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April 7, 2004
Sins of Commission
It's not supposed to be about politics. It's not supposed to be about settling scores. It's not supposed to be entertainment. But those are the ways the 9/11 commission's work...
April 7, 2004
The Gray Lady Whitewashes Black Muslims
Islam is frequently cited in the media as the fastest growing religion in America. Perhaps in recognition of this trend the New York Times recently featured an Arts & Ideas section profile of...
April 7, 2004
Side Show
Give Condoleezza Rice credit for candor. Testifying before the 9/11 Commission today, President Bush's national-security adviser acknowledged that the United States "simply was not on a war...
April 6, 2004
Somalia Redux?
U.S.troops suffered dozens of casualties at the hands of rebellious Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad, as Americans were still reeling from the barbarous and gruesome ambush of four civilian sec...
April 6, 2004
Dial a Dissident
Just four months after winning fulsome praise for agreeing to give up his programs for weapons of mass murder, Libya's Col. Moammar Gadhafi has presented the democratic world with a test....
April 5, 2004
Sounding the Alarm
In the war on terror, we have reached a winter of discontent. Democratic candidates tell us the center cannot hold, that we are over-extended and globally unloved, that the Bush policies hav...
April 1, 2004
Kofi Annan’s Corrupt Enterprise
Authored by Editorial Board Is the clock ticking on Secretary General Kofi Annan's merry pranks at the United Nations? Could be. The rank corruption of the body's Iraq...
April 1, 2004
Oil for Palaces
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Almost a year after the fall of Baghdad, everybody knows that Saddam Hussein stole billions from the Iraqi people. What is now emerging is that the United Na...
March 30, 2004
Did Saddam Bribe the U.N.?
The U.N. oil-for-food program was supposed to help the Iraqi people acquire the food and medicine they needed while U.N. sanctions against Iraq were in place, sanctions that could have been lifte...
March 24, 2004
Blame Game: Who Took Terrorism Seriously Before 9/11?
Let's grant that Richard Clarke is correct in charging that the Bush administration did not appreciate the urgency of the terrorist threat in the eight months leading up to Sept. 11, 2001. B...
March 23, 2004
Selective Second Guessing: What is Richard Clarke Thinking?
The Bush administration is now being harshly criticized for (1) its policies of preemption and unilateralism and for (2) not unilaterally preempting the Taliban and al Qaeda immediately after com...
March 23, 2004
Talking to Tripoli: Meet Fathi Eljahmi, a Libyan Freedom-Fighter
One contribution any citizen of the Free World can make to those still living under tyranny is simply to learn their names. Especially, get to know the individuals among them who at great risk ch...
March 22, 2004
Wasting No Tears on Killer
Critics say Israel's decision to hit Yassin was a strategic error - it was bad timing and will provoke more violence. I disagree. There is no good time for such a strike, and terrorists need...
March 21, 2004
An Iraq to be Proud of
Authored by Andrew Apostolou One year after Coalition forces began the liberation of Iraq, there is a rush to judge how the U.S.-led project of creating a democratic society...
March 21, 2004
The Price of Spain’s Appeasement
The savage terror attack in Madrid was said to be Europe's 9-11. To many observers March 11 quickly became Spain's day of infamy. Instead, March 14, the day of the Spanish elections, ha...
March 20, 2004
Turtle Bay’s Carnival of Corruption: Digging Deeper into the Scandalous Oil-for-Food Program
With United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan finally conceding the need for an independent investigation of the U.N.’s 1996-2003 Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, the next question is how i...
March 18, 2004
The Trains of Jihad Derail Spain
As I heard the horrible news on the Thursday morning of the terrorist attacks in Spain, my mind turned to the news releases made by the Spanish government regarding the attacks. Madrid's con...
March 17, 2004
Spanish Lessons: Iraqis Get the Message; So Do the Terrorists
The other night, I attended a reception at the Embassy of Iraq. Virtually all Iraq's communities were represented: Sunni, Shia and Kurd, Muslim and Christian. There were women in modest veil...
March 10, 2004
A Creeping Coup’: Is Russia Heading Back to the USSR?
When the Soviet Union collapsed, most Russians looked forward to joining the Free World as quickly as possible. Having been a student and a reporter in the USSR, I soon found myself attending con...
March 9, 2004
Outing the Other Baathists
Authored by Oubai Shahbandar After passing the Syrian Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act, the U.S. Congress is raising the heat on the Syrian Baath dictatorship with its propose...
March 9, 2004
Kojo and Kofi
In the growing scandal over the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, which from 1996-2003 supervised relief to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and his staff have ex...
March 9, 2004
Movies vs. Reality: “The Passion” is Mute Next to Auschwitz’s Quiet Power
KRAKOW, Poland--Mel Gibson's new movie, "The Passion of the Christ" opened last week in this venerable Polish city, playing to a rapt audience at the refurbished Kiev Cinema, a large movie h...
March 8, 2004
Bridging the Rift in the Middle East
As usual, the word from the Middle East recently has been a mixture of good news, bad news. One piece of good news is that the Iraqi Governing Council has signed an interim constitution establish...
March 6, 2004
Blair the Bold
Authored by Andrew Apostolou WHAT makes Tony Blair tick? To many of his compatriots, the British prime minister is a mystery. A devout Christian in a nation of atheists, he fors...
March 5, 2004
Venezuela: The Next Cuba
As Venezuela’s embattled democratic opposition gears up for its planned August referendum against that South American nation's increasingly authoritarian ruler, President Hugo Chavez i...
March 3, 2004
Building Democracies: Tough Work If You Can Get It
Virtually everyone reading this newspaper can drive a car. But how many of you could build a car? The same is true of democracy. Most people raised in a democratic society know how to op...
March 3, 2004
Zero Hour in Iraq: The Terrorist Campaign Moves Up a Gear
Authored by Andrew Apostolou SULAIMANI, IRAQI KURDISTAN–The terrorist attacks that claimed over 140 lives in Baghdad and Karbala on March 2, 2004, are probably the start of a new a...
March 1, 2004
Baghdad and Karbala Attacks
Authored by Andrew Apost...
March 1, 2004
Crisis Delayed: The Iraqi Interim Constitution Could Fail
Authored by Andrew Apostolou BAGHDAD & SULAIMANI, IRAQ–Iraqi politicians have been congratulating themselves on the interim constitution that they agreed on March 1, 2004. Adna...
February 25, 2004
Terrorism on Trial
THE HAGUE–A light snow was falling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague, an imposing building in a fenced, park-like setting. TV cameras perched on the front lawn as hundreds...
February 25, 2004
The Ankara-Erbil Axis
Authored by Andrew Apostolou ERBIL, IRAQI KURDISTAN–One of the greatest headaches facing the U.S. in Iraq is how to address the aspirations of the long-repressed Iraqi Kurds, who w...
February 24, 2004
Reversal of Culpability
Sometimes, the little articles in the back of the newspaper tell you more about global trends than do the big pieces on the front pages. A few days ago, a small Associated Press item was headline...
February 22, 2004
Ex-Chief of CIA Keeps Date for a Power Lunch
Co-Authored by Eli Lake When Haidar al-Bandar was released from his eighth Immigration and Naturalization Service prison in 2000, he invited his lawyer to lunch in his hometown once Sadd...
February 19, 2004
Fireball in the Night
This is a very solid introduction to serious thinking about the War on Terror and the scale of the threat to the United States. In one slender volume, Frum and Perle have outlined an analysis of...
February 18, 2004
Mending Fences: Could a Fence Do More Than Just Stop Terrorism?
What if it works? What if the terrorism prevention barrier, the fence, the wall – call it what you like – what if it actually were to succeed in frustrating the West Bank terrorists w...
February 17, 2004
Mr. Magoo Bites Back
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The former U.N. arms inspector, Hans Blix, has resurfaced in an attempt to add to the woes of the British and American governments over Iraq’s weapons...
February 11, 2004
Grave and Gathering Complacency
Authored by Andrew Apostolou There is a new consensus emerging about the war against Saddam’s regime: that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and by extension WMDs ge...
February 10, 2004
A Cure for the Clash?
Early in the final decade of the last century, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington offered what seemed an eccentric prediction. While others saw economic, political and ideological tempests ahead...
February 10, 2004
Beyond Disarmament: Does President Bush Mean What He’s Said About Promoting Democracy?
Authored by Farid N. Ghadry Little by little, the world is getting a glimpse of the mechanisms of the Iraqi Baath party. The latest discovery of Iraqi files buried deep in government bui...
February 10, 2004
Tear Down This Regime: Let’s Negotiate North Korea’s Dictatorship Out of Existence
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!...
February 8, 2004
AWOL in the Battle of Ideas
OVER THE WEEKEND of January 10-13, 300 leaders from the United States and 38 Muslim countries convened in Doha, Qatar, for a "U.S.-Islamic World Forum." Jointly sponsored by the government of Qat...
February 8, 2004
Perle: Intel was Flawed, But War Still Justified
Co-Authored by Richard Mullen U.S. intelligence on Iraq had "very serious" flaws, but the war against Saddam Hussein still was justified, according to an intellectual father of that conf...
February 5, 2004
Saddam’s Real WMD Was Terrorism
David Kay, the former US weapons inspector, reported recently that despite the fact that every major Western intelligence agency and the UN believed Saddam Hussein still possessed them, his team...
February 4, 2004
Desperately Seeking Consensus: We Need a Real Debate About Fighting Terrorism
Divided though we Americans are, surely, we can agree on this proposition: The United States needs a national security policy that addresses the specter of global terrorism. And perhaps...
February 4, 2004
Pressure Drop
Authored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth David Kay’s testimony should put to rest any doubts that the Bush administration “sexed up” intelligence or pressured analysts to reach c...
February 3, 2004
Ricin and Terrorism
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Backgrounder: Ricin and Terrorism
February 2, 2004
Q & A: James Woolsey on WMD
Co-Authored by Bernard Gwertzman R. James Woolsey, director of central intelligence in 1993-1995 and a longtime advocate of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, argues that some biological a...
February 1, 2004
The Human Cost of Terrorism: A Photographic Essay
FDD publication on victims of terrorism created in connection with the "Terrorism on Trial" campaign run by FDD in defense of Israel's right to build a security fence to protect its citizens...
February 1, 2004
Kay’ Sera, Sera
So which is it: Are America's spies a gaggle of fools for believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Or is the Bush administration a gang of knaves for lying us into a war?...
January 28, 2004
Repeal the Patriot Act?
If you've seen The Godfather, Scarface or The Sopranos, you're familiar with the routine: Federal agents know who the crime bosses are, and what crimes are be...
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