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July 16, 2008
The Disinformation Age: OPEC lies, the SUV dies
The folks over at OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, must think we’re pretty stupid. The other day, Chakib Khelil, the current OPEC president, asserted that "the intru...
July 15, 2008
Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates’ Iraq-Pullout Positions
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the country split down the middle between those backing Sen. Barack Obama's 16-month timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and those agre...
July 15, 2008
Suicide bomber killed dozens of Iraqi Army recruits as a new Diyala offensive looms
Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted a successful dual suicide attack on an Army recruiting center in Baqubah as the Iraqi military is preparing to launch a new offensive in Diyala province. Two s...
July 15, 2008
Pakistani Taliban destroy paramilitary fort in Hangu
The Taliban continue to rampage in the settled district of Hangu in Pakistan' s Northwest Frontier Province. In the latest assault, a Taliban force overran a Frontier Constabulary fort, loot...
July 15, 2008
Bravo Attorney General Mukasey
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) is demanding the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogation practices. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has refused. As is h...
July 15, 2008
On Combatant Detainee al-Marri, the Fourth Circuit Splits the Baby
About a year ago, I wrote here on NRO about a divided (2-1) panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that Ali Saleh Kalah al-Marri, an alleged terrorist operative from Qatar...
July 15, 2008
New Intelligence
July 14, 2008
An Accelerated Withdrawal?
The pace of the U.S. military drawdown in Iraq has been accelerated by the Bush administration, according to the New York Times: "The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of addition...
July 14, 2008
Before They Put a Tax on Humor ” Remember This One?”
Bailouts, inflation, bills up, savings down… Time to re-visit the funniest video ever made about the Federal Reserve. I still don’t know who these geniuses were at Columbia Business...
July 14, 2008
Joint Al Qaeda and Taliban force behind Kunar base attack
Yesterday's deadly complex attack on a joint US and Afghan outpost in Kunar province was carried out by a large, mixed force of Taliban, al Qaeda, and allied extremist groups operating easte...
July 14, 2008
Sudan: The Beginning of the End
On Monday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, presented evidence to a panel of judges asking for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese Presi...
July 14, 2008
Use of the Energy Weapon to Avert War
The sounds of saber rattling have been growing louder by the day in the Persian Gulf. While Israel has recently performed an impressive exercise over the Mediterranean, Iran proceeded last week t...
July 13, 2008
Taliban launch deadly attack on a combat outpost in Afghanistan’s Kunar province
The Taliban launched a complex attack against a newly established combat outpost in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan. Heavy fighting is currently underway, and US forces have taken...
July 13, 2008
French Veterans Oppose Assad’s Bastille Day Presence
Lest we forget who this regime is, and that it (along with its...
July 12, 2008
What Jesse Jackson Left Out
Chalk it up to sheer accident. But anatomical obscenities to the side, Jesse Jackson did get one thing right – or at least partially right — when he muttered into that open microphone...
July 12, 2008
Taliban attempts to spark Afghan-Pakistan border incident
A cross-border incident that resulted in Pakistani and Afghan security forces casualties was launched by the Taliban with the intent to "to spark a border incident," the International Sec...
July 12, 2008
Targeted Marketing
As you no doubt know, the Senate last week voted to confirm Gen. David Petraeus – slandered less than a year ago by MoveOn.org as “Gen Betray Us” — by a 95 to 2 vote. Whic...
July 12, 2008
Taliban kill Pakistani soldiers in ambush in Hangu
The security situation in the settled district of Hangu has rapidly deteriorated over the past week as the Taliban has laid siege to a police station and threatened local security forces....
July 12, 2008
Lethal Tourism in North Korea
Good thing no one from the New York Philharmonic wandered off for a stroll when the orchestra performed for the Pyongyang elite in February. This week, while vacationing at North Korea’s Mo...
July 11, 2008
Consensus Building … In Reverse
According to the New York Times, 85 Republicans in the House have submitted a letter to the Supreme Court asking it to reconsider its ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana which invalidated the state&rs...
July 11, 2008
“Iran’s CIVILIAN nuclear program”
Secretary of State Rice said the usual things about U.S. determination to defend our interests and allies as Iran continued test-firing missiles. The New York Times report comments (italics...
July 11, 2008
“More than 100 terror camps” in operation in northwestern Pakistan
Al Qaeda continues to grow its network and expand its capabilities in northwestern Pakistan, US military and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. The peace agreements have gi...
July 11, 2008
Not to be a broken record on Fannie & Freddie
… but, to add to this morning’s tidings, today they’re taking the rest of the market down with them. WSJ and NYT have the gory details. ...
July 11, 2008
Mortgage Giants Down Again
Surprising how little talk there has been around here about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose shares this morning are down to about $10 and $6, respectively. The WSJ’s editors put...
July 10, 2008
US Senate confirms Petraeus for Middle East command
The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly confirmed Army Gen. David Petraeus as commander of the military headquarters responsible for U.S. operations across the Middle East, including Iraq and...
July 10, 2008
If the Messiah Is Going To Lecture Us About the Importance of Speaking Spanish …
then shouldn’t he speak Spanish? As Abe Greenwald notes at Contentions, he doesn’t....
July 10, 2008
Finally, a Surveillance Pass
B...
July 10, 2008
Global Ripples from the Niger Delta
On June 19, militants affiliated with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) launched their most audacious attack to date on the West African country's p...
July 9, 2008
Why Iraq Is Changing Its Tune on Withdrawal
In a surprising development, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his national security advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie made a dramatic shift in their positions in the SOFA negotiations with the US. By r...
July 9, 2008
Uzbeks presence in Pakistan’s tribal areas reignites intra-Taliban conflict
A several-year-old intra-Taliban conflict between two South Waziristan warlords has flared up again. Mullah Nazir has teamed up with Mullah Gul Bahadar to oppose Baitullah Mehsud's s...
July 9, 2008
Rising hopes in Tarmiyah tempered by recent violent past
TARMIYAH, IRAQ: Not much lingers of this youth center' s former role in the city of Tarmiyah. An entrance to the building, now bracketed by T-wall barriers and a weapon' s clearing barrel, shows an old mural of children at play. Refurbished and rededicated in August 2006, the youth center was a source of Army civil affairs pride before grim setbacks six months later. Now, in 2008, the center has become a Joint Security Station (JSS), manned by US soldiers with Iraqi Army and police operating from a new police station next door. A company of US infantrymen use this place as their residence and headquarters. Hopes are rising here, but now they' re based on painful experience. In the latrine at the JSS, over the urinals where soldiers have to read them, red-bordered signs tell part of the story. There, the leadership of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division has posted urgent reminders '“ tips about IED searches, what not to do, and how to avoid insurgent traps and kill zones. Each warning is a lesson learned the hard way by some soldier, sometime, somewhere. Along with the signs is tacked up the old 2006 Army news release, heralding the youth center' s opening, at the cost of $200,000 '“ it was under a new, point-making headline 'œWhen Security Fails a City.' Alpha Company' s presence here is not a triumph, but a necessary position of force brought on by the collapse of the city' s security' s situation last year. In February 2007, a previous US unit' s city outpost was destroyed by a car bomb that killed several soldiers. That was two US units ago. US soldiers needed a new outpost within the city limits, and the size and space of the youth center fit the bill. The US unit that Alpha Company replaced occupied the youth center first, but rotated back and forth between here and nearby Camp Taji, doing very little in the way of improvements when they had a rotation to the Forward Operating Base to look forward to. It didn' t take long for conditions to deteriorate. When Alpha' s soldiers arrived last December, they said they found leaking walls, rats, and ice-cold temperatures. Now, the Joint Security Station is - almost - a mini-Forward Operating Base (FOB). While it does not have a mammoth dining facility like Camp Taji, it does have two dedicated cooks who spend a lot of time to make sure soldiers have real meals before all-day patrols. It doesn' t have complete latrines, but it does have water for showe
July 9, 2008
BREAKING: Gunmen Attack the U.S. Embassy in Turkey
The New York Times report is here. Three assassins and at least three Turkish officers killed....
July 9, 2008
What Will Sarkozy Do?
China warns the French president not to meet with the Dalai Lama....
July 9, 2008
Susan Rice, Obama’s Foreign Policy Adviser, Strikes Again
She’ll be a source of non-stop amusement if Obama wins. Here, from Eli Lake at the New York Sun, is what McCain’s spokesman said regarding the ongoing negotiations with the I...
July 9, 2008
Russian Military Threats
Eli Lake of the Sun also reports that Russia has threatened a military response of some kind if the U.S. moves forward with installation of a missile shield in the Czech Republic....
July 9, 2008
Surveillance Reform Has Passed the Senate
The AP report is here. The bill, typically described by leading Democrats as a cave-in to Bush’s shredding of the Constitution, passed by more than a 2-1 margin (69-28) in a Democrat...
July 9, 2008
North Korea, the Model
Iran as part of its “Great Prophet” war games test fires missiles, flaunting this on TV, bragging up a range that can hit Israel. What to do? Obama calls for “a...
July 9, 2008
Pakistan signs peace agreement with extremists in Khyber
Just 10 days after the Pakistani government launched an offensive against extremist groups threatening Peshawar, the government signed a peace accord with the Lashkar-e-Islam, one of the...
July 9, 2008
The Washington Posts Friendly Apolitical Palestinian … Who Screamed “Allahu Akbar!” While Bulldozi
CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) deconstructs the Washington Post’s bizarre attempt to portray a Palestinian jihadist as if he weren’t a Palesti...
July 8, 2008
Ben Wittes and I Discuss the Boumediene Fallout at TNR
I think Benjamin Wittes (a former Washington Post editorial writer who is now at Brookings and writes a regular legal column for The New Republic) is one of the nation’s most thoughtful leg...
July 8, 2008
Re: Bush v. Jefferson
At his Pajamas Media website, Roger Kimball has a characteristically interesting take on the incident Andrew referred to earlier -- involving President Bush's speech writers editing Presiden...
July 8, 2008
Re: Refined Refinements
Yuval, of all the very interesting things in your post, the most interesting is Obama’s inadvertent admission that the notion of him “trying to look centrist” is fraudulent and...
July 8, 2008
Caroline Glick
To echo Michael (which is always a smart move), Caroline is as good and fearless as it gets in analyzing the Middle East, the Israeli/American relationship, and the nature of the war. I esp...
July 8, 2008
Lebanon’s Militia Wars
Lebanon's civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country's politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course o...
July 8, 2008
String of bombings rock Karachi
One day after a suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis, including 15 policemen, in the capital of Islamabad, a string of bombings rocked the southern port city of Karachi. One civilian was k...
July 8, 2008
Achille Lauro Terrorist Released in Italy
One of the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro in 1985 — among other things, shooting and killing 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer before tossing him overboa...
July 8, 2008
Cordesman: “U.S. Won’t Let Israel Attack Iran”
The Jerusalem Post reports that Anthony Cordesman, the former Pentagon official and current analyst for ABC, made the remark during a meeting with Israeli defense analysts held by the Institute o...
July 8, 2008
Obama’s Clarification
Iowahawk understands what Obama is saying. ...
July 8, 2008
Venezuela Supports Hezbollah
The Washington Times reports that a top diplomat in Hugo Chavez’s government has been designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a facilitator of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.&nb...
July 7, 2008
Punishing Mugabe, Steps 1 & 2
Meeting in Japan, the leaders of the G-7 industrial powers (plus Russia, with which President Clinton made it the G-8) are stymied over how to punish Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, who is this m...
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