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October 18, 2011 Suicide Bomber Kills 15 Somalis in Mogadishu A Shabaab suicide bomber killed 15 Somalis in an attack in Mogadishu today as Kenyan forces advance against the terror group in the south. The suicide attack occurred near the old foreig... October 18, 2011 Shalit’s Release Highlights Israel’s Democracy Berlin — Analysts and terror experts outside of Israel have and will continue to second-guess the Israeli government’s decision to secure the release of one captive Israeli sol... October 17, 2011 Blind Sheikh’s Son Killed in US Airstrike in Afghanistan The son of the 'Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afgh... October 17, 2011 Breaking Tehran The Islamic democracy project is nothing if not beguiling. From Clinton’s Orwellian “peace process” through Bush’s cloying “freedom agenda&... October 17, 2011 3 Egyptians Killed in Recent Predator Strike in North Waziristan Friday's Predator airstrike in North Waziristan killed three Egyptians closely linked to the Haqqani Network. The son of the "Blind Sheikh," the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is s... October 17, 2011 Ignoring the Iranian Threat The alleged Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and to target the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, has left casual observers, analysts and regional experts... October 16, 2011 The One-Way War Last week, federal authorities arrested Mansoor Arbabsiar for his involvement in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies. Arbabsiar&... October 14, 2011 Iran’s Qods Force Commander Involved in Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador The commanding general of Iran's Qods Force, the special operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been accused by the US government of being involved in the recently... October 14, 2011 Iran Shows Its True Colours News of a thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is still on the front pages. Yet already, some public officials and pundits are trying to suggest that the... October 14, 2011 Speaking of Apologies … Buried somewhere in the middle of the "Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident" (the Palmer Report ) is a small detail that is bound to inconv... October 14, 2011 Iran’s War on Religious Freedom The Iranian regime is in the news again over an alleged terrorist plot on American soil. Back in Iran, the regime's brutality to its own people continues. As Western governments consider how... October 13, 2011 Don’t Tell Me You Were Surprised at Iran’s Operation What? There was nothing surprising, let alone “brazen,” about the Iranian attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, or to blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington. It... October 13, 2011 Iran’s Act of War There is still much to learn about the Iranian-directed plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a Washington, D.C., restaurant. But if the Justice Department's information is correct, the co... October 13, 2011 The Copts Will Fight This past Sunday night, the Egyptian revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak took another wrong turn when the same army once believed to be “hand in hand” with the people... October 13, 2011 US Kills Haqqani Network’s 3rd in Command in North Waziristan Strike The Haqqani Network's third in command was killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, US officials said. Jan Ba... October 12, 2011 Iran Terror Plot: Will America Finally Respond? The Iranian assassination plot is a major escalation in Tehran's war on America. For three decades, the Iranian regime, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, has murdered Americans... October 12, 2011 We’ve Been Warned Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, had a saying: “The Americans cannot do a damned thing.” Tehran has tested that proposition time and again – c... October 12, 2011 Zuhdi Jasser’s Counter-Jihad Co-authored by Seth Leibsohn Shortly after 9/11, many thought it was imperative to teach about and promote the heroes of that deadly day. One such hero... October 12, 2011 Iran Plot I was traveling yesterday and didn’t get caught up on the news until last night. A few thoughts. 1. Trumped up case?... October 12, 2011 Sacrificing Missile Defense for ‘Reset’ When Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” The word “unproven,” folks worried, could be used... October 12, 2011 More on Iran’s Brazen Terrorist Plots Yesterday, I noted that the criminal complaint filed in the case of an Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi A... October 12, 2011 Turkey Taking on Iran? Not Out of Question When Iran was called Persia and Turkey the Ottoman Empire, war was a regular past time for their rulers. Since the Safavid rulers embraced Shi'a Islam in the 16th century, the two countries... October 12, 2011 What Europe Isn’t Doing to Stop Syria and Iran As the world witnesses the Syrian and Iranian regimes commit countless human rights abuses and, in Iran’s case, move ever closer to perfecting its nuclear capabilities, there’s a comm... October 12, 2011 Did Ahmadinejad Know About the Iranian Terror Plot on Washington? Terror and carnage in Washington, D.C., with the Saudi ambassador assassinated by a bomb while dining at a restaurant packed with 100-150 other customers, possibly including a number of senators.... October 12, 2011 Mastermind of Deadly Raid on American Soldiers Coordinated Plot Against Saudi Ambassador The US Treasury Department has designated five individuals involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Saudi Ara... October 12, 2011 Iran’s Brazen Plots The Obama administration has accused members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. And, according to press... October 12, 2011 When Tehran Attacks On Tuesday, the U.S. government reported that it had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., along with planned bomb attacks against the Saudi and Israeli... October 12, 2011 With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr... October 11, 2011 The Shape of the Middle East to Come First, I’d like to say a few words in sympathy with Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki. Not that I’m an admirer, mind you. But I have been warning about... October 11, 2011 Awlaki’s Law Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released a martyrdom statement for Anwar al Awlaki, the al Qaeda cleric who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month. AQAP claims – like man... October 11, 2011 Obama Abandoning Interest in Syria With the Syrian revolution on the verge of... October 11, 2011 A Real Syria Policy, Anyone? Russia and China’s October 4 veto of a U.N. -Security Council resolution on Syria elicited a strong response from U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. “The United States is outrage... October 11, 2011 Re: Iranian Plot The regime that rules Iran has been engaged in a war against those it sees as enemies for a very long time. In 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized and American diplomats were... October 7, 2011 Haqqani Network Commmander Killed in Airstrike on Pakistan Border Special operations forces killed a senior Haqqani Network commander in an airstrike in Afghanistan along the Pakistan border. The commander was linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbe... October 7, 2011 US Predators Kill 5 AQAP Fighters in Southern Yemen Unmanned US Predators operated by the CIA and the Joint Special Operations command killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during an airstrike in southern Yemen yesterday.... October 6, 2011 Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey It is a paradox of modern times: We are committed to diversity yet have enormous difficulty imagining people who actually are different. Americans and Europeans prize peace and, on that basis, as... October 5, 2011 Loner U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is only the latest American to join the chorus of government officials and opinion-makers suggesting that the Arab Spring has left Israel more... October 5, 2011 Congress Needs to Investigate a Corrupt Palestine Investment Fund In a twist that almost certainly violates U.S. law, American taxpayers are unwittingly contributing to a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund controlled in part by the terrorist group Hamas.... October 5, 2011 Goldstone Returns Richard Goldstone doesn’t know when to quit. Two years ago, the South African former judge led a United Nations fact-finding inquiry into the Israel-Gaza conflict.... October 5, 2011 Victory Could Be Ours, If Only We Want It In the real war, our major enemies are the evil regimes in Iran and Syria, and both are hollow and wobbling, needing only one good push to go over. Syrian soldiers are defecting in signi... October 5, 2011 The Uncomfortable Reality in Syria The Obama administration is slowly coming to grips with the uncomfortable reality that its preferred scenario of a peaceful transition in Syria is looking less likely. As much as it had hoped to... October 4, 2011 Is the Anwar al-Awlaki Killing an Obama Foreign Policy Triumph? The death of radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, on the heels of Osama bin Laden’s killing in May, is another major victory for the Obama administration’s efforts to decap... October 3, 2011 My Dual Loyalties Problem I have a dual loyalties problem and, given the paranoia in Washington, D.C., it may prevent me from ever serving in a sensitive national security position. The problem first revealed its... October 3, 2011 New Ottoman Empire? In the complex geometry slowly taking shape in the new Middle East, the Palmer report must have felt like a godsend to Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The report criticises... October 3, 2011 War-Power Paranoia Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille... October 3, 2011 Time to Get Real in Iran and Syria Can we agree that Iran and Syria now constitute a single strategic problem? Surely Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, thinks so. Otherwise he would not have ordered the Revolut... October 3, 2011 An Opportunity for an Apology The United Nations issued a rare vindication for Israel this month, when it found that the naval blockade of Gaza does not violate international law. Now that the Palmer Report, which investigate... October 3, 2011 Moderation, Saudi-Style A woman is sentenced to be whipped ten lashes for . . . drumroll . . . driving a car. That might have made for a fairly typical w... September 30, 2011 Yemen Claims AQAP Cleric Anwar al Awlaki ‘Killed’ in Airstrike Yemen's Defense Ministry claimed its forces killed Anwar al Awlaki, the American cleric who serves as an operational commander for al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen. Samir Khan, another Ame... September 30, 2011 What Will Anwar al-Awlaki’s Death Really Mean for al-Qaeda? The apparent death of Anwar al-Awlaki -- a U.S. citiz...

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