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July 2, 2012 Hezbollah Joins the White House in Congratulating Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President-elect The Shiite jihadist organization that serves as Iran’s forward militia,... July 2, 2012 Fighting the Ideological War Islamism is a growing and powerful ideology that tolerates no dissent or rivalry. Yet in recent decades the United States has responded only to the violence that Islamism has generated, not to th... July 2, 2012 Cyprus Detains Iran FM Due to Old Sanctions BERLIN – Cyprus authorities detained Iran’s foreign minister at the Larnaca Airport because his name appeared on an EU sanctions list barring Iranians who are invol... July 2, 2012 US Drones Strike Again in the Shawal Valley The US launched its second straight drone strike in a remote valley in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing eight "militants." The remotely... July 2, 2012 Key Mumbai Plotter Arrested in Saudi Arabia A key suspect in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia earlier this month and then turned over to Indian authorities. Also known as Abu J... July 2, 2012 ISAF Kills Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Leader for Kunar in Airstrike Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the leader of the al Qaeda-linked, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure, during an airstrike yesterday in the remote eastern p... July 2, 2012 The Syrian Conundrum As the Syrian uprising enters its 17th month and the casualty toll mounts dramatically, Western inability to address the crisis, beyond strong rhetoric and sanctions, risks further... July 2, 2012 One More Lesson From Shamir Jonathan did a great service to our readers in his eulogy of Yitzhak Shamir.... June 29, 2012 Battle Rial Sanctions are convulsing Iran. In the past seven months, the Western turn from targeted sanctions to broader economic warfare has presented the Iranian regime with perhaps its greatest economic c... June 29, 2012 German Court Tells Lesbian Asylum Seeker to Hide Identity in Iran A German court rejected the asylum application of Samira Ghorbani Danesh, an Iranian lesbian refugee who fled Iran in 2009, with the justification that she can hide her homosexuality in Iran and... June 29, 2012 A Great Moment for Europe, Soccer, Italy, and Mario Balotelli Let’s face it: Canada isn’t a soccer country. Yes, our seven-year-olds join leagues and run around chasing a ball for an hour once a week. Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto have teams i... June 29, 2012 Taliban Raid Nuristan District Reports from eastern Afghanistan indicate that hundreds of Taliban fighters, including members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, raided two villages in Kamdesh district in Nuristan toda... June 29, 2012 Paper Trail Leads to Damascus In December 2010, the New York Times' Robert F. Worth wrote an article about the newspaper Al-Akhbar, "the most dynamic and daring in Lebanon, and perhaps anywhere in the Arab world." The pa... June 29, 2012 Egyptian President Wants Arch-Terrorist Freed In a rousing speech in Tahrir Square on Friday, Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi, t... June 28, 2012 If at First You Don’t Succeed… The Palestinians may appeal to the United Nations for statehood. Again. That was the message out of Ramallah on Sunday, June 24, when Fatah, the dominant Palestinian faction in the West... June 28, 2012 How to Define Terrorism Without Getting Political Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada began hearing an appeal from Mohammad Momin Khawaja,... June 28, 2012 Lose LOST At some point this year, President Obama is expected to ask the Senate to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty, known to its critics as LOST. Every living former secretary o... June 28, 2012 Yes We Still Can In 1999, as America prepared to enter the new century, French leaders decried its rising status as a "hyperpower". A hyperpower, explained then French foreign minister Hubert V&ea... June 28, 2012 Saving Syria from Kofi Annan Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:... June 27, 2012 What’s Next for Egypt? What’s going to happen in Egypt now that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi has been elected president? That’s the question weighing heavily on everyone&rsqu... June 27, 2012 Stuxnet Deactivates Itself, Iranians Crow This past weekend the Christian Science Monitor reported tha... June 27, 2012 Egyptian Diplomat Suggests Gays are ‘Not Real People’ Egypt’s chief diplomatic representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva declared last week at a meeting about the universal right to association that gays do not warrant protection... June 27, 2012 Abdullah Azzam Brigades Names Leader, Advises Against Attacks in Syria’s Cities The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al Qaeda-linked terror group that operates throughout Middle East, has named its leader for the first time and said it supports the Syrian revolution. The... June 27, 2012 Switzerland Snubs Obama’s and Europe’s Iran Sanctions As the Obama administration and U.S. allies seek to punish Iran for making no concessions in the latest round of negotiations over its nuclear activities, Switzerland has snubbed them by refusing... June 26, 2012 A Fabricated Interview? Either the Iranian regime is lying or Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, gave an interview that will raise some eyebrows. Fars News Agency has released a series of art... June 26, 2012 Brotherhood Representative Won’t Speak to Israeli Journalist News channel France 24 hosted a panel Monday night to discuss Egypt’s first civilian president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi. One of the guests on the panel, via satellite f... June 26, 2012 US Drones Kill AQAP Commander, 2 Fighters in Southern Yemen US drones killed an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander and two fighters in an airstrike near the southern port city of Aden today. The remotely piloted Predators or the more hea... June 26, 2012 Last Gay Jewish Holocaust Survivor Dies Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens' home six days before... June 26, 2012 Muammar Gaddafi’s Unlawful Threat of Force Against Switzerland and Other States Although one could perhaps be forgiven for not realising it given the violence that ravages our world, one of international law’s cardinal principles is the general prohibition of, to quote... June 25, 2012 Recent Taliban Attacks Show Increased Targeting of Civilians By LWJ Staff Less than two days after a suspected Haqqani Network assault on a lakefront hotel near Kabul in which attackers executed Afghan civilians for allegedly "drinking al... June 25, 2012 The Obama Retreat In Moscow last week for the third round of talks with Iran over its nuclear weapons program this year, the Obama administration came up empty—again. So the White House, with n... June 25, 2012 Ahmadinejad in Rio It is by now a scene so familiar it’s become routine. At your expense, dear taxpayers of the planet — and especially at the expense of all you colonialist, imperialist, capitalist tax... June 25, 2012 Obama Administration: ‘Imperative’ that Egyptian Military Hand Over Power to Islamist President Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is doing her part to help the Muslim Brotherhood implement the Turkey Strategy in Egypt. As I’ve... June 25, 2012 Read Me If You Can: Censorship Today You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Nick Cohen (London: Fourth Estate, 2012) If I complacently accept the idea that... June 25, 2012 Zarqawi’s Nephew Killed in Yemen Drone Strike A Jordanian member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was the nephew of former al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed in a drone strike earlier this year, according to a ma... June 25, 2012 Taliban Behead 7 Pakistani Soldiers: Report The Taliban claimed to have killed 17 Pakistani soldiers in an attack in the northern district of Upper Dir yesterday. Seven of the soldiers are reported to have been beheaded. Pakistani... June 25, 2012 Islamist’s Win in Egypt Leaves US Uncertain Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Ara... June 25, 2012 A New Egypt, But Is It An Improvement? The Post reports: “Egypt’s electoral... June 22, 2012 Afghan Soldiers Retake Kabul Hotel After Taliban Assault Afghan forces stormed a lakeside hotel in Kabul to retake it from a Taliban suicide assault team that was holding dozens of civilians hostage. The Taliban claimed credit for the attack, calling t... June 22, 2012 Member of Al Qaeda-Allied Organization Visits Washington Writing at the Daily Beast, Eli Lake has the scoop o... June 22, 2012 ‘Escape From Camp 14′: A Shocking Exposé of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Gulag’ For six decades running, the North Korean gulag system has comprised one of the greatest crimes against humanity known to history. Yet it remains an obscurity. There is no such thing as a North K... June 22, 2012 Assessing the State of Islamophobia in Canada As noted previously on this blog, last Satu... June 22, 2012 Beijing’s Oil Imports From Iran Rebound China's oil imports from Iran continued to sharply rebound in May to nearly match 2011 levels following a steep drop-off earlier this year, figures showed Thursday, a day after Secretary of... June 22, 2012 Dollar Power AMERICA’S chokehold on Iran’s oil trade is tightening. New sanctions that come into force on June 28th attempt to turn off Iran’s $95 billion-a-year oil trade, and stop the flow... June 22, 2012 Threats From Cyber to Terror Supplant Cold War’s Dangers The U.S. is searching for ways to deter, defend against and respond to ever-increasing cyber attacks and more diverse terrorist threats, even as it tries to cut spending and finance weapons conce... June 22, 2012 Congress Tries to Lead on Iran; Obama Clings to Failed Diplomacy The Obama administration won’t take no for an answer. The Iran talks yielded no progress again this week, and yet the Obama administration... June 21, 2012 Pakistan’s New Al Qaeda Detainee and Iran Pakistani officials have reportedly captured Naamen Meziche, an al Qaeda operative with an extensive dossier. Meziche plays a significant role in an article (“... June 21, 2012 The Trouble with Multiculturalism Back in the day, when I was a newspaper columnist in Denver, representatives of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League paid a visit. Over coffee, they told the opinion ed... June 21, 2012 Iran Faces Fresh US Sanctions Push The US Congress is considering imposing tougher sanctions on Iran after the latest round of diplomatic talks over Iran’s nuclear programme ended in Moscow without substantive progress.... June 20, 2012 Germany Starts to Clamp Down on Salafists BERLIN, Germany - Last week the German interior ministry stepped up its efforts against a growing Salafist network in the Federal Republic, stating that "[t]he organization acts in opposition to...

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