He was married there and lived the lifestyle there. Was the USA also going to pick up his wife when they rescued him?
If the USA wants to be successful in finding Americans in Syria than broker a session with Assad through the United Nations and ask for his cooperation. The American military makes their greatest mistakes in pretending leaders like Assad are the problem. That isn't the problem, the culture of violence is the problem in the Middle East.
The United Arab Emirates is currently following the example of Saudi Arabia and passing laws that will eliminate the culture of violence within their country.
August 20, 2014
By Samir Salama
This new policy was begun during Ramadan, the time of atonement, of this year. Americans never hear about the progress these countries are making to combat terrorism. The people carrying out these horrible offenses around the world live in these countries. when a government official is involved in trying to control them through death sentences and/or prison their lives are at risk.
July 3, 2014
By Samir Salama
If the USA wants to be successful in finding Americans in Syria than broker a session with Assad through the United Nations and ask for his cooperation. The American military makes their greatest mistakes in pretending leaders like Assad are the problem. That isn't the problem, the culture of violence is the problem in the Middle East.
The United Arab Emirates is currently following the example of Saudi Arabia and passing laws that will eliminate the culture of violence within their country.
August 20, 2014
By Samir Salama
Dubai: A new law to combat terrorism (click here) was endorsed by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan yesterday.
The law will usher in new security measures to counter a sweeping range of crimes deemed acts of terror at a time when international efforts are being mustered to fight the global menace.
The government fast-tracked the law which establishes “terrorist” capital offences which result in the death of a victim, including attacks on a head of state or his family or a representative or officer of a state; coerced recruitment of individuals into a “terrorist” organisation; hijacking; hostage-taking; infringement of diplomatic or consular premises in committing a “terrorist” act; use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and assaulting security forces....
July 3, 2014
By Samir Salama
Abu Dhabi: The Federal National Council (FNC) (click here) is due to be called into a special session in late Ramadan to review and pass an anti-terrorism draft law, Gulf News has learnt.
The legislative and legal affairs committee at the House will meet on Sunday to discuss the draft law, only a couple of months after the country introduced recent changes in international regulations against money-laundering, which can be used to fund terrorism, into its laws.
Sources said the UAE, a signatory to 13 international treaties on terrorism, is revising its counter-terrorism law, issued in 2004, to better fight evolving threats.
In late April, the FNC passed a draft law to fight money laundering and terrorist financing....
It isn't like sitting under the Capital Dome and passing The Patriot Act which removes many civil liberties from the American people and then have the people too scared to change horses in midstream. Taking this type of action in the Middle East requires leaders to have the loyalty of the vast majority of their citizens. It also takes a real assessment of the threat to those citizens from within the country's borders. It is not simply in the Middle East to pass such laws. This is an astounding victory for the UAE.
August 20, 2014
By Gulf News
It isn't like sitting under the Capital Dome and passing The Patriot Act which removes many civil liberties from the American people and then have the people too scared to change horses in midstream. Taking this type of action in the Middle East requires leaders to have the loyalty of the vast majority of their citizens. It also takes a real assessment of the threat to those citizens from within the country's borders. It is not simply in the Middle East to pass such laws. This is an astounding victory for the UAE.
August 20, 2014
By Gulf News
While the focus of the United States and its allies (click here) has been on turning back the threat posed by the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), the conflict has left a tide of human detritus in its wake. Since fighting intensified in Iraq beginning in January, more that 1.2 million Iraqis have been displaced, the United Nations says.
In addition, a further four million Syrians have been forced to seek refuge outside its borders in sanctuaries in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. As a result of the latest Isil offensive, some 500,000 Iraqis have sought refuge under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
In all, the nations involved are facing an unprecedented crisis. Whole communities have been swept aside, generations of tradition uprooted, families forced to flee with just the clothes on their backs and the few precious items that they can carry as they escape an evil enemy bent on destruction and massacre as never before.
These are desperate times, where millions are at the mercy of their fellow man, where aid is the most precious commodity, where humanity is under threat, and where the human condition is focused on getting through the next day.
