‘Middle East’ Archives
It’s generally considered a bad sign when your airline pilot gets on the PA system and asks you to pray
Yahoo News - A worried Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft. The Aseman Airlines Boeing plane had taken off from Tehran airport after a six-hour delay, but had to return following a technical [...]
CERN researcher arrested for links to al Qaeda and possible plot to destroy the Earth
BBC - The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday. Police believe they had been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and had been planning attacks in France. Cern's Large Hadron Collider is aiming to recreate conditions of [...]
Happy Afghanistan Election Day!
Today is the day with the bombs blasting in the air Afghans go out to the polls to vote for their next president. With one cast of the ballet and a possibility of death soon after we salute you. Let Freedom Ring!
Neda, The Face of a Revolution
Gawker - Unless you tuned out completely over the weekend you've seen the haunting video of a young woman named Neda dying on a Tehran street after being shot in the heart. She is now the immortal face of a revolutionary movement. Click pic for source.
CNN Debates Twitter’s Relevance While Ignoring Important World Events Being Reported on Twitter
Gawker - Over the weekend CNN's Howard Kurtz asked America the burning question, "are we going overboard with this Twitter business?" Meanwhile, CNN virtually ignored an event overseas with the potential to alter world history, an event reported extensively by Twitter users. On Saturday, as things turned from bad to worse in Iran as [...]
Iranian experts say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is so last season’s puppet leader. Well that is as long as the election isn’t rigged.
www.guardian.co.uk - Iranians go to the polls tomorrow to elect a president after an acrimonious and volatile election campaign that has polarised the country and unleashed mass opposition to the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the absence of reliable independent opinion polls, experts predicted today that Mir Hossein Mousavi, the moderate [...]
