Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Iraq

Jalili and al-Sistani in Najaf, Passion Plays and the Bush ‘Ardha in Riyadh……..

Iraq: Ali Sistani’s Successor, Iranian Mullahs, and the Saudi King in Bahrain………

History: Mujahideen Khalq, Safavi Azerbaijan, Safawi Baathists, Wahhabis, and Emirates………..

Love and Marriage in Samarra: Loving Cousins, Rival Sisters……….

Sameera Rajab: Bahrain Appoints Saddam Supporter Anti-Zionist as Minister of Information…………

Political Donkeys of Kurdistan, Jackasses of the Gulf, Harry Belafonte…………..

Appointment in Baghdad: Percentages of U-235, Netanyahu the Most Predictable………..

Allawi and Omar Suleiman and the Princes: Seeking GOP Help in Washington againt Obama………..

Will Iraq Revise the Gulf Oil Equation?............

An Arab Winter (of Sorts), an Arab Spring (of Sorts)……

Iraq and the GCC: a Poke in the Eye, a Deuce that is not Wild……………

Emir of Qatar Meets with Iraq’s Hamza Kashgari Outside Malaysia………..

Baghdad's Syrian Summit: an Absurd Qatari Message, Poised Saudi Tanks but no Huthis…………..

Gulf Hypocrisy: on the Arab Identity of Iraq and the GCC……………

Baghdad: A Sleepy Arab Summit in an Explosive City……………..

Imperiled Hegemony: the Baghdad Summit and Saudi Arabia’s Iraqi Dilemma……….

American-Iranian Tug of War over Iraqi Skies and Syria………

Is It Payback Time for Yukiya Amano Cheney? the IAEA Tehran Deception…………..

Private Secuirty Mercenaries Unwanted in Afghanistan and Iraq and........

Who Would Have Thunk it! Iranian Mullahs Quoting Little Satan and Big Satan for Alibi......

Kurds of Syria and Iraq: Victims of Baathist Racism and Chauvinism……….

Year of the Baathists: Iraq and Syria, Nasser and the Kings………….

Gulf GCC Gemütlichkeit: Expanded Membership and Wahhabi Rah Rah Rah……..

Petroleum Chat: from Tehran through Baghdad to Riyadh and Caracas…………

A Summit in Iraq: Ayad Who??...........

Fact and Fiction: Syrian Casualties, Iraqi Liberation, Tony Blair on KP Duty……

Asinine Views of Evil: What the West Thinks, What Muslims Think………

Myth of al-Qaeda Cooperation with Iraq and Iran, Sauerkraut and Matzo …….

Is the Media Provoking a Middle East War? Citizen Hearst, a Cuban Tomato, and the Rosebud War.............

(2) Arab Civil Wars: Iraq on the Brink again……

(1) Newt Gingrich and the Middle East: Calculated Muslim-Baiting…….

Godfather of Unreliable Sources: Saudi Princes Claim Iran to Take Over Iraq Soon………..

Western Sanctions on Iran: What will Turkey do? Serial Back-Stabbers of the Gulf.................

On Israelis, Turks, Kurdish Rebels, Iranians, and Arab Oligarchs without Vision…………..

Remember Joe (Judas) Lieberman? He is Alive and Well and Homesick for Iraq……..

Sectarian Terrorism in Iraq: What is in a Name………………

Shifting Origins of the Sun from Pyongyang to the U.S. Congress to the Middle East………….

Blockades from Cuba to Iraq to Iran, Netanyahu as King of NATO and the Confederacy ……………

Anti-American Iraqi "Shi'a Taliban", Pro-American Afghan Taliban, Godfather & Chinese Food………..

American Politics: Yellow Rose of Texas to the Borders of Mesopotamia and Persia……….

Dodge City on my Gulf: a Phony War that Could become a "Dumber" War……..

Democratic Qataris and Saudis and Bahrainis Blasting Autocratic al-Maliki of Iraq…………

Eisenhower and America’s "Avatar" Wars for the 1%: Preparing for the Mother of All Muslim Wars………

Breathtaking Hypocrisy to Outlast the Petroleum Fields, Salafi Euphemism……

Moonlighting in Baghdad: Cops, Salafi Bombers, Two-Timing Vice Presidents……..

American Chinese Drip Torture: Terror Bedfellows, al-Masri, al-Libi, al-Amriki, al-Israeli, and al-Capone........

A Salafi al-Qaeda Crescent: from the Gulf to Iraq and Syria and Lebanon (and Egypt?)……………

Ayad Allawi: back to the Princes………..

Iraq Developments: Political Divisions, Disgruntled Gulf Neighbors, Wily Iranians……

Fools at War: Netanyahu and Lieberman Opine on an Iranian-American War……………..

About Aggression in Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr and Johnny Depp for President..................

As the Last American Soldiers Leave, Iraqis are at it Again………

Mel Brooks and Oliver Stone of Persia: a Taliban-Hezbollah-Colombian-Iranian-alQaeda-Mexican-Texan-African Network………

McCain Refuses to Concede Iraq, Yosemite Sam of Panama not Kenya, San Juan Hill in Arabia…….

Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia: Coming Oil and Gas Wars and Regional Hegemony.......

GCC Bird on the Wire: a Gulf Suggestion, from Old Confused GCC to New Arab League………

Massacres of Shi'as: Illustrative Reactions of the Arab Media and Regimes………….

From Beirut to Baghdad and Back: Hezbollah, Lebanese Legitimacy, and Belling the Cat.................

“Avatar” of Arabia: Private Contractors in Iraq, Humorless Mercenaries in Bahrain and the UAE, Mother of all Embassies ………….

The Beatles and Iranian Intentions: Western Fools on the Hill of Nuclear Intelligence……….

U.S. Campaign Hiking: Gingrich goes to CMU instead of Iraq-Iran Border, no Rice & Rice………….

On the Western Liberation of Iraq and Libya and Syria and………….

Saudis in Denial: Expanded GCC? What Expanded GCC?.........

Saudi Arabia Appoints an Iranian Ayatollah as Supreme Cleric for Iraq………

An Iranian Iraqi Fairy Tale?.........

Selective “Resoluting" of Muslims: Convenient U N Resolutions, Inconvenient U N Resolutions……….

Ménage à Trois at the UN: a Saudi Ambassador, a German Husband, a Very Old Dead Wife, an Iranian Plot………

The Other Iran War: MEK, Mossad, Western Intelligence…….

WTF: Gingrich Foreign Policy, John-Paul II, Pizza Man, Espousing State-sponsored Terrorism……………

America in Iraq: Missions (Not Yet) Accomplished from Bush to Obama………..

Saudi-Israeli War Games: of Semites and Anti-Semites…………

Equivocal IAEA Iran Report: the Day After the War, a Love Story………….

Qasim Sulaimani of Al-Quds Brigade: Humanizing an Iranian Myth?..............

Newt Gingrich in the Middle East: the Ike Strategy, the Walter Mitty Strategy…………

Is Condi Rice as Smart as Henry Kissinger? Iraq, Iran, and Indochina...............

New IAEA Iran Nuclear Report and another "Slam Dunk"………

Iraq after SOFA: Next Year in Baghdad? Camp Romney, Camp Gingrich, about that Border Hike........

Arab World: Ottomans and Persians, Turks and Iranians………….

America Abroad: Leaving Iraq, Hunkering Down in the Gulf.......

Gulf Soccer Tournament Moved from Iraq to Repressive Bahrain.......

Romney Middle East Policy Adviser: Hiking on the Iranian Border, spelling S-T-U-P-I-D-I-T-Y......

In Camp Evin: Gingrich and Romney et al to Tour Iraq, Follow the Three Magi to Persia, No Early Withdrawal ……..

New Twist on a Newt Gingrich Trek to Colonial Mesopotamia: the Romney Factor………

Hypocrisy on my Gulf: Iraq vs. Libya vs. Syria vs. Bahrain vs.………….

SOFA Repossessed: the Illusion of the Iraqi Vacuum.........

"New" Libya: Qaddafi's Corpse...............

New Libya: One Last Questionable Atrocity or Two, Saddam and Muammar………

Kabul: Clinton Talks Taliban Reconciliation, as Ahmadinejad Stalks in a Holding Pattern….

After the GOP Nevada Debate-acle: Why Newt Gingrich should go to Iraq Soon, Adios MoFo………

Zee Plot, She Sickens: Iranians Blame Mujahideen Khalq for Saudi Embassy Café Milano Plot………….

On New Hampshire, Nevada, and Newt Gingrich’s Trek in the Middle East………

Update on Suggested Newt Gingrich Hike in the Middle East…………

Update on Suggested Newt Gingrich Hike in the Middle East…………

More on the Proposed Newt Gingrich Iraq-Iran Hike................

Occupation of Iraq, Occupation of China, Occupation of the Vatican.....

Mama NATO and its Arab Babies………..

Sectarian Wahhabi Logic of a Saudi Mouthpiece………….

America in the Middle East: Public Wars, Private Profits, When in Rome……….

Newt Gingrich to go Hiking in Iran-Iraq Border Area……….

Bani Walid: Not Exactly Stalingrad, but.................

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