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December 17, 2004 Adding Hezbollah’s Television Station to Terrorism List “Important First Step” Washington, Dec 17, 2004 The U.S. State Department’s decision to add Hezbollah’s TV station al-Manar to the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL) is an important first step toward g... December 17, 2004 Banning Hizballah TV in America Seeking to prevent terror propaganda and incitement to terror in America, the U.S. government added al-Manar (Arabic for "the beacon"), the official television mouthpiece of Hizballah, or the Lebanese Party of God, to the Terrorism Exclusion List (TEL). By designating the network as a terrorist organization the government will effectively take Hizballah television off the air in the United States by denying entry to its employees and to anyone who supports the network. December 15, 2004 Shouldn’t Palestinians Have a Real Election? Shouldn't Palestinians Have a Real Election? In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai defeated a raft of candidates to win his historic election. In Iraq, more than 200 political parties have r... December 14, 2004 ‘Never Say Never’; The Ukrainian Revolution and the Renaissance of Democracy Orange, rose, yellow. These are the colors not just of sunrise, but of a few of the many "people power" revolutions that over the past generation have been by increments changing the world. Yello... December 14, 2004 Serious on Syria By: Walid Phares and Robert G. Rabil. In early October, just days after the Syrian leadership had reportedly promised a U.S. delegation to Damascus that it would cooperate with... December 13, 2004 Material Support to Counterterrorism; The Intelligence Reform Act Shores Up a Key Law-Enforcement To A serious national debate is underway about how much the Intelligence Reform Act, which passed in both houses of Congress last week, will actually improve the performance of the intelligence comm... December 9, 2004 Contracts Chief Shown To Be Annan Son’s Main Cotecna Tie UNITED NATIONS - The next chapter of the Kofi Annan saga will focus on whether there was any real substance to the job for which the secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan, received lucrative p... December 8, 2004 International Law Targets American Sovereignty It is high time for the American people to ask: Just what is international law? Is it a body of obligations, rooted in the principles of consent and comity, that provides sovereign nations with a... December 8, 2004 Defend Arab Dissidents "It is outrageous and amazing," wrote Salama Ni'mat, a columnist for the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, "that the first free and general elections in the history of the Arab na... December 6, 2004 Go Ahead, Make Our Day If Kofi Annan keeps his job, the upside is that we are going to learn a lot more about what ails the United Nations. Secretary-General Annan may not be the only cause of the secretive and self-se... December 5, 2004 Syria’s Murderous Role By: Amb. Richard Carlson, Barbara Newman, and William Cowan. A factor complicating the coalition mission of bringing stability to Iraq is the covert role played by Syria in fina... December 4, 2004 Iran and the Bomb Armed only with boxcutters, the 19 al-Qaida hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001 killed 3,000 people and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to New York City, the Pentagon and the global econ... December 1, 2004 Give Freedom a Chance Readers of a certain age will recall the name Anatoli Sharansky. He was a Soviet dissident who in 1978 was tried by a kangaroo court, convicted of treason and shipped off to the Gulag. A... November 30, 2004 Secretary and Son "He is a grown man, and I don't get involved with his activities and he doesn't get involved with mine." Thus did the U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan distance himself at spe... November 30, 2004 After Fallujah: What’s Next? By: Dr. Walid Phares. Now that U.S. and Iraqi forces control “Jihad City,” (a.k.a Fallujah), what should we expect next in the war with Iraq's jihadist insurgen... November 29, 2004 Next Steps in Iraq By: Dr. Walid Phares. Now that United States and Iraqi forces have seized control of Fallujah, the "jihad city," the main question is: What to expect next in Iraq's war wit... November 25, 2004 Annan’s Son Took Payments Through 2004 One of the next big chapters in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal will involve the family of the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, whose son turns out to have been receiving payments as recent... November 24, 2004 Pilgrims’ Progress Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the children dress up as Pilgrims and we feast on turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie to commemorate how they (the Pilgrims, not the kids) struggled and survived in... November 20, 2004 The U.S. Repays its Debt to Iraq By: Andrew Apostolou. Noah Feldman's "What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building" is a well-argued call for a long-term U.S. commitment to Iraq. The book is or... November 19, 2004 Briefing: EU Funding of PA Terrorism The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Briefing: EU Funding of PA Terrorism Jonathan L. Snow ... November 17, 2004 Memo to Spies and Diplomats The professionals at the CIA and the State Department are dedicated, hard-working, committed, patriotic, brave, clean and reverent. Now that I've said that plainly, can we talk candidly abou... November 16, 2004 Come Clean, Kofi With estimates soaring of graft and fraud under the United Nations Oil for Food program in Iraq, we are hearing a lot about the need to "get to the bottom" of this scandal, the biggest ever to hi... November 11, 2004 The Father of Modern Terrorism; The True Legacy of Yasser Arafat For the last week of his life, the scuttlebutt about the Palestinian movement’s centrifugal force concerned whether his impending demise was driven by AIDS, likely contracted, according to... November 10, 2004 Let the Battles Begin A long and hard-fought political campaign has ended, but there will be no rest for the weary. Instead, it's time for new battles to begin. The most consequential will be not between America&... November 10, 2004 Arafat’s ‘Means’ Failed in the End By: Dr. Walid Phares. I remember vividly the bearded man with dark glasses and his Keffiah,the Arab headdress that became equated with him in the West, as he harangued the masse... November 9, 2004 Backgrounder: Yasser Arafat The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Backgrounder: Yasser Arafat November 3, 2004 What Victory Means We stood at a historic crossroad. President Bush's victory in one of the most important elections in American history has several immediate consequences. The Bush vision of the war... November 3, 2004 Chance of a Lifetime Call it coincidence, call it providence, but events have converged to open a remarkable window of opportunity in the Middle East. First,Yasser Arafat is either dead or permanently incapa... November 2, 2004 Osama bin Losin’ Flattering though it is to have the eyes of the world on America and our election, let's take a quick postvote moment to recall that America, despite its might, is not the global alpha and o... November 1, 2004 Judicial Restraint Yesterday’s sad news that Chief Justice William Rehnquist is probably much more ill than previously thought brings home on this Election Day that the federal judiciary–the issue secon... November 1, 2004 Who Lost Zarqawi? The True Intelligence Failure By: Andrew Apostolou. In recent days, the Wall Street Journal and Slate have charged that the U.S. government fumbled an opportunity to kill master terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqaw... October 31, 2004 Bin Laden’s Beef with America Osama bin Laden's striking new videotape, in which he addresses the American people on the eve of our elections, is as much about his own campaign for power and influence in the Muslim world... October 31, 2004 Doing the Department Injustice This morning’s New York Times has a characteristically infuriating article, which suggests–by giving prominence to arguments being made by champions and lawyers for enemy combatants&n... October 31, 2004 G-Men’s Guilt Is there a "tyranny of the case file"? The criminal investigator, whose "case file" is at issue, must have the ability to size up facts through the prism of potential charges and knit together ev... October 31, 2004 The End of the Right of Self-Defense? Israel, the World Court, and the War on Terror A country's right to defend itself against external attack is so irreducible a component of sovereignty as to have been assumed from time immemorial. Recent events, however, have cast seriou... October 28, 2004 Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight? Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit... October 28, 2004 When American Power Meets the “International Community,” Guess Who Wins? The "global test," Senator John Kerry explained at the first debate on October 8, is the standard for judging presidential action in defense of American national security. It is the barometer by... October 28, 2004 Pentagon Press Conference The Pentagon press conference on Friday throws more doubt on the already discredited claim, first aired this week by the New York Times and the Kerry campaign that the American military lost 380... October 28, 2004 Al Qaeda’s Plans for an American Chaos By: Dr. Walid Phares. When Mohammed Atta slammed his fleet of hijacked planes into the Manhattan skyline on September 11, his masters expected that such a wound would unravel th... October 27, 2004 FDD, AIC and IWF to Train Iraqi Women Leaders The American Islamic Congress is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social organization with extensive experience in Iraq. As a mem... October 27, 2004 U.N. Manipulating U.S. Election? On Monday, The New York Times carried a front-page story that could change the outcome of the 2004 elections. According to the Times, a cache of powerful explosives used to "mak... October 27, 2004 The Plot Thickens As Kathryn has pointed out, it was heartening that the Washington Post today was willing to follow the trail where NRO yesterday suggested it leads: Back to U.N. official Mohammed El Baradei, who... October 26, 2004 Bomb-Gate The United Nations is already embroiled in the largest economic scam in world history: the multibillion dollar Oil-for-Food scandal. Now there is reason to ask whether a senior U.N., official als... October 25, 2004 Kerry’s Pamphleteer At this point it is scandalous that the "newspaper of record" pretends to be anything other than the daily Kerry campaign talking-points memo. But don't expect too much oxygen to be wasted o... October 25, 2004 State Department Slams US-Run Radio in Arab World By: Dr. Walid Phares. Here's how a coordinated attack against Middle East democratization debuts in America: On October 13, the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler writes... October 24, 2004 Security vs. Freedoms Revelations about prisoner abuse during the American stewardship of the Abu Ghraib facility near Baghdad first broke into a full-fledged scandal with the publication of horrifying images in April... October 23, 2004 Review of Inside Centcom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq By: Andrew Apostolou. Michael DeLong's memoir of his three years as deputy commander of Central Command (CentCom) is fascinating and frustrating. Fascinating, because CentC... October 20, 2004 No Diversion: The Case Against the War in Iraq Has Weakened You can argue that the conflict in Iraq is a distraction from the "War on Terrorism".  But that argument is weaker than it was a few days ago -- before Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of t... October 19, 2004 La République des Bananes Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, finds it "inconceivable" that Russia, France or China might have been influenced in Security Council debates by Saddam Hussein's Oil for... October 19, 2004 Lying Liars and the Big, Fat Lies They Tell On a radio show the other day, it fell to me to introduce Robert Scheer, a longtime icon of the Left (he was an editor of Ramparts in the 1960s and ’70s), now a columnist and contributing e...

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