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July 31, 2008 Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America While biofuels offer a drop-in alternative to oil in the short run, the long-term energy security of this country requires us to leverage technological innovations to achieve greater efficiency.... July 30, 2008 Taliban, Pakistani Army clash in Swat Map of Swat. Click map to view. The Pakistani Army claimed 48 Taliban fighters, including ten senior Swat leaders, were killed in a major battle in the settled district of the... July 29, 2008 Operation Omens of Prosperity begins in Diyala Map of Diyala province [PDF]. Click to view. The long awaited offensive to secure Diyala province has begun. Iraqi Army and police forces, backed by the US Army, officially started... July 29, 2008 Call it UN-BRIBE So, while the U.S. Treasury is trying to tighten sanctions on Burma’s thug government, the United Nations has been busy funneling millions of dollars to the Burmese regime — thanks to... July 29, 2008 Taliban capture 25 Pakistani security personnel in Swat Mullah Fazlullah. Click image to view the slideshow of the Taliban Leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban have struck again in Pakistan' s lawless Northwest... July 28, 2008 Take an Obama Break – and Check Up On the UN’ s “Burma Shave” If ringing rhetoric and nifty stage-sets could save the world, there’d be no problem about changing our national anthem — Yes, we can! — to “Kumbayah.” But global re... July 28, 2008 Six killed in strike in South Waziristan Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS' Frontline. Click to view. Three foreign terrorist are among six killed in a targeted strike in Pakistan's... July 28, 2008 Report: Al Qaeda WMD expert Abu Khabab thought killed in South Waziristan strike Abu Khabab, via the US Rewards for Justice website. A Pakistani intelligence official claimed al Qaeda weapons expert Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, better known as Abu Khabab,... July 28, 2008 Female suicide bombers kill 70 Iraqis in Kirkuk, Baghdad Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted two successful strikes in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk. At least seventy Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 300 wounded in four suicide attacks,... July 27, 2008 US, Afghan forces beat back Taliban attack in Khost province The Taliban continue to attack outposts and district centers in the Afghan provinces along the Pakistani border. Today, the Taliban force assaulted a district center in Khost, and suffered massiv... July 27, 2008 Deceit Let’s start with Arthur Herman, a wise and eloquent writer who wrote an important piece for Commentary a while back. Herman’s overall argument was that our attack on Saddam Huss... July 26, 2008 29 killed in second day of bombings in India Terrorists have struck inside a major Indian city for the second day straight. At least 26 Indians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a series of bomb blasts in the city of Ahmedabad.... July 26, 2008 Iraq, US target Iranian networks Iraqi and US forces are maintaining the pressure against the Mahdi Army in central and southern Iraq. Over the past 24 hours, the US military announced the capture of three senior Special Groups... July 25, 2008 Pakistan cedes Hangu to the Taliban The Pakistani government has signed yet another peace accord with the Taliban in a settled district of the Northwest Frontier Province. Just one day after the military canceled an operation in Ha... July 25, 2008 Bravo Pete Hoekstra for Defunding the Government’s Jihad on “Jihad” I’ve had a number of things to say about the intelligence community’s attempted language purge, the effort to inculcate an aversion to calling jihadists jihadists, to bleach the Islam... July 25, 2008 What, You Didn’t Give the Detainees Miranda Warnings? Reuters adds itself to the list of outlets reporting the shocking news that Salim Hamdan and other enemy combatants were not given Miranda warnings. (Thanks to Jen Rubin.) I hate t... July 25, 2008 Still on the Edge of My Seat They had CNN on at the Dunkin' Donuts, so I can issue this alert: BREAKING: ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS HAS NOT YET ENDORSED A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.... July 25, 2008 Speaking of Miranda Warnings for the Enemy … I have an article on the homepage this morning about Attorney General Mukasey's effort to prevent the Supreme Court's disastrous Boumediene decision from turning the military battlefiel... July 25, 2008 “He Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World” In the Times of London, Gerard Baker on the Messiah's roadtrip. Every sentence is priceless, but the start will give you the idea: And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the... July 25, 2008 Barack Lied, Germans Sighed’¦ The Obama Moment “People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time.” What is he talking about? Time for what, exactly? Time for Obama round the clock,... July 25, 2008 Avoiding ‘CSI Kandahar’ ‘... July 24, 2008 Taliban control of Mohmand highlights failures of peace negotiations Omar Khalid, the Taliban commander of Mohmand agency. Less than two months after the Pakistani government negotiated a peace agreement with the local Taliban in the Mohmand tribal... July 24, 2008 Puzzling Republicans As I consign more Republican fund-raising letters from yesterday's mail to the trash can, maybe someone who understands better than I do how Congress operates can help me out here. If (as th... July 24, 2008 Re: Re: Cheap Plug is Just Peachy That's a relief! Have I mentioned that I have this book ...... July 24, 2008 Three Regime Flacks Play Washington Check out this editorial in NOW Lebanon today about the "independent" Syrian regime hands in DC. I will com... July 24, 2008 Re: McCain on Fan and Fred Is McCain at His Very Best Great stuff, Larry. Bravo to Senator McCain for saying what needs to be said, again and again.... July 24, 2008 Más allá de la complacencia Pero como Andrew McCarthy aclara en sus magníficas memorias, Willful Blindness (Ceguera Voluntaria), la modorra persiste; demasiada gente aún no admite que &l... July 24, 2008 Missing the Point on Hamdan The Wall Street Journal’s news story this morning covering the military-commission trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay completely misses the point, as the media and commentators are won... July 23, 2008 Operation ends in Hangu; Government opts for negotiations in northwest The Pakistani military has halted the operation against the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province district of Hangu just seven days after it began. The operation was ended just one day after... July 23, 2008 Sen. Obama, Meet Steve Schippert Mark Levin had this on the radio last night. Our friend Steve Schippert, a former Marine who blogs at his terrific site, Threats Watch, as well as at the Tank on NRO, provided this stirring... July 23, 2008 Iraqi military prepares for offensives in Diyala, Babil Map of Iraq. Click to view. Iraqi security forces are massing more than 30,000 soldiers and police for an upcoming operation against al Qaeda and the Mahdi Army in the eastern... July 23, 2008 Landis Gets the Memo from Imad Moustapha As you know by now, Joshua Landis' job is to regurgitate the talking points memos that Imad Moustapha sends out. Witness this absolutely pathetic exercise, just to get an idea of the value o... July 23, 2008 Messiah Lies About His Senate Committee Assignment This guy is going to be harder than Bill Clinton to keep up with. The next whopper whips along before you have time to wrap your brain around the last one. At Powerline, John Hinde... July 23, 2008 Beyond Complacency: The anti-anti-terrorists push for unilateral disarmament It’s often said that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a “wake-up call’ – that they forced both the political class and the public to seriously (if belatedly) address a p... July 23, 2008 Suspend the Writ For the protection of our troops on the battlefield and the security of all Americans, Congress needs, right now, to take action to reverse Boumediene v.... July 22, 2008 Peace negotiations begin with Taliban in Hangu Orakzai goes red. Red agencies/ districts are controlled by the Taliban; purple districts areunder de facto Taliban control; yellow regions are under Taliban influence. Just... July 22, 2008 Re: Obama’s Iraq Politics To add to Seth's excellent point, does Obama think the Sunni Awakening and the Shia militia stand-down are somehow separate developments from the surge and the brilliant performance of Ameri... July 22, 2008 No Welch For You Pace Jay Solomon's Syrian sources (Imad Mustapha), my own sources tell me that Assistant... July 22, 2008 The Negotiation Gambit Henry Kissinger once remarked that if an intellectual gets it wrong, all he has to do is write another book, while if a policy maker gets it wrong, people may die. To which I would add that... July 21, 2008 Iraqi, US forces keep pressure on the Mahdi Army Iraqi and US troops continue to press the offensive against the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army during a series of raids throughout Iraq. Since July 18, US and Iraqi forces have killed six Mahdi Army f... July 21, 2008 Re: Another 58 States Thing: The Decade Presidents Victor, the truly scary thing about what the Messiah said is that he no doubt figures it's Maliki and Karzai who will be out of power within ten years, not him (Him?).... July 21, 2008 Hezbollah Brigades propaganda specialist captured in Baghdad Hezbollah Brigades' logo is nearly identical to that of Lebanese Hezbollah. Coalition special forces teams, likely the terrorist hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, have... July 21, 2008 Re: Maliki’s “Inartful” Statement If the New York Times account is to be credited, McCain should... July 21, 2008 Kidding Around With the Mullahs Condi Rice has just accused Iran of being “not serious” in negotiations meant to halt its uranium enrichment program. She’s got to be kidding. It’s the endless ch... July 21, 2008 Obscenity Incarnate The Syrian regime's favorite American flack, the hackademic in Oklahoma, has managed to outdo himself today by claiming that the Lebanese "welcomed Hizbullah's move" in May.... July 21, 2008 The US and the LAF David Schenker does us all a favor by dissecting and correcting a remarkably awful and factually erroneous op... July 21, 2008 Somalia Faces Humanitarian Crisis Somalia has faced a humanitarian crisis for much of the year, but now it appears to be growing noticeably worse. A confluence of factors'”including disease outbreaks, a growing famine,... July 20, 2008 Mosul’s IED hunter wounded in attack ... July 19, 2008 Pakistan signs peace accord in Orakzai tribal agency The Pakistani government has negotiated yet another peace agreement with the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan. The latest a... July 19, 2008 Quntar: Hezbollah’s Version of Wiam Wahhab Over at MESH, Michael Young explains the Druze politics, and Hezbollah's attempts to penetrate them, th...

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