preservation of the intangible
heritage of the UAE, particularly the palm
tree which occupies a central position in the
authentic Emirati heritage, and the collective
memory of the Emirati society.
“The significance of the Liwa Date Festival
arises out of an ability to draw all lovers of
heritage and tradition as well as those interested in land resources, half-ripe dates and
civilizational legacy. The Festival owes its
success to the distinguished support of Sheikh
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs,”
Obaid Mazrouei said.
“The ongoing scientific and research successes that have been achieved by the UAE
in the field of palm tree cultivation come in
parallel with the efforts of heritage conserva-
Windows to the Arab World:
A New Exhibit by the Alif Institute
Dear Alif Community,
tion. These successes stand as an undisputed
evidence of the significance of palm trees
in the Emirati culture. Indeed, the palm tree
cultivation is not only a heritage and tradition but also a present that we are living and
trying to transmit to future generations. The
objective consists in achieving a successful continuity in the process of modernizing
cultivation, irrigation, and palm tree preservation,” he added.
The total value of the prizes for the 9th
edition reached AED 5 million that were
awarded to 205 winning participants. The
prizes covered the different categories of Al
Ratab Mazayna, the main attraction at the
Festival which included seven varieties: Al
Khanizi, Al Khallas, Al Dabbas, Abu Maan,
Al Fardh, Al Nukhba, and Akbar A’adj.
Prizes were also awarded to winners of the
Best Mangoes, and Best Lemons competitions as well as winners of the Best Heritage
Performance competition.
We are proud and excited to announce that
Alif has just received a grant from The
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
to build a permanent and mobile exhibit to
teach about various aspects of Arab culture
and Arab Americans with a special focus on
Georgia! We will begin with two units: Arab
Immigrants in Georgia and Diversity of the
Arab World. Windows to the Arab World
will be interactive, and we hope to include
special features for teachers, such as teacher
guides and resource lists. The exhibit will be
based at Alif, but we will be happy to lend the
exhibit for display at schools or other institutions in addition to welcoming visits to Alif
to see the exhibit.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! This project is a
huge undertaking and we will need to harness
all of our community’s resources to make it
happen.
· For the unit on Arab immigrants in Georgia, we are calling upon everyone who hails
from an Arab country to SHARE YOUR
STORY with us.
o Old letters or other items related to
immigration to the US/Georgia.
o Old suitcases or trunks for the display.
o Gently used ipods or tablets so that
we can make this exhibit as interactive as
possible.
· For the unit on Diversity in the Arab
World, we would appreciate donations
of ITEMS TYPICAL OF LIFE IN THE
ARAB WORLD, such as: art, musical
instruments, ceramics, textiles, photos…
For Alif, this is a significant and meaningful way to fulfill our mission of fostering the understanding and appreciation of
Arab culture while connecting humanity
through the power of arts & culture.
In small ways and large ways, you can
help us KEEP ARAB CULTURE ALIVE!
Show Islam’s True Spirit
As the holy month of Ramadan
starts
across the Muslim world, it is
essential now more than ever
to confront the threats against
Islam, in particular those
coming from individuals and
groups claiming to represent
the religion, and in order to
show Islam for what it truly is,
and its commitment to tolerance and forgiveness.
Saudi ‘Cultural Vandalism’ of Muslim
Heritage Continues
By: Hanan Chehata
Sites associated with the life
of prophet Muhammad have
been close to the hearts of
all Muslims for almost one
and a half millennia. Over
the centuries, rule over these
sites has passed through
numerous hands, including
the Ummayads, Abassids and
Ottomans. They are currently
under the control of the Saudi
royal family, under the selfappointed title “Custodian
of the Two Holy Mosques”.
This is not just an honorific
title but one of substantive
authority. It is the Saudis who
control which of the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are
permitted or denied entry for
the annual pilgrimage of Hajj.
Despite this title as custodians, the estimated 3.7 mn
internationals that flock to
Arabia each year for the
annual Muslim pilgrimage of
Hajj may be hard pressed to
find clear evidence of what
Construction around the Ka’aba - Mecca. (Islamic
is traditionally thought of as
Heritage Research Foundation)
guardianship. Instead of preserving and protecting holy
sites, which the Saudi authorities themselves point. Cemeteries dating back over 1,000
call a “sacred trust”, critics say they are guilty years have been razed. Mountains have been
of “cultural vandalism” there.
crushed just to make way for car parks.
The Washington based Institute for Gulf
Affairs estimates that 95% of Mecca's mil- Global criticism has been muted to a large
lennium-old buildings have been demolished degree by fears that challenging the Saudi
in the past two decades. The one-time desert authorities would lead them to exert their
region now has a skyline, not lit by stars, but control over the visa process; a risk not many
by gaudy luxury hotels and flashy shopping Muslims are willing to take. Saudi Arabia
malls hosting the likes of McDonalds, Star- also controls country quotas, i.e. how many
bucks, Baskin Robbins, and several Paris pilgrims from each country can be admitted
Hilton boutiques.
each year, leading to scant criticism at a govPilgrims who have scrimped and saved for a ernment level.
once in a lifetime spiritual journey to the heartland of Islamic history
and want, for example,
to visit the site of the
home of Muhammad’s
first wife Khadijah will
now find a block of 1,400
public toilets in the place
where her home once
stood. In place of the
mosque of Abu Bakr –
the first Caliph of Islam they will now find a cash
· Do you have any ITEMS TO DONATE
for the exhibit? We are looking for EVERY
DAY ITMES that will help us tell the story
of Arab American daily life, such as:
Nizwa Gears up for 2015 Cultural
Feast Historic Omani City has been
Selected as Cultural Capital of the
Islamic World for 2015
The Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture (MoHC) is gearing up to hold a range
of programmes to commemorate the naming
of Nizwa as the Capital of Islamic Culture
for 2015.
“A team from MoHC was in Nizwa last week
to decide the venues for the activities. Earlier, most of programmes were to be hosted
at the new Nizwa Cultural Center.
“But since construction of the centre will
be completed only in May next year, we
are looking at venues that will host the programmes till then,” said Hamed bin Hilal al
Mamari,
Undersecretary for Cultural Affairs in MoHC
while addressing a press conference on Tuesday. Some of the likely venues include Nizwa
University, Nizwa College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa Sports Complex, the Institute
of the Higher Judiciary and the courtyard of
the Nizwa Fort.
“We are planning to
conducting some programmes in October this
year as well,” he added.
Mamari also said that as
part of the Nizwa beautification project, MoHC
has held talks with the
Royal Court Affairs on
setting up of the Nizwa
Gate, which is expected
to be ready by September
this year.
Nizwa will also host a
three-day assembly of
ministers of culture from more than 54
different Muslim countries later this year
as part of the celebrations.
The ministry has invited the public to
share any research work or books related
to Islamic culture. MoHC is also coordinating with the Ministry of Regional
Municipalities and Water Resources on
planting saplings and trees along the road
passing through the Nizwa Gate.
Meanwhile, Asim al Saidi, director general of administrative and financial affairs
in MoHC said there are similar cultural
centres coming up in Musandam, Buraimi
and in North Batinah.
Nizwa is the third city in GCC to be
named the Capital of Islamic Culture
after Madina in Saudi Arabia in 2013 and
Sharjah, UAE in 2014.
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