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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... September 18, 2010 There Oughtn’t Be a Law République française has banned the burqa. Along with the face-covering veil (the niqab), the burqa is the garment with which Muslim women conceal their bodies from head to toe. Mor... September 17, 2010 Iran is On the Taliban’s Side in Afghanistan – Not Ours In his op-ed for the Washington Post this morning, David Ignatius writes: I hope the administration will open a U.S.-Iranian channel on Afghanistan soon... September 17, 2010 Palestine: Gaining Currency? The Palestinians are putting money on notion that they will have a state next year. This month's edition of The Monocle, a London based magazine on politics and culture reveals that... September 16, 2010 Religion of Peace Alert: FBI Advises ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist to Disappear Fox News reports that, at the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonis... September 16, 2010 Cry Islamophobia! We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New... September 16, 2010 Syrian Pretension And Reality in Iraq Recent news reports about the arduous process of government formation in Iraq suggest that a deal may be in the works that would see incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki keep his post. If tru... September 16, 2010 Nigeria at the Crossroads, Again Focused on the final stretch of the midterm elections at home, policymakers and pundits in the United States have hardly evinced any interest in concerning themselves with electoral politics abro... September 15, 2010 Iran-Backed Senior IMU Commander Captured in Afghan North Coalition and Afghan forces captured a senior facilitator for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [IMU] with links to Iran during a raid yesterday in the northern Afghan province o... September 15, 2010 FDD Releases Report on China’s Energy Ties with Iran Press Release September 15, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Releases Report on China's Energy Ties with Iran Washington, D.C. (September 15, 2010) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) released a September 14, 2010 Why Is Switzerland Backing Ahmadinejad’s Iran? Berlin - The European Union and the U.S. have passed tough sanctions targeting Iran... September 14, 2010 Al Qaeda Bolsters The Ranks of The Taliban While I also posted this in the Videos section, I felt this deserved some attention here at Threat Matrix. This... September 14, 2010 Report: Swiss FM Under Fire for Blocking Iran Sanctions BERLIN - Swiss government officials in the Economics Department (Seco) have called for tougher sanctions against Iran and criticized Social Democratic Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey for bl... September 13, 2010 To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act with the aim of, among other things, pressuring the regime in Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism. For a time, the sanctions did annoy those w... September 13, 2010 US Treasury Bans European-Iranian Bank from Operating in US BERLIN – The US Treasury Department last week banned the Hamburg-based European-Iranian Bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank) from operating in the US because it finances companies that... September 11, 2010 Imagining Islam If only the fantasy were true: If only there actually were a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of t... September 11, 2010 America May Have Overreacted to September 11 … but Americans Didn’t Did America overreact to September 11? In a recent column in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria answered that with an emphatic and mournful “yes.” In Mr. Zakaria’s telling, we’ve sq... September 11, 2010 Is ‘Constructive Disengagement’ the Solution in Somalia? On Thursday, Joshua Foust published an article at PBS's Need to Know that, though avoiding the term "constructive disengagement," mirrors the arguments advanced by Bronwyn Bruton's repo... September 10, 2010 ARNSI Poll- Americans Support Israel’s ‘Fence’ Americans Support Israel's 'Fence&#03... September 10, 2010 Remember the Twin Towers: Here’s the Community Center, Sept. 10, 2001 The talk right now is endlessly about Islam, whether one tunes in to news of Pastor Terry Jones and the will-he won't-he question of whether he'll burn the Koran, or news of Feisal Abdu... September 10, 2010 If We Don’t Build It, They Will Kill You? “Peace” is a word so over-used and abused that by now it’s wise to brace yourself every time some self-declared “peace-maker” pipes up. But even by those standards,... September 10, 2010 Declassify the NSA’s files on Iran and al Qaeda The must-read piece on terrorism this week comes from Philip Shenon, writing at The Daily Beast. Shenon writes about a cache of intelligence documents stored at the National Security Agency (NSA)... September 10, 2010 Interview with Claudia Rosett on Middle East and Ground Zero Mosque Accuracy in Media recently interviewed Claudia Rosett, the director of the Investigative Reporting Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel... September 9, 2010 A Few Missing Details The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court has shot down a lawsuit against Jeppesen Data... September 9, 2010 Nine Years Since 9/11 Nine years ago this week, I began a series of discussions about terrorism with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and a small group of concerned philanthropists. Since Saturday is the ninth anniversary... September 9, 2010 HIG Facilitator Properly Detained at Gitmo, Judge Finds On Friday, Sept. 3, DC District Judge John Bates issued an order denying a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan. The order was terse, and did not set forth... September 8, 2010 The Tip of the Jihadist Spear Ever since the September 11 attacks, some in counterterrorism and intelligence circles have tried to define al Qaeda narrowly, thereby limiting the scope of the organization's threat. We&#03... September 8, 2010 Moussa Sadr and the Islamic Revolution in Iran… and Lebanon Last Tuesday marked the anniversary of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa as-Sadr—often dubbed the father of the Shia resurgence in Lebanon—during a visit to Libya in 1978. While... September 8, 2010 This Is Where We Begin to Say No A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasan... September 8, 2010 Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a... September 8, 2010 Al Qaeda Disarms Select Taliban Commanders Central Asia Online reports: Al-Qae... September 7, 2010 Grassroots Anti-Islamism in Germany In what could be seen as a parallel to the robust grassroots opposition to the Ground Zero mosque in the U.S., citizens of the German city of Mönchengladbach, located in the West German stat... September 7, 2010 Ground Zero Mosque: The Bombast of Imam Feisal After summering in Malaysia and assorted petro-capitals of the Arabian Gulf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is back in America - though not for long. His... September 7, 2010 Beyond the Water’s Edge: Learning from the Somali Piracy Challenge While military force combined with greater vigilance on the part of the commercial shipping and fishing industries can reduce the threat posed by pirates, achieving maritime security requires a l... September 7, 2010 Yemen Arrests Ex-Gitmo Detainee who Fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir A former Guantanamo detainee who joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) after graduating from a Saudi rehabilitation program has been arrested in Yemen. Fox News reported Tuesday that Ye... September 6, 2010 Aussies Pull the Plug in Iran IRAN is slowly suffocating from sanctions that are beginning to bite where the maverick state has been strongest: its energy sector. The tougher set of sanctions imposed mid-year by the UN,... September 6, 2010 Iran Pays Bounties to Taliban for Dead Americans The Sunday Times (UK) reported yesterday, based on Taliban sources, that the Iranians are paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers. (The Times's account is behind a pay wall,... September 3, 2010 Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War Morgan brings to the writing of his history an unusual combination of French roots and both military and journalistic experience [which imbue] his work with a granularity absent from the usual an... September 3, 2010 Internationalism Run Amok America was founded as a country where no citizen would ever have to submit to the will of a king, or any other brand of despot. But hey, that's yesterday's news. President Barack Obama... September 3, 2010 Putting Paid to Gaza Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently suggested that Israel end its role as an occupying power in Gaza. Is he onto something? Supporters of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in 2... September 3, 2010 Interview: Accomplice to Evil Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and a Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is the author of The Iranian Tim... September 2, 2010 Mark Dubowitz: “At a Minimum, a Nuclear-Armed Iran Will be Emboldened to Accelerate its Aggressive A APA's Washington DC correspondent interviewed with Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in the US Capital Mr, Dubowitz is focusing on researching Ir...

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