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October 7, 2004
Coalition of the Bribed
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector, is devastating not for the U.S.-led Coalition that liberated Iraq, but...
October 7, 2004
The U.N.’s Greatest Failure; Saddam’s Iraq Evidently Passed Turtle Bay’s Global Test
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer demonstrated not only that United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq were a bust, but also the fundament...
October 6, 2004
The New Anti-Semitism; Selling Genocide as a “Struggle For Equality”
In the early 1940s, genocidal anti-Semitism expressed itself in the Holocaust: 6 million Jews rounded up and exterminated. In 1948, genocidal anti-Semitism took the form of 5 Arab armies...
October 6, 2004
Saddam’s Sugar Daddy
CIA chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer may not have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but he sure found information enough to blow the lid off the simmering scandal of the United Na...
October 6, 2004
Weapons Report
The nightly network news gave major attention yesterday to a new report by chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer that concludes Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Of course, the...
October 5, 2004
America, Just Be Yourself
America addressed the earth: Do you love me as I love you?" - W.H. Auden, "In Time of War" Auden wrote those lines in 1938, on the eve of World...
October 5, 2004
Threat Assessment; Interpreting the Duelfer Report
I was just on the BBC World Service providing a minority view on Charles Duelfer's report – The Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD. Prec...
October 4, 2004
Shoe Bomber 2.0; The Justice Department Indicts Richard Reid’s Accomplice
John Ashcroft reminded Americans Monday of how effective the government's post-9/11 effort to thwart Islamic militancy has been, announcing the indictment of a second conspirator in the most...
September 30, 2004
A Mid East American Revolution Is Coming
Since September 11, 2001, a major question crossed the minds of many U.S. citizens: What would make 19 men from the Middle East hate us so much that they would massacre 3,000 Americans? Every anc...
September 29, 2004
Roads Not Taken; Were Other Iraq Options Better?
We've come to believe we had just two choices in Iraq: (1) stay out and hope to keep Saddam Hussein “in his box”; or (2) proceed exactly as President Bush did – remove the...
September 22, 2004
Listening to Kerry; His Iraq-is-a-Diversion Claim Exploits a Real Weakness
We often tend to reject the message simply because of who the messenger is — especially if the messenger can't seem to keep his story straight from one day to the next. But it would be...
September 22, 2004
Lebanon Under Syria’s Boot
Although Syria has interfered in Lebanon's presidential elections throughout the country's modern history, Damascus' current manipulation of Lebanese elections has boiled down to a...
September 21, 2004
Hosting Hate: American Internet Companies and Their Terrorist Clients
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
September 21, 2004
Presbyterian Preachiness
Authored by Eugene Kontorovich What do the Presbyterian Church and the Syrian Baathist dictatorship have in common? They have both pledged themselves to cutting off tie...
September 21, 2004
Safety First? Wars Can Only Be Won by Taking Risks
Are we safe? Are we safer now than we were before September 11, 2001? Are we safer than we would have been had we not toppled Saddam Hussein? Media types, candidates, partisans – a...
September 21, 2004
What’s ‘Illegal’? Kofi Annan Helped Saddam Hussein Steal Food From Babies
When U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opined last week to the BBC that the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein had been "illegal," two words came instantly to my mind: baby food. No, I...
September 20, 2004
Terror Prosecutor, Arab Media Expert Join FDD
Senior Fellows Andrew McCarthy and Avi Jorisch Add to Exp...
September 19, 2004
Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
Co-Authored with George Russell Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program to help fund Al Qaeda?...
September 15, 2004
U.N.: What Is It Good For?
Why do we continue to participate in a vast international charade? Maybe Sudan will finally be able to do what a couple of Intifadas and the systematic mass murder in Rwanda could not. M...
September 14, 2004
The War on Terror: Who is Winning?
On the third anniversary of 9/11, the question remains: are we winning the War on Terror? The answer has serious consequences not only for America's national security and international relat...
September 14, 2004
A Hard Place; In Iraq, Failure is Not An Option; It Is a Possibility
On any given morning, 99.9% of Iraq's 25 million people may wake up eager to rebuild their country and secure the blessings of liberty for themselves, their families and their neighbors....
September 9, 2004
Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields
Why is it that -- yet again -- another Arab League member is massacring its minority populations? Why is the Western media reluctant to identify the religion and ethnicity of the mass murderers a...
September 8, 2004
Fenced In; Israel draws a Red Line on the Green Line
Late last month in Israel came a grim reminder of why its antiterrorism fence is so important: Sixteen Israelis were killed and over 100 wounded in twin suicide bombings in the city of Beersheba....
September 7, 2004
Unholy War; But Muslims Are on Both Sides Now
Christians slaughtered by terrorists in Beslan, Russia. Nepalese Hindus butchered by terrorists in Iraq. Jews suicide-bombed in Beersheba, Israel. As we approach the third annivers...
September 7, 2004
Save Fathi Eljahmi; A Libyan Dissident Languishes in Gadhafi’s Dungeon
Unless someone with influence acts soon, this column must serve as an obituary for the hopes held out earlier this year of political reform in Moammar Gadhafi's Libya. More concretely, we ma...
September 5, 2004
Ticking Bomb
The news from Iran is grim. This Islamic dictatorship--the biggest source of terrorist training and financing in the world and the nation that's doing all it can to stir up trouble in alread...
September 1, 2004
This War Is Winnable
As President Clinton might say: "It depends on what the meaning of 'win' is." By now, you've no doubt read all about it: President Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer that he...
August 29, 2004
Analysis: The Attack in Kabul, a Message to New York
Per my analysis of the coverage of al Jazeera and the immediate reactions in the chat rooms (as of noon, Sunday), the attack against the antiterrorism center in Kabul aims mainly at sending a mes...
August 24, 2004
Fed Up With Vietnamania? Relief is at Hand
Time for a deep breath. We've hit that late-summer stretch when everyone is waiting for autumn, and the news seems stuck in endless replay. Seven years ago, we were about to hit round-the-cl...
August 23, 2004
The Uzbek Challenge
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The terrorist attacks in Tashkent on July 30, 2004, against U.S. and Israeli embassies and the Uzbek state prosecutor's office have been claime...
August 18, 2004
The Grandeur That Is Rome; Italian Courage in the War on Terrorism
Those who fear that America has no European allies should pay a visit to Rome. Actually, one should seize any excuse to go to Rome - to view the architecture and art, to sample the food...
August 12, 2004
Book Review: A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan
The Kurds are one of the most important political factors in the Middle East. Spread across six countries, they number perhaps forty million-larger than the population of Canada and more...
August 11, 2004
Taking Turkey for Granted – Unwise in the Past; Even More Foolish Now
Terrorists bombed two hotels in Istanbul this week. Neither happened to be the hotel in which I was staying. Still, considering that last November al Qaeda-linked terrorists bombed the British co...
August 11, 2004
A Bad Relationship
Authored by Andrew Apostolou One of the key findings of the 9/11 Commission is that al Qaeda was a terrorism innovator. Al Qaeda's "new terrorism," as the commission calls...
August 9, 2004
Clinton’s War; It Wasn’t With Terrorism
The revelation that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger walked off with classified documents bearing on the Clinton administration's response to terrorism raises questions. Some of...
August 8, 2004
An Oil-for-Food Connection?
If, as the 9/11 Commission concludes, our "failure of imagination" left America open to the attacks of September 11, then surely some imagination is called for in tackling one of the riddles that...
August 4, 2004
Defending Sudan’s Black Muslims
Co-Authored with Cliff Shecter We don't agree on many things. One of us is a Republican and one a Democrat. One believes Iraq is the front line in the War on Terrorism, the...
August 1, 2004
The Other Perspective
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The International Court of Justice's recent decision to condemn Israel's security barrier has damaged the credibility of international law...
August 1, 2004
Tashkent Terrorists
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The terrorist attacks in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Friday are a testament to the continued vitality of the al Qaeda movement. Three su...
July 31, 2004
Reform Strategy of Saudi Arabia
Authored by Eugene Kontorovich The Bush administration has a unique opportunity to promote peace in the Middle East and further the war against terrorism. That opportunity is ba...
July 29, 2004
Why Iraq is Part of our War Against Terror
With the Left and much of the mainstream media hell-bent on delegitimizing our war in Iraq; some Americans are questioning why we went to battle — and whether it was worth it. On December 2...
July 27, 2004
Al-Qaida and the Creativity of Murder
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Now that the much-awaited Sept. 11 commission report has been published, there will be even more focus on the failings of politicians, intelligence...
July 27, 2004
9/11: A Failure of Academia
A few months ago, when the 9/11 Commission released footage of the communications between several command centers and the transportation network during the dramatic minutes of September 11, one p...
July 27, 2004
Burning Bridges
A Democratic foreign policy is what I was looking for when I switched on the TV Monday to watch the opening lineup at the Democratic Convention. I sat through Jimmy Carter ("Brezhnev lied to me")...
July 27, 2004
Stupid Intelligence
Building a better mousetrap is hard. Building a better bureaucracy is harder. What the 9/11 commission found most lacking in the U.S. intelligence community was not energy or dedication,...
July 25, 2004
Clarke Tipped in the Wrong Direction: Is Warning Osama Associates “Taking Terrorism Seriously?”
Authored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth In his apology to the families of the victims of 9/11, Richard Clarke said, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you faile...
July 22, 2004
The Next Strike: Will Al Qaida Attack the Conventions
One of the heaviest questions in the realm of homeland security these days centers on the possibility that al Qaeda cells are targeting the American political process, starting with the upcoming...
July 21, 2004
Clear and Present Danger; American’s Enemies Target Democrats and Republicans Alike
Bipartisan alliances have become a rarity in Washington. But this week, in a small room in the Capitol, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Sen. Jon Kyl, a Republican from Ari...
July 21, 2004
Unfair Allegations
I was shocked and chagrined to see The Post's front page story on Friday ("Ingrate: Iraq diplo axed for dissing GIs," July 16) about Iraq's representative, Rend al Rahim. I hav...
July 19, 2004
A Court in the Service of Terrorism: Playing Arafat’s Propaganda Game
Authored by Andrew Apostolou The decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to condemn the Israeli security barrier has dealt a serious blow to the credibility of international...
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