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November 4, 2009
Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...
November 4, 2009
Somali President Sheikh Sharif’s Diplomatic Efforts in the U.S.
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed traveled to the U.S. in early October; among other things, h...
November 4, 2009
Pull the Plug on Afghanistan
President Karzai of Afghanistan has just stolen an election and gotten away with it. Despite being universally criticized as corrupt and incompetent, he is likely to rule Afghanistan for another...
November 4, 2009
Small Miracle
People forget how small Israel is. Its entire population is a little over 7 million - smaller than Lima, Per...
November 3, 2009
Climate Change and Security in Africa
By Dr. J. Peter Pham For much of Africa's post-independence history, "African unity" was more an aspiration than a reality. Consequently, even when, as I...
November 2, 2009
How The Wall Fell
When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...
October 29, 2009
Where Rohde Leads
Almost a year ago, New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban....
October 26, 2009
Unfortunately, Failure Is an Option
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Lawrence B. Lindsey One of the standard accoutrements of the decision making process in the West Wing is the three-option "decision memorandum...
October 26, 2009
Afghanistan Matters Because of Pakistan
President Obama is taking his time deciding what to do next in Afghanistan. Never mind that he's rethinking a war he declared a "war of necessity" just a few short months ago. Never mind tha...
October 23, 2009
Imprison Here, Release Here
If Guantanamo Bay is closed, scores of trained jihadists, committed to killing Americans, will be released to dwell among us: It is that simple. Pres. Barack Obama and Attorney Gen...
October 23, 2009
The Government’s Allegations Against Tarek Mehanna
On Wednesday, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., was charged in federal court with conspiring to provide...
October 23, 2009
The Pretense of Reform
By Tony Badram and Mara E. Karlin Senior officials in the Obama administration are batting around the notion that the Taliban in Afghanistan could play a role comparable to that...
October 22, 2009
Disconnecting the Dots
Don't fault President Obama for reconsidering his strategy in Afghanistan. Fault him for reconsiderin...
October 22, 2009
U.N. Injustice
Founded "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war," today's United Nations is instead laying the groundwork for war galore. In the name of "justice," the U.N. handicaps democra...
October 22, 2009
The New U.S. Sudan Policy: A Preliminary Review
By Dr. J. Peter Pham After a weekend marked by leaks to the Washi...
October 22, 2009
The Strategic Challenge of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab
Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, America...
October 21, 2009
The Problem of Evil
Since 9/11, Michael Ledeen has been warning that this war against America was never about Afghanistan or Iraq, but has always been a regional war, with malefactors are up to no good around the wo...
October 20, 2009
The Code Is Mightier Than The Sword
By Mark Dubowitz and Larry Footer The Long War against radical Islam is a war of...
October 20, 2009
We Have Met the Enemy . . .
Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan--which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information--seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor...
October 20, 2009
Taliban Rattles Pakistan
By Dr. Walid Phares As the Taliban send suicide bombers inside Pakistan's cities, observers focus on the horrors and the continuing bloodshed. And though the Talib...
October 16, 2009
Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West
From Accomplice to Evil: “The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes—from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis—who s...
October 16, 2009
Can Obama Accept the Prize?
By Dr. J Peter Pham and Ronald D. Rotunda People can, and undoubtedly will, argue for some time about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, though,...
October 15, 2009
House Approves Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009
Press Release October 14, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org House Approves Iran Sanctions Enabling...
October 15, 2009
Pakistan Notebook
Islamabad — I picked an interesting moment to visit Pakistan: four terrorist attacks in less than a week. The first was at the World Food Programme office here in the capital: five killed....
October 15, 2009
Peace Porridge
President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...
October 15, 2009
Eritrea: Spoiler Exacerbates Crisis in the Horn of Africa and Beyond
By Dr. J. Peter Pham One of the frustrations with which Africa's friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African l...
October 15, 2009
Why Defeating the Taliban Is Key to Stopping Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON - Sophisticated critics of sending more US troops to fight the Taliban argue that the group is not as central a threat to American national security as Al Qaeda. Yet, fo...
October 13, 2009
Dr. Walid Phares to Speak at the EPP Conference in Vienna On “Transatlantic Strategies to Counter Te
Press Release October 13, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org Dr. Walid Phares to Speak at the...
October 13, 2009
Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen
Press Release October 13, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the...
October 9, 2009
Nobel Committee Pulls Oil Plug on Democracy
By Dr. Walid Phares As soon as the Oslo committee issued its Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, an expected debate raged in America about the legitimacy of such a move...
October 8, 2009
Fighting Jihadists Frees Muslims From Oppression
By Dr. Walid Phares In an interview I conducted with Nowe Panstwo (Our Times), a Politics and History Journal in Poland, I argued that jihad as an ideology, as a movement, and a...
October 8, 2009
Win Over Washington One Nuke At A Time
To: The Interim Government of Honduras, Attention Interim President Roberto Micheletti From: The Hope and Change Global Consulting Service, Washington,...
October 5, 2009
Kurt Westergaard, Free Speech, and Leftist Refuseniks
Has Jack Layton converted to Islam? That's what activist Tarek Fatah...
October 5, 2009
Time for a Hail Mary On Iran
Diplomacy without leverage isn't negotiating, it's begging. And with Iran standing at the threshold of nuclear weapons, begging is NOT the right strategy. Iran's nuc...
October 2, 2009
World Must Sustain Push Against Iran’s Human Rights Abuses
By Dr. Walid Phares As the United States and the international community meet Iran's diplomats and hope for the nuclear crisis to be resolved, another critical fro...
October 1, 2009
Want Detente? Be Careful What You Wish For
As the dust settles with an eerie hazmat glitter on this year's opening of the United Nations General Assembly, I'm finally ready to give up on that Bush-coined phrase, "axis of evil."...
October 1, 2009
Guinea: At the Edge of the Precipice
By Dr. Walid Phares When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara seized power the day before Christmas Eve last year following the death of longtime ruler General Lansana Conté, I wa...
October 1, 2009
Abdullah al-Faisal: Extremist Ideologue with Influence in the West
By Madeleine Gruen In 2009, Americans have seen an increase in terrorism-related arrests of U.S. citizens who traveled abroad for training and battlefield experience. In January...
October 1, 2009
Can Sanctions “Cripple” Iran?
In 1981, Israeli leaders sent bombers to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak. Rafael Eitan, the...
September 30, 2009
We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years
The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an alm...
September 29, 2009
Daniel Patrick Boyd Charged With Plotting Attack on Quantico Marine Base
On Sept. 24, a superseding indictment was filed in the criminal case against Dan...
September 28, 2009
The Najibullah Zazi Detention Memo and His Use of Explosives
On Sept. 24, the government submitted a memorandum of law supporting its motion for a permanent order of d...
September 25, 2009
Gasoline Sanctions Needed to Force Iran’s Hand on Nuclear Program
Press Release September 25, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org Gasoline Sanctions Needed to Force...
September 25, 2009
Why Iran Could Be Obama’s Defining Moment
President Obama has just been presented with what could be the defining moment of his presidency and perhaps a defining moment in world history. On the eve of his speech calling on the nations of...
September 24, 2009
Authority Complex
In 1996, Vice President Al Gore was named by President Bill Clinton to chair the White House Commission on Aviation Safety. Over the months that followed, he and an impressive list of commissione...
September 24, 2009
Putting Puntland’s Potential into Play
By Dr. J. Peter Pham In last week's column, I noted that the United States military and intelligence communitie...
September 24, 2009
The President And Two Dictators
America has "re-engaged the United Nations," said President Barack Obama in his maiden speech Wednesday to the U.N. General Assembly. Yes, it has, and within hours both Libya's Col. Muammar...
September 24, 2009
Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad and the Muslim Political World’s Ongoing Clown Show
Pop quiz: Who is the President of Indonesia? If you knew the answer was Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, award yourself a gold sticker in the shape of the Wikipedia logo. But if you're amo...
September 24, 2009
UN Turns Blind Eye to Weaker Middle East Nations
By Dr. Walid Phares How ironic that Middle East's dictators and their allies showed up at the General Assembly in New York in 2009 to blast what they coined as a Western ab...
September 23, 2009
Message to the U.N. – Support Democracy Not Dictators
By Dr. Walid Phares As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the...
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