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April 21, 2005 The Road Back to Damascus By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. There is no better time than the present for the U.S. to press its advantage in the Mideast; to further pressure Syrian president... April 20, 2005 Muscular Idealism You can't fight terrorism without fighting terrorists. You have to eliminate both those who load cars with explosives and those who tell them where to go and whom to kill. Most people grasp... April 20, 2005 Benedict Should Face Off with Persecutors of his Flock By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pontiff, the new Pope Benedict XVI fell in the crosshair of a highly politicized media around the world, a... April 19, 2005 Stale Kofi Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has alread... April 17, 2005 Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe Who are the two mysterious high-ranking U.N. officials fingered in one of the latest indictments of the oil-for-food scandal? The indictment, issued last Thursday, doesn't give the... April 15, 2005 Reaction to Rafiq Hariri’s Assassination “Rafiq Hariri was close to Syria in the 1990s; he distanced himself from Syria after the war in Iraq. Last summer, he resigned in protest of the continuing Syrian occupation of Lebano... April 13, 2005 Not-So-Secret Agents Perhaps there was a good reason why secret agents used to stay secret. So long as espionage was a profession that average citizens encountered only in fiction, we could imagine spies wer... April 13, 2005 Material Support to… “Business Professionals” Back in July, the Justice Department held a bells-’n-whistles press conference to announce a major case: a 42-count indictment, charging seven men and an ostensible charity with underwritin... April 9, 2005 “Hell, No”– He’s Not Exonerated In the epic United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, we now have a moment of high farce, with what will surely be remembered as Kofi Annan's "Hell, no" press conference--named for the secretary... April 6, 2005 The Pope of Freedom By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la... April 6, 2005 John Paul’s Final Victory The threat posed by Islamist extremism was not widely recognized prior to September 11, 2001. And, after 9/11, Pope John Paul II was too frail to energetically address it. But what the P... April 6, 2005 Spinning the Patriot Act Andrew Napolitano has embarrassed himself enough times that one would think Fox News might have him do a little homework before passing off still mor... April 5, 2005 ‘The Truth’: A Simple Demand From the Lebanese and Oppressed People Everywhere A friend was wondering the other day what frontiers are left to explore, now that scientists have pretty much mapped the planet. The answer, I'd suggest, lies less in the stars than along th... March 31, 2005 Has the War in Iraq Helped to Spread Democracy? There were those who predicted that if American forces over-threw Saddam Hussein the Arab Street would rise in response. They were right. It's happening -- for example, in Lebano... March 28, 2005 A Response to Prof. Swire Professor Peter Swire's thoughtful response goes wrong in three major respects. First, he gives short shrift to the national security threat. If we were not actually facing a public... March 28, 2005 A Response to Professor Cole First, he gives short shrift to the national security threat. If we were not actually facing a public safety challenge, individual interests in the privacy of financial, medical and reading recor... March 27, 2005 CPD Calls on Libya to Free Imprisoned Democracy Activist Physicians for Human Rights reports that Fathi Eljahmi is su... March 23, 2005 Syria’s Secret War By: Dr. Walid Phares. Officially, Syria is making plans to pull back its occupying forces from Lebanon. But according to sources inside the “Cedar Revolution,” the g... March 23, 2005 Why We Fought Two years ago this week, the American invasion of Iraq was underway. Why had we gone to war? In the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, President Bush repeatedly gave his reasons.... March 22, 2005 Giving Till It Hurts Upfront I must acknowledge a debt to Jeffrey Sachs. One night a decade back, when I was reporting for this newspaper out of Moscow, the power blew out as deadline was approaching, taking with it... March 22, 2005 Syrian Dissidents Find Their Voice As Lebanon Provides a Megaphone With Lebanese democrats speaking up and Syria's occupying forces pulling out, it may sound unsurprising that one of Beirut's leading Arabic newspapers ran a searing critique this week o... March 22, 2005 In Deep Trouble There he goes again. "This hall has heard enough high-sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come," Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. General Assembly Monday. "Wha... March 20, 2005 As Window of Opportunity Opens in Lebanon, Hope Surges Above a busy shopping street where a bomb blew out the front walls of a building Friday night, injuring nine people, there now stretches a long row of glittering lights. Local authorities have re... March 17, 2005 Coalition Against Terrorist Media Praises Netherlands for Banning Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV European Action Against Hate Broadcasts Follows Month of Advocacy Washington, D.C.... March 17, 2005 The Russia-Syria Connection Dr. Walid Phares gave the following testimony before the U.S. Senate on the issue of Russia's arming of longtime ally Syria.... March 16, 2005 Michael Scheuer’s Bloody Logic By: Andrew Apostolou. M... March 16, 2005 Fighting the War of Ideas President Bush's appointment of Karen Hughes and Dina Powell to the two top communications jobs in the State Department tells us this: He recognizes that perception is as important as realit... March 16, 2005 Lebanon Celebrates Freedom With Humor, Communication BEIRUT, Lebanon - Along with Monday's landmark demonstration for freedom, Lebanese democrats are sending around by e-mail their own deck of cards, featuring the most wanted - or rather the m... March 15, 2005 CATM Urges European Union to Take Action against Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television CATM Urges European Union to Take Action against Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Washingt... March 14, 2005 FDD Experts Receive PBS Grant for Terrorism Documentary Washington, D.C. (March 14, 2005) –... March 14, 2005 Million Lebanese Stage Massive Retort to Terrorists Flags fluttering, horns honking, and fingers flashing V for victory, Lebanon's opposition converged on downtown Beirut yesterday in the biggest democratic protest in the history of the moder... March 13, 2005 Lebanese Staging Rallies Demanding ‘the Truth’ Behind Hariri Murder BEIRUT - With a crucial democratic protest planned for today, members of Lebanon's opposition held a vigil last evening, setting out candles across a big swathe of downtown Martyrs' Squ... March 11, 2005 Schumer: 15 Senators Demand U.S. Take Stronger Action Against Saudis for Egregious Violations of Rel Freedom House Report Reveals Saudi Government Exports Extremist Religious Teachings in America... March 10, 2005 Showdown Shapes Up for Both Lebanon and Bush With the reinstatement yesterday of the same pro-Syrian prime minister who resigned 11 days ago, Omar Karami, Lebanon's democratic spring is turning into a high-stakes showdown not only for... March 9, 2005 Committee on the Present Danger Seeks Meeting with Jailed Egyptian Legislator March 9, 2005 -- Following Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's recent announcement that the country's constitution would be amended to allow direct, multiparty presidential elections, th... March 9, 2005 Years of Living Dangerously “One revolution is like one cocktail,” Will Rogers observed. “It just gets you organized for the next.” The Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the “Revolution of... March 9, 2005 Lebanese Democrats Under Siege As dusk falls, Martyrs' Square lights up, and Lebanon's Cedar Revolution pushes on. The democratic movement to oust Syria finds itself increasingly under siege, following a huge demonst... March 8, 2005 Saigon’s Sharansky There's been a lot of talk since Sept. 11 about how President Bush's war-lovin' ways have galvanized terrorists, recruiting jihadis to the ranks. What's increasingly evident,... March 8, 2005 Big Show of Force by Hezbollah Spells New Trouble in Lebanon The demonstration convened yesterday by the terrorist group Hezbollah, a show of force that brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets in support of continued Syrian sway over t... March 8, 2005 Democracy in Lebanon By: Dr. Walid Phares. Syrian withdrawal helps repave the way. The sight of Lebanon's youth in Beirut's Martyr Square stunned many in the West and emboldened m... March 7, 2005 Shot at Liberty Begins With End of Hezbollah By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Wouldn't you know it? The only major Lebanese force opposing a withdrawal of Syrian occupation troops is Hezbollah - the Syrian-backed Shiite terro... March 3, 2005 National Security Comes First Jose Padilla happens to be a U.S. citizen. He is also, however, alleged by the executive branch to be an unlawful enemy combatant who came here from the headquarters of an enemy against which we... March 2, 2005 FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares to Meet with U.N. Security Council Members on Lebanon’s Challenge ... March 2, 2005 Excerpts from “Free Speech for Terrorists?” Words as Weapons: “With an enemy committed to terrorism, the advocacy of terrorism—the threats, the words&mdash... March 2, 2005 Jihad Correspondence On Monday, NBC broke the story that three of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers have been corresponding with members of the Spanish jihad cell(s) tied to the March 11 Madrid attacks. The letters... March 2, 2005 Blood Libel The image is as disturbing and iconic as any seen during the many decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict: Mohammed al-Durra, just 12 years old, caught in a cross-fire in Gaza, trembling against a w... February 28, 2005 The Indirect Approach By: Dr. Walid Phares. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad have an interest in triggering Israeli military and security reactions. All of them are opposed to Mahmoud Abbas’... February 28, 2005 Annan’s #2 Blocks Oil-for-Food Scrutiny Co-authored by: George Russell. With U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) next up for review by Paul Volcker’s inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, a crucial quest... February 28, 2005 Free Speech for Terrorists? The nexus in militant Islam between advocacy and actual savagery is no longer contestable. It has been the subject of too much informed analysis and, more importantly, is an empirically demonstra... February 27, 2005 The “Advice” in Advice and Consent The simmering controversy over Democratic filibusters of President George W. Bush’s nominees to the federal appellate courts continues to push the constitutional envelope. Even among conser...

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