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September 27, 2010
A ‘Perfect Man’ at the U.N.
After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speeches, press conferences, and interviews in New York City last week, it's obvious the Iranian president lives in a parallel universe. This has been diffic...
September 27, 2010
Eager to Invest in Iranian Energy, Russians Seek Support to Undercut Western Sanctions
UNITED NATIONS _ Even as the White House praised Russia for declining to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions, Russian diplomats were quietly recruiting other countrie...
September 27, 2010
Russia Pushing Back on Tougher Sanctions Against Iran
Reporting from the United Nations — Even as the White House praised Russia for declining to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions, Russian diplomats were...
September 27, 2010
Critical Questions Regarding The Role of Foreign Fighters in Shabaab
Earlier today I served as a panelist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's annual conference on foreign fighters, discussing the phenomenon in Somalia. The panel discussion was based ar...
September 24, 2010
At the UN, America Pays, Ahmadinejad Plays
As long as America provides such toys as the United Nations, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might as well play with them - and this week, again, play he did. Ahmadinejad has just treate...
September 24, 2010
Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’
BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...
September 24, 2010
Reactivating The Syrian Track
Last week, US officials came out with statements assuring that the Obama administration is committed to achieving “comprehensive peace,” which means at some point reactivating the Syr...
September 24, 2010
Inside The Mind of A Conspiracy Theorist
When the phrase “conspiracy theorist” is used, most people imagine an anti-social, mentally unstable nut, along the lines of Mel Gibson’s taxi-driving paranoiac in the 1997 movi...
September 24, 2010
Lady al Qaeda’ Sentenced to 86 Years in Prison
A New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, who has been dubbed "Lady al Qaeda" by the press, to 86 years in prison yesterday. Siddiqui's sentence follows her conviction on charges related to...
September 23, 2010
Peace – But Not Now
At an off-the-record gathering of foreign policy mandarins and opinion mongers recently, the former head of an allied nation said he was advising President Obama to push as hard as possible for a...
September 23, 2010
When Crime Does Pay
In my annual survey of African "hot spots" back in January, I noted that "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) seems to be stirring again as well as getting more involved in illicit trafficking...
September 23, 2010
US Official Explains National Counterterrorism Center’s View of The Enemy
In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee yesterday, Michael Leiter provided an overview of how his National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) sees the terror...
September 22, 2010
Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...
September 21, 2010
If Ahmadinejad Loves the UN So Much, Just Keep Him There
Oh how Mahmoud loves that UN stage. And four sets of binding UN sanctions on Iran since 2006 are no bar to the UN podium. Right now, for the sixth time in six years, Iran's Bloviator-in-Chie...
September 20, 2010
Will the Future Belong to Iran?
Where does the musical film Cabaret, which depicts the rise of German fascism, intersect with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance at the United Nations this week? "It is clear the futu...
September 20, 2010
Suicide Bomber Detonates Inside Somalia’s Presidental Compound
A Shabaab suicide bomber entered the presidential compound in Mogadishu today and detonated his vest. The suicide bomber penetrated security at the main gate of the base as an African Un...
September 20, 2010
Can Two Ex-Gitmo Detainees, Now in Germany, Visit the U.S. as Tourists?
The German government recently granted residency to ex-Guantanamo detainees Ahmed Mohammed al-Shurfa and Mahmoud Salim al-Ali, who arrived last Thursday in Germany. While the Bild, Germa...
September 20, 2010
Al Qaeda in Iraq
In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...
September 18, 2010
There Oughtn’t Be a Law
République française has banned the burqa. Along with the face-covering veil (the niqab), the burqa is the garment with which Muslim women conceal their bodies from head to toe. Mor...
September 17, 2010
Iran is On the Taliban’s Side in Afghanistan – Not Ours
In his op-ed for the Washington Post this morning, David Ignatius writes: I hope the administration will open a U.S.-Iranian channel on Afghanistan soon...
September 17, 2010
Palestine: Gaining Currency?
The Palestinians are putting money on notion that they will have a state next year. This month's edition of The Monocle, a London based magazine on politics and culture reveals that...
September 16, 2010
Religion of Peace Alert: FBI Advises ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist to Disappear
Fox News reports that, at the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonis...
September 16, 2010
Cry Islamophobia!
We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...
September 16, 2010
Syrian Pretension And Reality in Iraq
Recent news reports about the arduous process of government formation in Iraq suggest that a deal may be in the works that would see incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki keep his post. If tru...
September 16, 2010
Nigeria at the Crossroads, Again
Focused on the final stretch of the midterm elections at home, policymakers and pundits in the United States have hardly evinced any interest in concerning themselves with electoral politics abro...
September 15, 2010
Iran-Backed Senior IMU Commander Captured in Afghan North
Coalition and Afghan forces captured a senior facilitator for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [IMU] with links to Iran during a raid yesterday in the northern Afghan province o...
September 15, 2010
FDD Releases Report on China’s Energy Ties with Iran
Press Release September 15, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Releases Report on China's Energy Ties with Iran Washington, D.C. (September 15, 2010) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) released a
September 14, 2010
Why Is Switzerland Backing Ahmadinejad’s Iran?
Berlin - The European Union and the U.S. have passed tough sanctions targeting Iran...
September 14, 2010
Al Qaeda Bolsters The Ranks of The Taliban
While I also posted this in the Videos section, I felt this deserved some attention here at Threat Matrix. This...
September 14, 2010
Report: Swiss FM Under Fire for Blocking Iran Sanctions
BERLIN - Swiss government officials in the Economics Department (Seco) have called for tougher sanctions against Iran and criticized Social Democratic Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey for bl...
September 13, 2010
To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China
In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act with the aim of, among other things, pressuring the regime in Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism. For a time, the sanctions did annoy those w...
September 13, 2010
US Treasury Bans European-Iranian Bank from Operating in US
BERLIN – The US Treasury Department last week banned the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank) from operating in the US because it finances companies that...
September 11, 2010
Imagining Islam
If only the fantasy were true: If only there actually were a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of t...
September 11, 2010
America May Have Overreacted to September 11 … but Americans Didn’t
Did America overreact to September 11? In a recent column in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria answered that with an emphatic and mournful “yes.” In Mr. Zakaria’s telling, we’ve sq...
September 11, 2010
Is ‘Constructive Disengagement’ the Solution in Somalia?
On Thursday, Joshua Foust published an article at PBS's Need to Know that, though avoiding the term "constructive disengagement," mirrors the arguments advanced by Bronwyn Bruton's repo...
September 10, 2010
ARNSI Poll- Americans Support Israel’s ‘Fence’
Americans Support Israel's 'Fence...
September 10, 2010
Remember the Twin Towers: Here’s the Community Center, Sept. 10, 2001
The talk right now is endlessly about Islam, whether one tunes in to news of Pastor Terry Jones and the will-he won't-he question of whether he'll burn the Koran, or news of Feisal Abdu...
September 10, 2010
If We Don’t Build It, They Will Kill You?
“Peace” is a word so over-used and abused that by now it’s wise to brace yourself every time some self-declared “peace-maker” pipes up. But even by those standards,...
September 10, 2010
Declassify the NSA’s files on Iran and al Qaeda
The must-read piece on terrorism this week comes from Philip Shenon, writing at The Daily Beast. Shenon writes about a cache of intelligence documents stored at the National Security Agency (NSA)...
September 10, 2010
Interview with Claudia Rosett on Middle East and Ground Zero Mosque
Accuracy in Media recently interviewed Claudia Rosett, the director of the Investigative Reporting Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel...
September 9, 2010
A Few Missing Details
The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court has shot down a lawsuit against Jeppesen Data...
September 9, 2010
Nine Years Since 9/11
Nine years ago this week, I began a series of discussions about terrorism with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and a small group of concerned philanthropists. Since Saturday is the ninth anniversary...
September 9, 2010
HIG Facilitator Properly Detained at Gitmo, Judge Finds
On Friday, Sept. 3, DC District Judge John Bates issued an order denying a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan. The order was terse, and did not set forth...
September 8, 2010
The Tip of the Jihadist Spear
Ever since the September 11 attacks, some in counterterrorism and intelligence circles have tried to define al Qaeda narrowly, thereby limiting the scope of the organization's threat. We...
September 8, 2010
Moussa Sadr and the Islamic Revolution in Iran… and Lebanon
Last Tuesday marked the anniversary of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa as-Sadr—often dubbed the father of the Shia resurgence in Lebanon—during a visit to Libya in 1978. While...
September 8, 2010
This Is Where We Begin to Say No
A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasan...
September 8, 2010
Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a...
September 8, 2010
Al Qaeda Disarms Select Taliban Commanders
Central Asia Online reports: Al-Qae...
September 7, 2010
Grassroots Anti-Islamism in Germany
In what could be seen as a parallel to the robust grassroots opposition to the Ground Zero mosque in the U.S., citizens of the German city of Mönchengladbach, located in the West German stat...
September 7, 2010
Ground Zero Mosque: The Bombast of Imam Feisal
After summering in Malaysia and assorted petro-capitals of the Arabian Gulf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is back in America - though not for long. His...
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