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December 17, 2010
Austria Under Fire for Promoting Trade with Teheran
The Austrian Chamber of Commerce's decision early this month to hold a workshop in Vienna to expand trade with Iran has sparked criticism from Austria's Jewish community and the Europea...
December 17, 2010
U.S. Readies New Sanctions on Iran Ahead of Talks
WASHINGTON, Dec 15, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is preparing a new batch of sanctions against Iran to be announced next week in advance of nuclear talks in Turkey. Two Iran...
December 16, 2010
AQAP Operative Fahd al Quso Denies Reports of His Death
A top leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen who was rumored to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan has spoken to the media to quash the reports of his death. F...
December 16, 2010
Israel’s Former Ambassador to Iran: ‘The Iranian People Are the only Agent Which Can Change the Regi
Press Release December 9, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org Israel's Former Ambassador to Iran: 'The Iranian People Are the only Agent Which Can Change the Regime in Tehran' Washington, D.C. (December 9, 2010) Uri
December 16, 2010
Congressman Brad Sherman Tells FDD Event That Sanctions on Iran Can Promote Democratic Reform There
Press Release December 10, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org Congressman Brad Sherman Tells FDD Event That Sanctions on Iran Can Promote Democratic Reform There Washington, D.C. (December 10, 2010) A congressman
December 16, 2010
White House Official at FDD Event Signals More Iran Sanctions Soon to Come
Press Release December 10, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org White House Official at FDD Event Signals More Iran Sanctions Soon to Come Washington, D.C. (December 10, 2010)A senior American official told a conference
December 16, 2010
Vanity Fair Game
Filmmakers get to take dramatic license. Reporters really shouldn’t. But when it comes to Joseph C. Wilson IV and Valerie Plame, the mainstream media, as much as Hollywood, insist on market...
December 16, 2010
The Transies and the Treaty
Here is what you need to understand about the Republican party’s transnational progressives, folks like Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Richard Lugar, and Lindsey Graham: They proceed from t...
December 16, 2010
Lady al Qaeda’ in Propaganda
Top al Qaeda ideologue Abu Yahya al Libi has released a new propaganda tape, entitled "Aafia Siddiqui...Captivity and Oppression, So Where Are the Heroes?" Al Libi calls on Muslims to wage jihad...
December 16, 2010
Sarkozy’s Costly Pipe Dream
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s latest trip to France served as yet another reminder of the obvious futility of the Elysee’s attitude towards Syria under Nicolas Sarkozy. Driving t...
December 15, 2010
Jundallah Claims Suicide Attack at Iranian Mosque
Jundallah, a Sunni terrorist group, claimed it carried out a suicide attack today that targeted Shia worshipers at Imam Hussein Mosque in Chabahar in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province....
December 14, 2010
Is a US-Iran Nuclear Deal in the Works?
The abrupt firing of Foreign Minister Mottaki of Iran, ousted while traveling in Africa, probably doesn't mean much for the just-resumed US-Iran talks, which restarted last week in Geneva and which...
December 14, 2010
Fatah Members, in Their Own Divided Words
In the spring of 2010, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) commissioned a nine-week study of Palestinian online political sentiments. FDD selected ConStrat, a Washington, D.C.-based W...
December 13, 2010
Gaza Flotilla Shakedown
In the "Believe It Or Not" mega-farce of Middle East politics, the latest candidate for world-turned-upside-down is the story of Israel offering $100,000 apiece in compensation to the families of...
December 13, 2010
Iran: The War of the Persian Succession (cont.)
So Foreign Minister Mottaki has been fired while on an official trip to Senegal. Meanwhile, executions go on apace within the prisons of the country, and several political prisoners prefer to sta...
December 13, 2010
US Seeks to Tighten Squeeze on Iran Before Talks
WASHINGTON – The top nuclear adviser at the White House says the US wanted to continue to increase pressure on Iran through sanctions in coming days so that Teheran doesn't exploit the diplomatic...
December 13, 2010
U.S. and Allies Plan More Sanctions Against Iran
WASHINGTON — President Obama's chief nuclear adviser said Friday that the United States and its allies planned new sanctions in an effort to test "Iran's pain threshold" and force the country int...
December 13, 2010
White House Plans More Iran Sanctions
Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration said Friday that it was planning additional economic sanctions against Iran and acknowledged that the Islamic Republic might be trying to mani...
December 13, 2010
The Bipartisan Push for Missile Defense
The coming Congress will bring new opportunity for bipartisan consensus on a traditionally contentious policy matter — advancing missile defense. On November 20th at the Lisbon summit, NATO...
December 12, 2010
How to Get Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the impresario of the WikiLeaks cyber-war against the United States. By disclosing national defense secrets allegedly purloined by a rogue soldier, he has damaged American comba...
December 11, 2010
Gitmo Follies
Attorney General Eric Holder is dismayed over Congress’s refusal to cough up funds that would allow the Obama administration to close down Guantanamo Bay and transfer the 170 fire-breathing...
December 9, 2010
Cyber Wakeup Call?
The theft of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and military reports was an act of espionage and treachery. Their release was an act of sabotage. The U.S. government’s respon...
December 9, 2010
Abyei: The Abscess Threatening the Sudan
If all goes as planned, exactly one month from today, on January 9, 2011, voters in the ten states of southern Sudan as well as southerners living in the northern part of the country and abroad w...
December 9, 2010
Wikileaks: Obvious US Confusion Over Syria
WikiLeaks’ ongoing release of classified US State Department cables is providing a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of Washington’s dysfunctional Syria policy. Although there&rs...
December 8, 2010
Suspect in Baltimore Bombing Plot Is an American Convert to Islam
ABC-7 News in Baltimore is reporting on Twitter that the suspect in custody for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center is Antonio Martinez, an...
December 8, 2010
Wikileaks: Merkel Adviser Asked US to Pressure Netanyahu
A senior adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the US to tone down its opposition to the UN’s Goldstone Report in order to force Israel to freeze settlement construction, accordi...
December 8, 2010
A Palestinian State Means War
With the U.S.-led peace process looking increasingly moribund, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has begun enlisting foreign leaders in a dangerous effort to recognize a Palestinian state witho...
December 7, 2010
Review — Nomad: From Islam to America. A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
A Nomad's Journey Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born feminist, continues to invoke the ire of Muslims worldwide with her scathing depiction of the Islamic faith and culture writ large...
December 7, 2010
Mohamud Was Not Entrapped
What would someone have to offer to entice you into killing someone? Or to entice you into killing thousands of people? The FBI has just caught Mohamed Osman Mohamud trying to kill 25,00...
December 7, 2010
Gitmo Recidivism Rate Soars
150 former Guantanamo detainees are either “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities,” according to a new intelligence assessment released by the Dire...
December 7, 2010
Election Rigging Leads to Egypt’s First Major Opposition Boycott
For the first time in decades, the Egyptian people have pressured the major political opposition groups to boycott the country’s parliamentary elections. The move denies the aging autocracy...
December 6, 2010
Yemeni al Qaeda Commander Reported Killed in Mogadishu Clash
An al Qaeda commander from Yemen who led a group of foreign fighters battling the Somali government and African Union forces was reported killed in Mogadishu. The commander, Rajah Abu Kh...
December 6, 2010
Tomorrow Is National Student Day in Iran
We are coming up on National Student Day in Iran on the 7th (Tuesd...
December 5, 2010
WikiLeaks: Fishing With Dynamite
Pity the U.S. diplomats in the field, whose jobs presumably require that they now compose classified cables reporting back to Washington on local responses to the blunter aspects of their own wik...
December 5, 2010
The Iran Connection
Co-Authored with Stephen F. Hayes On December 1, Undersecretary of State William Burns appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to brief members of Congress...
December 4, 2010
Missile Malpractice
Show me where in the Constitution it says the government — created by the people in order to serve the people — is empowered to mandate that those selfsame people buy health insurance...
December 3, 2010
German Chancellor’s Top Mideast Advisor Indicates Support for Goldstone Report
The German equivalent of Charles W. Freeman Jr. has surfaced in a WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. embassy in Berlin. His name is C...
December 3, 2010
FDD Applauds Senators Casey and Brown for New Iran Sanctions Act
Press Release December 3, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Applauds Senators Casey and Brown for New Iran Sanctions Act Washington, D.C. (December 3, 2010) The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) applauds
December 3, 2010
Khartoum’s Denouement
On November 26, the South Sudan Referendum Commission extended by one week the time which southerners, both inside Sudan and abroad, have to register to vote in the self-determination plebiscite,...
December 3, 2010
Review: Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, From Christian Militias to
When, in the years following the end of the Cold War, it gradually emerged that terrorism for religious ends rather than violence linked to nationalist or revolutionary movements was to be...
December 2, 2010
WikiLeaks: Top Merkel Adviser Told U.S. to Crack Down on Israel
Berlin - A senior adviser to German chancellor Angela Merkel urged the U.S. to water down its opposition to the U.N.'s anti-Israel "Goldstone Report" in order to force Israel to fre...
December 2, 2010
I’ll See Your Cyberwar and Raise You One Subpoena
Referring to the feckless cease-and-desist letter the State Department's Harold Koh sent to Wikileaker Julian Assange, Jonah aptly...
December 2, 2010
The TSA Is Not the Enemy
I've been traveling a lot lately so I've been scanned, I've been patted and, on one occasion, there was even a close encounter with my "junk." But I am not among those who are cros...
December 2, 2010
Behind Iran’s Foiled Gambian Gambit
His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh, President of the Republic of The Gambia, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chief Custodian of the Sacre...
December 2, 2010
Al Qaeda in Iraq’s Security Minister Captured in Anbar
Iraqi security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq's security minister and the terror group's military commander for the capital during separate raids in Ramadi and Baghdad over the past t...
December 2, 2010
Democracy in The Middle East?
Since the end of the Ottoman Empire, through the many conflicts of the 20th century, the Middle East and North Africa have undergone two countervailing trends: the rise of authoritarian regimes a...
December 2, 2010
WikiLeaks Reveal Flaws in US Middle East Policy
As the fallout from the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables continues, one unmistakable conclusion is that the principal tenets of Washington’s foreign policy establishment’s conventional wis...
December 1, 2010
Does the First Amendment Mean What It Says Regarding Speech?
As I noted earlier, yesterday's column was about WikiLeaks and dealt with whether there is a pu...
December 1, 2010
WikiLeaks: The Iran-Al Qaeda Connection
A State Department cable released by WikiLeaks earlier this week contains a stunning new detail about the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda. The Saudis have privately complained to the Obama...
December 1, 2010
The Medieval Medical Horrors of North Korea, A Real-life Mordor
Five decades after Joseph Stalin’s death, there is only one place on earth where his dream of exterminating the individual human spirit in the name of communism survives in its purest form:...
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