by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 19, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Fahmi Shabana, the former Palestinian intelligence officer behind the Fatahgate scandal has threatened to reveal what he described as “facts that will shake the Palestinian Authority.” Shabana told Asharq Al-Awsat that he decided...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 18, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat- One of the Palestinians suspected of being involved in the al-Mabhouh assassination and who was handed over by Jordan to the Dubai authorities is “N.S” from the Gaza Strip, and he holds a Palestinian passport and Egyptian...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 18, 2010 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Omar Al-Deghayes, the Libyan national living in Britain, considers his six-year incarceration in Oscar Block and Fifth Block in Guantanamo as a service to God. He does not harbor any ill will towards his jailers and views those days as a trial...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Ramallah, Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat- Palestinian Authority police spokesman General Adnan al-Dameeri played down Hamas’s accusations that the two Palestinians who have been arrested in Dubai on suspicion of participating in the assassination of senior Hamas member...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 16, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat- Despite acknowledging the failures of the current government, Jafar Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, the son of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, has joined Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition. Grand...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 16, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Jeddah, Sanaa, Asharq Al-Awsat- Abdullah Amer al-Khuzaie, the father of soldier Yahya Abdullah al-Khuzaie, was overjoyed at the news of his son’s release from Huthi captivity. Saudi soldier Yahya al-Khuzaie was captured by the Huthi insurgents in the early...
