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November 3, 2010 The Election and DOJ Oversight Obviously, there are many things that can be stuffed into the “First Order of Business” file, but one of them ought to be oversight of the Oba... November 3, 2010 Attitude Correction Writing for Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel, Jonathan Guyer recently panned "P@lestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn from Palestinian Social Media," a study I co-authored with Ma... November 2, 2010 ‘Foreign Fighter’ Cell Leader Captured in Central Afghanistan Afghan and Coalition forces captured the leader of "a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters" during a raid in central Afghanistan yesterday. The commander, who was not identified, wa... November 2, 2010 Time for a Tea Party at Turtle Bay Foreign policy was a side issue in Tuesday’s election. But with crises in the making, from Venezuela to Iran, and points between and beyond, the wider world will be muscling its way into th... November 2, 2010 More Rocket, Less Docket ‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.” In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim... November 1, 2010 WikiLeaks, Iran, and Obama The latest dump of classified WikiLeaks documents shows a few important facts: (1) The United States military unavoidably classifies a mountain of documents because of the easy loquacity of moder... October 31, 2010 The Failed Obama Iran Policy: Now What? On October 25, Ambassador Dennis Ross - among other things, the National Security Council's czar for Iranian matters -... October 30, 2010 From Yemen With Malice We are still learning the details of the terrorist plot to send explosives into the U.S. from Yemen via cargo plane, so it is too early to make a definitive assessment. However, we have enough in... October 30, 2010 It’s Not the Economy, Stupid With debt exploding, joblessness climbing, growth stagnating, and sharp tax increases looming, the economy has dominated the midterm campaign that finally ends on Tuesday. National-security conce... October 29, 2010 US Working to Revise Iran Deal as Part of Renewed Talks WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is working to revise a uranium enrichment deal with Teheran that collapsed last year in order to create a confidence-building step as part of talks it hopes... October 28, 2010 House Foreign Affairs Committee Advances Gasoline Sanctions on Iran House Foreign Affairs Committee Advances Gasoline Sanctions on Iran Washington, D.C. (October 28, 2009) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies praised the... October 28, 2010 Re: The Plot to Attack the D.C. Metro In and around our nation's capital, folks know how NPR, Whoopi Goldberg, and Joy Behar prefer to have these issues framed: "It's chilling that a man from Ashburn... October 28, 2010 Re: The Plot to Attack the D.C. Metro In and around our nation's capital, folks know how NPR, Whoopi Goldberg, and Joy Behar prefer to have these issues framed: "It's chilling that a man from Ashburn... October 28, 2010 EU Slaps New Sanctions Against Islamic Regime The European Union implemented its new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, targeting the country's energy, transportation and bank sectors with additional restrictions. The robust... October 28, 2010 Europe Gets Tough with Iran; Obama Wants to Talk The European Union approved a new round of tough sanctions against Iran this week . Instead of targeting individual Iranian officials with human rights violations as the US has done, the Europeans... October 28, 2010 Obama’s Post-Election To-Do List Assuming the polls, prognosticators and pundits are worth their salt, this time next week President Obama will be facing political climate change. So if his advisors are worth their salt, they&#0... October 28, 2010 WikiLeaks And The Myth of A “Lebanonized” Hezbollah The classified military documents obtained by WikiLeaks, which disclose Hezbollah’s role in Iraq under the direct command of the Iranian regime, may not be particularly surprising or even g... October 28, 2010 Al Qaeda Martyrdom Tape Shows Nature and Extent of Terror Group’s Reach in Afghanistan A recently released al Qaeda martyrdom videotape identifies five foreign commanders who have fought and died in Afghanistan within the past few years. The profiles of these commanders reveal that... October 27, 2010 Our 9/11 War Dead Are Not ‘Shaheeds’ Out of respect for our men and women in harm's way, I have tried, since an exchange... October 26, 2010 Che’s Daughter [Hearts] Hezbollah "How could you possibly think Islamists and Leftists would work together?" As I think I mentioned to K-Lo when she interviewed me about... October 26, 2010 Heart of Politically Correct Darkness: Death in Zimbabwe I got a note today from an African friend. He describes himself as "sad and angry" over the death of our mutual friend, Kobus Joubert. We don't know all the details yet, but... October 26, 2010 What Kind of Defense Does The Tea Party Support? The Tea Party takes clear positions on government spending and regulation: It wants less of both. But on national security, its position is less clear. In the face of deepening criticism... October 26, 2010 Why Bahrain’s Shiite Majority Is Restless Despite Election Gains Authored by Steven Sotloff Flanked by anti-regime graffiti and standing next to a dumpster torched during protests last month, Mazen complains that Bahran's king has broken... October 25, 2010 Omar Khadr Pleads Guilty This morning, Omar Khadr pled guilty before a military commission to conspiring with al Qaeda and throwing the grenade that killed an American medic in Afghanistan. The guilty plea was reportedly... October 23, 2010 Misreporting Iraq’s Casualties Early Friday evening I received a link, via email, to this story at ABC News’s website by Russell Goldman and Luis Martinez. The opening sentences read (emphasis added):... October 22, 2010 Al Qaeda Troubled by Helen Thomas’s Firing A few weeks ago, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the second edition of its online magazine, Inspire. As with the first edition, Inspire seeks to garner new recruits i... October 22, 2010 Exposing the Nutrients: How to Improve Enforcement of Sanctions Against Iran Can sanctions persuade Iran to renounce its quest for nuclear weapons? The international community's standoff with the Islamic Republic has now entered its eighth year, and there are no sign... October 22, 2010 Juan Williams, The Truthful Dissident Did journalist Juan Williams, who was fired Wednesday by NPR, show unacceptable insensitivity or unforgiveable stupidity when he expressed anxiety about Muslim airplane passengers during an inter... October 22, 2010 Is It Islamic or Islamist? Co-Authored with Soner Cagaptay Now that even the tolerant, liberal Swedes have elected an anti-Islam party to their Parliament, it’s pretty clear that such controversies... October 21, 2010 Re: NPR Firing Juan Williams Bottom line: NPR has its own interpretation of sharia, and Juan violated it - and paid the price. My column... October 21, 2010 Obstructed “View” An African-American woman who affects a Jewish-sounding surname as a running joke storms off the stage in response to what she regards as the slander of Muslims. Only in America. But let me back... October 21, 2010 Anwar Awlaki’s Message to Inspire Readers The second edition of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) Inspire magazine makes multiple references to the controversy over the Obama administration's decision to allow US force... October 20, 2010 Al Qaeda IED Cell Member Properly Detained at Gitmo, Judge Finds In an order released on Tuesday, DC District Judge Richard Leon rejected a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by an Afghan detained at Guantanamo named Obaydullah (or Obaidullah).... October 20, 2010 Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian? Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e... October 19, 2010 Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has released the first-ever study mining the Arabic-language Palestinian social media environment to determine Palestinian public sentiment and its pote... October 19, 2010 Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism A key figure in one of Europe's most infamous Islamic extremist networks has written a public letter renouncing whole swathes of the ideology that led him to try to murder non-believers. On... October 18, 2010 Somalia’s New Prime Minister: Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered Just when it seems things can get no worse for Somalia's dubiously legitimate, utterly ineffective, and wholly self-serving "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG), the embattled clique pull... October 16, 2010 The Bill O’Reilly Fallacy After recent conversations with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and others who are of a more conservative bent, I started to reflect on Western scholarship and American conservative comment... October 15, 2010 An Islamic Republic in Lebanon Is there a Churchillian lesson to be found in Ahmadinejad's visit this week to wildly enthusiastic Hezbollah supporter... October 15, 2010 An Islamic Republic in Lebanon Is there a Churchillian lesson to be found in Ahmadinejad's visit this week to wildly enthusiastic Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon? If one thing has become clear, it's that Ahmadinejad's rad... October 15, 2010 Review: The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks One clear blind spot in the contemporary study of terrorism is the role religious ideology plays as a motivating force and driver of strategy. In the scholarship on suicide missions in particular... October 15, 2010 What Becomes of The Palestinian Reconciliation? In the past couple of weeks, the dormant inter-Palestinian “reconciliation” process was said to be stirring again. Representatives of the rival Fatah and Hamas movements met in Damasc... October 14, 2010 Of Niqabs and Neo-Colonialism What's your opinion of polygamy? Many consider the practice immoral and it's illegal in this country and most of the developed world. It's probably not just coincidence that few, i... October 13, 2010 Free Iran The recent decision by the Obama administration to sanction some of the Iranian regime's worst human-rights abusers is a welcome if belated step in the right direction. But it falls far shor... October 13, 2010 Why is Germany Playing Down Radical Islam? On the cover of Monday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune, the headline was, “Germany is annoyed by U.S. terror alert.”The thrust of the report is that Germany has go... October 13, 2010 Two Ex-Gitmo Detainees Featured in al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine The newly released issue of Inspire, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) quarterly online magazine, features two former Guantanamo detainees. The first is Othman Ahmed al Ghamdi, who... October 12, 2010 Geert Wilders: A Free-Speech Litmus Test Berlin - Holland's judicial campaign to strip Geert Wilders of his right to engage in ruthless polemical and intellectual criticism of Islam... October 12, 2010 IAEA Claims Iran Delivery is for ‘Cancer Therapy Project’ After The Jerusalem Post first reported Friday on the International Atomic Energy Agency's role in the delivery of illicit nuclear equipment to Iran, the IAEA responded by saying the device... October 12, 2010 Protests Against Swiss Failure to Uphold Iran Sanctions The Stop the Bomb coalition held demonstrations in front of several Swiss embassies in Europe on Monday, to protest Bern's support for the Iranian government and (EGL) Elektrizitätsgese... October 12, 2010 Iran’s Uranium Holdings Despite international sanctions designed to derail Iran's nuclear program, the Islamic Republic legally owns 15 percent of the third largest uranium mine in the world. How is this p...

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