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November 19, 2010 Germany: EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank BERLIN – The German government last week denied that German authorities plan to pull the plug on the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank). Speaking during an... November 18, 2010 Smearing America in Defense of A Terrorist In response to the Ghailani verdict, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the... November 18, 2010 Slow START You don't need to be in the Tea Party to believe that members of Congress ought to read and understand bills before signing them into law. I think it's fair to say that in t... November 18, 2010 How to Reform Islam I have often argued that one of the redemptive graces of Western civilization is self-criticism, a deeply ingrained habit that has enabled Western man to reflect, to adjust, to improve his belief... November 18, 2010 Germany Outsources Its Israel Hatred Now The Mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth's decision to invite hardcore anti-Israeli academic Alfred Grosser to deliver the keynote speech at last week's commemoration of Kristallnacht, a wave... November 18, 2010 Journalists Keep The Hezbollah Myth Alive Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah’s speech last week, in which he rehashed an old conspiracy theory featuring former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, offered an opportunity... November 18, 2010 NATO Going Cold Turkey? More evidence that NATO is in trouble has come alive as the alliance prepares for its summit this weekend. As reported in several news sources, Turkey has gotten its way, and NATO officialdom wil... November 18, 2010 Justice Was Not Done Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i... November 17, 2010 Bush Says Schröder Betrayed Him on Iraq Berlin - No real surprise here: Former president George W. Bush's discloses in his new memoirthat former c... November 17, 2010 The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral I sometimes wonder where some of our smartest people get their ideas. Take Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for example. Discussing the possibility of military action against Iranian nuclear weapons... November 17, 2010 Bush Says Schröder Betrayed Him on Iraq Berlin - No real surprise here: Former president George W. Bush's discloses in his new memoirthat for... November 17, 2010 Report: Joint Iran-Egypt Bank Used to Bypass Sanctions Financial ties between Egypt and Iran have recently improved as a result of the Misr Iran Development Bank (MIDB), jointly owned by the two countries, the Atlantic Mont... November 17, 2010 From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire? Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine... November 17, 2010 Ghailani Verdict A Miscarriage of Justice A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than... November 16, 2010 Iran: The Looming Crisis Since Iran's illicit nuclear program was first exposed to a stunned world in 2002, Tehran has defied the international community and continued to pursue its nuclear goals. What drives this seemingly a... November 16, 2010 British Pay Jihadists to Tell Tall Tales of Torture The UK government has decided to award seven former Guantanamo detainees millions of dollars in an out-of-court settlement, according to multiple press accounts. Why? The ex-Gitmo detainees claim... November 16, 2010 US Predators Hit A Taliban Camp in North Waziristan US Predators struck again in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing 20 "militants" at a camp on the border with Afghanistan. Unmanned Predato... November 16, 2010 Texans Uneasy Over Chinese Oil Investment in Lone Star State The mainstream news has been relatively quiet in the last month about a recent and significant Chinese investment in South Texas oil. But Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, has... November 16, 2010 Obama Caves on Civilian Trial for KSM Let’s review the state of play, shall we? Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama blasted the Bush administration’s decision to treat al-Qaeda terro... November 15, 2010 How Egypt Is Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981... November 15, 2010 That Treasured German-Iranian Friendship Germany has a bizarre way of working through its history. While the government, rhetorically at least, opposes Iran's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Israel's security, members of its parlia... November 15, 2010 Egypt Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Octob... November 15, 2010 Mullah Omar Rejects Reports of Peace Talks, Highlights Taliban Strategy The Taliban's top leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan today denied reports of ongoing negotiations with the Afghan government, and claimed instead that Western intelligence agencies are attem... November 15, 2010 The Deepening Mysteries of U.N. Financial Disclosure When the new U.S. Congress convenes in January, there may be revived interest in oversight of a runaway United Nations. The U.N. system is fueled by billions every year in U.S. tax dollars, but h... November 13, 2010 Obama Knocks Israel in a Budding Sharia State In fine Alinskyite tradition, Pres. Barack Obama is ready to say anything at any moment if it seems expedient. So it was that he spoke some months back of the “unbreakable bond of friendshi... November 12, 2010 Bush vs. Schröder Observers of U.S.-German relations were probably not startled by former President Bush's disclosure in his memoi... November 12, 2010 Israeli Ambassador Says Germans May Close Iranian EIH Bank BERLIN – Israel has asked "the German government on all levels to close" the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, Ambassador to Germany Yoram Ben-Ze'ev said in response to a Jerusalem Post query on We... November 12, 2010 Panel Expected to Push Obama on Iran Sanctions Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who will wield the gavel because of their victory in last week's elections, will seek to hold the Obama administration's feet to the fire on the... November 12, 2010 Ex-Gitmo Detainee Plotted Against Saudi Kingdom In October, the Yemeni government offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Ahmed Abdel Aziz al Jasser, a Saudi national. According to Agence France Presse, Yemen's i... November 12, 2010 Arming the Kingdom With the election behind us, and representatives still celebrating (or not) back in their home states, time is running out to affect a foreign policy matter that will have lasting implications on... November 11, 2010 Angry America? Tea Partiers with Pitchforks? The USA Today headline the day after the elections: “Voters Send Angry Message.” Time’s two-word explanation for the electoral tsunami: “voter rage.” The Economist&r... November 11, 2010 Anwar al Awlaki’s License to Kill “Don’t consult with anyone in fighting the Americans; fighting the devil doesn’t require consultation or prayers or seeking divine guidance.” So said Anwar al Awl... November 10, 2010 Obama Gets It Wrong on Israel, and Canada’s Harper Gets It Right Berlin - It has been about six months since the Obama's administration's verb... November 9, 2010 Haqqani Network Facilitator Arrested on Plane Bound for Saudi Arabia Coalition and Afghan forces arrested a Haqqani Network weapons facilitator who was on an airplane destined for Saudi Arabia today. The Haqqani Network facilitator, who was not name... November 9, 2010 Lady Al Qaeda in Anti-American Propaganda In a propaganda tape released last week, entitled, “Who Will Avenge the Scientist Aafia Siddiqui,” Ayman al Zawahiri called on Pakistanis to “take the only available path, that... November 8, 2010 I’m Sure Khamenei and Ahmadinejad See It Just that Way MR. GIBBS: The President mentioned also today that our actions at reducing... November 8, 2010 You Know Burma’s “Elections” Are a Sham When… ... a delegation of "election observers" is led by the ambassador of North Korea. I'm not kidding. Burma held "elections" this past Sunday, and tucked near the end of... November 8, 2010 Saudi Arabia’s Iraq Policy Last week, the Saudi monarch King Abdullah extended a public invitation to Iraq’s president and all its parliamentary coalitions to come to Saudi Arabia in order to hold talks and reach an... November 8, 2010 Prosecute Hezbollah In the coming weeks, the United Nations will indict the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in its first-ever tribunal to try terrorists. As the international prosecutors of the Secur... November 6, 2010 AQAP Claims Responsibility for Cargo Planes Plot In a message released to jihadist websites on Friday, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for two explosive packages found aboard cargo planes in late October. The... November 5, 2010 Terrorism’s Victims Giulio Meotti, who is neither an Israeli nor a Jew but a concerned and compassionate Italian journalist and author (his work has appeared in Il Foglio in Rome, the Wall Street Journal, and Commen... November 5, 2010 The Ashburn Jihadist Signals A Greater Danger The FBI’s arrest of Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn, Va., for allegedly assisting al Qaeda in planning multiple bombings around the nation’s capital paints a sobering picture of the threat... November 5, 2010 Algeria Acquits Ex-Gitmo Detainee of Terrorism Charges Algeria announced on Friday that a former Guantanamo detainee named Sofiane Hadarbache has been acquitted of terrorism charges. Hadarbache was captured by US forces in late 2001 near Kabul, trans... November 5, 2010 Is Yemen the New Pakistan? Is Yemen the new Pakistan, which was the new Afghanistan, which was the new Saudi Arabia, which was the new Egypt for jihadists seeking to strike the West? The recent attempted cargo-plane bombin... November 4, 2010 Yusuf Islam’s Appearance at Jon Stewart’s Rally The appearance of Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) at Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" has sparked controversy. At Hot Air, Allahpundit... November 4, 2010 An Alternative Road to A ‘Two-State Solution’ Last week, not for the first time, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was considering declaring a Palestinian state and asking the United Nations to recognize it. In the past,... November 4, 2010 Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his Continuing Relevance Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of ques... November 3, 2010 The Election and DOJ Oversight Obviously, there are many things that can be stuffed into the “First Order of Business” file, but one of them ought to be oversight of the Oba... November 3, 2010 Attitude Correction Writing for Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel, Jonathan Guyer recently panned "P@lestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn from Palestinian Social Media," a study I co-authored with Ma... November 2, 2010 ‘Foreign Fighter’ Cell Leader Captured in Central Afghanistan Afghan and Coalition forces captured the leader of "a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters" during a raid in central Afghanistan yesterday. The commander, who was not identified, wa...

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