Rafiq Ismail is Nidal Malik Hasan's uncle. Ismail spoke to Fox News reporter Reena Ninan in Ramallah from the West Bank, Palestine. See that video below. Nidal Malik Hasan is the accused Fort Hood shooter. First reporting on Nidal Malik Hasan said that his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan. Now we know that this Uncle lives in Palestine. His parentage being Jordanian still makes sense because...
Tony Karon in The National on the dawning realisation by the US-backed Palestinian Authority: The sad truth dawning on Ramallah, now, is that there will be no salvation from Washington. Not now, possibly not ever. A sad truth, perhaps, but the kind that can set free those who recognise it. In the shocked aftermath of the [...]
Abbas Won't Seek Re-Election in Threat to Peace Efforts - TIME "It's time for you to find another donkey." With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organziation (PLO) executive committee that he would not seek re-election in January. The 74-year-old leader, on whom U.S. peace efforts in the Middle...
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he was disturbed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s...
Nidal Hasan, the accused murderer of thirteen at Fort Hood, served as an adviser on homeland security policy. See video below. Nidal Hasan on morning of shootings WorldNetDaily links to a document published by the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. Hasan's name appears on page 29 of a report titled "Thinking Anew - Security Priorities for the Next Administration...Presidential...
"On Friday, modest groups of Fatah members and others marched in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank to voice support for continued leadership by Abbas. Local Palestinian media continued running news headlines about various organizations or politicians discouraging him from retirement." I in fact watched footage of some of the "demonstrations" on Arab TV stations. They were...
Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that the so-called Peace process with Israel has completely failed and that the Palestinian people will have to seek an alternative to it. In a speech in Ramallah Thursday evening, Abbas rightly blamed Israel for the collapse of the political process, saying that the PA had carried out "all our...
Ma’an News reports: ‘Marking the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinians tore down a section of Israel’s wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin on Friday. During a weekly protest against the barrier, which cuts through the Ramallah-area village’s center and isolates residents from 60 percent of their farmland, some 300 demonstrators [...]
Mohammad Hasan, cousin of U.S. Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan, watches the news about his cousin from the family home in Ramallah, West Bank Photo: DEBBIE HILL Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at a Texas military base, had become increasingly devoted to Islam following the death of his parents but was no terrorist, [...]
By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah "....But Abbas can still embark on some daring steps to salvage things before it is too late. At the top of these steps should be the orderly dismantling of the Palestinian Authority under whose rubric the national Palestinian cause is being liquidated . [ COMMENT: Dream on Khalid; this will never happen. A whole class of collaborators and "businessmen"...
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president said Thursday that he did not want to run for another term in the January elections, blaming a stalemate in Mideast peace talks on Israel and the United States.In a televised speech to the Palestinians ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told family there that he suffered discrimination in the U.S. Army because he is a Muslim.
Ramallah - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faced calls Friday to reverse his decision not to run in upcoming elections, amid fears the departure of the dovish leader would deal a death blow to the peace process. Abbas' Fatah party called up hundr...
In a Warning to Obama, Abbas Quits Palestinian Election By Tony Karon "It's time for you to find another donkey." With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the PLO executive committee that he would not seek reelection in January. The 74-year-old leader, on whom U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East are heavily dependent, reiterated...
The European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, Ján Figel', today opened a National Tempus Office in Israel and reopened one in the occupied Palestinian territory
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