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Beit Al Mamlouka, Damascus, Syria
2009-04-29 00:42:00 Hidden behind a high wall in the Old Town of Damascus, the tranquil courtyard of the exquisite Beit Al-Mamlouka luxury boutique hotel. Read about our stay in Damscus here.
Peter Marker Damascus Folder
2008-06-05 05:58:00 Being a fan of Peter Marker’s work, I snagged this puppy up real fast when I saw it come on sale on Bladeforums. Peter is one of the best values in Damasteel folders out there, bar none. He is a relatively low-key maker from Australia, and does some fantastic work. I had talked with Peter Marker ...
By: Custom Tacticals
Damascus Talks Peace, Bids for Sophisticated Military Hardware
2008-05-26 15:24:00 When Damascus confirmed peace talks with Israel on May 21, a secret high-powered military purchasing delegation, headed by air force-air defenses commander Gen. Akhmad Ratyb, was already in Moscow. With a $5 billion allocation in hand from Tehran, the delegation was bidding for the most advanced products of Russia?s munitions industry. The six main categories of ...
By: 1913 Intel
Jimmy Carter Talks With Hamas Leaders In Damascus
2008-04-19 23:41:00 Former President Jimmy Carter met with exiled Hamas leader, Khaled Mshaal in the Syrian captial despite angry protests from Israel and the United States. the meeting is designed to discvuss ways in which a truce can be arranged between Hamas and Israel as well as issues related to the release of a captured Israeli soldier ...
Barak calls off German trip next week as Damascus raises war alarm
2008-04-03 06:53:00 Israel?s security cabinet convened Wednesday, April 2, to examine the homeland?s preparedness for war. It decided to redistribute the bio/chemical warfare masks a few months after they were called in. DEBKAfile?s military sources disclose intelligence data indicating the possibility that Syria may transfer to Hizballah chemical or biological warheads known to have been developed for ...
By: 1913 Intel
Israel orders bio/chemical warfare masks redistributed, Damascus raises war
2008-04-02 15:08:00 Israel?s security cabinet convened Wednesday, April 2, to examine the homeland?s preparedness for war. It decided to redistribute the bio/chemical warfare masks a few months after they were called in. DEBKAfile?s military sources disclose intelligence data indicating the possibility that Syria may transfer to Hizballah chemical or biological warheads known to have been developed for ...
By: 1913 Intel
Damascus lines its borders with troops ahead of semi-boycotted Arab summit
2008-03-29 20:50:00 DEBKA -- Yemen and Jordan sent junior representatives, following the lead of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Oman. Lebanon boycotted the meeting in protest against Syrian “meddling” which has deprived the country of a president since November. Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki was too busy with his offensive against fellow Shiites in Basra. But Baghdad sent its Shiite Arab vice president Adil Abdul-Mahdi. Iran sent FM Manouchehr Mottaki after backing away from Syria’s original plan to invite its president.Syrian president Bashar Assad has inexplicably responded to the partial boycott of the Arab League “summit” by lining up army units on his borders with Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, as well as pushing contingents across the border into Lebanon proper.DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources report that a group of Syrian armored divisions has been posted along the Beirut-Damascus highway at Zabadani, under the command of the president’s younger brother, Maher Assad, commander of the pr...
The Arab Summit in Damascus
2008-03-29 14:52:00 I watched the opening ceremony of the 20th Arab summit in Damascus ,the summit that would not have seen the light except for the persistence of the Syrians and this something I respect them for. For your record I am already feeling sick and not well ,I always got sick in this changing weather and I missed most of the speeches except the important ones at least from point my view. I did not and I would not have missed the speech of Bashar Al-Assad ,already he was heading this summit this year and he spoke as the President ,I love Bashar's speeches in the Arab summits since he became the president of Syria after his dad , yes he is one tall dictator ,son of a dictator but he speaks in a wonderful wise way , first of all in the previous summit he talked without reading any paper ,this is time he was reading from paper but still it was a good speech and less firing than I expected , I thought that Bashar would take Egypt and Saudi Arabia whether directly or indirectly like what he...
A week in Damascus, Syria
2008-03-24 01:15:00 Afraid at first, then welcome, welcome, welcome I have to admit that before I came to Syria, I was afraid of the place. All I knew about it was what I had read beneath newspaper headlines: Terrorist cells. Hezbollah. Car bombs. Unsanctioned nuclear power sites. Mysterious Israeli bombings in the middle the night. The attack on the U.S. Embassy with two truckloads of explosives. It all sounded terrifying. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
Israel threatened to attack Damascus
2008-03-16 04:48:00 Israel has secretly warned Syria that it may strike the country if Hizbullah attacks the Jewish state, Reuters reported on Friday. In early February Hizbullah threatened Israel with revenge following the assassination of the group’s chief of operations, Imad Mughniyeh. Israel has denied involvement in his death. According to senior Israeli and European officials quoted by the ...
By: 1913 Intel
A Side Of ?Gammon
2008-03-14 09:54:00 In Caf Rawda there?s the usual coffee-drinking and hookah-smoking. But there?s something else taking the attention of the clientele. As well as chess and cards, this is the backgammon centre of the city. Against my better judgement we challenge some of the locals to a game. Somehow I manage to win ? the locals are ...
ALLEGED mare, 1, 2 sister to SEVEN Stakes Producers
2008-02-21 02:18:00 She's half sister to: G3 class WINDS OF WINTER (107,077) Sworn Statement (119,803) dam of Sixth Sense (113,448) Sworn In (130,387) Parasail, dam of PEDRO THE COOL G3 pl (141,010) grand-dam of a G2 placed the dam of MIDTOWN (IRE), Stakes Winner in Japan (1,113,406) the dam of CURRENCY QUEST (68,307) ,the dam of Multiple G1 Millionaire ELLOLUV Coastal Breeze(16,650),the dam of: #61656 Windy Surf, G1 placed earner of 196,652 #61656 HEROISBREEZIN (157,198) #61656 Coast Of Mane (132,084) #61656 Tidehaven (119,526) #61656 Polo Grounds (132,084) #61656 Seattle Surf (85,560),dam of RAIL TO SEATTLE (101,558) #61656 Distinctly Windy (56,422), dam of Summer Breeze (124,695) the dam of G2 placed Celeste Cielo (80,688) etr at Belmont Park Sokokaze, winner of 241,640 in JPN Graceful Manner, the dam of TALE OF A DREAM(159,515), Kylies Way (24,060) an 06 GIANTS CAUSEWAY an 07 SMARTY JONES SEVENTEEN Stakes horses under her Crestary's 1st dam ! Shes by European HORSE OF THE YEAR ALLEGED...
By: Equine Now
ALLEGED mare, 1, 2 sister to SEVEN Stakes Producers
2008-02-21 02:18:00 She's half sister to: G3 class WINDS OF WINTER (107,077) Sworn Statement (119,803) dam of Sixth Sense (113,448) Sworn In (130,387) Parasail, dam of PEDRO THE COOL G3 pl (141,010) grand-dam of a G2 placed the dam of MIDTOWN (IRE), Stakes Winner in Japan (1,113,406) the dam of CURRENCY QUEST (68,307) ,the dam of Multiple G1 Millionaire ELLOLUV Coastal Breeze(16,650),the dam of: #61656 Windy Surf, G1 placed earner of 196,652 #61656 HEROISBREEZIN (157,198) #61656 Coast Of Mane (132,084) #61656 Tidehaven (119,526) #61656 Polo Grounds (132,084) #61656 Seattle Surf (85,560),dam of RAIL TO SEATTLE (101,558) #61656 Distinctly Windy (56,422), dam of Summer Breeze (124,695) the dam of G2 placed Celeste Cielo (80,688) etr at Belmont Park Sokokaze, winner of 241,640 in JPN Graceful Manner, the dam of TALE OF A DREAM(159,515), Kylies Way (24,060) an 06 GIANTS CAUSEWAY an 07 SMARTY JONES SEVENTEEN Stakes horses under her 1st dam ! Shes by European HORSE OF THE YEAR ALLEGED Shes out o...
By: Equine Now
Damascus Seizes on Mughniyeh Killing for Lebanon Comeback
2008-02-19 03:08:00 Therefore, it is feared in Washington and Jerusalem that, while plotting revenge on Israel, Hizballah, backed by the Syrian commando units, will launch attacks on Lebanese national intelligence and Druze targets in Beirut and Mt. Lebanon ? they point a finger at Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Their immediate goal would be to overthrow the pro-Western, ...
By: 1913 Intel
Into The Damascene Night
2008-02-15 09:04:00 This week, Damscus was back in the news, as Imad Mughniyeh ? Hezbollah?s elusive senior commander ? was killed in a car bomb in Syria?s capital. With Israel accused of the attack on the man responsible for killing hundreds of Americans in Lebanon in the Eighties and orchestrating the TWA hijack in 1985, Syria could ...
Mike Irie Pearl and Damascus Knife
2008-02-08 07:00:00 I’d been eyeing Mike Irie’s stuff for quite a while before I saw this little Pearl gent’s knife and had to have it. The price was good, especially for a Mother or Pearl and Damascus folder from a recognized maker. I just couldn’t pass it up! Mike Irie does very nice work and this folder ...
By: Custom Tacticals
Pro-Democracy Syrian Artist Arrested in Damascus
2008-02-01 16:00:00 The continuing unrest in Syria over the Damascus Declaration is resulting in more people being jailed, this time well-known artist and activist Tala Abu Dan. The Damascus Declaration is deeply critical of the Syrian state and is an open call for democratic reform, greater participation and an end to corruption, martial law and political persecution. It also urges Syrian authorities to recognise international human rights laws, and to guarantee the right of political work to all components of the Syrian people in their various religious, national, and social affiliations. The Declaration was signed by over 300 intellectuals. Syria's National Organization for Human Rights condemned the arrest, along with earlier arrests. So far, Syrian authorities have detained 11 activists in connection with the Declaration.
Darren Chard Damascus Ranger Knife
2008-01-21 01:34:00 This is the first knife I bought from Darren, and started me on my road to collecting his knives. Darren was a member of the CKG at the time and I had found out about him on the CKG website. I remember feeling that his prices were very reasonable and that his work looked great. ...
By: Custom Tacticals
Khaled Mashal's press conference in Damascus
2008-01-16 19:52:00 Khaled Mashal spoke in a press conference in Damascus this afternoon ,I saw alive on Al-Jazeera , it came after 24 hours from the horrible massacre committed by the IDF in Gaza whose death toll reached till now with lack of medical aid because of the Gaza siege 22 persons , including the son of Mahmoud Al-Zahar , the leader member in the Hamas Movement. It was the official press statement of Hamas on the attack of Gaza . Mashal spoke in a very logic way , I really admired him .He was straight to the point , his talk somehow was not emotional but rational and again Hamas is using officially a language about Fatah ,which I wish Fatah will use it when they talk about Fatah. Before I go for what Mashal's said I will tell something , just from few days I read that Galid Shalit was going to be released soon for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in a deal Egypt worked very hard in order to convince Hamas with , but then they attacked Gaza and killed people , forget about the deal...
Syrian MP hints Damascus could strike Dimona reactor if attacked
2007-12-23 03:29:00 A Syrian member of parliament thought to be familiar with the thinking of President Bashar al-Assad is quoted in the London-based pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday as saying that Syria could strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona as retaliation for any future violations of Syrian sovereignty. In an interview with the paper, Mohammad Habash ...
By: 1913 Intel
Odyssey Damascus Grand Putter
2007-12-04 04:10:00 Ok I never understand the golfers who buy these expensive putters and don't game them. You know the guys who have like 10 Scotty Camerons but don't use them and most have never even seen a golf ball. I just don't get it if you have a putter use it. People will say they are collectors but I just don't get it. Putters are for putting right not for hanging on my wall.Just got a email form Odyssey Golf about one of those crazy expensive putters that I'm sure some crazy collector will buy and never game. They're called the Damascus Grand putter and they're made form Damascus steel which apparently is expensive and very strong and has a wild stripe pattern. As you can see from the picture below it's a sweet looking putter with the dark nickel plated PVD finish . Here's the catch only 15 will be produced get yours now. Would love to see someone game one of these.
By: Ottawa Golf Blog
Catholic Prayer of Saint John of Damascus (Dec. 4)
2007-12-03 23:34:00 Hold dominion over my heart, O Lord: Keep it as your inheritance. Make your dwelling in me, Along with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Widen in me the cords of your tabernacle, Even the operations of your Most Holy Spirit. For you are my God, and I will praise you, together with the Eternal Father, And our quickening Spirit, Now, henceforth and forever. Amen.St. John Damascene or St John of Damascus (c. 675 - c. 749), Monk, theologian, Doctor of the Church
By: Catholic Prayers
Frank Niro Eggerling Damascus Knife
2007-11-27 04:17:00 Another Beautiful carved folder by knife artist Frank Niro. Niro’s work is not well known, but he has a very devout band of followers that buys a lot of his knives, and they all sell. If you ever handle his work you will see why, as there are not many makers out there that will ...
By: Custom Tacticals
William Henry Pearl Damascus Lancet Knife
2007-11-14 06:33:00 This is one of a couple of William Henry knives that I have owned with a Mike Norris Raindrop Damascus blade. The pattern is simply beautiful, as is the knife. Entirely hand-finished in California, with the primary manufacturing also done by machine in California, these knives are the pinnacle of the production gentleman’s knife.
By: Custom Tacticals
Gulf investors give Damascus vital cash boost
2007-11-09 01:58:00 Syria's foreign policy has put it at odds with most of its Arab neighbours but Gulf petrodollars are still finding their way to Damascus and giving the isolated economy a much-needed boost.
By: Get rich
Hamas And Allies Will Hold Meeting In Damascus
2007-11-05 03:56:00 The Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas is attempting to persuade Syria’s president to cancel a proposed conference in Damascus of Arab groups. The so-called “national conference” is a Palestinian alternative to the upcoming Annapolis conference that Secretary of Rice has organized. Abbas fears such a conference would weaken his hand since it gives the image ...
Damascus Nan & The Apoplectic Leftwing Hate Machine
2007-10-16 16:39:00 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D - San Francisco is angling for defeat in Iraq and the war on terrorism for her party’s own political benefit. Pelosi will push for a vote on the genocide resolution in an attempt to anger Turkey to suspend the use of their airspace to supply our troops in Iraq. This ...
By: Stuck On Stupid
Kirby Lambert Mini-Tac Damascus Knife
2007-10-14 08:12:00 This was my very first Kirby Lambert knife, and is an awesome peice. I love it and will likely never sell it, since it is very dear to me. It is not only my first Kirby Lambert knife, but the first fully custom knife I ever ordered, and the first of many I have purchased ...
By: Custom Tacticals
Prophesied destruction of Damascus imminent?
2007-09-21 14:50:00 To Ahmadinejad’s way of thinking, if somebody has to be martyred to the Mahdi’s cause, why not Syria? Twenty-five hundred odd years ago, the Hebrew prophet Isaiah prophesied of the destruction of Damascus. This prophecy is made more fascinating by the fact it remains unfulfilled in history. Damascus is the oldest continually inhabited city on earth. Although conquered many times, its status as an economic and cultural center of antiquity preserved it intact to this day. But Isaiah predicted Damascus would one day face utter destruction: “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city and it will become a fallen ruin,” he writes in Isaiah 17:1. By WorldNetDaily Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
Damascus into smoke?
2007-09-21 09:30:00 Prophesied destruction of Damascus imminent? (Excerpted from Hal Lindsey’s recent articleat WND.) Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters this week, “Iran has entered into strategic cooperation with Syria on conventional and nonconventional weapons development,” adding, “The Iranians are very big in Syria.” Iran’s Ahmadinejad is preparing Syria to cover his flank should war break out between ...
"The Lives of Others" Not a Road to Damascus Moment
2007-09-17 16:47:00 I commend to you the excellent new film, "The Lives of Others," by Florian Henckel von Donnsermarck. The central drama is the moral struggle within an East German secret policeman as he spies on a prominent playwright and his actress girlfriend. The policeman is a true believer in the East German state -- and the playwright is a hopeful socialist, "our only non-subversive writer who is read in the West," as another secret policeman describes him. The Stasi (State Security) man comes to see that his surveillance is just a tool of corruption and petty politics. The playwright, too, is driven to an act of covert rebellion against the police state. Their lives become deeply entangled. I'll not say more about the conclusion.There is a lovely moment early on when a little boy asks the secret policeman if he is really a Stasi agent."Do you know what the Stasi is?""Yes. My dad says they are the bad men who put people in prison."The audience knows this is a dangerous moment for the little ...
Report From Damascus: Iraqi Refugees in Syria Speak Out Against U.S. Occupa
2007-08-21 18:12:00 DemocracyNow! Over four years of brutal warfare in Iraq has spawned a refugee crisis of staggering proportions. Two million Iraqis have been forced to leave their country and are now scattered across Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Turkey. There are an estimated 1.2 million Iraqi refugees in Syria. This report was filed by Democracy Now ...
By: Current Era Blog
Damascus International Airport is a Hub for Terrorists
2007-08-20 16:44:00 The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq--but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda's road to Iraq through Damascus. Thanks to Gen. David Petraeus's new counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, and the strength and skill of the American soldiers fighting there, al Qaeda in Iraq is now being routed from its former strongholds in Anbar and Diyala provinces. Many of Iraq's Sunni Arabs, meanwhile, are uniting with us against al Qaeda, alienated by the barbarism and brutality of their erstwhile allies. As Gen. Petraeus recently said of al Qaeda in Iraq: "We have them off plan." But defeating al Qaeda in Iraq requires not only that we continue pressing the offensive against its leadership and infrastructure inside the country. We must also aggressively target its links to "global" al Qaeda and close off the routes its foreign fighters are using to get into Iraq. Recently declassified American intelligence reveals just how much al...
Tom Anderson Damascus Valkyrie Knife
2007-08-19 02:07:00 Tom Anderson, like Gil Hibben, sold his designs to entry level budget knife companies which may have reduced his popularity among some knife collectors, but like Hibben, his custom work is no less impressive. Tom’s knives are top notch and his designs are very unique.
By: Custom Tacticals
Damascus has deferred its war plans from late summer to November
2007-08-04 14:53:00 It looks like November is getting hot! Debka files reports that the Syrians are going to war with Israel in November: This piece of intelligence was behind the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert?s comment Tuesday, July 31: ?I think this summer and fall will be less hot than we expected.? He was addressing a ceremony ending ...
By: Shimshon 9
Damascus has deferred its war plans from late summer to November
2007-08-01 03:58:00 DEBKAfile?s military sources report that the latest intelligence update on Syria?s intentions reached Jerusalem via Washington in the last few days. It indicated that Syria?s political and military leaders had rescheduled the start of hostilities against Israel on the Golan for the second two weeks of November, 2007, postponing their original planning by more than ...
By: 1913 Intel
President Ahmadinejad arrives in Damascus
2007-07-19 23:05:00 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Damascus on Thursday and was welcomed by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to officially welcome his Iranian counterpart within hours. Ahmadinejad’s one-day visit takes place at the invitation of the Syrian president. President Ahmadinejad is accompanied by a high-ranking political and economic delegation, including ministers of foreign affairs ...
Matt Cucchiara Damascus Small Sirocco
2007-07-03 23:18:00 This is my first Cucchiara knife, and its a helluva knife! I really like his fizz treatment and heat coloring of the handles. The thick blade and big-bellied recurve make for a nice blade profile as well. The blade on this bad boy is even thicker than the handles! This knife was made prior to ...
By: Custom Tacticals
Syria's First Lady Asmaa' Al Assad Receives Abu-Ghazaleh in Damascus
2007-07-03 02:00:00 &-nbsp; DA-MASCUS --- June 26, 2007--- The ...
By: TAGorg
Damascus ordered Sunday?s Katyusha attack on N. Israeli
2007-06-18 19:28:00 The three 107mm rockets fired against Kiryat Shemona from Wadi Taiba Sunday, June 17, by a Palestinian radical group called Ansar Allah based in the Ain Hilwa refugee camp near Sidon was ordered by Syrian military intelligence as the first in a series, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. Hizballah intelligence officers supplied the rockets and pinpointed ...
Damascus: Part II
2007-05-10 14:46:00 It was a crisp, cool morning, and Star Crossed Lovers caf ? where we had drunk our last chai the night before ? was already awake. Wooden tree stumps were laid out in the spreading sunlight and the caf?s dwarfish owner, wild curls on his balding head, noticed us immediately. ?Good morning!? he called, bustling about ...
Damascus: Part I
2007-05-02 13:15:00 Sharia ath-Thawra was a jumble of shining yellow taxis, fearlessly zipping between moving metal. Their drivers rested weary elbows on horns, hooting, blind to all but their destination. A pedestrian flyover was visible in the distance, beyond a mammoth neon Sony sign, about a ten minute walk away. But Iain and I had slept too ...
The masses vote in Damascus? [Digg]
2007-04-24 21:38:00 We hope that these people came to cast their votes amidst this absurdity in demonstration of real democracy, however, reality suggests that while most of them were clearly acknowledged the futility of voting in a dictatorship, they obviously had voted in command of threatening letters!!!
The Masses vote in Damascus?
2007-04-24 06:53:00 Not really, But, in what should be calledthe deliberate mock of democracy, Syria held its second national ‘fake’ election since Hafez Assad?s death in 2002. Reuters reported that fewer than half of Syria?s 19 million people came to cast their vote. Now, we hope that these people came to cast their votes amidst this absurdity ...
Damascus checks in for a visit at The Cabin
2007-04-06 19:05:00 A few days ago my site meter recorded this visit:
Damascus airport has become the hub for thousands of Hizballah, Hamas, Jiha
2007-04-02 20:53:00 According to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources, in the last several weeks, Damascus international airport main has become the main transport hub for a stream of Lebanese and Palestinian terrorists heading for Revolutionary Guards installations in Iran. Hence Israel military intelligence chief’s pessimistic briefing to the Israeli cabinet Sunday, April 1. (See separate item on this page) Damascus airport is also the transit point for returning terrorists to gather and pick up their assignment for various Middle East countries, as well as Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Syrian military intelligence and Iranian RG officers have set up a joint depot at the Syrian airport for directing the incoming and outgoing traffic - much of it ferried by Syrian Airways. Read More… ---Related Articles at 1913 Intel:Israeli military intelligence chief predicts Iran-Hizballah-Syria attack on Israel in summer Iran, Syria, Hizbullah preparing for warIsrael Warns of Hama...
By: 1913 Intel
Defence ministers of Syria and Iran meet for talks in Damascus
2007-03-11 00:54:05 Damascus, March 10: The defence ministers of Syria and Iran, Hassan Turkmany and Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, Saturday met to discuss the latest developments in the region, Syria's official News Agency Sana said.
By: newkerala.com
Sen. Bill Nelson Meets With Syria?s Assad in Damascus
2006-12-14 16:28:01 Frig'n moron!! From FNC: In a direct affront to the Bush administration, a Democratic senator spent an hour Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, asking him to do more to stabilize Iraq. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, met with Assad after the State Department said that [...] |
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