Angry young Lebanese men hanging out at a Lebanese army checkpoint at the outskirts of Nahr Al-Bared camp for Palestinian refugees say they support going in and wiping them out, even the children, “because they too will grow up to be refugees”. These young Lebanese men blame the Palestinians for ruining the country. (They also [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
The Secretary-General has designated his Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues, Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, to continue to pursue the good offices mandate on Myanmar entrusted to the Secretary-General by the General Assembly, effective immediately, the UN spokesperson announced today… So, Myanmar is an “other issue” and Mr. Gambari, the long-time [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, UN Secretary-General
The AP’s George Jahn reports from Vienna today that the latest IAEA report on Iran’s continuing and expanded nuclear program sets the stage for a renewed UN Security Council debate on tightening sanctions against Iran: “The report from Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency, also faulted Tehran for blocking IAEA efforts [...]
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From Inner City Press, a great photo with an equally good caption: “Ready for questions, but only if they like them, some say“… UNSG BAN Ki-Moon speaking at microphone with UN spokesperson Michele Montas standing by his side — and holding her own little microphone. Read reports of UN evasiveness and indignant attempts at reporter [...]
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The Washington Post is reporting about the assault and siege by the Lebanese Army at Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon that: “For the first two days of the clashes, the Lebanese army blocked camp residents from leaving, apparently for fear that fighters would slip out. Hospital officials in the concrete-built towns immediately surrounding [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon
Since Friday night, when the Lebanese Army launched a small attack on the Nahr El-Bared camp housing some 40,000 Palestinian refugees in north Lebanon, the casualties have risen sharply. The Lebanese Army shelled the camp on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday … and there is no end in sight. Al-Jazeera television is doing live coverage [...]
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China Hand savages John Bolton’s recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal denouncing resolution of the stand-off with North Korea, in his (he has to be a guy) blog, China Matters. China Hand says that: “The rhetorical reed he leans on is that resolving BDA [Banco Delta Asia -- remember, where frozen North Korean [...]
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Stanley Fisher, the American who took Israeli citizenship when he was hired to head the Bank of Israel, is one of the persons under active consideration to replace Paul Wolfowitz, who will step down — exonerated, he believes — from the World Bank at the end of June, according to a report in the Jerusalem [...]
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Chris Burnham, ex-UN USG for Management, has written an OpEd piece that’s published in today’s NYTimes — and, reading it, you’d think that Wolfowitz is a hero, the only guardian against corruption in the World Bank. The Burnham article says that “The resignation of Paul D. Wolfowitz last week as president of the World Bank [...]
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Here’s some interesting detail from Law.com: “Did Paul Wolfowitz lose his job as president of The World Bank Group because he didn’t listen to its top lawyer? Roberto Dañino, the bank’s former general counsel, thinks so. Dañino says that Wolfowitz prevented him from reviewing an employment contract for the president’s girlfriend that was more lavish [...]
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