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February 26, 2013
Ahmadi Muslims, Killed in Pakistan but Welcomed Here, Perfectly Symbolize Our Canadian Values
Last week, when Canadians learned that the federal government was set to announce the creation of a new “Office of Religious Freedom,” CBC reported the news with...
February 26, 2013
Dutch FM: EU May Blacklist Hezbollah After Probe
The Netherlands’ Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans stressed on Monday the Dutch position that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and ought to be banned from European soil....
February 26, 2013
Emir of Ansar Dine Added to US, UN’s Terrorist Lists
Both the United States and the United Nations have added Iyad ag Ghali, the emir of the Mali-based, al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, to their lists of global terrorists. Ghali was instrumental in the...
February 25, 2013
Iran’s Drug Problem
For years, Iran has marketed itself as a frontline state in the war against the drug lords. Recently the New York Times even described the regime in Tehran as the “West’s sta...
February 25, 2013
Afghan President Orders US Special Forces to Leave Wardak Province
Co-authored by Bill Ardolino President Hamid Karzai has ordered the Ministry of Defense to eject all "US Special Forces" from the key eastern province of Wardak after accusing t...
February 25, 2013
Multiple Insurgents Captured in Raid Targeting IMU Leader
Afghan and Coalition troops captured six insurgents during a raid two days ago that targeted a leader from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). The security forces launched t...
February 25, 2013
Al Nusrah Front Claims Suicide Attack on Syrian Defense Factory
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, claimed credit for a suicide attack at a defense factory that occurred nearly three weeks ago. Several civili...
February 25, 2013
Iran-Backed Terror Cell Exposed in Nigeria
By David Barnett Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) announced the arrest of three members of an Iranian-backed terror cell that was reportedly planning to carry out att...
February 21, 2013
Middle East Tour d’Horizon
Next month, both President Obama and newly minted secretary of state John Kerry head for the Middle East. They should listen to a range of views, see the sights, and pause to smell the hummus. As...
February 21, 2013
Spooky Sex: Inside the Randy Culture of the CIA
"A cock has no shame.” That’s what it said on the little plaque on the door of the espionage instructor. He’d been discovered a few nights earlier going at it with a female juni...
February 21, 2013
Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Reportedly Killed in Syria
A former Guantanamo detainee named Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane has reportedly been killed while fighting in Syria. T...
February 20, 2013
Is Iran Creating a Health Crisis to Evade Sanctions?
Unless Iran abandons its quest for nuclear weapons, there is one certainty in Washington’s policy toward the Islamic Republic: more sanctions. It is also inevitable that the more these econ...
February 20, 2013
Meet Iran’s Ambassador to the UN
In a sold-out event, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, will be speaking Wednesday evening...
February 20, 2013
Chechen Commander Leads Muhajireen Brigade in Syria
A commander from the Russian Caucasus known as Abu Omar al Chechen is a key leader in the Muhajireen Brigade, a jihadist group that fights alongside the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Leva...
February 19, 2013
Making Sense of Hamas’s Visit to Bulgaria
The arrival of three Hamas representatives in Bulgaria last week – believed to have obtained their visas in Cairo – and...
February 19, 2013
Targeting Tehran’s Euros
The United States has blocked Iran from easily accessing greenbacks as a means to slow down the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. But those financial sanctions only go so far. With Iranian...
February 19, 2013
Mona Eltahawy’s Illiberal Liberalism
In the two years since the revolution that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s decadent 30-year-old regime, there have been few Egyptians with a more visible international media prof...
February 19, 2013
US Officials Denied Access to ‘Nasr City Cell’ Suspects
The US has not been granted access to the senior members of the so-called "Nasr City Cell" who were arrested late last year, according to several American officials familiar with the case. The Na...
February 19, 2013
Taliban Insider Attack Facilitator Killed in Kunar
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist ISAF has announced that a Taliban operative who facilitated insider attacks was killed last week in Kunar province along with an associate. The ope...
February 19, 2013
In Obama’s Waning America, a Glimmer of Hope on Energy Security
For national security conservatives, last week's State of the Union address was something of a wasteland. On the most pressing challenges facing the nation -- Iranian and North Korean nukes,...
February 19, 2013
Bulgaria’s Problems with “Hamas” and “Hezbollah”
Google translation The arrival of three members of the radical Islamic terrorist organization "Hamas" in Sofia on Wednesday should alarm all Bulgarians fight neo-fascist and ant...
February 19, 2013
Former Taliban Emir Faqir Mohammed Reported Captured by Afghan Intel
Faqir Mohammed, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's former deputy emir and a previous leader in Bajaur, is reported to have been captured by Afghan intelligence officials along the Afg...
February 19, 2013
Veteran Sudanese Jihadist Killed in French Airstrike in Mali
A senior al Qaeda commander who waged jihad for more than 20 years in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Chechnya, and the Sudan was killed in a French airstrike in Mali. A Sudanese jihadist...
February 19, 2013
Senior IRGC Official Killed in Syria ‘was No Less Than Mughniyah’
By David Barnett On Feb. 13, press reports stated that General Hassan Shateri had been killed in Syria. The circumstances and exact date of Shateri's death are not entirely...
February 19, 2013
US Adds Senior AQIM Commander to Terrorist List
The US added the head of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's operations in the Sahel region of North Africa to the list of global terrorists yesterday. Yahya Abu Hammam, whose real na...
February 15, 2013
Iran and Israel Fight, Lebanon Loses
It’s been more than two weeks since the Israeli airstrike in Syria against the arms convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bits of information, coupled with ominous ...
February 15, 2013
Al Qaeda in Mali Sought to Hide Foreign Designs
A "confidential letter" from Abdelmalek Droukdel, the emir of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, to his fighters in northern Mali shows that the group sought to use the country to wage a global jih...
February 15, 2013
Why Doesn’t Europe Think Hezbollah Is a Terror Group?
The rift over counterterrorism strategy between the United States and its trans-Atlantic partners will likely be on display next week in Brussels, where European foreign ministers are slated to d...
February 14, 2013
The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos
‘Think about the mothers!” That was the anguished cry of one of the prote...
February 14, 2013
Why Iran Already Has the Bomb
The White House and President Obama’s supporters insist that he’s making his f...
February 14, 2013
Bulgarian Government Denies Meetings with Hamas
The Bulgarian government flatly rejected on Thursday reports that meetings between official representatives of the government and Hamas officials took place. Vessela Tcherneva, the...
February 13, 2013
Another IMU Leader Captured in Afghanistan as Obama Announces US Force Cut
Today special operation forces arrested a commander from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) in the Khanabad district of Afghanistan's Kunduz province....
February 13, 2013
Pakistani Taliban Praise Slain American, British Jihadists
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video of so-called "martyrs" that includes two previously unknown jihadists from the United States and Britain. The two dead Western ji...
February 13, 2013
North Korea’s Middle East Webs and Nuclear Wares
North Korea’s third and latest nuclear test is certainly a threat to Asian security, but the dangers go way beyond Asia. For decades, North Korea has been one of the world’s most ente...
February 12, 2013
‘Islamist Factions’ Seize Syrian Airbase
One day after the largest dam in Syria fell to jihadists spearheaded by al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, Islamist fighters seized control of a nearby airbase. Jihadists have now taken control...
February 11, 2013
The Unchanging CIA
John Brennan’s nomination to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency has sparked another debate about Langley’s priorities and deficiencies. Brennan, the king of drone...
February 11, 2013
Egypt Against Itself
This week marks the second anniversary of the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Two years after the refrain “the people want to topple the regime” filled Tahrir Square, it is...
February 11, 2013
Saudi Money Shaping US Research
Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves are expected to run dry in fifty years. This prospect has encouraged the Saudis to go shopping for cutting-edge science that can secure the kingdom’s futur...
February 11, 2013
The Challenges of Gun Control: Denying Firearms to Terrorists
Co-authored by Daniel Trombly Following several tragic mass shootings, the U.S. is embroiled in a debate about gun control. The central question for many involved in this d...
February 11, 2013
2 IMU Leaders Captured in Northern Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) captured two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders during separate raids in northern Afghanistan over the past two days. Special operations...
February 11, 2013
Communications with Ayman al Zawahiri Highlighted in ‘Nasr City cell’ Case
Egyptian prosecutors have uncovered a treasure trove of information in the so-called "Nasr City Cell" case, including correspondence between the terrorist who headed that cell and al Qaeda emir A...
February 11, 2013
The Winds of War in Lebanon
Multiple sources suggest that the winds of war are blowing to Israel’s north, and that such a war could erupt very soon. Lebanese parliamentarian...
February 11, 2013
Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Calls for Islamist Solution to Political Crisis
The assassination of a prominent opposition leader has sparked a political crisis in Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a politician who had spoken out against the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and Salafist...
February 11, 2013
2 al Qaeda Operatives Killed in Latest Drone Strike in North Waziristan
The US killed two foreign al Qaeda fighters, including an "explosives expert," in a drone strike today in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The strike is the s...
February 11, 2013
German Green Party Head High-Fives Iran’s Envoy
BERLIN – Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the large Green Party in Germany, is facing a storm of criticism from media outlets, Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel advocates because she greeted Ira...
February 10, 2013
First Suicide Bombing Reported in Mali
It was just a matter of time before jihadists in Mali began employing suicide bombers. Yesterday, a suicide bomber attempted to attack a military checkpoint in the town of Gao. The attacker faile...
February 8, 2013
Iran: The War Within and Without
A week ago, something went seriously wrong in the underground tunnels beneath the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. I don’t know if it was an explosion, on-site sabotage,...
February 8, 2013
Turkey’s Terror Finance Problem
Last week’s suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara, carried out by a...
February 8, 2013
Egypt’s Never-Ending Revolution
Since January 25, Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of nationwide protests which have left more than 60 people dead. The country remains in a state of lawlessness. The protests,...
February 7, 2013
Letter from the West Bank
Ramallah, West Bank — It’s difficult not to like Salam Fayyad. The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority has an avuncular demeanor and old-fashioned professorial charm. H...
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