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December 20, 2012 FDD Commends Congress for New Iran Sanctions PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies soon to enter negotiations over Iran’s un... December 20, 2012 Investigating ‘Command and Control’ in Benghazi Attack The Accountability Review Board’s investigation into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi says much about the deteriorating security situation surrounding the U.S. consulate... December 20, 2012 The Shape of Al Shabaab’s Post-Kismayo Attacks In late September, African Union (AU) forces surrounded the port city of Kismayo on Somalia’s southern coast. The AU troops stood on the threshold of capturing the city from the al Qaeda-af... December 20, 2012 Pollard Defenders Vindicated Jonathan Pollard, a former Naval intelligence service analyst, broke the law by selling American secrets to Israel. For that crime, he is currently serving the 25th year of a life sentence—... December 19, 2012 FDD Applauds Canada for Designating Iran’s Quds Force a Terrorist Group PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies congratulates Canada for designating the Iranian regime&rsquo... December 19, 2012 Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating "birthers"—a sobering, eyewitness look at how America's marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny,... December 19, 2012 Al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front Denies Reports of Death of Its Emir The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's branch in Syria, has denied media reports that its emir and two commanders have been killed. The "Media Department" of t... December 19, 2012 Taliban Target Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's top spokesman, Ihsanullah Ihsan, claimed credit for the wave of atta... December 19, 2012 Jews in the Judean Desert? More than 40,000 people have been slaughtered during the rebellion in Syria, and the death toll rises daily. The European Union does not appear to be particularly concer... December 17, 2012 Will the U.S. Enjoy “A Brighter Energy Outlook”? The National Intelligence Council’s newly released Global Trends 2030 report is an important r... December 17, 2012 Will EU Heed Washington’s Calls to Ban Hezbollah? US senators urged the European Union last week, in a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut), to take sanctions action against Hezbollah in Europe. The contentious... December 17, 2012 Lost in Washington? The Disappearing Director-General of UNESCO I know, I know — the news of the hour is UN Ambassador Susan Rice. But there’s plenty of interesting commentary right now about Rice (including her own op-ed in the The Washington... December 17, 2012 Al Qaeda Lives What actually happened in Egypt and Libya on September 11, 2012? The story from the U.S. government has changed many times in an effort to craft a narrative that causes as little damage as possib... December 17, 2012 Zarqawi’s Brother-in-Law Reported Killed While Leading Al Nusrah Front Unit A brother-in-law of al Qaeda in Iraq's former leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, has died while fighting for the Al Nusrah Front in Syria, Al Jazeera reported. And the jihadist replacing... December 17, 2012 Syrian Jihadists form ‘Supporters of the Khilafah’ Brigade Five Syrian jihadist groups based in western Aleppo have joined together and announced the formation of the Supporte... December 14, 2012 Game Plan for the UNESCO Shakedown Alarm bells ought to be going off because of the quiet trip to Washington this week of the head of the Paris-based UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scienti... December 14, 2012 Dictators and Double Standards As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach... December 14, 2012 Al Qaeda Tried to Hide Hand in Syria Earlier this week, the State Department designated the al Nusrah Front in Syria as an “alias” for al Q... December 14, 2012 Assad’s Chemical Card Last week, president Obama issued another warning to Syria’s embattled dictator against making the “tragic mistake” of using chemical weapons (CW). There remain a number of real... December 13, 2012 Dictators and Dissidents The think tank I head up organizes an annual policy conference that has to be planned many months in advance, so we... December 13, 2012 Obama’s Syria Disaster Watching the nightmare in Syria unfold, you have to ask yourself: Could the Obama administration have made a worse hash out of the situation if it had tried? Short of an outright Iranian... December 13, 2012 After Abbas Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas went to the United Nations last month and brought his people one step closer to statehood. But amid all the fanfare, Western diplomats... December 13, 2012 Al Qaeda’s Emir Calls on Egyptian Salafi Leader to Continue Revolution A video posted on Egyptian websites this week shows Ayman al Zawahiri calling on the hardline Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to relaunch the Egyptian revolution. While Zawahiri's call... December 12, 2012 Syrian Jihadists, Including al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front, Form Mujahideen Shura Council On the same day the US government announced that al Qaeda in Iraq's Al Nusrah Front was a terrorist organization, Al Nusrah and nine other jihadist groups banded together in the Syrian provi... December 12, 2012 No U.S. Strategy in Syria More than 45,000 deaths and 22 months since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, the White House has finally run aground on the incoherence of its Syria policy. Having refused to provide the opp... December 12, 2012 South Africa’s ANC Lurches Into Anti-Semitism In October, the African National Congress dropped all pretense and announced its support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The declaration came at the third Inter... December 11, 2012 Al Nusrah Front, Foreign Jihadists Seize Key Syrian Base in Aleppo 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, and allied jihadist groups took control of the last ma... December 11, 2012 Meanwhile, UNESCO Chief Is Romancing Cuban Education When UNESCO — the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization — admitted the Palestinian Authority as a full member last year, the decision triggered a U.S. law that... December 11, 2012 Aw Shucks, Why Not Let the UN Control the Internet? Here it comes again — another United Nations-sponsored grab to control the Internet. Next month, Dec. 3-14, the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is holding... December 10, 2012 ISAF Kills Another al Qaeda Commander in Kunar Raid Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed another al Qaeda leader in the remote, Taliban-controlled province of Kunar during a raid last week. The International Security Assi... December 10, 2012 Palestine’s Strangely Stubborn State of Mind The UN vote upgrading the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to a non-member state with observer status has done nothing to move the cause of Palestinian statehood forward. Instead, it repea... December 10, 2012 A Major Benghazi Terror Bust The Egyptian government has nabbed a major terrorist tied to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, according to... December 10, 2012 Al Qaeda Religious Leader Thought Killed in US Drone Strike A Kuwaiti who was a prominent member of al Qaeda's religious committee is thought to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. Two "contemporarie... December 10, 2012 US Adds West African Group, 2 Leaders, to Terrorism List The US government has added the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa and two of its leaders to the list of global terrorists and entities. The Movement for Tawhid... December 10, 2012 Islamic State of Iraq Denies Its Emir Captured The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda's political front in Iraq, denied that its emir, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Husseini al Qurshi, or Abu Du'a, was captured by Iraqi security forces earli... December 10, 2012 Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy.... December 10, 2012 Iranian Influence in the South Caucasus and the Surrounding Region Introduction On behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I would like to thank Chairman Burton and Ranking Member Meeks for the opportunity to submit written... December 9, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills Another al Qaeda Commander in North Waziristan The US killed another al Qaeda commander in a drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadl... December 7, 2012 Obama’s Greater Middle East It’s difficult to recommend a new approach to the Greater Middle East when the overarching philosophy of Barack Obama’s first term lingers on. In 2008 the Illinois senator sincerely b... December 7, 2012 New Name, Same Problems A new Syrian opposition group has earned diplomatic recognition from France and Britain. National Coalition for Syrian Revo... December 7, 2012 Bibi Needs America, Not the Europeans Israel has a problem. The E-1 corridor building decision is actually long overdue. Under any future agreement, Maale Adumim would have to remain under Israeli sovereignty – this is a consen... December 6, 2012 Islamology 101 Google “Islamist” and you’ll get more than 24 million hits. Google “jihadist” and you’ll get millions more. Yet I bet the average Ame... December 5, 2012 ISAF Launches 2 Raids Targeting al Qaeda-Linked Commanders Yesterday the International Security Assistance Force conducted two raids targeting insurgent leaders with ties to al Qaeda inside Afghanistan. In the Watahpur district in Kunar province... December 5, 2012 An Unholy Alliance Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parlia... December 5, 2012 Have Obama and Bibi Made Up? On Friday, Bibi Netanyahu’s government announced it was... December 4, 2012 Yes, Hamas and Iran are Still the Best of Friends “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote in 1946. He was describing a midcentury inclination to avoid “facing unpleasant fact... December 4, 2012 Gitmo’s Troubling Afterlife: The Global Consequences of U.S. Detention Policy Senator Dianne Feinstein recently commissioned a Government Acco... December 4, 2012 ISAF Kills IMU/Taliban District Commander in Afghan North Coalition and Afghan forces killed a dual-hatted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban district commander during a raid in northern Afghanistan four days ago. The International Secu... December 4, 2012 Going to War? Fellow PJM columnist Jonathan Spyer, one of the best reporters on things Syrian, now believes that... December 3, 2012 How Israel Lost Europe There was never much doubt that the U.N. General Assembly would overwhelmingly vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to the status of nonmember state on Nov. 29. The big surprise of the event...

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