Al-Rashid

Major General Maher Abd Al-Rashid, February 21, 1984, as widely quoted in news reports.

Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

Next, last Wednesday (September 3), a Bell 212 helicopter crashed in the Al-Rashid oil fields off the coast of the UAE.

Future of the Gulf States if Obama's Vision Realized 2008

PS The fawning profile by Robert Worth of the NYT claims that Al-Rashid has always been opposed to fanatical Jihadi groups.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

If you read this fawning and pathetic tribute to Al-Arabiya TV by Robret Worth of the New York Times you discover one disturbing thing: much of the claims that were included by Worth in his piece on Al-Jazeera see below were taken word for word from `Abdur-Rahman Al-Rashid.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

Secondly, if I have the time, I would unearth articles from Al-Mahallah magazine where Al-Rashid worked, and which used to carry articles of admiration for the Bin Ladenites fanatics fighting the communists in Afghanistan.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

Peering out the window of their room in the Al-Rashid Hotel, the three CNN correspondents were unable to report much more than booms and flashes of light (antiaircraft tracers filled the sky "like a million fireflies"), but just the fact of their presence in an enemy capital under American bombardment was astonishing, as if Edward R. Murrow had been reporting World War II from Berlin.

Bombs Over Baghdad 2008

"Stay in the Paul Wolfowitz Suite at the Al-Rashid Hotel, where the U.S. deputy secretary of Defense survived a rocket attack in October 2003!"

Clean Slate 2008

For a time, a third grandson, Abdul Rahman, was the nominal governor of Riyadh, under the sway of a hated rival family, the Al-Rashid.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Once, Saddam checked a family into the Al-Rashid Hotel and refitted their house with three truckloads of furniture and carpets.

Saddam's Secret World 2008

For a time, a third grandson, Abdul Rahman, was the nominal governor of Riyadh, under the sway of a hated rival family, the Al-Rashid.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008