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Submitted by Salman (dubai moves.com) on March 27, 2009 Tired of your commute on Sheikh Zayed Road? Failed your driving test for the sixth time? Sick of dealing with rude taxi drivers? Well, finally, the first-of-its-kind mass transit system in the region is scheduled to begin service in September of 2009. It is a huge undertaking by the government of Dubai and at dubaimoves we eagerly anticipate its arrival. With public service scheduled to start in September 2009, the authorities target that 30% of the population will start utilizing mass transit. Project Overview Dubai Metro is a 15.5 Billion AED (4.2 Billion US Dollar) project initiated by the RTA (Roads and Transportation Authority) under the directive of HRH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The first phase build contract was awarded to the Dubai Rail Link consortium (DURL) consisting of Mitsubishi Corporation, Obayashi Corporation, Kajima Corporation and Yap...

The cousin of alleged 9/11 hijacker Ziad al-Jarrah has been exposed as a long standing Israeli spy in yet another startling intelligence connection between the Zionist state and the attacks on New York and Washington. A New York Times report details how Ali al-Jarrah was a highly valued spy for Israel for no less than 25 years, sending reports and taking clandestine photographs of Palestinian groups and Hezbollah since 1983. According to the article , "From his home in this Bekaa Valley village, Mr. Jarrah, 50, traveled often to Syria and to south Lebanon, where he photographed roads and convoys that might have been used to transport weapons to Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, investigators say. He spoke with his handlers by satellite phone, receiving "dead drops" of money, cameras and listening devices. Occasionally, on the pretext of a business trip, he traveled to Belgium and Italy, received an Israeli passport, and flew to Israel, where he was debriefed at lengt...

Israel ' s Next War: Today the Gaza Strip, Tomorrow Lebanon? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya In the Middle East, it is widely believed that the war against Gaza is an extension of the 2006 war against Lebanon. Without question, the war in the Gaza Strip is a part of the same conflict. Moreover, since the Israeli defeat in 2006, Tel Aviv and Washington have not abandoned their design to turn Lebanon into a client state. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, in so many words, during his visit to Tel Aviv in early January that today Israel was attacking Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that tomorrow it would be fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon .[1] Ehud Olmert and Nicolas Sarkozy Lebanon is still in the cross-hairs. Israel is searching for a justification or a pretext to launch another war against Lebanon. Washington and Tel Aviv had initially hoped to control Beirut through client political forces in the March 14 Alliance . When it became apparent that thes...