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January 17, 2011
Iranian Woman Not Stoned for Alleged Adultery
Iran's pariah regime said today that it plans to drop the death-by-stoning penalty against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery. All this means is tha...
January 17, 2011
The Italo-German Double Game in Iran
In 2010, Germany and Italy put themselves further on the wrong side of history. Although both countries agreed last summer to support new European Union sanctions against Iran, the latest data sh...
January 17, 2011
Anwar al Awlaki: Jihadists Should Steal From Disbelievers
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released the fourth volume of its Inspire magazine online and it features a potentially revealing commentary by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. In an...
January 17, 2011
China’s President Hu Will Visit U.S. This Week But His Country Will Continue to Test U.S. Resolve
As President Obama prepares to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House this week, China is debuting new military capabilities and issuing threats of an arms race with Japan....
January 17, 2011
Fatal Intersection
Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the...
January 16, 2011
Tunisia and the Lessons of the Iranian Revolution
What happened in Tunisia over the past few days was reminiscent of scenes from Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and ’90s: people’s power in action. But it is...
January 15, 2011
So When Does Saudi Arabia Say Thank You to Israel?
It’s a good bet that in Tehran and Pyongyang, officials will be poring with great interest over every detail in a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times, all about the “digita...
January 15, 2011
The United States, France, and Their Allies Cannot Allow Terror Group Hezbollah to Deny Justice
On Wednesday , Hezbollah brought down Lebanon’s democratic government. The group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet, crumbling the unity government in an impeccably-timed constitutiona...
January 14, 2011
Thank You for Not Packing Heat
Sane and reasonable people agree that political battles should be fought with ideas, principles, and words — not guns, bullets, and bombs. But in a nation of more than 300 million, it must...
January 13, 2011
Reading the Developments in Lebanon
Berlin — Lebanon’s de facto government, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah, dissolved Beirut’s coalition administration on Wednesday while Lebanon’s Western-leaning prime ministe...
January 13, 2011
The War Against the Christians
Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting...
January 13, 2011
Côte d’Ivoire Crisis: Some Lessons to Be Learned
In my review last week of Africa's likely top flash points for 2011, I expressed my concern that The year that was supposed to be Côte d'Ivoire's "ann...
January 13, 2011
Dangers of Ignoring the Contrasts in Euro Hatreds
It is now a commonplace in Europe to regard antisemitism and the more recent phenomenon, "Islamophobia", as much of a muchness. Yet there are important historical distinctions between the hatred...
January 13, 2011
We Saw It Coming
The resignation of Hezbollah and its allies from the Lebanese government was, in many ways, foreseeable. Hezbollah and Prime Minister Saad Hariri's respective positions on the Special Tribun...
January 13, 2011
Mossad Playing a New Iran Game
Deterrence sometimes demands taking credit for your victories - but in its covert war against Iran, Israel has rarely done so, despite its likely role in many successful sabotages of Iran's...
January 13, 2011
Turkistan Islamic Party Identifies Senior Leader Killed in Afghanistan
The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Central and South Asia, has identified a senior member of the group who was killed in a US airstrike last year in northwestern...
January 12, 2011
Obama Administration Endorses ‘Jihad Rehab’ Program in Yemen
The Obama administration supports the establishment of a jihad rehabilitation program in Yemen, according to remarks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made during a town hall in the region. Clin...
January 12, 2011
Julian Assange Isn’t Going to Gitmo
Here is a new myth about Guantanamo. The attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claim that if Assange is extradited to Sweden he may end up detained in Cuba. The Guardian (UK) reports:...
January 11, 2011
Data Shows German Trade with Iran Increased in 2010
BERLIN – Despite new rounds of UN and EU sanctions in 2010, German-Iranian export and import trade showed increases last year, according to an examination of new German government trade sta...
January 10, 2011
A New Chapter for Africa
On Sunday, Southern Sudanese in their millions flocked to some three thousand polling stations set up not only in Sudan, but around the world to the accommodate the far-flung diaspora, to cast th...
January 9, 2011
Are EU Sanctions Influencing Iran’s Behavior?
Europe's submissive attitude toward Iran and its nuclear weapons program must change, political analyst Diana Gregor, a leading expert in Central European policies vis-a-vis Iran told Benjam...
January 8, 2011
The Elusive Syria Track
There was a minor hoopla in recent days over reports of possible stirrings between Israel and Syria, leading to speculation of a US-sponsored secret back channel to renew peace talks on the Syria...
January 7, 2011
German Left Party Seeks to Reintroduce Stalinism
“We can only find the ways to communism if we get started and try them out, whether in the opposition or in the government,” Gesine Lötzsch, co-president of the German Left Party...
January 7, 2011
Gitmo Detainee Transferred to Algeria
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), ha...
January 6, 2011
Jihad 101
Last month, Americans celebrated the holidays without a terrorist attack on American soil. That should be a source of relief but not complacency. – Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Ph...
January 5, 2011
Welcome back, Sadr
Muqtada al Sadr, the Iranian-backed, pseudo-cleric derisively known as Mullah Atari and hailed in US media circles as "the most powerful man in Iraq," has returned from his self-imposed three-yea...
January 5, 2011
Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
January 4, 2011
An End to ‘Critical Dialogue’ with Iran?
Berlin — Europe in general and Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in particular have traditionally pursued a dual strategy of “critical dialogue” and “change throu...
January 4, 2011
Saudis Erroneously Blame Gitmo for Jihadism
On Saudi television last week, a former Guantanamo detainee named Jabir al Fayfi claimed that he and his fellow Saudi detainees were radicalized during their time in American custody. According t...
January 4, 2011
Bringing Tehran to its Knees
Where sanctions against Iran are concerned, the issue is timing: Can the West put enough pressure on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his praetorians to either crack the regime or make its l...
January 4, 2011
Punish Iran’s Human-Rights Abusers
In September the Obama administration sanctioned eight Iranian officials for their role in the recent wave of repression inside the country. Meanwhile, the European Union is still discussing huma...
January 4, 2011
100 Prominent Germans Call on Iran to Free Reporters
The mass circulation Bild am Sonntag newspaper jump-started a solidarity media campaign on Sunday to call for the release of two German journalists imprisoned in Iran. “Let both re...
January 4, 2011
Neutrality Will Not Shield Sweden From Terrorism
Until Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly’s explosive belt went off prematurely in Stockholm last month, Sweden was the poster child for isolationism in the war on terror. While Abdulwahab’s...
January 3, 2011
An Actor-centric Theory of War
The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, is reassessing its approach to war. With America entering the 10th year of what was originally called the global war on terror, the Natio...
December 31, 2010
Danish Newspaper Plotter Arrested Twice Before
One of the suspects arrested in connection with the recently foiled terrorist plot against Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, has been arres...
December 30, 2010
After START
National security hawks lost a battle last week when 71 members of the Senate -- not all of them Democrats -- voted to ratify New START. The treaty limits America’s non-nuclear long-range w...
December 30, 2010
It’s Time to Act
By now, the objective behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s contacts with France and Saudi Arabia is rather clear: Attempting to create a renewed consensus for a full – if...
December 29, 2010
Suicide Assault Team Kills Mosul Emergency Police Chief
A team of al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers stormed a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today and killed a senior police officer who has targeted al Qaeda's top leaders....
December 29, 2010
Islamist and Leftists Cooperating? Surely You Jest …
Well, no, I don't. And for the gazillio...
December 29, 2010
DNI Clapper Needs to Know
Little did Director of National Intelligence James Clapper know that when he and two of his Obama administration colleagues sat down to discuss the terror threat with ABC’s Diane Sawyer ear...
December 28, 2010
Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding
Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem. He is marrying Nata...
December 27, 2010
Gitmo Is Not al Qaeda’s ‘Number One Recruitment Tool’
During a press conference on December 22, President Obama was asked about the difficulties his administration has encountered in trying to close Guantanamo. The president explained (emphasis adde...
December 26, 2010
Should the CIA Turn Against Pakistan’s Spies?
The recent chief-of-station (COS) cover-shredding brouhaha between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate marks an ironic and pos...
December 23, 2010
End the Immigration Lottery
Last week, the DREAM Act failed. DREAM if the cutesy acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Had Congress, in its lame duck session, passed the bill, young people in the U...
December 22, 2010
The Dangerous Myth of ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists
If U.S. officials and the media can be believed, America faces an epidemic of “homegrown” terrorism. Yet from U.S. Army shooter Nidal Hasan to would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shah...
December 22, 2010
Dictators: How to Prop Up Your Regime
Last week, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, abruptly fired his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki. Even by his low standards of etiquette, the event was unprecedented, leaving aghast...
December 21, 2010
Corker’s Case for START: As Convincing as ‘A Letter from My Mother’
Patting himself and his fellow Senate Republicans on the back for selling o...
December 21, 2010
The Wrong Way to Stop Civilian Terror Trials
Co-Authored with Lee A. Casey Trying captured al Qaeda, Taliban, or allied terrorists in United States civilian courts is a bad idea. The near-acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani—...
December 20, 2010
Sanctions Are Hurting Iran’s Regime, but Not Enough
Berlin - The Islamic Republic of Iran's economy is in disarray. On Sunday, gas...
December 20, 2010
A New Anti-Semitic, Anti-Gitmo Myth is Born
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera broadcast a lengthy interview with Walid Muhammad Hajj, who was detained at Guantanamo for several years until he was transferred to his native Sudan in 2008. (MEMR...
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