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July 1, 2008 Commission Trial for Cole Bomber? Don’t Bet On It. The Times reports that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, long suspected as being the main al-Qaeda operative behind the bombing of the destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, that killed 17 members of the American Na... July 1, 2008 Re: Today Is a Good Day Today is a very good day, and I’m very proud to be in this extraordinary company and tradition. My first official act will probably be an article on why K-Lo is a much more d... July 1, 2008 From Eurabia to Londonistan: It Could Happen Here The disappearance of England, and Europe, continues apace. The Telegraph reports (italics mine): Muslims have complained over a police advert featuring a puppy sitting in an office... July 1, 2008 Future Jihad This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad. Phares--who has served as an expert with the Justice Department, brief... June 30, 2008 Biting Words from John Bolton The web briefing points to Amb. Bolton's piece in the WSJ today on the administration's awful North Korea capitulation. The wind-up is especially biting: The only good news is that ther... June 30, 2008 Obama: “I will never question anyone else’s patriotism in this campaign” How admirable! The only other 'anyone' in this campaign is John McCain. He's not gonna question McCain's patriotism? What a tremendous concession! Tune in tomorrow when Obama... June 30, 2008 UN World Food Program Hearts Robert Mugabe No matter how bad you think the UN is, there’s always something worse. This morning the UN came out with a press release about the UN’s World Food Program hustling more food to Kim Jo... June 30, 2008 Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan: An updated projection In August 2007, the Projected Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan (end-2012), a rough estimate of the end-state for Iraqi forces, was published. Additional information and details have sin... June 30, 2008 Re: Tortured Strategy Life is too short to waste seconds I can never get back looking up anything said by Wesley Clark. But did the general really say he didn’t think that McCain’s service as a... June 30, 2008 In Pictures: Extremist leaders in Pakistan’ s Khyber agency The Pakistani military has launched an operation against extremist groups in the Khyber agency. On June 29, the military said it was directly targeting the local extremist groups of Ansar-u... June 30, 2008 Iraq: Gee, Thanks for Everything — Now Turn Over Your Soldiers So We Can Prosecute Them If this story in the NYTimes is true, it is a disaster in the making. ... June 29, 2008 Keeping Score: My Favorite Day in a Long Time Tomorrow will be 36 years since my dad died (at 38). Even though I’m now 11 years older than he was when he died, I still miss him every day. One of the great joys we shared was... June 29, 2008 Pakistani military advances in Khyber The military operation in Pakistan's tribal agency of Khyber completed its second day. The military said the operation is limited in scope, while the Taliban have again threatened to attack... June 29, 2008 Blowing up insurgents’ old hut sends signal that Tarmiyah area is more secure Nathan Webster is an independent journalist who embedded with the US Army in Tarmiyah in Salahadin province, Iraq. Nathan is providing reports from Tarmiyah for The Long War J... June 29, 2008 The Argument for Divorce Back in February, Walid Jumblat made critical statements in an interview with Future News Channel. Jumblat spoke of the need for an "amicable divorce" between Hezbollah and the rest of Leba... June 29, 2008 Relative peace in Baghdad remains fragile as troops carry out counterinsurgency plan BAGHDAD, IRAQ: It's near noon on a Friday in Northeast Baghdad and the neighborhoods the U.S. military calls Muhallahs 535 and 734 are quiet. It's the weekend, and many adults are... June 29, 2008 Putting the EPA in Charge of Every Breath You Take? Even the control freaks who ran the Soviet Union never got around to trying to regulate every breath exhaled by their fellow citizens. But that’s where America seems to be h... June 28, 2008 Pakistan’s inconclusive military operations against the Taliban The Pakistani military operation in the tribal agency of Khyber is the latest offensive against the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan since the government assaulted the extremist Red Mosque... June 28, 2008 Pakistan strikes at Taliban in Khyber agency The Pakistani government has launched an operation targeting the Taliban in the Khyber tribal agency along the Afghan border. The operation is led by the paramilitary Frontier Corps and pol... June 27, 2008 Taliban rampage in Pakistan’s Swat district The Taliban has launched a series of attacks against political opponents and the infrastructure in the scenic northern district of Swat in Pakistan. The attacks occurred as the government a... June 27, 2008 North Korea Blows Up Wrong Symbol North Korea’s government invites TV crews to come film the demolition of a cooling tower at its aging Yongbyon nuclear plant (note: there is no invitation for them to freely roam the... June 27, 2008 The Coming War I highly recommend you read in full the following excellent NOW Lebanon editorial. You will note that it dovetails with a number of points in my Transatlantic Issues piece. It also... June 27, 2008 Cheer up. We’re winning this War on Terror "My centre is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I shall attack!” If only our political leaders and opinion-formers displayed even a hint of the defiant... June 27, 2008 Taliban attack US base in Afghanistan from Pakistan The Taliban has launched yet another attack on a US outpost in Afghanistan from inside Pakistan. A Taliban rocket team fired at a US outpost in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan early this... June 26, 2008 June 25 Bombings in Karbala On Wednesday, June 25, two bombs exploded in central Karbala, killing at least 2 and wounding 14.1 The explosive devices were located minibuses and were targeting major Shi’ite shrines. Unl... June 26, 2008 22 Taliban killed in attacks on three district centers in eastern Afghanistan The Taliban are continuing to strike at district centers in Paktika and Paktia provinces in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border. Two district centers in Paktika province and on... June 26, 2008 Condi Rice Wants Us to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Kim Jong Il It needs the talents of Stanley Kubrick to do justice to the complete Cuckoo’s Nest that American policy on North Korea has become. The State Department wants a nuclear deal, Presi... June 26, 2008 Released Guantanamo detainee behind March suicide truck bombing at Combat Outpost Inman in Mosul Al Qaeda in Iraq, through its puppet organization the Islamic State of Iraq, released its latest propaganda video on June 23. The video contains a montage of attacks throughout Iraq, and fe... June 26, 2008 Re: Removing North Korea from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism POTUS: “[W]e welcome today’s development as one step in the multi-step process laid out by the six-party talks between North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United S... June 26, 2008 Surveillance Overhaul Will Pass In The Senate The Washington Post reports that the filibuster bluster is fading. The Senate overwhelmingly agreed to debate intelligence reform, which passed in the House last week by close to a 2-1 marg... June 26, 2008 It’s Justice Kennedy’s World … we’re just living in it. Sure, we protect child-rapists and you may even run into the occasional jihadist on the courthouse steps, but — at least for now — we get to... June 26, 2008 Not an Enemy Combatant Because the Court Says So I wrote Tuesday about the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals from the DC Circuit which presumes to overrule the commander-in-chief’s determination that a Uighur detainee — who... June 26, 2008 State Department Stonewalling on the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia Steve Emerson has the details at the Investigative Project on Terrorism.... June 26, 2008 Seems Kim Jong Il Didn’ t Get Condi’ s Memo While the State Department and White House are whooping it up over Pyongyang diplomacy and removing North Korea from the terror list (see post below), Kim Jong Il’s state propaganda agencie... June 26, 2008 The People v. The Judges From Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in the gun case: We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a... June 26, 2008 Mahdi Army decimated during recent fighting The Mahdi Army suffered a significant blow during fighting against Iraqi and Coalition forces this year, according to an Iraq intelligence report. The heavy casualties suffered by the Mahdi... June 26, 2008 US names al Qaeda emir of Mosul killed during raid The US military has identified al Qaeda's leader of Mosul who was killed during a targeted raid in the northern city on June 24. Multinational Forces Iraq named Abu... June 25, 2008 … And Then There Are NON-Evolving Standards Maybe today was not the best day for MEMRI to bring us this clip of Dr. Ahmad Al-Mub’i, a top Saudi marriage officiant, explaining: “It is allowed to marry a girl at the a... June 25, 2008 Northwest Pakistan descends into chaos The Pakistani Taliban continue military operations in the tribal agencies and the settled regions of the Northwest Frontier Province despite ongoing negotiations to sign a peace agreement w... June 25, 2008 Iraqi and U.S. Troops Seize 7 EFPs, Mortar Systems in New Baghdad Night Raids NEW BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces discovered two large weapons caches in northeastern Baghdad, including seven of the deadly EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, commonly us... June 24, 2008 US forces kill al Qaeda’s leader in Mosul US special operations forces scored a major victory in Mosul today. US forces killed al Qaeda's emir, or leader, of the northern Iraq city during a raid on a safe house.... June 24, 2008 US, Afghan forces kill 16 Taliban in eastern Afghanistan Afghan police backed by US air support held off a Taliban attempt to overrun a district center in eastern Afghanistan. At least 16 Taliban were reported killed after US air support was called in.... June 24, 2008 Iraq Options, Are victory and defeat the only alternatives? Yet that is what many Americans now favor, perhaps because they have been persuaded that when Sunnis and Shites kill one another, Americans must be to blame. With apologies to Carly Simon:... June 24, 2008 Welcome to Boumediene World Here we go. The Los Angeles Times and... June 23, 2008 Kofi Annan’ s Climate Cocktail Dinatoire in Geneva In case anyone’s lost track of Kofi Annan, it’s time for a reality check. During his final year as self-styled “Chief Diplomat of the World” at the UN, he... June 23, 2008 Afghan, US forces kill 55 Taliban after ambush US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and "inflicted heavy casualties" on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 re... June 22, 2008 One hundred insurgents detained in Baghdad during past week BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces in and around Baghdad captured more than 100 insurgents and defused 147 improved explosive devices during the past week as part of contin... June 22, 2008 Tonight, a ’60 Minutes’ Expose Worth Watching: Your Tax Dollars for Enemy Propaganda In World War II, when Tokyo Rose broadcast enemy propaganda, at least the enemy had to foot the bills for it. Times change, and now there’s Al Hurra. Se... June 22, 2008 Operations target Mahdi Army in South Iraqi security forces continue to target the Sadrist movement and the Mahdi Army in the southern provinces of Maysan, Dhi Qhar, and Wasit over the weekend. More than 113 Mahdi Army fighters... June 22, 2008 The Confrontation In Future Jihad, terrorism and Middle East expert Walid Phares gave a definitive account of the historical and cultural forces that led to September 11 and the rise of radical Islam. In The War o...

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