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January 22, 2005 As Saddam Trial Resumes, FDD Reminds of Regime’s Horrors Washington, D.C. (Jan 23, 2005): As the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumes, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies has placed on its website video... January 19, 2005 The War of Ideas; It’s Time the Free World Began Seriously Fighting It An old saw has it that a lie can circle the globe before the truth even laces its sneakers. That's more accurate now – an era when satellites and the Internet have revolutionized commu... January 15, 2005 Oil-for-Food Audits Reveal Sevan as Mysterious Manager Perhaps Paul Volcker (search), head of the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, was speaking solely of graft when he said recently that the internal audits of Oil... January 13, 2005 A Nominee and the Attack; Michael Chertoff’s Experience In its eminently fair profile on Wednesday of Judge Michael Chertoff, President George W. Bush's extraordinarily able nominee to become the second secretary of the Department of Homeland Sec... January 12, 2005 Moderate Mahmoud? Don’t Ask the Impossible of the New Palestinian Leader – Demand the Possible Inste Americans, Europeans, Israelis, diplomats, reporters, editorialists -- just about everybody wants Mahmoud Abbas, the newly elected president of the Palestinian Authority, to be a moderate. So the... January 11, 2005 A Chance for Peace? There were no televised debates, an underwhelming turnout and charges of serious ballot stuffing. But the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian leader is one of the first promising sig... January 11, 2005 Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion? Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo... January 9, 2005 Jihadists and the Big Lie As soon as the news of the killer tsunami aired, and the estimated fatalities started to escalate, most of the world reacted with sorrow and kindness.The reaction of jihadists and the clerics of... January 9, 2005 Abbas’ Victory: Until Jihad comes back? As of mid Sunday, Western media networks were in awe as of the results of the Palestinian presidential election. Anchors and newswires projected a landslide result in favor of Mahmoud Abbas, the... January 9, 2005 A Tale of Two Elections; Abbas and Allawi Authored by Andrew Apostolou The Palestinian election on January 9 was the first of two important national votes in the Middle East, the second being the Iraqi polls on Jan... January 6, 2005 Fatuous: The Witnesses Against Judge Gonzales Torture Logic For hours, the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General designate, Alberto Gonzales, was grueling — for his detractors. The White House Counsel handled often strident questioning with... January 5, 2005 New Footage Links Al-Jazeera, Media Figures to Saddam’s Regime Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2005)—New footage aire... January 4, 2005 Should We Make a Treaty with al Qaeda? Since the early 1990s, al Qaeda has, at the very least, killed American soldiers and desecrated their remains in Somalia; urged the murder of all Americans — civilians and military alike &m... December 31, 2004 Iraqis Living Abroad Numbers reflect impressive turnout "One in four Iraq expats to vote," states the BBC, as registration for expatriates closed overseas. The insinuation is clear: not enough Iraqis have re... December 29, 2004 Superpower No More? Iraq is a Critical Test Is the United States a superpower? For years, we've assumed this was true. It was an easy assumption to make based on the amount of money we spend on our military and the high-tech... December 28, 2004 Iraq After Saddam’s Capture By: Dr. Walid Phares. Many asked the question last week: How is Iraq faring one year after the capture of Saddam Hussein? A Byzantine debate ensued immediately. To the natural a... December 28, 2004 Blue: The Next Orange? Forget Reform. The U.N. Needs Regime Change The advance of liberty and its attendant institutions can be a rough business, provoking stiff resistance by those who find their interests most threatened: the dictators, cronies and retinues of... December 22, 2004 A Battle Between Democracy and Terror When the Army of Ansar al Sunna – a group tied to al Qaeda – attacks an American base near Mosul it should be apparent that Iraq is the front line in the War on Terrorism. Wh... December 20, 2004 Terrorist Designation Drives Al-Manar from U.S. Airwaves Washington, Dec 20, 2004 -The Coalition Against Terrorist Media, a project of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, welcomed news that satellite providers have removed Hezbollah’s... 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...

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