June 2008 Archives

“The joke within the national Muslim organizations,” Ms. Ghori said, “is that we should endorse the person we don’t want to win.” New York Times

Isn't it rather disturbing that the right wing tries to smear Barack Obama by claiming that he is a Muslim . . . as though that were a bad thing?

After thirty years, the propaganda war over the Western Sahara goes on, and on, and on.

The Guardian favorably reviews Tahir Shah's In Arabian Nights: In Search of Morocco through Its Stories and Storytellers.

Morocco is buying 24 F-26 fighter jets from the United States as part of a projected $2.4 billion deal, and the Air Force has just awarded Lockheed Martin a $233.6 million contract to build them. There does not seem to be any immediate explanation as to why Morocco would need or want 24 F-16's, in light of relative quiet on the Algerian border and the Polisario's lack of an air force. See also Western Sahara Info.