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May 10, 2010 Another Way to Sanction Iran: Natural Gas A handful of legislators are hard at work this month, ironing out the differences between a House bill and a Senate bill designed to sanction Iran's energy sector as a way to make the Mullahs back... May 10, 2010 Civilian Trial For 9/11 Suspects Should Be Off The Table In a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said that a civilian trial in New York City for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 plotter... May 10, 2010 Don’t Mention the War On Saturday, May 1, a crude car bomb composed of gasoline canisters, propane tanks, fertilizer, and fireworks failed to detonate in Times Square. A nearby T-shirt salesman saw the 1993 Nissan Pat... May 10, 2010 The Washington Post Talks Sense on Detention and Interrogation On Sunday, the Washington Post dropped many a jaw with a powerful editorial (“Questioning Suspected Terrorists”) that beseeched the paper’s champion, President Obama, to r... May 9, 2010 US airstrike kills 6 in North Waziristan Unmanned US strike aircraft fired missiles at a Taliban compound today in a known al Qaeda haven in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan. Two Predators, or the more deadly Reapers,... May 8, 2010 Iran Grabs a Seat at the UN’ s High Table ‘ By Hosting the Dinner Whatever the Farsi term might be for chutzpah, Iran’s despots put on a staggering display of such stuff this past week. Apparently it wasn’t enough for Tehran that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... May 8, 2010 US pressures Pakistan to target North Waziristan The failed Times Square bombing that was hatched in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan has forced the US to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan to take out the terro... May 7, 2010 Chinese terrorist leader Abdul Haq al Turkistani is dead: Pakistani interior minister The top leader of a Chinese terror group with close links to al Qaeda has been killed in Pakistan, according to Pakistan's Interior Minister. The report has not been confirmed. Abdu... May 7, 2010 Revaluing Freedom OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than... May 6, 2010 US sees Pakistani Taliban involvement in Times Square attack after downplaying links Four days after the failed car bombing attack in New York City's Times Square, senior officials in the Obama administration have grudgingly begun to accept that the Pakistani Taliban are lik... May 6, 2010 Iran: Happy Anniversary, Dictator May day We are very nearly at the first anniversary of the great Iranian electoral hopes and hoax of June 12, 2009. While Iran has changed dramatically in that period of time, many analy... May 6, 2010 Shahzad the Sleeper As you might imagine, I have been trying to get in touch with the spirit of my old friend James Jesus Angleton, the late, legendary former chief of CIA counterintelligence, ever since the failed... 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...

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