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March 23, 2012 Hit Iran with Unity These days, Republicans are seizing every opportunity to hammer President Obama for both high gas prices and his Iran policy. Mitt Romney recently... March 23, 2012 Chinese Blind Spot Investigating Chinese surveillance is a rather lonely job. For all the dissidents yammering about dramatic arrests and torture and harvesting of organs, you can’t really guarantee publicati... March 23, 2012 America Needs a Kurdish Policy Among the Iraq-related anniversaries to consider, here's one more: Twenty-one years ago this week, millions of Iraqi Kurds set flight for the desolate, snow-capped mountains bordering... March 23, 2012 Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placa... March 22, 2012 US Tells Turkey to Back Off Syria In a previously unreported turn of events, it has now come to light that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her meeting with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu last month... March 22, 2012 Jund al Khilafah Claims French Shooting Jund al Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, an al Qaeda and Haqqani Network-linked terror group that is based along the Afghan-Pakistani border, claimed credit for one of the shootings attrib... March 22, 2012 Terror in Toulouse French officials have identified the gunman responsible for the deaths of seven people, including three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, as a French-Algerian named Mohammad Me... March 22, 2012 US Exempts Japan, 10 EU Nations From Iran Oil Sanctions Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, said in an interview that the Obama administration’s action yesterday “begins to reduce s... March 22, 2012 U.S. to Turkey: We Won’t Take Action on Syria Clinton rejected proposals offered by Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during a meeting last month, Turkish and U.S. sources... March 22, 2012 US Policy on Syria: A Bad Joke Told at the Syrian People’s Expense First Obama outsourced to Turkey the job of overseeing the formation of the opposition. The result was the Syrian National Council, which is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, as the Muslim Br... March 21, 2012 “Destroy All the Churches” Imagine if Pat Robertson called for the demolition of all the mosques in America. It would be front-page news. It would be on every network and cable news program. There would be a demand for Chr... March 21, 2012 A Faulty Intelligence Report Lives On The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program lives on in the imagination of some government officials. At the end of a... March 21, 2012 Al Nusrah Front Takes Credit for Damascus Bombings A jihadist group known as the Al Nusrah Front claimed credit for a series of attacks in Syria, including two bombings outside of security installations in Damascus on March 17 that killed 27 peop... March 21, 2012 US May Make Concessions on Night Raids in Afghanistan As NATO's mission in Afghanistan continues its downward spiral, the US is considering allowing Afghans a degree of control over the controversial night raids, which are conducted by special... March 21, 2012 US Exempts Japan, 10 EU Nations From Iran Oil Sanctions Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, said in an interview that the Obama administration’s action yesterday “begins to reduce s... March 20, 2012 Pakistani Islamist Warlord Mangal Bagh Rumored Killed in Khyber Pakistani police claimed that Mangal Bagh, the leader of a Taliban-linked terror group based in the tribal agency of Khyber, was killed during an operation there last weekend. The report is uncon... March 20, 2012 Understanding Journalist Nir Rosen’s Relationship with the Syrian Regime Journalist Nir Rosen defended himself against accusations over the weekend that he’d collabora... March 20, 2012 Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister BUDAPEST -- Peter Molnar recalls the time he first suspected that Viktor Orbán might possess an authoritarian... March 20, 2012 Bill C-10 Will Finally Punish Terrorists AND Their State Sponsors Bill C-10, the government's controversial omnibus crime bill, recently passed... March 19, 2012 Obama’s Detachment Policy on Syria On Monday, the editor of the pan-Arab Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Tariq al-Homayed, penned a column that deli... March 19, 2012 Austria, Iran, and the Holocaust The United Kingdom is widely considered to be the central hub of efforts to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist, largely because of anti-Israel trade unions, the loony extremist British... March 19, 2012 Iran and Syria are Getting Blown Up. And Sometimes Shot. It’s all the rage. Literally. Two explosions at Iranian military/nuclear weapons sites. Four explosions in Syria, including three suicide bombers in Damascus on Saturday, two of which were... March 19, 2012 Omar Hammami ‘Not Endangered by the Mujahideen,’ Shabaab Claims Shabaab said that Omar Hammami "is not endangered by the Mujahideen" and that it is "surprised" by a video released by the leader in which he said he feared for his life. Shabaab denied... March 19, 2012 ‘Missiles From the Sea’ Kill 16 AQAP Fighters in Zinjibar Reports from Yemen indicate that "missiles fired from the sea" killed 16 AQAP fighters on the outskirts of Zinjibar. From... March 16, 2012 German Chancellor Candidate Calls Israel an ‘Apartheid Regime’ While Iran’s terrorist proxies in the Gaza Strip fired rockets on Israeli cities, the head of Germany’s Social Democratic Party called Israel an “Apartheid regime.”... March 16, 2012 Taliban Suspends Talks with US The Obama administration’s fantasyland attempt at talks with the Taliban took another significant blow on Thursday. In a statement released online, Mullah Omar’s organization announce... March 15, 2012 UNESCO Goes to Washington When the member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization voted last October to confer membership on the Palestinian Authority, the... March 15, 2012 Speechless in a Noisy World The Austrian Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud argued that language is non-existent in dreams. In short, according to Freud’s theory, symbols saturate the unconscious dream world and serve... March 15, 2012 Syria Debate: I Didn’t Miss the Totalitarian Angle; I Wrote the Book On It There is not much with which to argue in Michael’s last salvo, but I do think I’m entitled to... March 15, 2012 Gaming and the U.N. System, for Tyranny, Terror, and Profit February 15th, 2012 Ms. Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Member, The Wall Street Journal editorial board 1... March 15, 2012 Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression The 2012 National Security & New Media Conference New York, NY Moderated Frank Gaffney Center for Security Policy... March 14, 2012 FDD Applauds SWIFT for Expelling Iranian Banks PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (FDD, March 15, 2012) – SWIFT, a top clearinghouse for international financial transactions, announced to... March 14, 2012 Obama the Bluffer The president of the United States says he doesn... March 14, 2012 Iran’s War in Gaza Israeli jets pounded the Gaza Strip on March 12 in the latest volley of fire since violence broke out late last week. But they were not fighting Hamas, Israel's traditional bête noire... March 14, 2012 The Iranian Regime’s War on Christians Former Maldives foreign minister and current U.N. special rapporteur Ahmed... March 14, 2012 Re: Let Syria Be It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Andy and I have moved... March 14, 2012 Building Palestinian Prosperity By Alexander Joffe And Asaf Romirowsky The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister... March 14, 2012 A Guide for the Perplexed Fareed Zakaria Fareed Zakaria is wearing his “I’m perplexed” face. On his weekly CNN program, he is noting that Saudi Arabia did not go n... March 13, 2012 Investigating the Bin Laden Family’s Safe Havens Perhaps someday we will learn the real extent of Osama bin Laden’s support network inside Pakistan. A truly independent investigation would begin with bin Laden’s ties to various Paki... March 13, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills 3 AQAP Fighters in Yemen Unmanned US Predators and Reapers killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during a raid in the terrorist-controlled city of Jaar last night. The strike is the third of its kind in... March 13, 2012 US Drones Kill 2 ‘Good Taliban’ Commanders in Pair of Strikes in South Waziristan Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders of a faction considered to be "good Taliban" by the Pakistani government, during a pair of stri... March 12, 2012 Israel, the United States and Iran — Locked in the Dance of Destiny Set your clocks and start your engines. We’re counting down for a conflict in the Middle East.... March 12, 2012 A Power Struggle in Iran Every time trouble has erupted in Iran against the regime—1999, 2003, and, most recently, 2009—university students have been at the forefront of protests. This is partly why Iran&rsqu... March 12, 2012 Let Syria Be ‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issue... March 12, 2012 On Syria, Follow McCain Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu... March 12, 2012 Chris Matthews, Getting It Wrong and Staying There Some weeks ago, Chris Matthews mentioned me in passing as one of those who wants to attack Iran militarily. So I wrote to his producer, pointed out that I had long opposed military attacks on Ira... March 12, 2012 Politicizing Iran’s Ties to Al Qaeda In “Politician-in-Chief,” Steve Hayes writes about President Obama’s frustration with, as Hayes... March 9, 2012 For America, It’s All About Timing. Can Israel Afford It? Beyond the speech atmospherics of the Aipac conference where, in rapid succession, Israel's president Shimon Peres, US President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... March 9, 2012 US Drones Kill at Least 13 in South Waziristan Strike Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 13 "militants" in airstrikes in the Miramshah and Mir Ali areas of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today... March 9, 2012 Taliban Demand Release of bin Laden’s Wives, Kill 7 Pakistani Troops Today the spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened that the group would "carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government" if Osama bin Laden's t...

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