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August 18, 2008 Making Deals with Terrorists Over the weekend, my old friend Francesco Cossiga–former prime minister, interior minister, and president of Italy–published a bit of autobiography in the country’s leading news... August 18, 2008 Pakistan’s President Musharraf resigns office Former President and General Pervez Musharraf. President Pervez Musharraf, the longtime military leader of Pakistan and erstwhile ally of the US in the war against Islamic extremists,... August 16, 2008 More on Reparations for Libya I've gotten some email which argues that the money our government has arranged to be paid to Libya is not actually United States government money. I say hogwash -- what difference does... August 16, 2008 The Bush Administration Agrees to Pay Libya Reparations for Air Strike Ordered by President Reagan Yes, you read that correctly. Blood boiling yet? This is from the WND report after the State Department acknowledged the settlement on an August Friday: Despi... August 16, 2008 Report from Northern Lebanon Hanin Ghaddar filed an interesting report the other day on the situation in the north that confirms the conclusions covere... August 16, 2008 Fighting in Uruzgan kills Taliban commander View full article... August 15, 2008 Iran continues to train Shia terror groups for attacks in Iraq A US military map of Iran's operations inside southern Iraq. The map is from 2007, and formed the basis of The Ramazan Corps and the ratlines into Iraq. Click to view full size. Iran... August 15, 2008 Russia — Our “Strategic Partner” on Nukes … and Iran Secretary of State Rice is in Tblisi finalizing a French-brokered ceasefire agreement that lays the groundwork for legitimizing the Russian annexation of Georgia’s two breakaway territories... August 15, 2008 John Bolton Rips US/Europe Response to Russian Aggression in Georgia This is some scalding stuff, in the UK's Telegraph. Right out of the box:This is some scalding stuff, in the UK's Telegraph. Right out of the box: Russia&#039... August 14, 2008 Diyala governor survives potential coup d’etat suicide bomber Diyala Governor Ra' ad Rashid al Tamini. Photo by Bill Murray. BAQUBAH, IRAQ: Governor Ra' ad Rashid al Tamini didn' t seem in an overly jovial mood on Wednesday,... August 14, 2008 War and Democracy For many centuries, it was taken for granted that no modern country could move from dictatorship to democracy without considerable violence. The first wave of democratic revolution–the last... August 14, 2008 Jihad for Oil OIL DEPENDENCE IS America's Achilles' heel in the battle against terrorism--a fact that has not escaped the terrorists. Osama bin Laden and others have declared the oil supply a top target, and subsequent plots demonstrate that the desire to disrupt world energy markets is more than mere rhetoric. This significant weakness should factor heavily in current political debates about alternatives to oil. August 13, 2008 Modern Hollywood’s War Heroes Not exactly The Guns of Navarone: The Guardian reports: George Clooney, already one of Hollywood’s leading liberal voices, has embarked on what may be o... August 13, 2008 The President’s Statement on Georgia From about an hour ago, in the Rose Garden: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I’ve just met with my national security team to discuss the crisis in Georgi... August 13, 2008 Memo to David Freddoso David, you need to get the Times to try to kill your excellent Obama book (The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate ). As Roge... August 13, 2008 Re: Executions & Consuls Derb, your correspondents make some great points. FWIW, I weighed in on the late and unlamented Medellin about a year ago in Human Events, when, in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, Chief Justice Rober... August 13, 2008 Assad’s Trap in Tripoli To follow up on my previous post, read Michael Young's entire... August 13, 2008 Cross-border strike targets one of the Taliban’s 157 training camps in Pakistan’s northwest Hangu is the latest district to fall under Taliban control. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts; purple districts are under de facto Taliban control;... August 13, 2008 Assad’s Reminder NOW's editorial this morning on the terrorist bombing in Tripoli is worth quoting at length:... August 13, 2008 Suicide attack kills 9 in Lahore Aftermath of the suicide attack in Lahore. AFP photo. The Taliban have restarted its terror campaign in Pakistan's cities. A suicide bomber struck in Lahore,... August 12, 2008 Re: The Kosovo Excuse I agree with Andrew. It doesn’t justify — not even close — the Russian aggression, and I have no doubt that Putin would have found some other pretext … or just star... August 12, 2008 Re: Republicans for Obama 'Obama has a strong record of bringing people together from the left and the right to solve problems, leading with superior judgment on foreign policy issues, and demonstrating fiscal respon... August 12, 2008 Re: UN Security Council Jonah, I think the Kennedy administration, as part of a much broader strategy that included a blockade and the threat of a pre-emptive attack, sought a Security Council resolution during the Cuba... August 12, 2008 Al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan rumored killed in Pakistan Mustafa Abu Yazid on As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda arm. . Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate that Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan,... August 12, 2008 Coalition forces capture Hezbollah Brigades nine operatives in Baghdad Hezbollah Brigades' logo is nearly identical to that of Lebanese Hezbollah. Coalition forces, likely the special operations hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, have captured... August 12, 2008 Bombing on Pakistani Air Force bus kills 13 in Peshawar The Taliban have taken credit for a deadly bus bombing on a Pakistani Air Force bus in Peshawar. Thirteen Pakistanis, including ten security offici... August 12, 2008 Coalition forces capture 9 Hezbollah Brigades operatives in Baghdad Coalition forces, likely the special operations hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, have captured nine Hezbollah Brigades operatives during three raids in the Adhamiyah district in Baghdad over... August 12, 2008 High Noon in Georgia ‘ With No Sheriff Russia’s rulers have made their point: The Russian military can shoot and bomb its way into the sovereign territory of a neighboring state, and the world will… talk. In the... August 11, 2008 Russia — Bedrock of What Passes for Our Iran Policy I wonder what the State Department will say the Soviet rebirth means for its preposterous diplomatic strategy to look like it’s doing something to prevent Iran from building nukes.... August 11, 2008 Russia’s Invasion of Georgia: Another Intelligence Debacle? As observed in today’s NRO editorial, the Russian response, upon successfully baiting Georgia, was “massive” and “quite manifestly ready to go.” How could t... August 11, 2008 Re: Obama, Democrats, Abortion, and the Relentless Kmiec Jack, if Prof. Kmiec [ACM -- my apology] if Obama actually believed that 'Roe is not an endorsement of abortion,' that would indeed make Obama a 'different type of candidate'... August 11, 2008 The End of Nuclear Diplomacy On July 30, Ali Khamenei demolished what was left of George W. Bush's Iran policy. Iran's clerical overlord also put paid to Senator Barack Obama's dreams of tête-à-t&... August 10, 2008 Taliban “shadow” governor for Uruzgan province arrested Australian special forces conducted a preplanned raid against a top Taliban commander and his network in central Uruzgan province last week. Mullah Bari Ghul, the Taliban' s shadow governor... August 10, 2008 Russia’s Message Over the weekend, I was contacted by some good folks who support Georgia, the small country now under attack by Russia. I was asked if I had any ideas on how the Georgians might “mobilize E... August 10, 2008 Pakistani troops retreat Taliban onslaught in Bajaur Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps retreated from the Loisam region in the Bajaur tribal after heavy fighting with the Taliban over the past four days. Scores of Pakistani paramilitary t... August 10, 2008 Terrorists Here, Terrorists There, Terrorists Everywhere But for heaven’s sake, don’t call them terrorists, don’t send our armies against them (although special forces are ok), and don’t even think about declaring “war&rdq... August 9, 2008 Fighting escalates in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal agency The Pakistani military claimed 70 Taliban fighters were killed and 60 were wounded during the lat... August 8, 2008 More on Hamdan’s Disgraceful Sentence This is actually much worse than I thought, and I apologize to readers for an error on my part, about which I’ll have more to say in an article tomorrow. Basically, I misunderstood... August 8, 2008 Former Guantanamo detainee tied to Hamdan and al Qaeda This article was originally published at The Daily Standard under the title Almost Famous.... August 7, 2008 Pakistani forces clash with Taliban in Bajaur The Pakistani military and the Taliban battled in the northern tribal agency of Bajaur after security forces launched an attack. More than 25 extremists were... August 7, 2008 Hamdan’s Disgraceful Sentence I have been a defender of the military commission system (though, as I’ve also argued, we can and should do better, namely a national security court). But as we’ve seen before,... August 7, 2008 Memo to the New York Times: Why You’re Hemorrhaging Subscibers ... because the editors are embarrassing even to other liberals. Note in the mail box from a NYC lawyer friend regarding my earlier post about the Times' Hamdan editorial: I gotta say -- whi... August 7, 2008 “Guilty … as ORDERED”? Naturally, I would never suggest that the New York Times stoops to a predetermined editorial narrative with which it proceeds, and toward which it slants news coverage, without a care in... August 7, 2008 The Tiananmen Massacre Map This is one the official guides to the Olympics won’t be handing out, but it is vital to understanding the true context of the spectacle we are about to witness in Bei... August 7, 2008 Energy Independence: That’s what voters want politicians to pursue – and not just by talking about i If you were advising a friend who was unfit and lacking energy, would you tell him to diet or exercise? You’d probably suggest he do both. August 7, 2008 Europe Must Realize: Jihadism is an Ideology, Not a Theology Jihadi terrorism is one of the largest threats Europe and the international community are facing in this era. Hence studying Jihadi terrorism beyond the formation and the dismantling of cells is highly relevant to Europeans because of the impact of its actions on security, politics, and economy. August 7, 2008 Islamist Extremism’s Rising Challenge to Morocco Morocco has long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as an oasis of moderation and relative tranquility amid the whirl of religious extremism and violence that passes for politics in most of the Muslim world, especially its Arab lands. Moroccan leaders are wont to remind their American interlocutors that Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III was, in 1777, the first foreign sovereign to recognize the independence of the United States. Subsequently, a 1786 treaty established diplomatic relations between the two countries, the oldest such ties between America and any Middle Eastern country. Renegotiated in 1836, the accord is still in force, making it the United States' longest unbroken treaty relationship. In June 2004, after notifying Congress and in recognition of the country's strategic support for the war on terrorism, President George W. Bush formally designated Morocco a "Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States," making one of only fourteen states to be accorded that privileged status. And while it does not have full diplomatic relations with Israel, the Sharifian Kingdom has maintained high-level contacts with representatives of the Jewish state since 1986, when the late King Hassan II became only the second Arab ruler to openly host a senior Israeli leader, inviting then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to the royal palace at Ifran for formal talks. Just last week, on the ninth anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Mohammed VI conferred the Royal Order of Al-Alaoui on several prominent Jews of Moroccan origin, including Dr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund; Dr. Yehuda Lancry, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; and Rabbi David Messas, chief rabbi of Paris. Thus it is more than disconcerting to note the rising tide of Islamist extremism and concomitant menace of terrorist violence in Morocco. August 6, 2008 Eight VFF Combat Veterans Return to Iraq to Conduct Extensive Policy Assessment View full articleThis article © 2008 IraqStatusReport.com. All Rights Reserved August 6, 2008 A Dangerous Neighbor As the situation in Afghanistan worsens, many military officials have come to see the growing safe haven for insurgent groups in Pakistan as the key to the Afghanistan war. Today Bill Roggio and... August 6, 2008 The Hamdan Verdict Salim Hamdan, an admitted driver for Osama b...

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