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March 21, 2004 An Iraq to be Proud of Authored by Andrew Apostolou One year after Coalition forces began the liberation of Iraq, there is a rush to judge how the U.S.-led project of creating a democratic society... March 21, 2004 The Price of Spain’s Appeasement The savage terror attack in Madrid was said to be Europe's 9-11. To many observers March 11 quickly became Spain's day of infamy. Instead, March 14, the day of the Spanish elections, ha... March 20, 2004 Turtle Bay’s Carnival of Corruption: Digging Deeper into the Scandalous Oil-for-Food Program With United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan finally conceding the need for an independent investigation of the U.N.’s 1996-2003 Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, the next question is how i... March 18, 2004 The Trains of Jihad Derail Spain As I heard the horrible news on the Thursday morning of the terrorist attacks in Spain, my mind turned to the news releases made by the Spanish government regarding the attacks. Madrid's con... March 17, 2004 Spanish Lessons: Iraqis Get the Message; So Do the Terrorists The other night, I attended a reception at the Embassy of Iraq. Virtually all Iraq's communities were represented: Sunni, Shia and Kurd, Muslim and Christian. There were women in modest veil... March 10, 2004 A Creeping Coup’: Is Russia Heading Back to the USSR? When the Soviet Union collapsed, most Russians looked forward to joining the Free World as quickly as possible. Having been a student and a reporter in the USSR, I soon found myself attending con... March 9, 2004 Outing the Other Baathists Authored by Oubai Shahbandar After passing the Syrian Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act, the U.S. Congress is raising the heat on the Syrian Baath dictatorship with its propose... March 9, 2004 Kojo and Kofi In the growing scandal over the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, which from 1996-2003 supervised relief to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and his staff have ex... March 9, 2004 Movies vs. Reality: “The Passion” is Mute Next to Auschwitz’s Quiet Power KRAKOW, Poland--Mel Gibson's new movie, "The Passion of the Christ" opened last week in this venerable Polish city, playing to a rapt audience at the refurbished Kiev Cinema, a large movie h... March 8, 2004 Bridging the Rift in the Middle East As usual, the word from the Middle East recently has been a mixture of good news, bad news. One piece of good news is that the Iraqi Governing Council has signed an interim constitution establish... March 6, 2004 Blair the Bold Authored by Andrew Apostolou WHAT makes Tony Blair tick? To many of his compatriots, the British prime minister is a mystery. A devout Christian in a nation of atheists, he fors... March 5, 2004 Venezuela: The Next Cuba As Venezuela’s embattled democratic opposition gears up for its planned August referendum against that South American nation's increasingly authoritarian ruler, President Hugo Chavez i... March 3, 2004 Building Democracies: Tough Work If You Can Get It Virtually everyone reading this newspaper can drive a car. But how many of you could build a car? The same is true of democracy. Most people raised in a democratic society know how to op... March 3, 2004 Zero Hour in Iraq: The Terrorist Campaign Moves Up a Gear Authored by Andrew Apostolou SULAIMANI, IRAQI KURDISTAN–The terrorist attacks that claimed over 140 lives in Baghdad and Karbala on March 2, 2004, are probably the start of a new a... March 1, 2004 Baghdad and Karbala Attacks Authored by Andrew Apost... March 1, 2004 Crisis Delayed: The Iraqi Interim Constitution Could Fail Authored by Andrew Apostolou BAGHDAD & SULAIMANI, IRAQ–Iraqi politicians have been congratulating themselves on the interim constitution that they agreed on March 1, 2004. Adna... February 25, 2004 Terrorism on Trial THE HAGUE–A light snow was falling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague, an imposing building in a fenced, park-like setting. TV cameras perched on the front lawn as hundreds... February 25, 2004 The Ankara-Erbil Axis Authored by Andrew Apostolou ERBIL, IRAQI KURDISTAN–One of the greatest headaches facing the U.S. in Iraq is how to address the aspirations of the long-repressed Iraqi Kurds, who w... February 24, 2004 Reversal of Culpability Sometimes, the little articles in the back of the newspaper tell you more about global trends than do the big pieces on the front pages. A few days ago, a small Associated Press item was headline... February 23, 2004 New FDD White Paper by Legal Scholar Ruth Wedgwood News From The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Contact: Washington D.C - Anne Marek- 202-207-0190 or anne@defenddemocracy.o... February 22, 2004 Ex-Chief of CIA Keeps Date for a Power Lunch Co-Authored by Eli Lake When Haidar al-Bandar was released from his eighth Immigration and Naturalization Service prison in 2000, he invited his lawyer to lunch in his hometown once Sadd... February 19, 2004 Fireball in the Night This is a very solid introduction to serious thinking about the War on Terror and the scale of the threat to the United States. In one slender volume, Frum and Perle have outlined an analysis of... February 18, 2004 “The Human Cost of Terrorism” The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ... February 18, 2004 Mending Fences: Could a Fence Do More Than Just Stop Terrorism? What if it works? What if the terrorism prevention barrier, the fence, the wall – call it what you like – what if it actually were to succeed in frustrating the West Bank terrorists w... February 17, 2004 Mr. Magoo Bites Back Authored by Andrew Apostolou The former U.N. arms inspector, Hans Blix, has resurfaced in an attempt to add to the woes of the British and American governments over Iraq’s weapons... February 11, 2004 Grave and Gathering Complacency Authored by Andrew Apostolou There is a new consensus emerging about the war against Saddam’s regime: that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and by extension WMDs ge... February 10, 2004 A Cure for the Clash? Early in the final decade of the last century, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington offered what seemed an eccentric prediction. While others saw economic, political and ideological tempests ahead... February 10, 2004 Beyond Disarmament: Does President Bush Mean What He’s Said About Promoting Democracy? Authored by Farid N. Ghadry Little by little, the world is getting a glimpse of the mechanisms of the Iraqi Baath party. The latest discovery of Iraqi files buried deep in government bui... February 10, 2004 Tear Down This Regime: Let’s Negotiate North Korea’s Dictatorship Out of Existence "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!... February 8, 2004 AWOL in the Battle of Ideas OVER THE WEEKEND of January 10-13, 300 leaders from the United States and 38 Muslim countries convened in Doha, Qatar, for a "U.S.-Islamic World Forum." Jointly sponsored by the government of Qat... February 8, 2004 Perle: Intel was Flawed, But War Still Justified Co-Authored by Richard Mullen U.S. intelligence on Iraq had "very serious" flaws, but the war against Saddam Hussein still was justified, according to an intellectual father of that conf... February 5, 2004 Saddam’s Real WMD Was Terrorism David Kay, the former US weapons inspector, reported recently that despite the fact that every major Western intelligence agency and the UN believed Saddam Hussein still possessed them, his team... February 4, 2004 Desperately Seeking Consensus: We Need a Real Debate About Fighting Terrorism Divided though we Americans are, surely, we can agree on this proposition: The United States needs a national security policy that addresses the specter of global terrorism. And perhaps... February 4, 2004 Pressure Drop Authored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth David Kay’s testimony should put to rest any doubts that the Bush administration “sexed up” intelligence or pressured analysts to reach c... February 3, 2004 Ricin and Terrorism The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Backgrounder: Ricin and Terrorism February 2, 2004 Q & A: James Woolsey on WMD Co-Authored by Bernard Gwertzman R. James Woolsey, director of central intelligence in 1993-1995 and a longtime advocate of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, argues that some biological a... February 1, 2004 The Human Cost of Terrorism: A Photographic Essay FDD publication on victims of terrorism created in connection with the "Terrorism on Trial" campaign run by FDD in defense of Israel's right to build a security fence to protect its citizens... February 1, 2004 Kay’ Sera, Sera So which is it: Are America's spies a gaggle of fools for believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Or is the Bush administration a gang of knaves for lying us into a war?... January 30, 2004 FDD Submits ‘Friend of the Court’ Brief to The Hague January 30, 2004 FDD Submits ‘Friend of the Court' Brief to The Hague Amicus Brief on Isr... January 28, 2004 Repeal the Patriot Act? If you've seen The Godfather, Scarface or The Sopranos, you're familiar with the routine: Federal agents know who the crime bosses are, and what crimes are be... January 27, 2004 Weapons of Mass Distraction We've reached an intriguing moment in the saga of evil regimes and weapons of mass destruction--their presence or absence, and the uncertainty zone between. In Iraq, the U.S. and th... January 27, 2004 Baathist Broadcasting Corporation Blasted Authored by Andrew Apostolou Lord Justice Hutton has delivered his report on the death of Dr. David Kelly, the British scientist who had devoted many years to investigating Saddam Hussei... January 26, 2004 What Bush Should Tell Turkey Authored by Andrew Apostolou, Zeyno Baran The visit of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on January 28 is an opportunity for the U.S. to help an important al... January 25, 2004 Where Are the ‘Stans’? Authored by Andrew Apostolou The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia by Lutz Kleveman, Atlantic Monthly Press, 288 pages, $24 Central Asia is now one of the most impor... January 25, 2004 Palestinians, Israelis React Differently During my recent trip to the Middle East, I visited Yasser Arafat's presidential compound in Ramallah in the West Bank. As we drove into the compound, our Palestinian escorts highlighted the... January 20, 2004 On Offense: Bush’s “forward strategy.” Think of Tuesday night's speech as the third part of a trilogy. In his 2002 State of the Union, President Bush forged Iraq, Iran, and North Korea into an "Axis of Evil" that must not be allo... January 19, 2004 Egypt on the Economic Cusp I just returned from a remarkable conference in Cairo, Egypt, put on jointly by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies and Instituto Libertad y Democracia. ILD is led by Peruvian economist and... January 18, 2004 Guilty as Charged Authored by Andrew Apostolou Two years after President Bush’s much bemoaned 2002 State of the Union address, the charges that he leveled against the “Axis of Evil” have... January 14, 2004 The Imperfect Storm: Anti-war Warriors Cloud Recent History President Bush has made his share of enemies – political, ideological, personal and stylistic. These opponents now appear to have joined together in an ad hoc alliance bent on proving that... January 13, 2004 Plutonium Patsies Give North Korea credit: Even the killer regime of Kim Jong Il has not managed to stamp out every last glimmer of creativity. Some of the most innovative diplomats hail from Pyongyang, where they...

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