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May 6, 2010
Give Crippling Sanctions A Chance
There is no greater threat to national and international security than the possibility that Iran's current rulers – militant Islamists, terrorist masters and sworn enemies of both the...
May 5, 2010
Taliban assault team strikes governor’ s compound in western Afghanistan
Afghan police defeated a Taliban suicide assault team that sought to kill the governor of Nimroz province in western Afghanistan. A Taliban assault team made up of nine heavily armed sui...
May 4, 2010
FBI arrests Pakistani-American sought in failed Times Square car bombing
The FBI has detained a Pakistani-American suspect who was wanted for his involvement in the failed May 1 car bomb attack at Times Square in New York City. Authorities arrested Faisal Sha...
May 4, 2010
Iraqi forces arrest leader of Ansar al Islam
Iraqi security forces backed by US advisers have captured the head of the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam. Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the leader of Ansar al Islam, or Partisans of Islam, was...
May 4, 2010
Times Square bombing suspect trained in Pakistan’s North Waziristan
The US has linked the main suspect in the failed Times Square car bomb attack to a training camp in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal region of Waziristan. Faisal Shahzad, a natu...
May 4, 2010
Did The “System” Fail, Again?
Faisal Shahzad, a 30 year-old naturalized American citizen from Pakistan, has been arrested as the chief suspect behind the failed car bomb attack on Times Square this past Saturday. The go...
May 4, 2010
The Myth of the Arab Triangle
The last couple of weeks have shed the spotlight again on the tensions between Egypt and the regional Iranian axis, which includes Syria. The tensions surged with the conviction of Hezbollah cell...
May 4, 2010
Not A “One-Off” Event
On Sunday morning, Janet Napolitano twice suggested that the attempted attack in Times Square was a "one-off" event during an interview with ABC News. ABC's Jake Tapper had asked Napolitano...
May 3, 2010
US airstrike kills 4 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
The US killed four 'militants' in the first airstrike in a week in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan. A flight of Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired three miss...
May 3, 2010
The Obama Administration’s “Big Game”
Here's my piece from last Tuesday on the recent House hearing on Syria. It saw the first time that an administration official, in this case, Asst. Sec. Jeffrey Feltman, actually spell out wh...
May 3, 2010
Why Does Anyone Care What Ahmadinejad Says at the UN?
There are plenty of tyrants who speak at the UN without their utterances making world headlines, and without the U.S. deigning to respond. Yet every time Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jets to...
May 2, 2010
Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing
A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pak...
May 2, 2010
Exclusive: Tapes show Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive and threaten attacks in the US
Two tapes were sent today to The Long War Journal by a group identifying itself as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. The same group sent a link earlier today...
May 1, 2010
Top Shabaab commander targeted in Mogadishu mosque bombings
Forty Shabaab fighters and supporters were killed in a pair of bombings today that targeted a top Shabaab military commander at a mosque in the Bakara market in Mogadishu. The first bomb...
April 30, 2010
Former ISI officer executed in northwestern Pakistan
A former officer in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency who has close links to terror groups has been found dead, apparently executed by a Taliban-linked group. A group ca...
April 30, 2010
Next Up, Libya’ s Bid To Join UN Human Rights Council
At the UN, it gets ever worse. Iran, a world hub of misogyny, just got a seat on the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women. Next up, Libya is now in the running for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Unless the engagement-loving Obama administration engages full force to somehow block this bid, Libya could very [...]
April 30, 2010
Waiting for Reform: Arab Citizens and Obama
After one year in office, the Barack Obama administration has started to delineate more clearly its policies towards the Arab world. The George W. Bush administration of 2001-2009 had, at least i...
April 29, 2010
Hakeemullah Mehsud: Not dead yet
A senior Pakistani intelligence official claimed yesterday that the top leader of the Pakistani Taliban is still alive, but the Pentagon said today he is no longer in command of his forces....
April 29, 2010
Enough Already ‘ Just Move the UN to Iran
Last week, when Iran withdrew its candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, I got messages from a number of folks who were almost sorry to see Iran drop out of the ra...
April 29, 2010
Kid Kabila and Congo’s Joyless Jubilee
Last week, the United Nations Security Council rescheduled for mid-May a planned fact-finding mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Officially, the trip was cancelled because of the...
April 29, 2010
Submission
What do Comedy Central and Yale University Press have in common? In the Islamist war against free speech, both have been on the front lines. And both have surrendered. Last week, Comedy Central c...
April 28, 2010
New Study Examining Homegrown Terrorism and Radicalization
Released today by FDD's Center for Terrorism Research Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2009) -- The Foundation for Defense of Democracies'...
April 28, 2010
Taliban strike in North Waziristan and Peshawar
The Taliban targeted the Army for the second time in five days in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of North Waziristan, while a suicide bomber struck at the police in Peshawar. A Ta...
April 28, 2010
Al Qaeda Family Moved to Baghdad in 2002
When al Qaeda in Iraq’s military chief Abu Ayyub al Masri was killed earlier this month, I noted that the CIA had tracked him to Baghdad in May 2002. Al Masri was a longtime lieutenant for...
April 28, 2010
Jimmy Carter and Sudan’s Genocidal Regime
Co-authored by Dr. Walid Phares Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is often lauded by the Arab world for championing the Palestinian cause. However, after stumbling into the wor...
April 27, 2010
Statement by FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz in advance of appearances today by Nobel Peace Pri
Washington, D.C. (April 27, 2010) – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, issued the following statement in advance of appearances today by Nobel Peace Prize...
April 27, 2010
Obama’ s Folly: Censoring Americans
We should be very concerned about Obama's attempt to eliminate certain words and phrases from American policy documents and statements concerning Islam. (Don't miss PJTV's Censorsh...
April 27, 2010
US-born cleric Awlaki “proud” to have taught al Qaeda operatives
An American-born Muslim cleric who is a senior member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has admitted to training two terrorists who carried out attacks against the US over the past six months....
April 27, 2010
The Austrian-Iranian Axis
While the Western world is trying to rally international support for tougher sanctions against Tehran to stop its nuclear-weapons program, Austria seems to seek even closer ties with the mullahs. I...
April 27, 2010
America’s “Big Game”
During last week’s stormy hearing on Syria in the US House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, the Obama administration for the first time laid out its Syria policy. Unfortunate...
April 27, 2010
Countering the Growing Airborne Threat
Co-Authored with Henry A. Obering III President Obama has made it clear that “resetting” relations with Russia and eliminating the planet’s nuclear weapons are...
April 26, 2010
Taliban shadow governor killed in Kunduz: report
Coalition forces killed a top Taliban leader and two of his aides during an airstrike today in Kunduz province. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the commander may be the Taliban's shadow go...
April 26, 2010
US strike kills 8 Taliban in North Waziristan
The US killed eight Taliban fighters today in the second airstrike in three days in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of North Waziristan. An unknown number of Predators or the more...
April 26, 2010
Hacker Nation: China’s Cyber Assault
A decade before Operation Aurora—China’s recent hacking spree of at least thirty-four Western companies—the Chinese government attempted to seize American computer code th...
April 25, 2010
‘We Are All Israelis’
This afternoon I spoke to a rally in New York organized by Beth Gilinsky’s Action Alliance. The big crowd, despite miserable weather, filled the sidewalk on Second Avenue between 42nd and 4...
April 25, 2010
Iran Drops Bid for UN Human Rights Council
A victory for Obama's policy of “engagement”?...
April 24, 2010
US sirstrike kills 7 Taliban in North Waziristan
Unmanned US strike aircraft killed seven Taliban fighters during an attack today in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of North Waziristan. A flight of Predators or the more deadly Re...
April 24, 2010
Al Qaeda in Iraq confirms deaths of al Masri, Baghdadi
Al Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed that its top two leaders were killed during a raid last weekend by Iraqi and US forces. The terror group admitted that Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al...
April 23, 2010
Who Was Paying For Al-Mabhouh’ s Five-Star Room in Dubai?
On Jan. 20th, a top Hamas terrorist, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was found suffocated to death in his room at a five-star hotel in Dubai. Since then, Dubai authorities have released surveillance video of...
April 23, 2010
Taliban ambush military convoy in North Waziristan, kill seven soldiers
The Taliban killed eight Pakistani Army soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy in North Waziristan, in direct violation of a peace agreement signed with the government last year. The Taliban...
April 23, 2010
67 killed in bombings in Baghdad and Anbar
A series of bombings in the capital of Baghdad and in Anbar killed 67 Iraqis as officials said another top al Qaeda leader was captured in Anbar province. The strikes take place just days after a...
April 23, 2010
Silver Shrapnel: Congress Targets the Energy Lifeblood of the Iranian Regime
Few would dispute that getting strong bipartisan support for legislation that actually has teeth is as rare as a Sidney Crosby fan at the Verizon Center. One exception to the bitter part...
April 22, 2010
Iraqi forces detained al Qaeda’s ‘Ruler of Baghdad’
Iraq security forces captured the leader of al Qaeda's network in the capital of Baghdad during an operation more than a month ago. The al Qaeda leader helped direct Iraqi and US forces to t...
April 22, 2010
Taliban denies kidnapping ex-ISI officers
The Afghan Taliban have denied any involvement in the kidnapping and ransoming of two pro-jihadist former Pakistani intelligence officials who were reported missing in early April. The A...
April 22, 2010
House Appoints Conferees on Iran Sanctions Legislation
Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2010) - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed the appointment of House conferees to reconcile the differing House and Senate versions of sanctions legislation targeting the Iranian regime's energy vulnerabilities.
April 22, 2010
Terrorist With A Five-Star Tab
Were it not for the recent, high-profile murder of a Hamas terrorist leader on the premises, the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel would be notable mainly for its glitz and comfort. As it is, in the many st...
April 22, 2010
Why Morocco Must Stay
After a nineteen year UN presence in the Western Sahara, the Security Council is about to follow Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's recommendation and vote to extend the mandate of the United N...
April 22, 2010
More Than Usual Suspects Taking Shots at Israel
It really is open season on Israel, isn’t it? While Iran’s jihadi rulers continue their drive for nuclear weapons, while Syria transfers thousands of missiles to Hezbollah, while lead...
April 21, 2010
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Welcomes Congressman Jim Marshall (D-GA) to Board
Press Release &n...
April 21, 2010
Lee Smith on the Syria Policy
An excellent piece by Lee Smith in Tablet Magazine today: The argument over how to engage Syria encompasses, then, both sentimental and strategic logic....
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