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October 5, 2010 What’s Rankling the Swiss Foreign Ministry? Switzerland's Social Democratic controlled Foreign Ministry is upset with THE WEEKLY STANDARD's criticism of how its foreign policies serve as a crutch for Iran's drive to obtain nuclear weapons an... October 5, 2010 Al Qaeda’s #3 Misidentified Again Ahmad Siddiqui, the German-Afghan at the heart of al Qaeda's latest plot against European cities, has reportedly fingered a previously unknown terrorist as al Qaeda's number three. Acco... October 4, 2010 Wiesenthal Center: Boycott Royal Dutch Shell on Iran Trade The Simon Wiesenthal Center called last week for a boycott of Royal Dutch Shell gas stations because of the energy company's increased import of Iranian crude oil. "We urge th... October 4, 2010 Will Obama Follow Through on Iran Sanctions? After enacting comprehensive energy sanctions on companies that do business with Iran, and encouraging 31 other countries to follow suit, last Thursday the United States announced penalties again... October 3, 2010 French Critique of the Burka Ban Two French students decided to produce a critique (I think that's the word one must use among the educated elites) of the... October 2, 2010 More Ties Between al Qaeda Plotter And 9/11 Hamburg Cell Revealed The man at the heart of the plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks in Europe has ties to at least four members of al Qaeda's infamous Hamburg terrorist cell. Ahmad Siddiqui, who was ca... October 2, 2010 New HSPI Report on Foreign Fighters Yesterday I attended the launch event for a new report published by George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. (Full disclosure: I am a 2010 Senior Fellow at HSPI.) T... October 1, 2010 Gates: ‘A success for One Is A Success for All’ Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had some interesting things to say during a speech at Duke University on Wednesday. In particular, the following caught my eye. From... October 1, 2010 US Hits Iranian Energy Firm with Sanctions WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday slapped sanctions on a Swiss-based Iranian company involved in Iran's oil and gas sector and claimed success in persuading several European energ... October 1, 2010 Osama bin Laden Ordered Mumbai-Style Attacks in Europe Osama bin Laden personally ordered the recently discovered plot against multiple cities in Europe. The terror master wanted al Qaeda and its affiliates to carry out an attack similar to the terro... September 30, 2010 Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pro-Israel and Pro-American? German chancellor Angela Merkel's speech last week to the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) in Manhattan, when compared with her administration's Iran policies, shows the gap between pro-Israel... September 30, 2010 Ahmadinejad’s European Pals In Thursday's European edition of the Wall Street Journal, FDD's Mark Dubowitz and Benjamin Weinthal expose the Swiss and German companies continuing to assist Tehran's nu... September 30, 2010 U.S. Issues First Penalties Under Iran Sanctions WASHINGTON — The Obama administration rolled out its first penalties Thursday under the new U.S. sanctions on Iran but carefully avoided any challenge to Russian and Chinese companies that would... September 30, 2010 Foundation for Defense of Democracies Urges Obama to Press Harder on Iran Sanctions Press Release September 30, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org Foundation for Defense of Democracies Urges Obama to Press Harder on Iran Sanctions Washington, D.C. (September 30, 2010) The United States announced today September 30, 2010 Going Ghost Molly Norris is not as well known as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or Pastor Terry Jones. But you should know who she is - even though she is no more. It will take just a moment for me to explain.... September 30, 2010 A Subtle, But Significant, Shift in U.S. Somali Policy Opens the Door to Realism Last Friday, speaking in New York to reporters one day after attending a major meeting on Somalia chaired by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the margins of the 65th session the Un... September 30, 2010 Dangerous Delusions Syria’s foreign minister, Walid Mouallem, followed his rare meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday with a typically brazen interview in which he denied that his govern... September 30, 2010 The Cyber Jihad Continues Unabated Congress's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade held a hearing yesterday to discuss the U.S. strategy, or lack thereof, for dealing with the proliferation of jihadist web si... September 30, 2010 9/11 Hijackers’ Mosque Tied to Recent Terror Plot Against Europe The recently uncovered terror plot against European cities, which was to involve attacks similar to the November 2008 attack in Mumbai, is tied to the same Hamburg mosque that was attended by som... September 29, 2010 U.S. Predators May Have Killed Al Qaeda’s Commander in Afghanistan Unmanned U.S. Predator drones and the newer model Reapers have been real busy in Pakistan over the past month. The United States has launched... September 29, 2010 Iran’s European Helpers The European Union in July imposed unprecedented sanctions against Iran's energy and financial sectors. But despite the crackdown, some European companies continue to sign up for business de... September 29, 2010 FDD Links Sanctions with Support for Democracy in Iran, and Identifies Companies Now Violating Them Press Release September 29, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Links Sanctions with Support for Democracy in Iran, and Identifies Companies Now Violating Them Washington, D.C. (September 29, 2010) Today, President September 29, 2010 Stop START Two weeks ago U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, cruised down the Potomac River on a U.S. Navy barge. Gates’ goal: find common ground on iss... September 28, 2010 Osama bin Laden’s Spokesman Freed by Iran Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the Septe... September 28, 2010 Avoiding a Failed Palestinian State The focus has turned once again to restarting the peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Would-be peacemakers in Washington hope the United States, over the course of the coming... September 28, 2010 Lt. Brendan Looney, You Have the Thanks of a Grateful Nation When my old boss Ronald Reagan gave the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984, the tradition was for the president to give the first salute only to the top 100 graduates. Rea... September 27, 2010 The Obsessive-Compulsive Israeli Settlement Talks Berlin - Israel's ten-month moratorium on new settlement construction in the disputed West Bank territories... September 27, 2010 The Dark Side of a UN Envoy for Extraterrestrials Just when you thought the United Nations could not possibly become any more inane, out comes a story in London's Sunday Times that the UN is about to appoint a special envoy for ali... September 27, 2010 Another US Hot Pursuit Action in Pakistan? According to reports from the region, the US military in Afghanistan again followed the Taliban into Pakistan and killed fighters in Pakistani territory. US helicopters pounded Taliban fighters i... September 27, 2010 Aliens, Schmaliens? But This We Know: Pakistan Now Chairs the UN’s IAEA In the continuing tragicomedy of UN news, there are now reports that the director of the UN's Vienna-based Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman,... September 27, 2010 Ahmadinejad Charms the Yalies Thanks to Hillary Leverett, the Yale prof and female member of the well known Flynt and Hillary Iran appeasement team. She set it up, and-according to the... September 27, 2010 Reaching Out To Hamas At Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace, Patrick Poole, a serious expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and my colleague on the "Team B" report... September 27, 2010 A ‘Perfect Man’ at the U.N. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speeches, press conferences, and interviews in New York City last week, it's obvious the Iranian president lives in a parallel universe. This has been diffic... September 27, 2010 Eager to Invest in Iranian Energy, Russians Seek Support to Undercut Western Sanctions UNITED NATIONS _ Even as the White House praised Russia for declining to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions, Russian diplomats were quietly recruiting other countrie... September 27, 2010 Russia Pushing Back on Tougher Sanctions Against Iran Reporting from the United Nations — Even as the White House praised Russia for declining to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions, Russian diplomats were... September 27, 2010 Critical Questions Regarding The Role of Foreign Fighters in Shabaab Earlier today I served as a panelist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's annual conference on foreign fighters, discussing the phenomenon in Somalia. The panel discussion was based ar... September 24, 2010 At the UN, America Pays, Ahmadinejad Plays As long as America provides such toys as the United Nations, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might as well play with them - and this week, again, play he did. Ahmadinejad has just treate... September 24, 2010 Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’ BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it... September 24, 2010 Reactivating The Syrian Track Last week, US officials came out with statements assuring that the Obama administration is committed to achieving “comprehensive peace,” which means at some point reactivating the Syr... September 24, 2010 Inside The Mind of A Conspiracy Theorist When the phrase “conspiracy theorist” is used, most people imagine an anti-social, mentally unstable nut, along the lines of Mel Gibson’s taxi-driving paranoiac in the 1997 movi... September 24, 2010 Lady al Qaeda’ Sentenced to 86 Years in Prison A New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, who has been dubbed "Lady al Qaeda" by the press, to 86 years in prison yesterday. Siddiqui's sentence follows her conviction on charges related to... September 23, 2010 Peace – But Not Now At an off-the-record gathering of foreign policy mandarins and opinion mongers recently, the former head of an allied nation said he was advising President Obama to push as hard as possible for a... September 23, 2010 When Crime Does Pay In my annual survey of African "hot spots" back in January, I noted that "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) seems to be stirring again as well as getting more involved in illicit trafficking... September 23, 2010 US Official Explains National Counterterrorism Center’s View of The Enemy In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee yesterday, Michael Leiter provided an overview of how his National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) sees the terror... September 22, 2010 Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th... September 21, 2010 If Ahmadinejad Loves the UN So Much, Just Keep Him There Oh how Mahmoud loves that UN stage. And four sets of binding UN sanctions on Iran since 2006 are no bar to the UN podium. Right now, for the sixth time in six years, Iran's Bloviator-in-Chie... September 20, 2010 Will the Future Belong to Iran? Where does the musical film Cabaret, which depicts the rise of German fascism, intersect with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance at the United Nations this week? "It is clear the futu... September 20, 2010 Suicide Bomber Detonates Inside Somalia’s Presidental Compound A Shabaab suicide bomber entered the presidential compound in Mogadishu today and detonated his vest. The suicide bomber penetrated security at the main gate of the base as an African Un... September 20, 2010 Can Two Ex-Gitmo Detainees, Now in Germany, Visit the U.S. as Tourists? The German government recently granted residency to ex-Guantanamo detainees Ahmed Mohammed al-Shurfa and Mahmoud Salim al-Ali, who arrived last Thursday in Germany. While the Bild, Germa... September 20, 2010 Al Qaeda in Iraq In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...

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