huffingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
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Here is the full text of President Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya Arab TV Network:
INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY HISHAM MELHEM, AL ARABIYA
Map Room
5:46 P.M. EST
Q Mr. President, thank you for this opportunity, we really appreciate it.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much.
Q ...
news.sky.com - 1/27/2009
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news.sky.com —
Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make
a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.
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'Uranium For Iran Nuke By 2009'
commentarymagazine.com - 1/28/2009
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“America was not born as a colonial power,
and that the same respect and partnership that America
had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that. And that I think is going to ...
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20 or 30 Years Ago?
cbsnews.com - 1/27/2009
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President Obama reached out to the Muslim world
Monday in an exclusive interview on Arab television network
Al Arabiya. "In all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith and America is a ...
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Obama's Interview On Arab Television - Political Hotsheet
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Obama: "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy"
Jihad Watch —
... In a highly significant symbolic move, Obama gives his first interview as President to...Al-Arabiya. "Obama Al-Arabiya Interview: Full Text," from the Huffington Post, January 26 (thanks to all who sent this in): ...
Phase One in the Transition to the Caliphate
Balloon Juice —
... I finally got a chance to read Obama’s interview with Al-Arabiya, and I really did not find anything groundbreaking in it. Larison ...
Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
Weekly Standard Blog —
From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya:
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important for us to make sure that we are using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy, in our relationship with Iran.
Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the ...
AC360: Barack Obama's Interview With al-Arabiya
Crooks and Liars —
... since being elected President on al-Arabiya. David Gergen and Reza Aslan weigh in and are impressed to say the least.
From Raw Story:
For his first, formal, televised interview as President of the United States, Barack Obama could have gone anywhere. But instead of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS or any other major American outlet, he's spoken to al-Arabiya, the largest network news provider in the Arab world.
h/t to the HuffPo who has the entire interview transcript available.
MELHEM: Let me take a ...
If I Were A Buddhist I Would Blow Something Up (Maybe Myself)
JustOneMinute —
Note to Obama - enough already with dissing the Buddhists in America. This is from The Messiah's inauguration speech : And here is The Chosen One in his interview with al-Aribiya : Come on - per Pew Research , Buddhists in the United States outnumber Muslims. In fact, Buddhism is the third most popular major religion in this country; Islam is fourth and Hinduism is fifth. Well, a caveat - I don't want to peeve Unitarians, who are statistically tied with the Buddhists. But regardless, maybe Obama could give them a shout-out at some point, yes? Or must they ...
FROM 'MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY' TO UNILATERAL APPEASEMENT
Dr. Sanity —
... This is remarkably astute. And it is little wonder that President Obama uses Siggy's words to chide Muslims in his recent interview on Al-Arabiya: ...
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What Barack Hussein Obama told the Muslim world -- full text
latimesblogs.latimes.com 1/29/2009 — Here's the transcript of President Obama's first White House TV interview since his inauguration nine days ago.
It's with Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya television , the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned international news ...
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blogs.abcnews.com 1/27/2009 — Yesterday evening in the Map Room, President Obama sat for his first formal TV interview, with Al-Arabiya's Hisham Melhem. Some excerpts: On his advice to George Mitchell, the special envoy to the Middle East who just left the U.S. for...
How al-Arabiya Got the First Interview —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Time goes behind-the-scenes to find out how President Obama granted his first television interview as president to Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief for al-Arabiya, a Saudi-backed news channel headquartered in Dubai.
"Whether it was because of the chemistry between the men or Obama's ...
[SNN] Obama’s Muslim TV Interview Sets New Tone —
ScrappleFace
President Barack Obama chose al-Arabiya to grant his first full interview as president of the United States, trying to repair the damage done by his predecessor’s efforts to free 25 million Iraqis from dictatorship and terrorism. The president snubbed CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, ABC, CBS, PBS ...
The Change —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Goldberg speaks with Hisham Melhem, the reporter who interviewed Obama for al-Arabiya. Melhem: ...in the long run, [Obama] is telling the Muslim world that it's going to have a difficult time demonizing him. He's saying, "I'm willing to disagree with the people of the Muslim world ...
Melhem reflects —
Ben Smith's Blog
Jeffrey Goldberg talks to Al Arabiya's Hisham Melhem, who closes with this thought on his interview:
Look, in the long run, he is telling the Muslim world that it's going to have a difficult time demonizing him. He's saying, "I'm willing to disagree with the people of the Muslim world ...
Obama's First TV Interview —
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In his first formal interview since taking office, President Barack Obama sat down with Al-Arabiya TV's reporter Hisham Melhem in Washington to discuss conflicts in the Middle East, Bin Laden, and the possibility of nukes in Iran and Afghanistan.
Transcript after the jump. read more