Following are excerpts from an interview with Umm Khaled Al-Islambouli, the mother of Anwar Sadat's assassin, which aired on Dream1 TV (Egypt) on September 12, 2011 . My Granddaughter Married bin Laden's Son, They're Living in Qatar; I Met Bin Laden After 9/11 Interviewer : "When you were in Iran, did you visit the street named after Khaled Al-Islambouli?" Umm Khaled : "There is not only a street. There is a square, brigades, and towns. There are billboards in the square that read: 'Sheik ...
Recently, a leading Pakistani newspaper published a two-part article examining the 9/11-related conspiracy theories involving the Jews and the United States. The article, titled "9/11 and conspiracy theories" and written by Nayyer Khan, was published in the Lahore-based liberal newspaper Daily Times . Following are excerpts from the two-part article: 1 "If the People of Pakistan Really Believed That Either Mossad or the CIA was Behind Those attacks, Then Why did OBL Osama bin Laden Suddenly ...
On September 1, 2011, the Iranian English-language Press TV channel aired an episode of its "News Analysis" program, featuring a debate about 9/11. Guests on the program included Gordon Duff, senior editor of the Ohio-based Veterans Today , and Richard Becker of the A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition. The following are excerpts from the program. 1 Press TV Reporter: "Newly-Released Video Footage Shows that the Pentagon was Hit By a Cruise Missile and Not a Passenger ...
In an article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat , Saudi academic and writer Amal 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Hazzani called on the Arab rulers to learn from Israel's handling of the social protests there, contrasting the swift measures taken by the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's use of military force against his own people. Criticizing those who claimed that Israel's strikes in response to the attacks in Eilat had been meant ...
Israel's military response to the attacks near Eilat sparked an uproar in the Arab press. Articles published in the Arab dailies two days after the attacks claimed that Israel, supported by the U.S., was responsible for the attacks, and that even if it was not responsible, it was the one who had benefited from them. There were also those who blamed Syria, Iran, and Hamas, claiming that they had hoped to distract public attention from the crisis in Syria. To view Part I, visit . Following are ...
Introduction Since the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004, the Palestinian leadership has weakened. Another factor in that weakening is the political crisis that it has experienced in recent years – as a result, inter alia, of the stalemate in negotiations with Israel, the ongoing intra-Palestinian schism even after Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement, and Al-Jazeera TV's accusation that the Palestinian leadership has compromised on the Palestinian issue. In light of this, the ...
Introduction Although Islamic Jihad, like Hamas, is a religious organization and has been Hamas's partner in carrying out attacks against Israel, Hamas occasionally finds itself on a collision course with it. Hamas has also clashed with the Salafi-jihadi groups in Gaza. At first it turned a blind eye to their activity, but when it realized they were destabilizing its rule, it did not hesitate to massacre their activists, who accuse it of abandoning the path of jihad and of failing to implement ...
