Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for October 2009

Saddam and Qaddafi, a Path to Pulitzer, a Path to Nobel, Happy Halloween…….

Clinton and Iran: the Thrill is not Gone…………

Saudi Views on Iran WMD………..

One Middle East View on Iran WMD………

Pro-Israel Lobbies, Will J Street Dethrone AIPAC?.............

Ghosts of IRA, A Season of Libyan Money, a Season of European Extortion, Why Not Boston……..

Politicizing the Hajj, Ahmadinejad in Toga and Cuirass…………

Clinton in Tehran and Islamabad, a Worthless War, Another Blackwater War……………..

North African Donkeys, Unwise Corporate Asses, Government Asses…….

Wild West Years in Iraq, War Scandals, Old New Barbarians, It Takes a Thief………..

Rashomon in Gaza, Three Tales of One War……….

Zamzam Arrives, Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrivé, France and Arabia……..

Gaza Football League, Hamas Cheerless Leaders, Taliban and NFC in the Pacific Northwest………

Hajj 2009, Mecca and Jerusalem, Revenge of the Shunned Pigs……..

Christmas at the Bin Ladens, No AYSO Games……..

The Pope and the Mullahs, Eggs Benedict and Turbans Flambe………

Islamist Politics and Single Mums of Malaysia…………….

Analysis of a Housemaid Issue in the Gulf, Sarah’s Joe, Lucky Guzzler Dog………….

Feminists, Concubines, Middle East Political Eunuchs………..

Iran’s Wild Southwest, Cultural Heritage Destroyed, Mullahs Go Taliban……….

Lieberman, American Health Care, Israeli Health Care, American Right Wing, Israeli Left Wing……..

Hezbullah Plot Against America, a Handgun, a Box of Ammunition, a B Movie..……..

Faith and Disease, Old Testament, New Testament, Our Testament…….

Palestinian Elections, Saudi Elections………

Custodian of the One Holy Mosque, Notre Dame and the Grand Mosque of Algiers…….

Sibling Spies of Kabul and Havana...........

Casus Belli, New Lockerbie Investigation and Ghosts of Iran Air 655, How a Westerner is Worth 50 Times More…………

NATO Split on Iran, Straight Turk Express? Moving Forward to the Past..................

Iraq is Worse than it Looks, Kim Jong-Il, Israel, Nabati Poets Society………..

Iran the Atomic Flavor of This Year and Next…………

Archaeology Wahhabi Style, History Evicted for Profits……..

Saudi Reporter Evades a Whippping, Ikhwani Judge Gets Royal Order………

Beau Geste of the Persian Gulf, the Ballad of Sarkozy and Obama, OTAN…….

A Woody Allen Effect, Arab Election Shock and Awe, Running for office, Sitting on Office, Smothering …………….

Iran Accuses Big Satan, Medium Satan, and Two Neighbors……

Religious Police Tries Sexy New Look, Try Madison Avenue……..

Bombers of Iraq, Trains of Egypt, Cows of Ranjipur………

Qaddafi’s Nuclear Logic, Conventional Victories, Unconventional Defeats, Pax Arabiana………

Euphrates, Tigris, and a River of Blood……

Afghan Green Coat of Many Colors, the Tajik Peter Lorre, General Thieu of Kabul……..

Financial Crisis: Collateral Damage, Collateral Beneficiaries, a Bullet Theory…………….

New Iran Aggression Reported, Balmer Goes Bald, Gates Goes Neuman……

A Genocidal War of Yemeni Succession, Arab Oligarchs Cheer, West is Silent……..

North to Nineveh, Reshaping Eyeraq…..

A League of ‘Democratic’ Arab Oligarchies, Making a Case Against Freedom………

True Love in Tehran………..

Qaddafi Spreading the Bull, Ahmadinejad the Humble?..........

Financial Brain Drain, Quick Buck Brains, Flush Them with Drano………..

Two Elderly Ladies, an Umrah Pilgrimage, a Royal Usurpation of a Rare Victory……..

A State of Siege: Financial Pearl Harbor, Muslim Spies, Israeli Spies, Four Moronic Congressmen of Apocalypse..……..

Financial Non-Reform, Untouchables Soiled, Eliot Ness is Dead……..

Rising Arab 'Berlin' Walls, Saada Wall, Iraq Walls, Israeli Wall, Globalization and De-Arabization………

A Reluctant King: More Political Tensions on the Gulf……………..

Iranian Threats, Mullah Admirals, Arab Potemkin Navies, Somali Pirates, Horn of Africa……….

Quayle-ing Dick Cheney, Redrafting Cheney, Endangered Friends……

A Baghdad Embassy, Shady Contractors and Pliant Supervisors, America’s Banditry Years, a Goldman Man and a Nun’s Donkey………..

Hezbullah and Michelle Sisson: Not a Love Story…………

The Freest Couple in All Arabia, a Rare Gulf Love Story……

American States with a Dubious Distinction, Unchaste Bible Belt, Sarah's Mate.........

Algeria, the President, the Peasants, the Impossible Insult……..

White Man’s War, Dark Man’s War, Clean War, Dirty War………

Econometrics of Petroleum and Sex, Price of crude and Summer Weddings……..

Goldman Sachs Speak, New Finance Speak, Big Brother of America, Dream Killers of America………

Mideast War Camp Pinning Hopes on Tail to Wag Dog, Will Israel Oblige? Will Dog Oblige...........

Hezbullah and Israel, Liberating Hummus and Falafel, Protecting Tabbouleh, Baba Ghanouj Endangered……………

Chatting and Sinning in Jordan, The Joys of Being Surly on a Desert Island……..

Assad Pinup Photos Shock King Abdullah, Financing Democracy Abroad, Fighting Democracy at Home…….

Sistani and Khamenei, Tito and Stalin, De Gaulle and LBJ……………

Henry VIII Returns to Rome, What About Spain, Shi’as, and Sunnis, Crowned Heads...........

A Call to War, a Call to Bombers, a Cold French Dou.......Shower……..

Book Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, History Cleansing………..

Republicans for Rape? Taliban in DC......

In Defense of (Most) Economists, the Crash of 2008...............

Counting Bean Out, Swine Flu and Banking Reform……………

Facebook and Pitchforks, Dictators and Non-Elections, Platters Go Egyptian..........

New American Plutocracy Trumps American Democracy, An Illusory Party.....…….

Israel Plans to Devour Hungary and the World, Philosophers, Anti-Semites, and Idiots …….

Iraqis Seek Nuremburg Style Mass Trials of Foreign Leaders....……..

Another Corrupt Gatekeeper: Et Tu Moody’s?..........

Loving Guantanamo, a Thorn in the Throat, What the Secret Service Can Learn from Saudis….…..

The Hub of World Terrorism, al-Qaeda and Jundullah, Mission for DeMint...………

Gulf Monetary Union, Choice of a City Without Soul, Oman as the English Bride……..

To Strike or not to Strike (Iran), To Sanction or Not to Sanction……….

Colonel Qaddafi to Rule the World, Son to Rule Libya……

Roughing it With Bin Laden, Evil One of Waziristan, Clueless One of Texas, Tora Bora and Harvard MBA.........

Kuwait Politics: Entitlement Politics, Plutocrats against Demographics, Cerebrally Challenged Politics………….

Saudi-Syrian Divide: Back to Square One…………

An Australian Nuclear Fantasy? ……………

Where in the World of Nuclear Physics is Shahram Amiri………….

Why the Taliban Ride Mules, Cost of Gasoline in Kandahar, the Deficit.………..

American Banks, Dumb Silent Majority, Banking on Risk-based Heaven and Basel…….

A Halloween Succession in Egypt, Trick or Treat for Baby.............

Islamic Liberation with a Twist, Topless in Somalia……

The Glory of Lebanon, Kibbe and Bridal Gowns…….

Where Stupidity Thrives on the (Persian) Gulf, Falafels and Watermelon Rules…………

Red State, White State, a Judicial Lynching…….

Ahmadinejad on Psychological Operations, Mubarak a Blank Page…..

A Funny French Duck Predicts Christmas Middle East War, Salafis and Skirts at War……...

Iranian General Challenges All Comers, Of Archers and Persian Cataphracts………

In Praise of Cyprus Donkeys, Ubiquitous Middle East Asses, Oligarchs and Plutocrats……..

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