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May 28, 2010
70 killed in terror assault on Lahore mosques
The Punjabi Taliban have taken credit for storming two mosques in Lahore and murdering more than 70 Pakistanis who belonged to a sect of Islam banned by the Pakistani government. Two squ...
May 28, 2010
Honoring Neda Soltan’s Memory
On June 1 Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will enter the majestic halls of the European Parliament to appear before its foreign relations committee. When he does, what could be more f...
May 28, 2010
United Nations Covers for Terrorist Buildup
President Obama hosted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House on Monday to talk about the growing threat that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group, poses to the Middle Ea...
May 28, 2010
Hamas Ahoy!
With a flotilla of "peace activists" steaming toward the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli authorities have been worrying about a showdown turning into a public relations disaster. That's a sorr...
May 27, 2010
FDD Applauds Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act
Press Release May 27, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Applauds Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act...
May 27, 2010
Inside the Gitmo Task Force’s Final Report
On January 22, President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force completed its final report, which outlined the administration's plan for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo. The Ta...
May 27, 2010
Mullah Fazlullah reported killed in Afghanistan
An Afghan police commander claimed that his forces killed a top Pakistani Taliban leader during a clash in Nuristan province. The report has not been confirmed by US officials. M...
May 27, 2010
The ‘Second Israel’
Halabja, Iraq - Twenty-two years ago, in this dusty town hard up against the mountainous border with Iran, Saddam Hussein's military used chemical weapons to murder 5,000 Kurdish men, women...
May 27, 2010
Turkey’s Return to Africa
In the end, neither the superabundant expressions of support voiced by donor nations for the ramshackle “Transitional Federal Government” (TFG) of Somalia nor that regime’s corr...
May 27, 2010
Ballots and Bullets: The Tale of the Two Somalias
Last week, Somalis marked the fiftieth anniversary of their achievement of independence from colonial rule. The contrasting manner in which two parts of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic obs...
May 26, 2010
The Grand Jihad
Sorry for the radio silence the last few days, but I’m delighted to report that my new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is doing well — even though it o...
May 26, 2010
Hakeemullah’ s pullout from North Waziristan an ‘excuse’ for Pakistan not to move
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has agreed to withdraw his forces along with some allied Punjabi Taliban fighters from North Waziristan in an effort to prevent a Pak...
May 26, 2010
Pakistani Taliban assault district center in Nuristan
A large Taliban force under the command of a wanted Pakistani leader attacked Afghan police in the northeastern province, sparking clashes that lasted for hours. An estimated 300...
May 26, 2010
Iran Set to Receive Gasoline Cargo from Turkey
DUBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - Iran is expected to receive its first shipment of gasoline from Turkey in at least 18 months in June, industry sources said on Tuesday. The deal followed an agreeme...
May 25, 2010
Now Can We Put North Korea Back on the Terrorism List?
The very least the Obama administration could do — immediately — is put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, from which Bush should never have removed...
May 25, 2010
Yemeni airstrike kills deputy governor, al Qaeda operatives
The deputy governor of Marib province, five of his bodyguards, and two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives, including a local leader, were killed in an airstrike today, sparking r...
May 25, 2010
Before the Rockets Start to Explode
Ron Ben-Yishai in Ynet today:At this time, Hezbollah serves as Iran' s long strategic arm, aimed at deterring Israel from attacking Tehran' s nuclear program by threatening the Jewish State' s military and civilian home front. For the Syrians, Hezbollah constitutes an important component in its war plan, and therefore Damascus arms it with whatever it possesses. In Syrian eyes, the group' s aim is to pulverize the Israeli home front, while splitting the IDF' s offensive effort between Lebanon and Syria, thereby also preventing an outflanking operation on the west that would target Syria' s defensive posture in the Golan. For that reason, a solution to the Lebanese problem cannot be found in Baalbek, in Beirut, or in Hezbollah' s fear of other ethnic groups in Lebanon. The root of the Lebanese problem is in Damascus and Tehran, and this is where Israel should be seeking a solution, with American help. If possible, this should be done via the combination of military deterrence and effective international pressure. Yet should this fail, the other option is a well-planned military campaign, which will be launched before the rockets start to explode in our territory.
May 25, 2010
Analysis: New Nuclear Deal is an Iranian Triumph
Brazil's President Ignazio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have emerged as big global players after delivering a compromise over Iran's nuclear fuel following intensiv...
May 25, 2010
UN Non-Resolutions
Whatever happened to the crippling sanctions against Iran that the Obama administration swore would come after engagement and the EU said it would support? Despite repeated statements by...
May 25, 2010
Setting The Sanctions Agenda
If sanctions are to remain the main tool to confront Iran, America and its allies need to rethink the overall goals of their policy and adopt suitable measures to increase the likelihood of its...
May 25, 2010
Whither Iran Policy?
Could it be true? According to the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. administration may have changed its mind on the virtues of engaging Iran's regime while giving the cold shoulder to its street...
May 25, 2010
Iran’s Game of Negotiations
One unanswered question about the nuclear-swap deal: who provides the 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium fuel rods to Iran? Because that is what swapping means — Iran gives Turkey 1,200...
May 25, 2010
Iran’s Oppressed Workers
Today, progressives across the world mark the international labor movement's official holiday. As trade unions celebrate their remarkable conquests with parades, demonstrations, and speeches, their...
May 25, 2010
Procrastination on Iran
At a weekend retreat in Finland, the foreign ministers of the EU met alongside the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. Among the topics discussed was Iran. And among the conclusions emerging...
May 25, 2010
Iran Draws Closer to Nuclear Capability as World Watches
Last Friday, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by David Sanger about a puzzling element that emerged in the latest IAEA report on Iran — namely Iran's decision to bring most of i...
May 25, 2010
Congress Pushes Forward on Bill Amid Possible Deal on U.N. Sanctions
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday that he wants Congress to complete action on new Iran sanctions legislation before leaving for the Memorial Day recess, even as Secretary of State...
May 25, 2010
The Other Mideast Conflict
Earlier this year, the government of Canada announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect those funds...
May 25, 2010
Moscow’s Opportunism in The Middle East
After a deliberately much-trumpeted visit by its president to Syria last week, Russia has been heralded, for the umpteenth time in recent years, as making a Middle Eastern comeback through Damasc...
May 24, 2010
Pakistan hits Taliban in Arakzai
The Pakistani military pounded Taliban positions Sunday during the latest round of fighting in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. Pakistani Air Force attack aircraft and Army helicopt...
May 24, 2010
Haqqani Network executed Kabul suicide attack
The Pakistan-based Haqqani Network carried out last week's deadly suicide attack in Kabul that killed 18 people, including six Coalition soldiers. US military intelligence of...
May 24, 2010
American Interests Targetted by Iran and Al-Qaeda
By Dr. Walid Phares In an article published in the weekly review al Watan al al Arabi, I outlined what I believe are America's permanent strategic positions in the Middle E...
May 23, 2010
Declassify Intelligence On Anwar al Awlaki’s “Students”
Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki described both the Fort Hood Shooter and the Christmas Day bomber as his “students” in a tape released this weekend, according to press reports. This i...
May 22, 2010
Taliban attack Kandahar Airfield
The Taliban launched yet another ground attack on a major Coalition military base in Afghanistan. A Taliban force launched a coordinated attack today against Kandahar Airfield, th...
May 21, 2010
Taliban suicide assault squad attacks police outpost in eastern Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide assault squad was repelled as it tried to overrun an Afghan police outpost today in the Urgun district in Paktika province. Four Taliban fighters and one policeman were r...
May 21, 2010
The Spy Swap that Really Happened: The Case of Agent ‘Lily’
I’ve of course been following the story of the French release of Ali Vakili-Rod, the Iranian assassin of former Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar. If you like assassinati...
May 21, 2010
New Nuclear Deal is An Iranian Triumph
Brazil's President Ignazio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have emerged as big global players after delivering a compromise over Iran's nuclear fuel follow...
May 21, 2010
A Quisling Turkey
Beware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional...
May 20, 2010
The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater: Militant Islam, Security & Stability
What is the optimal strategy for the United States and its allies to pursue in Afghanistan? Observers across the political spectrum agree that military operations alone are not enough to secure Afghan...
May 20, 2010
Don’ t You Just Love Hezbollah? It’ s So Interesting’Like Freddie Kruger
As the extraordinary Andy McCarthy points out on The Corner, White House terror “expert” John Brennan–and his boss, President Obama– seem to think that we should be cultiv...
May 20, 2010
The Flight of the Intellectuals
Paul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism...
May 20, 2010
Afghan forces capture northern shadow governor
Afghanistan's intelligence service has detained the Taliban's top leader for the northern province of Samangan. The National Directorate of Security said that Mullah Gul...
May 20, 2010
A Gitmo Detainee’s Tall Tale
More often than not, Guantanamo detainees’ claims are repeated verbatim, and uncritically, by the press. This is true both here in the U.S. and abroad. And it leads to some curious stories....
May 20, 2010
Kurdistan Notebook
Erbil, Iraq - More than two months after elections, Iraq's parliamentarians have yet to cobble together a new government. Is this just the messiness that has to be expected in a fledgl...
May 19, 2010
US troops repel complex Taliban assault on Bagram Aifrield
US troops beat back a complex Taliban assault on the largest Coalition base in Afghanistan, killing an estimated 12 Taliban fighters. The Taliban launched the attack late at night...
May 19, 2010
Next Up: Cultivating the Moderate Hezbos
While the Obama administration’s foreign service team is out apologizing to Chinese Communist gulag-keepers over the human-rights violations of Arizona, the president’s crack national...
May 19, 2010
The System Failed
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released an unclassified summary of its investigation into the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day 2009. The committee’s bottom line...
May 19, 2010
Pakistani troops beat back latest Taliban assualt in the northwest
Pakistani troops beat back yet another massed Taliban assault on a military outpost in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. In today's attack, more than 200 Taliban fighters...
May 19, 2010
Ignore Turkey and Brazil: Iran Sanctions Are A Go
Just as the momentum behind U.S. energy sanctions against Iran shifted into high gear, Turkey and Brazil this week tried to downshift with a much ballyhooed nuclear-fuel swap deal. Could Iran...
May 18, 2010
Suicide bomber kills 12 in Pakistan’s northwest
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 12 Pakistanis during an attack on police convoy in northwestern Pakistan. The suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives as a police van passed by in the settled district of Dera Ismail Khan. Three policemen and nine civilians were killed, and 10 Pakistanis were wounded, according to Reuters. Today's attack is the first major suicide strike in Pakistan since the April 28 bombing in Peshawar that targeted a police checkpoint. Four policemen were killed in the attack. Pakistan's security forces in the Taliban-plagued northwest are a common target of suicide and organized attacks. The Taliban also focuses their attacks on pro-governemnt tribes and politicians in effort to demoralize the opposition. Military strikes at Taliban in Arakzai Further north, in the tribal agency of Arakzai, the military claimed it killed 47 Taliban fighters during clashes over the past two days. Two soldiers were also reported killed during the fighting. The fighting broke out after the Taliban attacked military checkpoints and convoys throughout the region. The military said it killed the Taliban fighters during counterattacks. The heaviest fighting took place in the Dabori area; 28 Taliban were reported to have been killed there alone. Dabori was the scene of a large Taliban attack on May 10. Nine Pakistani Frontier Corps troops were killed during that attack that saw their outpost overrun by Taliban fighters. The military claimed that 37 Taliban fighters were killed in the counterstrike. The Pakistani military has claimed that more than 720 Taliban fighters have been killed in Arakzai since March 21, while only 19 soldiers, including two today, have been killed, according to reports compiled by The Long War Journal. A US military intelligence official contacted by The Long War Journal believes the Pakistani military reports of Taliban casualties are over-exaggerated. More than a month ago, Pakistani military officials claimed the Taliban was defeated in Arakzai and "fleeing" to the Tirah Valley in Khyber. Akhunzada Aslam Farooqui is the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in the Arakzai tribal agency. Farooqui took control of the Taliban after Hakeemullah Mehsud was promoted to lead the entire Taliban movement in Pakistan' s tribal areas and in the northwest. Farooqui was described as the "patron-in-chief" of the Taliban in Arakzai and a "close friend of Mullah Mohammad Omar" back in 2001. At the opening of Operation Enduring Freedom, Farooqui promised to have 12,000 tribesmen to battle US forces in Afghanistan and offered support such as sanctuary and weapons and ammunition. He claimed to lead 7,000 Taliban fighters.
May 18, 2010
Taliban suicide bomber kills 18 in Kabul
The Taliban claimed the deadly suicide attack that killed 18 people in the Afghan capital of Kabul today. The suicide bomber targeted and hit a Coalition convoy as it traveled on the Darulaman Road in Kabul at approximately 8 a.m. The International Security Assistance Force confirmed the attack and stated that six of its soldiers were killed in the blast. Twelve Afghan civilians who were on the road were also killed in the attack. "This sort of desperate brutality and aggression reminds us of the pessimism of an enemy who seek to kill the innocent and to stop the progress necessary for a better Afghanistan," ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Josef Blotz said in a press release. "This will not deter us from our mission of securing a better future for this country." The Taliban stated that one of its fighters carried out the attack, in a statement released on its website, the Voice of Jihad. The Taliban claimed that a suicide bomber named Mujahid Isamuddin, who is a resident of the Qara Bagh district in Kabul, detonated a car bomb packed with "about 750 kg explosives." The Voice of Jihad website has been hacked since the issuing of the press release. Images of Taliban atrocities, including public executions, hangings, and burying a woman alive are displayed on the Taliban's website and its sub-pages. The Taliban have been instructed not to launch suicide attacks that risk the lives of civilians. The order, which came from Taliban leader Mullah Omar Mohammed, has largely been ignored, and civilians are routinely killed during Taliban suicide and other attacks. Today's suicide attack is the second in Afghanistan in two days. Yesterday in Kandahar, a team of three suicide bombers armed with assault rifles attacked a border police headquarters. The first suicide bomber detonated at the outer wall, opening a hole that allowed the two other bombers to enter the compound. Police killed the two other bombers during a gunfight that lasted nearly an hour.
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