Pray tell: What are the bounds of freedom? Did anyone define those yet? We have the King of Bahrain urging people to exercise their newly given freedoms to constructively criticise everyone and everything in order to limit and expose wrongs, while the Prime Minister continuously cautions against “over-stepping” these same freedoms. I am confused as …
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Talk about quick off the mark! Both the so far sole provider of telecomms services in Bahrain: Batelco and its competitor Kuwait’s MTC/Vodafone who won the right to operate mobile communications in Bahrain to start its operations at the end of this year have now provided mobile services in Iraq. The Iraqi blogger Salam Pax …
It’s clear that people in the Middle East want democracy. Thousands of courageous people, Christians and Muslims alike, have paid dearly for speaking out against state oppression and religious fanaticism and for demanding political enfranchisement. These democrats hold the key to Arab world’s future and deserve America’s support. It’s also clear that Arab autocrats  …
Gunfire erupted across Baghdad on Tuesday evening in what was apparently celebratory fire to greet the news of the deaths. “Uday and Qusay are dead, we saw it on TV,” one man, Hassan Zaif, told AFP news agency after emptying the magazine of his Kalashnikov into the air. But Alaa Hamed, a producer at Uday’s …