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November 2, 2012 Egypt Arrests Pro-al Qaeda Jihadist Tied to Benghazi Suspect Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, a senior Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) official who has openly proclaimed his allegiance to al Qaeda's ideology, has... November 2, 2012 German MPs Do Business with Iran European politicians in Brussels and Berlin have unleashed a storm of criticism over their planned trips to meet representatives of Iran’s regime. A group of five left-wing MEPs ha... November 2, 2012 Hague Tribunal Slams Iran for Mass Murder A non-binding legal tribunal in The Hague consisting of political victims of Iran’s regime in the 1980s issued an interim report in late October slamming Tehran’s clerical leaders for... November 2, 2012 Obama Runs From Iran The Iranian challenge to US interests and allies is the most pressing strategic issue for Washington in the Middle East. With the US election less than a week away, now is as good a time as any t... November 2, 2012 Did Israel and the US Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention? Within hours of a bombing raid on a weapons factory in Sudan last month, the international media was pointing fingers at Israel. Some reports suggested that the strike looked like a dry run for a... November 1, 2012 American Exceptionalism and Its Discontents In May 2011, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, a columnist I admire, wrote an opinion piece titled “... November 1, 2012 Ayman al Zawahiri’s New Video Messages Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri released a new two-part installment of his video series focusing on Egypt, which was posted on Oct. 24. It seems there was a delay in releasing this installment,... November 1, 2012 Old School Egyptian Jihadists Linked to 9/11 Cairo Protest, Benghazi Suspect Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, who is suspected of playing a significant role in the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, has longstanding ties to the... October 31, 2012 European Lawmakers Cool to Obama’s Iran Sanctions President Obama's efforts to isolate Iran’s rogue regime is drawing a cool response from some key European lawmakers, who may be putting trade over principle. A group of Germa... October 31, 2012 Video Reportedly Shows Key Suspect From Benghazi Attack One of the main suspects in the Sept. 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi appeared in a recent video posted online by an Egyptian media organization, according to the SITE Intelligence Grou... October 31, 2012 The Alan Dershowitz Syndrome If President Barack Obama is so bad on Israel, why are some of his most prominent Jewish critics planning on voting for him anyway? The list of these critics is long, but it includes former New Y... October 30, 2012 Islamists Kill Scores at Nigerian Roman Catholic Church A suicide bomber driving an SUV full of explosives crashed into a Catholic church in a Christian minority enclave of Nigeria during Mass yesterday, killing te... October 30, 2012 Afghan Policeman Kills 2 British Soldiers in Helmand An Afghan policeman opened fire on Coalition soldiers operating in Helmand province earlier today, killing two British soldiers. Today's killing of Coalition forces marks the 40th green-on-b... October 29, 2012 Review: The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy by William J. Dobson (New York: Doubleday, 2012), 341 pp. Reviewed by Daveed Gar... October 29, 2012 Shabaab’s Godane Releases Eid Message Shabaab leader Ahmad Abdi Godane (a.k.a. Mokhtar Abu Zubayr) released an audio statement on Saturday commemorating Eid al-Adha that was posted on the pro-Shabaab Calamada website. Here I excerpt... October 29, 2012 Why Failed Terror Attack in Jordan Matters to US Jordan disrupted a major terrorist attack in Amman this month, and security services reportedly arrest... October 26, 2012 Who Killed Wissam al-Hassan? Who killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan? Following the assassination last Friday, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt blamed Syrian... October 26, 2012 Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Helped Incite 9/11 Cairo Protest Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged... October 26, 2012 Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Incited Cairo Protest Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, one of Egypt’s most notorious al Qaeda-linked terrorists, attended the U.S. embassy protest in Cairo on September 11. Musa was just one of several al Qaeda-affiliated... October 25, 2012 America’s Enemies Are Getting Away with Murder Last week, Manssor Arbabsiar pleaded guilty to plotting what U.S. officials have termed “a significant attack in the United States.” Attorney General Eric Ho... October 25, 2012 Israel’s Not So Empty Threats In September 2010, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a brilliant feature in the Atlantic in which he forecast Israel's "point of no return" on Iran — the article's ti... October 25, 2012 More Al Qaeda Connections in Benghazi The Benghazi story continues to evolve. CNN reports that multiple al Qaeda franchises, and others with al Qaeda links, are suspected of taking part in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on t... October 24, 2012 Countdown to the Red Line in Iran Iran's oil exports have been halved by economic sanctions, but that still leaves the regime with around $50 billion in oil income this year, according to calculations by the Foundation for D... October 24, 2012 US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants,’ 1 Civilian in North Waziristan Strike US drones killed four "militants" and one civilian in a strike today on a compound in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials... October 24, 2012 Should the Fort Hood Attack be Classified as an Act of Terrorism? The question of whether the Fort Hood attack carried out by Nidal Hasan should be classified as an act of terrorism is in the news. As ABC News... October 24, 2012 Romney on Iran’s ‘Route to the Sea’ Why focus on the realities of terror-sponsoring rogue regimes, when you can mock Gov. Mitt Romney instead? After Monday night’s Obama-Romney foreign policy debate, the Washington Post&r... October 24, 2012 Two ‘Leaders’ Let the Blood Flow Describing his opponent’s position on Syria in Monday night’s third and final presidential debate, Presid... October 24, 2012 Canada’s Boat for Gaza Movement Still Lives in an Anti-Israel Svend Robinson-Era Time Warp In 2010, militant activists on board a flotilla to Gaza provoked a violent confrontation with Israeli commandos. In the confusion, the Israelis shot and killed nine of the activists, who did not... October 24, 2012 For Iran, No Red Line Means Green Light On Sept. 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations that the world must draw a clear &ld... October 23, 2012 Spinning Benghazi Ahead of what is sure to be a contentious presidential debate focusing on foreign policy on Monday, anonymous “intelligence officials” have decided to update the Benghazi story. &ldqu... October 23, 2012 Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the... October 23, 2012 Romney Beats Obama on Iran Governor Romney demonstrated a laser-like focus on why the Islamic Republic remains America’s “greatest national-security threat.” He reminded Americans that Obama betr... October 23, 2012 Foreign Policy as Alternate Universe This was less a debate about foreign policy than a contest between alternate versions of reality. President Obama described a world in which America... October 23, 2012 Lobbying Through the Silver Screen Hollywood movies, the bête noire of conservative Muslim culture, are an unusual investment for Middle Eastern oil magnates. But the United Arab Emirates, the fourth-largest energy producer... October 22, 2012 The Joint Iran and al-Qaida Operation Declares War Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comparison between al-Qaida and Iran during his September 27 address to the UN has garnered greater urgency since the US Treasury department on Thursday... October 22, 2012 AQAP Deputy Emir Denies Reports of His Death in US Drone Strike Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee and the current deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, issued a statement denying the reports of his death that emerged in the media last m... October 22, 2012 Romney Takes Aim at Obama’s Narrow Foreign Policy Advantage Although conventional wisdom among pundits holds that President Barack Obama enjoys significant foreign policy advantages over challenger Mitt Romney, a recent Pew Research Center poll suggests t... October 22, 2012 US Drones Kill 4 AQAP Fighters in Yemen US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in southern Yemen, in the second such attack in the country in four days. The unmanned Predators or Reapers f... October 22, 2012 AQAP’s Top Sharia Official Killed in Recent Drone Strike The US killed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's senior sharia, or Islamic law, official in a drone strike in early October, according to a Yemeni journalist who is closely connected to the... October 22, 2012 Omar Hammami Says ‘Friction’ Exists Between Shabaab, Foreign Fighters A videotape of Omar Hammami in which he urges "commanders of jihad and the honorable scholars" to intervene to resolve "friction" between foreign fighters and Somali members of Shabaab... October 22, 2012 Al Nusrah Front Commanded Free Syrian Army Unit, ‘Chechen Emigrants,’ in Assault on Syrian Base The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, commanded a Free Syrian Army unit and "Chechen emigran... October 19, 2012 Helping to Hurt Over the last two weeks, the Syrian regime has directed mortar and artillery fire at Turkish villages. The US ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, might have stated, in response, that the U... October 19, 2012 AQAP Launches Complex Suicide Assault on Yemeni Army Base Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mounted a complex attack, which included suicide bombers and an assault from the sea, against a Yemeni Army base in Shaqra in the south of the country today.... October 18, 2012 Iranian Tankers in a Tanzanian Twilight Zone? Trying to elude the reach of U.S. sanctions, Iran’s oil tankers have put on quite a circus this year, renaming, reflagging and at times switching off their onboard vessel tracking systems t... October 18, 2012 Is Al-Qaeda Defeated? At the Aspen Security Forum this past summer, Peter Bergen, CNN’s intrepid national-security analyst and a dire... October 18, 2012 2 Zarqawi Cousins Detained in Jordan After Fighting in Syria Two cousins of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, were arrested by Jordanian security forces as they returned from waging jihad in Syria. The two cousins, Zayed... October 18, 2012 AQAP Leader, 8 Fighters Killed in US Drone Strike in Yemen US drones conducted their first strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen in two weeks, killing nine members, including one described by the Yemeni military as a "dangero... October 18, 2012 US Adds IMU Financier, Taliban IED Experts to Terror List The US Treasury Department added an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan financier and two Taliban leaders and bomb experts to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Ayyub Ba... October 18, 2012 Treasury ‘Further Exposes’ Iran-al Qaeda Relationship The US Treasury Department announced today that it has designated Adel Radi Saqr al Wahabi al Harbi, who is "a... October 18, 2012 Swiss Cheese BERLIN — It's been a big week for the EU. The union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 12, and if all 27 of its foreign ministers accept, it'll mark the first time its reci...

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