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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49847)	7/11/2006 4:22:49 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Zach's blind date.. walking up to a girl and getting her number.. Zachary comes off age.. Amazing thing happened today; I was just relaying to my whole dorm house that I went up to a girl and got her number (it was really random).. the story is flying around everywhere, it was very funny; it was a random encounter in a restaurant and now everyone's talking about it.. I love harvard; i was telling all the mexicans about it today and they were laughing, the mexicans at harvard are like the most beautiful people I have ever seen; they're the most elitest tier I've ever met in my life, each of them hail from large industrialists societies and they all know each.. it's like a Pakistani elite * 10; they're extremely aristocratic. cybermusings.blogspot.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49847)	7/11/2006 11:35:51 AM
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iranian.ws Ralph Peters "Never Quit the Fight" and 'his' new chopped off 'Middle East Map' Jul 11, 2006 Iqbal Latif Paris, Persian Journal The core ideas of Ralph Peters, in his newly released book ''Never Quit the Fight'' to bifurcate Saudi into a Islamic core state and divide the Middle East along ethno-geographical regions, have been borrowed extensively from a famous article published in blogosphere in September of 2002 by Zachary Latif. The new chopped map of Middle East is an end result of that 'Arab East Trilogy' article. Coincidently and strangely enough Ralph Peter gives no credit to the original author of the article the helped him write the book. According to that highly provocative article written in 2002, pre US Iraqi invasion by Zachary Latif, the solution to the Middle East crisis is to dissolve Iran and Iraq and Saudi Arabia is balkanised and partitioned successfully into separate little independent republics. Once America's conquest of Iraq is complete should withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia. Iraq should be divided along three spheres the Kurdish north, the Sunni regions and Shi'ite South. If the Shi'ite south were to begin a war of liberation for its Shi'ite compatriots in Saudi Arabia popular rebellion and subtle American support would ensure its success. Jordan should also simultaneously begin a war of liberation for the Hijazis and ensure the dissolution of the Saudi Arabia we are familiar with. After the Jordanians consolidate their rule with American support and install a Hashemite into the throne the Hijaz could become a new nation, fervently pro-American. The modern Iraqi nation is an artifice cobbled together with virtually no regard for history or ethnicity. The ethnically diverse north consisting of the Kurds, Assyrians & Turkmens were expected to coexist with the densely populated homogeneous Shi'ite provinces to the south whilst all were to submit to the hegemony of the Sunni Arabs. "The Arab East" trilogy.... Arab East Trilogy i: Saturday, September 07, 2002 The Saudi State I was fervently discussing the Middle East with my father a week past and I was telling him of my suggestion that the Hijaz should be partitioned from Saudi Arabia. Now my father told me that an article propounding this very idea was published in the National Review. As such at the moment I am rather furious for not devoting enough time to my weblog! A propos when I am referring to the Arabic-speaking nations of the Middle East, I shall use the generic term "the Arab East*" for simplicity and clarity. Saudi Arabia is a nation that can be balkanised and partitioned successfully (check out table 6.4) without any negative fallout. The nations in the Arabian Peninsula are oft thought of as homogeneous polities, bounded by language & religion, however this perception could not be further from the truth. One must understand the dynamics of the Saudi regions in order to formulate a coherent solution to this pressing dilemma. Saudi Arabia is an artificial state cohered by oil and the imperial family however the imposed Wahabism is contributing to the dissolution of the nation. Western commentators maintain that since Saudi Arabia is suffering from widespread dissension the dynasty's future is ephemeral. This analysis is flawed since the unrest is localised in the regions of Al Hasa, Asir and Hijaz.