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September 7, 2010
Beyond the Water’s Edge: Learning from the Somali Piracy Challenge
While military force combined with greater vigilance on the part of the commercial shipping and fishing industries can reduce the threat posed by pirates, achieving maritime security requires a l...
September 7, 2010
Yemen Arrests Ex-Gitmo Detainee who Fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir
A former Guantanamo detainee who joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) after graduating from a Saudi rehabilitation program has been arrested in Yemen. Fox News reported Tuesday that Ye...
September 6, 2010
Aussies Pull the Plug in Iran
IRAN is slowly suffocating from sanctions that are beginning to bite where the maverick state has been strongest: its energy sector. The tougher set of sanctions imposed mid-year by the UN,...
September 6, 2010
Iran Pays Bounties to Taliban for Dead Americans
The Sunday Times (UK) reported yesterday, based on Taliban sources, that the Iranians are paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers. (The Times's account is behind a pay wall,...
September 3, 2010
Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War
Morgan brings to the writing of his history an unusual combination of French roots and both military and journalistic experience [which imbue] his work with a granularity absent from the usual an...
September 3, 2010
Internationalism Run Amok
America was founded as a country where no citizen would ever have to submit to the will of a king, or any other brand of despot. But hey, that's yesterday's news. President Barack Obama...
September 3, 2010
Putting Paid to Gaza
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently suggested that Israel end its role as an occupying power in Gaza. Is he onto something? Supporters of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in 2...
September 3, 2010
Interview: Accomplice to Evil
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and a Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is the author of The Iranian Tim...
September 2, 2010
Mark Dubowitz: “At a Minimum, a Nuclear-Armed Iran Will be Emboldened to Accelerate its Aggressive A
APA's Washington DC correspondent interviewed with Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in the US Capital Mr, Dubowitz is focusing on researching Ir...
September 2, 2010
The Worst of Time
Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as "t...
September 2, 2010
Libya Frees Ex-Gitmo Detainee
The Libyan government has released dozens of Islamist extremists and terrorists in recent days as part of an effort to reconcile with its opposition. The initiative is being led by Saif al Islam...
September 1, 2010
The Two Dirty Little Secrets of the Mideast Peace Process
In his desire to fast-track the peace-process negotiations between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday and Thursday in Wa...
September 1, 2010
The Iran-Houston Connection
Energy companies continue to leave the Iranian market in response to a series of new sanctions laws passed by the United States, the European Union, Canada and Australia, all of which are eager t...
September 1, 2010
Mideast Peace Talks’ Hidden Threat
Some 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is “pro-Palestinian,” according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked hi...
September 1, 2010
The West Is Downplaying Iran’s Reactor at Its Peril
Last week's feeding of fuel into Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor came as a surprise. For years, Russia dragged its feet and found recurrent excuses to delay the completion of the Bushehr...
September 1, 2010
Transnational Absurdity
When Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban, he probably never imagined that he would be captured and his detention would be turned into a leg...
September 1, 2010
US Treasury Sanctions Pakistani Taliban, Top Two Leaders
The US Treasury Department has targeted three senior leaders of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba by designating them as global terrorists. The two terror groups receive...
August 31, 2010
BarackObama.ir
Did you know that the Islamic Republic of Iran has devoted a website to President Obama? It's mostly gossip, but there's a bit of deep thinking, mullah-style....
August 31, 2010
Imam Feisal Meets With UAE Mosque and Money Crowd
As the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, continues his State Department-hosted "public diplomacy" visit to the United Arab Emirates, the glimpses of his activities ov...
August 31, 2010
What Have We Learned From Iraq?
President Obama’s speech tonight announcing the end of combat activities in Iraq will be greeted with a national sigh of relief rather than a flag-waving hurrah. And it is driven more by El...
August 31, 2010
Al Qaeda Leader in Yemen Tries to Woo Saudi Soldiers
In a nearly 15-minute audio tape released in early August, Said al Shihri, one of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) top leaders, tried to convince Saudi soldiers and security office...
August 30, 2010
FDD on New Congressional Iran Sanctions Working Group
Washington, D.C. (August 3, 2010) - Statement from Mark Dubowitz, FDD Executive Director and Director, Iran Energy Project: “The House of Representatives took the right step in cre...
August 30, 2010
Daisy Khan’s ‘Postponed’ Travels — Now What?
Yet another news flash on the whereabouts of the self-described "bridge-building" couple behind the Ground Zero mosque: Last week, Daisy Khan was poised to travel to the Middle East, pla...
August 30, 2010
Take Iranian Opposition to the Streets
MINDFUL of the danger of Iran's regime acquiring nuclear weapons, the international community has passed a new round of sanctions. They aim to persuade Tehran that a negotiated deal...
August 30, 2010
Strategic Sanctions
When the White House invited a small group of senior journalists for a background briefing on Iran in early August, few expected the President to be the speaker. Barack Obama sparked excitement w...
August 27, 2010
Fishy Business: Military Commission for Mastermind of USS Cole Attack Delayed, Again
The Obama administration has delayed the trial by military commission of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, the mastermind of the USS Cole attack, according to the Washington Post. The Defense Department d...
August 27, 2010
Terror Cell Broken Up in Canada
The news out of Canada is that authorities have broken up a terrorist cell that had more than 50 electronic circuit boards that could be used in improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The details o...
August 27, 2010
BBC Exonerates Israel
A rare note of European journalistic optimism in the aftermath of Israel's naval interception in May of a flotilla headed for Hamas-ruled Gaza: BBC Panorama, an investigative TV program, air...
August 26, 2010
Amnesty International Official Calls Israel a ‘Scum State’
On Monday the head of Finland's branch of Amnesty International, Frank Johansson, termed Israela "scum state."...
August 26, 2010
Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness
Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...
August 25, 2010
Germany Learns to Tolerate Radical Islamic Intolerance
Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, offered the following justification for not traveling with his gay partner to Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: "We want to encourage t...
August 25, 2010
Experts Differ on Whether Iran Sanctions Will Work
MONTREAL — Foreign companies doing business in Iran could get around Canada's newly expanded sanctions by making their operations in this country subsidiaries of a parent in Iran, warned Mark Dub...
August 25, 2010
Moderate Muslims Are Not the Answer
The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait recently underscored a view about Islamic militancy versus the West that is widely held on both the left and right and should be challenged. To quote Mr. C...
August 25, 2010
A Cold-War Lesson: Be Ready and Willing to Go to the Brink With Iran
Prognostication is obviously risky. As far as I can tell, no one in the Clinton Administration in 1998, even after al-Qaeida attacked U.S. embassies in Africa, was in favor of fire-bombing the Ta...
August 24, 2010
The Spiraling Consequences of Iran’s Nuclear Drive
On Saturday, Iran's Russian enablers jump-started the fueling of the Islamic Republic's first nuclear power plant, Bushehr. While the U.S. State Department pooh-poohed Bushehr as not "a...
August 24, 2010
Cracks in the Iranian Monolith
The Iranian regime loves to boast of its military strength, international clout and hold on domestic power. Much of this is accepted by outside experts, but in fact the regime is in trouble. Iran...
August 24, 2010
Cashing In On Ground Zero
Among the prime planners of a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it's not just Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is visiting the Middle East this summer at U.S. taxpayer expen...
August 23, 2010
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Surrenders in Yemen
Yemeni authorities announced on Saturday that a former Guantanamo detainee who rejoined al Qaeda has turned himself in. Ali Hussein al Taiss was a wanted "al Qaeda element," according to...
August 23, 2010
Imam Rauf and the ‘One State Solution’ for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Understandably, Feisal Rauf's assertion that the U.S. has more innocent blood on its hands...
August 21, 2010
Imam Feisal’s Trip of ‘Great Importance’: We Have a Sighting in Bahrain
Thank you, New York Post. We have a report Saturday that "[a]ppearing in public for the first time in weeks," the man behind the Ground Zero mosque, Imam...
August 20, 2010
Four Countries Joined Gasoline Exporters to Iran
Despite the US sanctions, Iran has exported above 1 million tons of gasoline from 7 countries during the first four months of the current Iranian year (started March 20). United Arab Emirate...
August 20, 2010
Former Gitmo Detainee Tried to Kill Saudi Prince
Al Qaeda really wants to kill Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, who is the Saudi deputy interior minister and oversees the Kingdom’s counterterrorism efforts. According to the Saudi...
August 19, 2010
The Imam Has Landed… So When Does He Phone Home?
It's now almost a month since the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project answered any questions from the U.S. media (or any other media, as far as I'm aware), or even bestirred hims...
August 19, 2010
Texans Have Opportunity to Deter Iran’s Enablers
In the coming weeks, the State Department will provide President Obama with recommendations on how to implement Washington's tough new sanctions on Iran. The law imposes severe financial pen...
August 19, 2010
US: Swiss-Iran Gas Deal Sends ‘Wrong Message’
BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL's €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy. "As we noted in the past when this deal was first announced, oil a...
August 19, 2010
Despite US Pressure, Merkel Unlikely to Close Iran Bank
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains unlikely to order the closure of the Hamburg-based Iranian bank (EIH), which has reportedly funneled over $1 billion into Iran's military and ball...
August 19, 2010
Plan B
Back in 2007, those of us assigned as "expert advisors" to the Baker-Hamilton Commission were given a straightforward assignment: Come up with a plan to salvage the deteriorating situation in Ira...
August 19, 2010
Will the Turkish Flotilla Group Be Named as Terrorists?
It's not every day that House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ed Royce (R-CA), the ranking member of terrorism subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, agree...
August 18, 2010
A Heightened Demand for Disclosures
The major regulatory reform law signed by President Obama last month will eventually require companies across industries to add a slew of new disclosures to their regulatory filings. Among the chan...
August 18, 2010
Israel’s Compelling Reasons to Attack, Despite the Uncertainties
Gary Milhollin's questions about the efficacy of an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities are surely among those that have most tormented Israeli cabinets and air-force plann...
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