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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...
September 22, 2009
Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show
For the fifth time in five years, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is descending on New York to speak at the September opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His previous visits...
September 21, 2009
Will Obama ‘Do a Rumsfeld’ In Afghanistan?
When I was in Afghanistan earlier this year it was clear we didn't have enough troops to do anything more than tread water. Things have only gotten worse. President Obama is offerin...
September 18, 2009
Pashtuns and Pakistanis
The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...
September 18, 2009
Obama Tosses an Ally Overboard – And We Get Zip
Remember Polish jokes? They're politically incorrect these days, so no one makes them. No one, that is, except President Obama. By cancelling the promised missile shield, he in effect cut Po...
September 17, 2009
Dr. Walid Phares to participate in Trans-Atlantic Legislative Summit on Counter Terrorism
Next week, an important summit will be held by a number of legislators from the European Parliament, the US Congress and the Canadian Parliament to discuss "al Qaeda's and other Jihadi force...
September 17, 2009
Why Is Missile Defense Controversial?
Missile defense - as the term might suggest - is defensive, not offensive. Brilliant American scientists have developed sophisticated technologies to prevent missiles - including those armed with...
September 17, 2009
Axis Of Opportunism
The bad old Axis of Evil is back in the news. That's not because President Barack Obama has resurrected the label, but because he's now planning to hold direct talks with its two surviv...
September 17, 2009
Somali Instability Still Poses Threat Even After Successful Strike on Nabhan
By Dr. J. Walid Phares The United States struck an important blow against Islamist terrorism in the Horn of Africa earlier this week when, in the middle of the day on Monday, Sp...
September 17, 2009
Meet Diana Ralph, the Bizarre Anti-Israeli Conspiracy Theorist Who Charmed the United Church of Cana
The United Church of Canada narrowly avoided disgrace last month, when its members rejected a bigoted resolution aimed at boycotting Israel. But a scandalous new revelation suggests the controver...
September 16, 2009
Bin Laden: U.S. Must Break From Israel For Peace
By Dr. Walid Phares Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 asserting that the main reason for the al-Qaida attacks on New...
September 15, 2009
Oil Itself Is A Problem
On June 18, 2009, inFOCUS editor Jonathan Schanzer interviewed R. James Woolsey. Mr. Woolsey was Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Woolsey is Chairman of the Adviso...
September 15, 2009
Are Naomi Klein et al Being Used as Palestinian Authority Sock Puppets?
For the last little while, Toronto has been the scene of a teapot tempest over its International Film Festival (TIFF). On one side are a bunch of Hollywood celebrities and local anti-Israeli acti...
September 15, 2009
Canada Grows Up
Anti-Americanism has been Canada's defining intellectual ailment for generations. Not the fire-breathing hatred felt in some parts of the world, or even the elitist sneer directed westward f...
September 14, 2009
Bin Laden’s Strategy Shift
By Dr. Walid Phares In a 12 minutes address on audio tape, Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden, spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. The tape was produced...
September 11, 2009
KSM’s Sleeper Agents Posed A Serious Threat
You would think the identification and arrest of sleeper agents working for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and operating on U.S. soil in 2003, is a success story our intelligen...
September 10, 2009
Eight Years and Counting
Eight years ago this week, Osama bin Laden watched and then celebrated as a terrorist attack he had authorized brought down the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, slaughtering thousands...
September 10, 2009
It Takes A Nuclear Village
WASHINGTON -- New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau left his home turf and came to the nation's capital on Tuesday to sound the alarm about a "blossoming relationship" between...
September 10, 2009
Book Review: What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B. Krueger (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 180 pp. Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein...
September 3, 2009
UNICEF’s Proliferation-Prone Banker
With four sets of sanctions over the past three years, the United Nations is supposed to be leading the charge to stop Iran's drive toward the nuclear bomb. The most recent U.N. move, Securi...
August 14, 2009
Smart Sanctions Can Work Against Iran
After a fraudulent election and its brutal aftermath, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his junta must now be persuaded that their pursuit of nuclear weapons will be unbearably costly....
August 6, 2009
Syria Celebrates Too Soon on Sanctions
The Obama administration has announced it is easing the processing of certain export licenses to Syria, within the framework of sanctions in effect since the previous administration. Syrian spoke...
July 30, 2009
Senate Votes to Penalize Companies Selling Gasoline to Iran
Would deny federal contracts to fill Strategic Petroleum Reserve Washington, D.C. (July 30, 2009) -- The Foundation for Defense o...
July 29, 2009
Terrorism in the West 2008
The Center for Terrorism Research has released its newest report, Terrorism in the West 2008, by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Joshua D. Goodman, and Laura Grossman. Terrorism is not a new ph...
July 29, 2009
How to Stop Iran’s Nukes
At the dawn of the atomic weapons age, a group of nuclear scientists created a theoretical 'Minutes to Midnight' doomsday clock to signify how close the world was to annihilation. Since...
July 22, 2009
FDD Senior Fellow Orde Kittrie Testifies On Gasoline Sanctions Against Iran
Senate Expresses Support for Additional Sanctions Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2009) —Orde Kittrie, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testified today...
July 22, 2009
Iran: Recent Developments and Implications for U.S. Policy
On July 22, 2009, FDD Senior Fellow Orde Kittrie delivered testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding Iran: Recent Developments and Implications for U.S. Policy.
July 21, 2009
Danger Zone to be Broadcast Internationally and in the US on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio
July 21, 2009 (Washington, D.C.) -- Danger Zone, FDD's popular and respected radio show about terrorism, democracy and international security issues, now in its 5th year, wi...
July 10, 2009
House Passes Legislation Prohibiting Funds to Iran’s Gasoline Suppliers
Language Included in FY 2010 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Act Washington, D.C. (July 10, 2009)...
June 25, 2009
Where’s The U.N. On Iran?
People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Ira...
June 24, 2009
House Appropriations Committee Amendment Prohibits Funds to Iran’s Gasoline Suppliers
Washington, D.C. (June 24, 2009) - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed a House Appropriations Committee amendment that would prohibit certain U.S. financial support for companies t...
June 24, 2009
Hezbollah Is Being Elusive on Wilayat al-Faqih
There is a glaring contradiction between Hezbollah's recent statements about the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the rule of the jurisprudent) and events in Iran. The reverberations of the even...
June 23, 2009
Senate Considers Amendments to Strengthen Missile Defense
Washington, D.C. (June 23, 2009)—Bipartisan amendments to be offered today during the Senate Armed Services Committee markup of the defense department authorization bill would s...
June 23, 2009
Fiddling While Somalia Burns
Difficult as it may be to conceive, the already-bad security situation in Somalia deteriorated further over the weekend. Yet as Islamist militants brought their offensive to the edge of Mogadishu...
June 22, 2009
The June 12 Revolution
The modern Middle East has had numerous "game-changing" moments, when history turned. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, Muhammad Ali's conquest of the Nile Valley in 1805,...
June 21, 2009
The Koran and the Ballot Box
WHATEVER happens in Iran in the aftermath of this month’s fraudulent elections, one thing is clear: we are witnessing not just a fascinating power struggle among men who’ve known each...
June 19, 2009
How Should We Help Iran?
Suppose that President Obama decides to support the revolution in Iran. You may say it’s unlikely, but you’d have said that the revolution itself was pretty darned unlikely, wouldn&rs...
June 18, 2009
How to Crush Debate
Following the shootings of a Kansas abortion doctor and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, two prominent New York Times columnists, Paul Krugman and Frank Rich, spoke out forcefully a...
June 18, 2009
The Green Rebellion
With great courage, Iranians have been rising up against the tyranny of their 30-year-old Islamic Republic. This is a weak moment for Iran's terror-based regime, and democracies such as the...
June 18, 2009
Obama Must Send Iran a Message — Reagan Showed Us How to Do It
President Obama, be careful what you wish for; it may come true. Two weeks ago President Obama's Cairo speech lit a spark in the Muslim world, which Iranian demonstrators are now fa...
June 16, 2009
Why Western Media Got Lebanon’s Elections So Wrong
The biggest failure in Lebanon’s election was not just General Michel Aoun. Sharing first place with him was a coterie of Western journalists and analysts who, in the run-up to the election...
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