Read This: March 12, 2010 03/12/2010
Al Jazeera correspondent Omar Chatriwala on food culture in Iraq:
It’s a daily street food staple now, but my colleague Omar al-Saleh tells me growing up in Baghdad, falafel was practically unheard of. Faced with tough international sanctions in the 1990s and a resulting failed economy, Iraqis had to find new ways to survive, and this cheap Egyptian fare was one of them. Almost two decades later, it seems that situation continues.
Barbara Sude on the current state of Al Qaeda:
The obvious question now is whether the pace of UAV strikes has been intense enough to break up the organization—or at least to remove the most experienced people and disrupt planning. Some reports say recruits have trouble staying in one location for fear of strikes, and the Guardian estimated in September 2009 that the core senior leadership has been reduced to “six to eight” men. What we can verify in the past two years is successful targeting of well-known figures, including senior operational leader Abu Laith al-Libi and chemical and poison specialist Abu Khabab al-Masri. The tempo of drone strikes also has caught some less publicly known but important al-Qaeda figures such as Pakistan operations chief Usama al-Kini (Fahid Msalam) and his lieutenant Ahmed Salim Swedan. Both men, suspects in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, were killed in January 2009.
The Algerian Review on the Algerian Jewish community:
While digging through history books, specifically Mohamed Harbi’s “La Guerre d’Algérie”, published in 2004, I came through a letter from the FLN written to the Jewish community in 1962. The FLN tried to engage the Jewish community and appealed to them to side with the Algerian revolution. The FLN was sympathetic to the plight that the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis and Vichy’s government. It aknowledges the help of many Jews that were in the cause of the revolution.
It’s a daily street food staple now, but my colleague Omar al-Saleh tells me growing up in Baghdad, falafel was practically unheard of. Faced with tough international sanctions in the 1990s and a resulting failed economy, Iraqis had to find new ways to survive, and this cheap Egyptian fare was one of them. Almost two decades later, it seems that situation continues.
Barbara Sude on the current state of Al Qaeda:
The obvious question now is whether the pace of UAV strikes has been intense enough to break up the organization—or at least to remove the most experienced people and disrupt planning. Some reports say recruits have trouble staying in one location for fear of strikes, and the Guardian estimated in September 2009 that the core senior leadership has been reduced to “six to eight” men. What we can verify in the past two years is successful targeting of well-known figures, including senior operational leader Abu Laith al-Libi and chemical and poison specialist Abu Khabab al-Masri. The tempo of drone strikes also has caught some less publicly known but important al-Qaeda figures such as Pakistan operations chief Usama al-Kini (Fahid Msalam) and his lieutenant Ahmed Salim Swedan. Both men, suspects in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, were killed in January 2009.
The Algerian Review on the Algerian Jewish community:
While digging through history books, specifically Mohamed Harbi’s “La Guerre d’Algérie”, published in 2004, I came through a letter from the FLN written to the Jewish community in 1962. The FLN tried to engage the Jewish community and appealed to them to side with the Algerian revolution. The FLN was sympathetic to the plight that the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis and Vichy’s government. It aknowledges the help of many Jews that were in the cause of the revolution.
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