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April 11, 2012 Why Ozzie Matters Ozzie Guillén, manager of the newly re-minted Miami Marlins, has earned himself a five-game suspension by declaring his affection for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in... April 11, 2012 Seymour Hersh: Assassination Of JFK Was Form Of “Justice” "There might have been some justice" in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said in a letter to a reader. Hersh made the shocki... April 11, 2012 It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda The term “Arab Spring” was born of optimism, not analysis. When a downtrodden fruit monger in Tunisia self-immolated, setting off a series of regional upheavals, many journalists, dip... April 10, 2012 What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,... April 10, 2012 The Freedom Collection FDD's Ammar Abdulhamid did a series of interviews with the George W. Bush Presidential Center in July 2011 on the Syrian Uprisings. As part of their Freedom Collection, Ammar explains the Sy... April 10, 2012 US Willfully Blind on Syria Following the conclusion of the latest meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People in Istanbul last week, there has been speculation about a possible shift in US policy. However, the confusion th... April 9, 2012 It’s Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan’s Long List of Failures It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the Uni... April 9, 2012 German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his &ldquo... April 9, 2012 Special Operations Forces Kill Newly Appointed IMU Leader for Afghanistan Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the newly appointed leader for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan's forces in Afghanistan during a raid in the northwest... April 9, 2012 On the ‘Merchant of Death’ A US court has sentenced Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the "merchant of death," to 25 years in prison. Much has been written about Bout, who supplied tyrants and terrorists the world over with weapons, oft... April 9, 2012 US Drones Kill 8 AQAP Fighters in Southern Yemen US drones killed eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters, including three foreign "Arabs," in an airstrike in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa late last night. The unmanne... April 9, 2012 Obama Funds the Egyptian Government In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jih... April 6, 2012 Something Rotten in Germany On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security.... April 6, 2012 The Fallacy of the ‘Pinkwashing’ Argument On March 16, a group of gay Israeli teenagers was set to meet with the Seattle LGBT Commission, a body representing the interests of the gay community before the city government. The students wer... April 6, 2012 Are Iranian Spies Slipping Through our Immigration Loopholes? Auditor General Michael Ferguson's report has generated a great deal of attention on the... April 5, 2012 Report: Osama bin Laden Helped Plan Mumbai Attacks Osama bin Laden was in close contact with Hafiz Saeed, the wanted chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attack, according to a report in the... April 5, 2012 Beating the Tin Drum Against Israel One of Germany’s most famous novelists penned a pro-Iranian regime and anti-Israel poem Wednesday in German and Italian daily newspapers, declaring the Jewish state the greatest threat to g... April 5, 2012 From Tehran to Tahrir Square: Is Freedom Really Sweeping the Middle East? Q and A... April 5, 2012 Human Rights Situation in Iran Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very grateful for this opportunity to appear before you and address a subject which, in my view, deserves more attention than it currently receives. F... April 4, 2012 Suicide Bomber Kills 12, Including 3 ISAF Troops, in Afghan Northwest A suicide bomber killed 12 people, including three Coalition troops, in an attack at a park in the capital of the northwestern Afghan province of Faryab. The attack occurred less than two weeks a... April 4, 2012 The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted In June 2010, the U.S. State Department led a high-level delegation of technology executives to Syria. Comprised of representatives from, among other corporations, C... April 4, 2012 Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan? Is the United States leaking information in order to discourage an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities? That’s what some experts are saying in the wake of a... April 4, 2012 German Trial Shows al-Qaida Targeted Europe Economy KOBLENZ, Germany – The third week of hearings to determine if Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a German-Afghani, participated as a member of the terror groups al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbek... April 4, 2012 The Messages of Toulouse To those who proclaim themselves jihadis, Mohamed Merah is a hero and a martyr. He became a hero last month when he attacked a Jewish school in Toulouse, murdering Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two... April 3, 2012 Iran’s March for ‘Martyrs’ in Jerusalem Co-authored by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Every year since 1976, on March 30, Israeli Arabs commemorate clashes with Israeli police over Israel’s land policy that left six de... April 3, 2012 Nothing Alienates Canadians Like the Veneration of ‘Human Bombs’ Are we witnessing a turning point in the Muslim world’s attitude toward terrorism? Self-described “martyrs” who kill in the name of Islam have long been revered figures among Is... April 3, 2012 Al Qaeda Graphic Hinting at More New York Attacks Likely Bluster and Not a Real Threat An image posted on jihadi forums Monday caught the NYPD’s interest as a possible threat. In it, the city’s famous skyline at sunset is overlaid with the text: “Al Qaeda: Coming... April 3, 2012 UNESCO Funny Business Surely Comedy Central’s The Daily Show meant well when it sent comedian John Oliver all the way to Africa to file a report savaging the United States for defunding the United Natio... April 3, 2012 Young Germans for Military Strikes Against Iran’s Nukes While Germany’s social democratic leader and chancellor hopeful Sigmar Gabriel recently termed Israel an ‘Apa... April 3, 2012 Are Jews Safe in Europe? French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old... April 3, 2012 Ambassador Crocker Objects to Strategic Retreat Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the State Department’s man in Kabul, is clearly concerned about a premature drawdown of American and Western forces from Afghanistan. “If we decide w... April 3, 2012 From Brampton to Bangladesh, Anti-Hindu Hate is All Too Real The last week has done much to educate me in the ethnic politics of South Asia. After writing... April 3, 2012 What Obama Should Say When Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani Visits Washington In my last post, I sketched out the strategic case for significantly deepening U.S.-Kurdish ties. While such a parad... April 3, 2012 Re: Beinart’s Slippery Slope on Boycotts This weekend Jonathan weighed in on the... April 3, 2012 Iran Regime Change Only Hope As the drumbeat of war mounts in the Middle East, people wonder if an Iran-Israel war is inevitable. Iran's rhetoric about wiping Israel off the map continues unabated - as does its... April 3, 2012 Afghan Forces, Families are Prime Target for Taliban, Says Commander A Taliban commander in northeastern Afghanistan who has been hunted by US forces for years and has voiced his support for al Qaeda said recently that the Afghan security forces have now become th... April 3, 2012 US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba Chief Hafiz Saeed The US government has offered a $10 million bounty for the capture of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure. A lesser reward of $2 million i... March 29, 2012 9/11 plotter spotted in Mir Ali The trial of Ahmed Siddiqui, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan operative who allied with al Qaeda and was part of a plot to conduct Mumbai-style attacks in Europe before he was captured in Afgha... March 29, 2012 Europe’s Bishops Denounce Anti-Christian Mufti A group of European Catholic Bishops breathed fresh air into countering the Saudi Grand Mufti’s c... March 29, 2012 The ‘Global March to Jerusalem’: Hateful Ignorance on Parade When Israeli paratroopers entered Jerusalem’s Old City during the Six-Day War of 1967, they had to rely on a passing bystander — an old Arab Jerusalemite — to guide them to the... March 29, 2012 Iran is Not Iraq, and Past Mistakes Should Not Cloud Our Judgment As prospects of an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear program mount, the concerns of many are understandable - an Iranian response, some argue, would be devastating, and the potential for... March 29, 2012 Brush with Controversy In April 2007, Czech artist David Hons replaced the human silhouettes in 48 Prague crosswalk signals with figures engaged in decidedly less pedestrian activities. One signal depicted a man urinat... March 29, 2012 Passivity and Incoherence on Syria Has the Obama administration abandoned its previously stated policy of regime change in Syria? Following the trajectory of Washington’s diplomatic choices, now culminating in the enthusiast... March 28, 2012 Problematic ‘Peace Talks’ with the Taliban The Obama administration’s attempt at peace talks with the Taliban has been fraught with problems. Last week, the Wall Street Journal... March 28, 2012 Obama’s About-Face on Syria If Bashar al-Assad manages to survive the uprising that has tested his regime over the last year, he’ll owe not only his allies, Iran and Russia, but the White House as well. Over the past... March 28, 2012 Why are Some Canadian Sikhs Expressing Solidarity with an Unrepentant Terrorist? Today, Indian politicians stayed the execution... March 28, 2012 Europe’s Money Problems When Eastern Europe emerged from the dark oppressive cloud of history in 1989, Western proponents of liberal democracy could be excused for their elation. Their cause had won a bitter ideological... March 28, 2012 The Diplomats’ Dilemma The dictionary defines diplomacy as the “art and practice of conducting negotiations,” but one incisive wag said diplomacy is really “the art of saying ‘nice doggie’... March 27, 2012 AQAP Takes Control of Another Town in Southern Yemen The Yemen Post reported today that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has seized control of yet another population center in southern Yemen. The coastal town of Radum in Shabwa province i... March 27, 2012 A Tale of Two Egyptian Armies Last week, the Obama administration started releasing the $1.3 billion in U.S. milita...

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