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March 28, 2007 Salvaging Security in Somalia Two weeks ago in this space, I reported that the supporters of Somalia's defeated Islamic Courts Union (ICU) were reconstituting themselves as the "Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of... March 28, 2007 A Dangerous Woman Theo van Gogh was a modern Western man, a believer in reason, tolerance and multiculturalism. And so it is perhaps fitting that his last words were: “Can’t we talk about this?”... March 28, 2007 Una Mujer Peligrosa Theo van Gogh era un hombre occidental moderno, un creyente en la razón, la tolerancia y el multiculturalismo. Y por ello quizá encaja que sus últimas palabras fueran: &ldquo... March 26, 2007 Tehran Seizure In light of Iran’s taking 15 British soldiers to Iran National Review Online asked a group of experts: Is this an act of war? What can be done? What can be done about Iran generally? What c... March 24, 2007 Royal Navy Incident: Iran’s Plan to Drag the U.S. and the U.K. The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran's Jihadi chess playe... March 22, 2007 Careful Vetting’? How could the U.S. government be funding Hamas’s university in Gaza? It’s the question that has been asked often since my front-page story in this paper earlier this month, from Capit... March 22, 2007 High-Stakes Poker in the Persian Gulf Earlier this week, Iran’s spiritual leader Ali Khamenei began preparing public opinion for Iran’s withdrawal from the nuclear-nonproliferation regime. Today we have reports that the I... March 22, 2007 Symposium: Iran: The Countdown With Iran's Mullahs refusing to stop their nuclear program, a collision with the U.S. appears inevitable -- and approaching sooner rather than later. To discuss the Iranian threat and the o... March 21, 2007 Good News from Cote d’Ivoire It often seems that the news media, both traditional and new, operate under a journalistic version of Gresham's Law whereby bad news trumps good news. This certainly appears to be t... March 21, 2007 The Inter-Branch Clash Over Fired U.S. Attorneys From the very start, the Bush administration’s self-induced debacle over fired United States attorneys has blurred law and politics. Now, the blur has officially grown into the fog of inter... March 19, 2007 The Myth of Moderate Mullahs If the Reagan administration had learned in 1987 that the clerical regime in Tehran was doing what it is doing today, would Washington have approved of preventive strikes on Iranian nuclear facil... March 19, 2007 Future Jihad Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Walid Phares, a Professor of Middle East Studies and Religious Conflict at the LLS Program of Florida Atlantic University and a visiting Professor at Na... March 18, 2007 New Book Release: The Confrontation by Dr. Walid Phares by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares... March 15, 2007 More Questions about the U.N. in North Korea It’s bad enough that the United Nations Development Program office in North Korea has been handing over hard currency to the regime of Kim Jong Il. But a new twist now emerging in the Cash-... March 14, 2007 Breach Lewis Libby’s lawyers are quietly filing appeals while President Bush privately ponders arguments for and against a pardon. But now is not the time for this controversy to fade away. Now is... March 14, 2007 Playing Politics with Politics “Loyalty to Bush and Gonzales,” blared Wednesday’s ominous headline in the New York Times, “Was Factor in Prosecutors’ Firings[.]” One would hope so.... March 14, 2007 Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an international contingent to go into the territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic to keep a nonexist... March 7, 2007 Phantom Ministers and the Spirit of Democracy About six months ago, writing in the lead-up to the second round of the presidential election in the rather ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo, I used this column space to note: ... March 5, 2007 Muslims Against Jihad? A peculiar conference, taking place on the West coast of Florida drew the attention of many observers of the War of ideas: The first Secular Islam Summit. Organized by the Center for Inquiry Tran... March 4, 2007 Close the Immigration Vault with Employer Enforcement Imagine we had only a single, government-chartered financial institution: the First National Bank. Imagine it had begun a new policy: Henceforth, the vault would remain open and stocked to the br... March 1, 2007 The Battle for Nigeria WITH AROUND 36 billion barrels of proven petroleum reserves-the largest in Africa and the eighth largest in the world-Nigeria is America's fifth-largest supplier of oil. In 2006, the United... February 28, 2007 Coalition Against Terrorist Media Calls on Egypt, Saudi Arabia to Stop Broadcasting Terrorist Televi Washington, Feb 28, 2007 Following Egypt’s decision to pull an Iraqi television station accused of supporting terrorism from its NileSat satellite system, the Coalition Against Ter... February 28, 2007 Hollywood Shuffle How curious that at the Academy Awards ceremony last weekend not a word was said about the terrorist movements dedicated to the destruction of the West. Hollywood stars and moguls don&rs... February 28, 2007 Au revoir, mon Général Exactly four months ago in this same column space, I observed that just "getting the outside world to focus on the current terrorist and other security challenges in Africa is a difficult enough... February 28, 2007 Barricades at the Serail The Serail is one of the most beautiful buildings in Beirut. Its stately arches and imposing mass convey both authority and permanence — the Serail was built centuries ago to serve as the s... February 28, 2007 La confusión de Hollywood Es curioso que en la ceremonia de los premios Oscar del fin de semana no se dijera ni una palabra sobre los movimientos terroristas dedicados a la destrucción de Occidente.... February 27, 2007 One for the Ages: U.N. Official Uses Two Birthdates The phrase “born again” is taking on a whole new meaning in a scandal now brewing at a little-known but important United Nations agency based in Switzerland, where an auditor has disc... February 26, 2007 Feith on Trial It is one of the oldest and dirtiest political tricks in Washington: Hurl scurrilous charges at someone and then call for investigations into his conduct. When the investigations clear your targe... February 26, 2007 Libby Trial Reveals Media Hypocrisy The newly eventful jury deliberations are grinding ahead in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Simultaneously, the mainstream media is preparing its post-mortems. Libby, Vic... February 22, 2007 FDD and EFD Address the Aspen Institute-Berlin on the Dangers of Radical Islamic Media to Europe Mark Dubowitz, FDD's chief operating officer and director of its Coalition Against Terrorist Media, and Roberta Bonazzi and Alexander Ritzmann, executive director and research fellow respectively of the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), addressed the Aspen Institute-Berlin and briefed senior German government officials and media on the influence of Iranian propaganda and the dangers of radical Islamic media to Germany and Europe. February 21, 2007 Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel Earlier this month, by coincidence, as President George W. Bush made the announcement in Washington that the United States Department of Defense would be establishing a unified combatant command... February 21, 2007 Un fracaso de comunicación En Irak, no hemos estado perdiendo en el choque de armas sino en el choque de percepciones. Nuestros enemigos entendieron muy al principio que no podían derrotar en combate a las tropas am... February 21, 2007 A Failure to Communicate In Iraq, we have been losing not clashes of arms but clashes of perceptions. Our enemies understood early on that they could not defeat American troops in combat. But they were clever enough to r... February 20, 2007 See Cynthia and Mohamad Play Tag Team Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebano... February 17, 2007 Trial in Error Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Che... February 16, 2007 My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict... February 15, 2007 Syrian Pressure, Lebanese Blood Two years after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, and 22 others, including former Minister Basil Fuleihan, on Tuesday Lebanon was subjected to another terro... February 14, 2007 Iran and the Heisenberg Principle of Pacifist Diplomacy Last Sunday, to the fanfare of national celebrations, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again rejected any suspension in uranium enrichment, in open defiance of a U.N. Security Council comman... February 14, 2007 Getting AFRICOM Right Last week President George W. Bush created a new military command for Africa: I am pleased to announce my decision to create a Department of Defense Unified Combatant Comm... February 14, 2007 Munich Memories “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” That was Hitler’s appraisal of the leaders of Britain and France he hosted in the Bavarian capital in 1938. Britis... February 14, 2007 Recuerdos de Múnich “Nuestro enemigos son pequeños gusanos. Los vi en Múnich”. Ésa fue la evaluación de Hitler... February 13, 2007 Despite Efforts at Reconciliation, ‘Never Again’ Divides Germans, Jews We sat at a bonfire at the foot of Masada under the stars, discussing the existential threat to Israel from Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had made headlines again as he threatened t... February 9, 2007 Cash for Kim While U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill has been struggling in Beijing to cut a diplomatic de-nuclearization deal with the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, some of us here in the... February 8, 2007 In the Border Patrol Case, the Best Defense Is a Good Offense A report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general is the occasion for the latest offensive by champions of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, the former Border Patrol agents cur... February 8, 2007 Intelligence Games Well, we knew this was coming. he... February 7, 2007 Minority Rule In 1917, most Russians were not Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks were a minority, but they were fanatical and ruthless. So they prevailed — and for most of the 20th century Russians lived and die... February 7, 2007 As It Turns Out, Preemption Works Until its last emperor, Haile Selassie, was overthrown in 1974, Ethiopia's constitution boasted that he descended "without interruption from the dynasty of Menelik I, son of the Queen of Eth... February 7, 2007 El gobierno de la minoría En 1917, la mayoría de rusos no eran bolchequive... February 7, 2007 Guess Hu’s Coming to Dinner Last week, while much of the coverage by media outlets in the United States and, consequently, American public attention and policy debate remained riveted, as in the preceding weeks, on the situ... February 6, 2007 At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacek...

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