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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... February 26, 2005 Life of Fear for Christian Arabs By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Last month's grisly murder in Jersey City of Hossam Armanious, his wife, Amal, and two daughters, Sylvia and Monica, remains unsolved. But friends... February 24, 2005 In New Book, FDD Senior Fellow Barbara Newman Exposes Hezbollah Terror Cells on U.S. Soil Washington, D.C. (Feb. 24, 2005) – Barbara Newman, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is the co-author of the powerful new book Lightning Out of Lebanon:... February 22, 2005 Judge Not The New York Times last week offered a specious attack on Lynne Stewart's conviction in an embarrassingly ill-informed op-ed by Andrew Napolitano, Fox News's "Senior Judicial Analyst."... February 22, 2005 Desert Bigotry Author: Andrew Apostolou. The announcement of the Iraqi election results on February 13 evokes memories of the historic polls in South Africa that buried the apartheid system. I... February 22, 2005 The Real Refugee Scandal So prolific in scandal has the United Nations become that it's getting hard to keep tabs. You can surf the channels, from rape by peacekeepers in the Congo, to theft at the World Meteorologi... February 21, 2005 Wrong Turn in Lebanon By: Dr. Walid Phares. When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: In the hours aft... February 16, 2005 Terrorism’s Victims It is a common misperception that most terrorism is directed against Jews and Christians. The fact is no group has suffered more than Muslims from radical Islamist violence. Especially at risk ar... February 16, 2005 Say What? The Wall Street Journal’s Latest: An Asylum Tutorial With today's offering following hard on Monday's skewed Eason Jordan rant, it has become necessary to ask: What is going on at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page this week?... February 15, 2005 Opposition During Wartime By: Andrew Apostolou. Opposing a government in wartime is proving to be a frustrating experience for the political enemies of president George W. Bush and prime minister Tony Bl... February 14, 2005 Lynne Stewart & Me; Justice and Sadness Maybe she’s just bipolar. I've had this queasy feeling in my stomach ever since I learned, back in 2002, that my old Office — the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Sou... February 13, 2005 Contra Iran In quoting my bewilderment as to what policy Washington should adopt to prevent Iran's theocrats from obtaining nuclear weapons, Franklin Foer neglects to mention that I was endeavoring to a... February 13, 2005 It’s No “Kerfuffle” The Wall Street Journal has a very strange editorial this morning regarding the controversy (which it gently labels a "kerfuffle") that resulted last Friday night in the resignation of CNN's... February 13, 2005 Kofi Annan’s Silence On February 3, the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, issued its first interim report. Volcker's most lurid... February 10, 2005 Russia and U.S. National Interests What: ... February 9, 2005 No Exit; The Choice is Between a Strategy for Victory — or Defeat When a politician or a journalist talks about an “exit strategy” from Iraq, there is only one appropriate response: Roll your eyes and leave the room. Imagine some senator or... February 8, 2005 FDD Speakers Featured at INTELCON FDD Appearances: Dr. Walid Phares, S... February 8, 2005 One Down, Two to Go; Democracy Has Come to Iraq. Is There Hope for North Korea? It's not only in the Middle East that Iraq's election lights a way. Let us turn to what may be the world's most abandoned population, 23 million souls living under a government tha... February 7, 2005 We Will Never Forget This Day – Election Day in Iraq By: Joseph Morrison Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. A few weeks ago the election season opened with a bang in Baquba, a city of 280,000 people located on the eastern edge of t... February 3, 2005 Our Friend in the Gallery By: Eleana Gordon. Wednesday night, Americans watched as President George W. Bush turned to the gallery of the U.S. Congress and recognized an Iraqi woman, Safia Taleb al-Suhail... February 3, 2005 1864 & Me Some of the good folks at Southern Appeal have taken umbrage at my essay Monday, which drew parallels between Sunday’s Iraq election and the American presidential election of 1864. At least... February 2, 2005 U.N. Follies Is the United Nations attempting self-parody? How else to explain the announcement that a panel has been elected to decide which complaints will be heard by the UN Human Rights Commissio... February 2, 2005 Bush Declares: Leaders of the Middle East, Tear Down Your Walls By: Dr. Walid Phares. President George Bush’s State of the Union address will be a momentous inspiration to millions of freedom-craving citizens of the Arab Middle East. A... February 1, 2005 Volcker’s Report Raises Questions of U.N.’s Role The interim report on the United Nations' scandal-wracked oil-for-food program is due to be released tomorrow, according to the U.N.-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee, led by a former... February 1, 2005 Make Up Your Mind It is too late in the day to rehearse why anyone not wearing a tinfoil hat to guard against invasive gamma rays should avoid squandering valuable time on anything written by Seymour Hersh. Been t... January 30, 2005 The Reachable Star In the short history of this novel democratic experiment, the national election would easily be the single most critical development ever...if there actually could be an election worthy of the na... January 29, 2005 The Whole Region Is Watching By: Ambassador Marc Ginsberg. Richard Daley, the late mayor of Chicago and a master of ward politics, would have been proud. In a Baghdad suburb last week, activists for Prime M... January 28, 2005 The Iraqi Elections Backgrounder: The Iraqi Elections January 28, 2005 Iraqi Democracy Debuts in Pre-Election Debate Last Sunday, when Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi aired his infamous declaration of holy war against democracy, six main Iraqi leaders performed Iraq's first televised electoral debate on Al Hurra TV.... January 26, 2005 It’s Time to Recognize Taiwan’s Rights Remember that U.N. official who complained about Washington's contribution to the tsunami victims? He neglected to mention that even as he was deriding Americans as "stingy," the United Nati... January 25, 2005 Iraq’s Historic Debate On the same day that terrorist mastermind Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi declared holy war on democracy, six principal Iraqi leaders appeared in their nation’s first televised electoral debat... January 24, 2005 Groups Join Together to Fight Terrorist Media; First Target: Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Station WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition Against Terrorist Media, an organization of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular groups, has come together to urge action against terroris... January 22, 2005 As Saddam Trial Resumes, FDD Reminds of Regime’s Horrors Washington, D.C. (Jan 23, 2005): As the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumes, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies has placed on its website video... January 19, 2005 The War of Ideas; It’s Time the Free World Began Seriously Fighting It An old saw has it that a lie can circle the globe before the truth even laces its sneakers. That's more accurate now – an era when satellites and the Internet have revolutionized commu... January 15, 2005 Oil-for-Food Audits Reveal Sevan as Mysterious Manager Perhaps Paul Volcker (search), head of the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, was speaking solely of graft when he said recently that the internal audits of Oil... January 13, 2005 A Nominee and the Attack; Michael Chertoff’s Experience In its eminently fair profile on Wednesday of Judge Michael Chertoff, President George W. Bush's extraordinarily able nominee to become the second secretary of the Department of Homeland Sec... January 12, 2005 Moderate Mahmoud? Don’t Ask the Impossible of the New Palestinian Leader – Demand the Possible Inste Americans, Europeans, Israelis, diplomats, reporters, editorialists -- just about everybody wants Mahmoud Abbas, the newly elected president of the Palestinian Authority, to be a moderate. So the... January 11, 2005 A Chance for Peace? There were no televised debates, an underwhelming turnout and charges of serious ballot stuffing. But the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian leader is one of the first promising sig... January 11, 2005 Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion? Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo... January 9, 2005 Jihadists and the Big Lie As soon as the news of the killer tsunami aired, and the estimated fatalities started to escalate, most of the world reacted with sorrow and kindness.The reaction of jihadists and the clerics of... January 9, 2005 Abbas’ Victory: Until Jihad comes back? As of mid Sunday, Western media networks were in awe as of the results of the Palestinian presidential election. Anchors and newswires projected a landslide result in favor of Mahmoud Abbas, the... January 9, 2005 A Tale of Two Elections; Abbas and Allawi Authored by Andrew Apostolou The Palestinian election on January 9 was the first of two important national votes in the Middle East, the second being the Iraqi polls on Jan... January 6, 2005 Fatuous: The Witnesses Against Judge Gonzales Torture Logic For hours, the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General designate, Alberto Gonzales, was grueling — for his detractors. The White House Counsel handled often strident questioning with...

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