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Ayman Safadi

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Sheikh's TV fatwa is a symptom of the cancer of extremism

Sep 17, 2008

Sheikh Saleh al Lihedan is no ordinary man. He is a renowned religious scholar and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Council in Saudi Arabia. When he speaks, thousands listenRead article "Sheikh's TV fatwa is a symptom of the cancer of extremism"

The Middle East pays the price for the failures of George Bush

Sep 10, 2008

The United States President, George W Bush, will leave office early next year without having achieved any of his foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.Read article "The Middle East pays the price for the failures of George Bush"

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Iran's moderate ex-president Rafsanjani barred from standing for elections

May 22, 2013

Eight candidates won approval to stand – five conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as two moderate conservatives and a reformist.Read article

Saudi Arabia executes five Yemenis and displays corpses

May 22, 2013

A local Saudi news website published a photograph of the five bodies hanging from a bar suspended between two cranes. The picture appeared to show the men's severed heads in separate sacks.Read article

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To defeat al Qa'eda, the US will have to start listening to Arabs

Mar 22 , 2013 | 09:10AM GST

teri

I think America should just hand over this war on terror to the Middle East and bow out unless the US is directly threatened again.

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