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August 25, 2005 Open Door to Islamic Rule By: Eleana Gordon. It was a relief for many Iraqi women and democracy activists when Thursday's deadline for Iraq's national assembly to vote on the draft constitution... August 25, 2005 Paying for 9/11: Book Review of Kenneth R. Feinberg’s, What Is Life Worth? Kenneth R. Feinberg is, by his own telling, America's top "guru" of mediation. The skill has made him a hot property at a time when relativism, mass media, pathos and litigation-frenzy creat... August 24, 2005 Dear Cindy; An Open Letter to the Mother of a Fallen Hero Dear Cindy Sheehan: I know you want to talk to President Bush about the conflict in Iraq, the war in which your son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, was tragically killed. I also know that whi... August 23, 2005 Interview with Lionel Beehner Federalism — the division of power between regional governments and Baghdad — is among the most controversial issues in Iraq's new constitution. Tanya Gilly-Khailany discusses th... August 23, 2005 The U.N.-Touchables If you thumb through the U.N. portion of this pile, however, the real agenda seems to be that once the member states have failed to reach meaningful agreement, Secretary-General Kofi Annan will w... August 22, 2005 I Never Expected to Know the Face of Terrorism By: Jason Zorn, 2005 FDD Academic Fellow. I never expected to know the face of terrorism as anything more than an abstract fear or a shadowy glimpse on the evening news. But exp... August 21, 2005 Sometimes It’s Who You Offend Let’s imagine a scenario that’s not so fictional. Suppose we had a big multinational corporation called Filch. Its code of conduct includes some dubious provisions that can be interpr... August 19, 2005 Coalition Against Terrorist Media Condemns Al-Manar Television Interview with Known Terrorist Coalition Against Terrorist Media Condemns al-Manar Televi... August 17, 2005 Oil for Enron Since the Oil for Food program came to an end in 2003, it has been described--accurately enough--as oil for palaces, oil for terror and oil for fraud. Now it turns out the U.N. relief program in... August 14, 2005 U.N. Secretary-General’s Brother Kobina Annan May Have Played a Role in Oil-for-Food Scandal To the cast of characters caught up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, investigators have reportedly added another name, that of the secretary-general's brother, Kobina Annan. That m... August 14, 2005 Danger in Ignoring Iran’s Dare By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. When it comes to chutzpah,Iran's turning into an Olympian champion. But consider this - in the midst of on-again, off-again negotiations with both... August 11, 2005 Dramatic European Poll Results Demonstrate Unified Opposition to Iranian Nuclear Ambitions Brussels – The European Foundation for Democracy (a partner of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) today released poll results from France, the UK, Germany and A... August 10, 2005 Scratching the Surface "A single dollar lost to corruption is a dollar too much if you're handling international public monies": With this pious utterance did United Nations chief of staff, Mark Malloch Brown, gre... August 9, 2005 Is It Treason? In the aftermath of militant Islam’s 7/7 suicide bombings–followed hard by the botched conspiracy to duplicate the savagery on July 21–Great Britain has tangled itself in a thor... August 7, 2005 The Washington Fatwa By: Dr. Walid Phares. A number of North American-based Muslim organizations, clerics and activists held a recent press conference in Washington to release a "fatwa against Terro... August 4, 2005 Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Dropped Again Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television Dropped Again... August 4, 2005 Benon Sevan’s Finest Hour It’s rich that the former head of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, Benon Sevan, is now protesting the secrecy surrounding U.N. records that he himself set up as confidential.... August 3, 2005 Iraqi Women Fighting to Save Rights in Draft Constitution Groups will discuss campaign at National Pre... August 3, 2005 War and Peace — and Religion The Spanish Inquisition, the Thirty-Years-War, John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre, the terrorist attacks of the Irish Republican Army, the Oklahoma City bombing — these are just a few... August 2, 2005 Senators Call on President Bush to Act Against Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Al-Manar Television... August 1, 2005 Sorting Out the Real Moderates Three cheers for Monica Crowley of MSNBC’s Connected Coast-to-Coast. Last week, she hosted a debate between Middle East expert Daniel Pipes and one Azzam Tamimi of the Institute of Islamic... July 31, 2005 Arianna Judges Judy Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Arianna Huffington has a point. She reports in the... July 31, 2005 Constitution Confustion President George W. Bush is the latest in a long line of American Caesars who have shredded the foundations of the Republic in an often racist and always imperialistic lust for territory, treasur... July 31, 2005 What’s In a Name? There was a good editorial in Friday’s Dallas Morning News on the administration’s latest foray into politically correct self-parody: namely, what to call the, y’know, er, the t... July 27, 2005 The War Against the Free World America is not fighting a war against Islam. America is fighting a war against Islamism. The difference between Islam and Islamism is straightforward: Islam is a religion, a faith, the b... July 27, 2005 U.N. Mystery Man: Who Is Jean-Bernard Merimee and What’s His Oil-for-Food Tie? As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.’s executive... July 26, 2005 Ruin By Design Ruin By Design To whatever extent the recent United Nations report on Zimbabwe calls attention to the brutalities of the country's tyrant, President Robert Mugabe, the U.N. has performed a s... July 21, 2005 London: Behind Infidel Lines By: Dr. Walid Phares. “We have to wait and see if these incidents are terrorism related.” When I heard this sentence uttered by anchors quoting officials in Great Br... July 20, 2005 Rethinking UN Reform By: Newt Gingrich & Peter Oppenheim. An important test for meaningful reform of the United Nations will be measured by whether there is a dramatic change in the way Israel,... July 20, 2005 The Gaza Gamble In a few weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to turn Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority. Angry protests have shaken Israel. Gun battles have broken out among rival Palestinian fa... July 20, 2005 All the Secretary-General’s Men: the Tangled Web of U.N. Cronyism Reforming the United Nations is a tall order at the best of times. Today it stands no chance at all unless it starts by removing the network that during Kofi Annan's more than seven years as... July 19, 2005 Was Former U.N. Official Wrongly Accused in Oil-for-Food Probe? Co-authored: George Russell. UNITED NATIONS — The secretive Volcker inquiry into the more than $110 billion United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal plans to issue a thir... July 17, 2005 Did the CIA “Out” Valerie Plame? With each passing day, the manufactured “scandal” over the publication of Valerie Plame’s relationship with the CIA establishes new depths of mainstream-media... July 14, 2005 Who Exposed Secret Agent Plame? This just in: Bob Novak did not reveal that Valerie Plame was an undercover agent for the CIA. Read–or reread–his column from July 14, 2003. All Novak reports is that the wif... July 13, 2005 What’s Left? Answer: A Few Liberal Hawks The war in Iraq is a neo-conservative project, right? Yes, in the sense that in the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and S... July 12, 2005 Saddam and al Qaeda President Bush has given some good speeches lately, including his talk June 29 at Fort Bragg, N.C., in which he stressed some of the reasons for going into Iraq, and his address this past Monday... July 10, 2005 D.A. Pursuing Criminal Probe of Aide at U.N. The Manhattan District Attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, the DA's office has just confirmed for t... July 7, 2005 FDD Academic Fellow Moderates Washington Post Forum Matthew Deflem hosted a Washington Post forum, "Policing Terrorism," focusing on the terrorist attacks in London. To read the forum click... July 6, 2005 Ad in Financial Times Questions Russia’s G8 Membership Ad in Financial Times Questions Russia's G8 Membe... July 6, 2005 The Enemy’s Strategy Our enemies in Iraq have never won a battle against American forces. They hold not a single province, city or town. In fact, militarily they have achieved virtually nothing. So why is there a deb... July 6, 2005 Another Scandal Corner Here’s the $19.2 billion question: Among the investigators now dredging the depths of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, is anyone focused on the biggest riptide of cash that... July 6, 2005 Is It a War, or Isn’t It?The London Bombings and Different Approaches to Terror Unfortunately, points like these are best made when terror strikes and the collective public mind is focused. So it is worth pausing today to consider that British law and government have many fe... July 4, 2005 You Take the High Road The leaders of the world’s major industrialized democracies will gather in Gleneagles, Scotland this week. Russian President Vladimir Putin will be there, too. That Russia does not... July 3, 2005 A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July By: Dr. Walid Phares. Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of Jul... July 1, 2005 FDD Academic Fellow Sergeant Joseph Skelly Awarded Bronze Star Honored for His Work to Rebuild Iraqi Univer... June 30, 2005 Case Not Dismissed Predictably, many Iraq/Qaeda naysayers are responding to my post-Bush-Iraq-speech piece by citing 9/11 Commission conventional wisdom: that the commission found there was no connection between Sa... June 29, 2005 Spain Says Adios to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Spain Says Adios to Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television... June 29, 2005 Get Smart There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber. This insight seems to have eluded the Central Intelligence Agency. A few days ago a classified CIA report was leaked to the... June 28, 2005 Turtle Bay Tea Party Foreign policy was a side issue in Tuesday’s election. But with crises in the making, from Venezuela to Iran, and points between and beyond, the wider world will be muscling its way into th... June 28, 2005 It’s All About 9/11 President George W. Bush forcefully explained last night — some of us would say finally forcefully explained last night after too long a lull — why our military operations in Iraq are...

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