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April 19, 2012 Why the Mitt-Bibi Bromance Won’t Affect World Affairs "The likelihood that Romney's presence at 1600 Pennsylvania can help seal a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians is very low," says Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Resea... April 19, 2012 CIA Seeks New Authority to Expand Yemen Drone Campaign The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks drone operations, estimates that there have been 27 strikes in Yemen since 2009 and that 198 militants and 48 civilians have been killed. Awl... April 19, 2012 Flake’s Past as Lobbyist at Odds With His Image Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank, noted that in the 1990s the Iranian regime “was not a friend of the U... April 17, 2012 US Forces Make Gains After Trading Static Afghan Outposts for Mobility “The belief was our presence there was radicalizing and driving the insurgents,” said Bill Roggio, who directs the Long War Journal for the... April 17, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Coordinated attacks rock Afghan capital and provinces. Listen to the interview here.... April 16, 2012 All Things Considered This weekend's nuclear negotiations with Iran should provide some indication of whether unprecedented economic pressure can induce a country to reconsider its policies. No country has ever be... April 16, 2012 Christian World News FDD's Clifford May explains the Arabian Peninsula's threat to religious freedom.... April 16, 2012 Foreign Entanglements On Foreign Entanglements, Robert Farley speaks with Mark Dubowitz about sanction policy against Iran. Could Iran split the broad coalition that supports sanctions? Compared to heavily sa... April 16, 2012 Good Evening, Brussels! Good Evening, Brussels! discusses the Al-Qaeda-Iran relationship with Benjamin Weinthal. Listen to the interview here.... April 16, 2012 Yemen Slides into Chaos Amid New Clashes The Long War Journal, which monitors global counter-terrorism operations, observed, if missiles were fired, "they were most likely fired by U.S. Navy warships. "The Yemeni navy does not... April 16, 2012 Obama, Annan, Assad and Mass Murder Jonathan Schanzer and Claudia Rossett, writing in the New Republic say we should h... April 13, 2012 Syrian Ceasefire Lasts Just Six Hours Before Civilian is Shot Dead and Roadside Bomb Kills Officer Ammar Abdulhamid, an influential Syrian human rights activist, told Fox News that given Assad’s habit of breaking promises 'there was no reason for anyone to be surprised by the turn o... April 13, 2012 Lou Dobbs Tonight FDD's Clifford May comments on the test launch of a North Korean missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon to targets within the United States.... April 13, 2012 Middle East Forum Developments within Syria.... April 12, 2012 Syrian Opposition Groups Says Annan Pan ‘Doomed,’ Offers Alternative Detailing the opposition's alternative plan exclusively to Fox News, Ammar Abdulhamid, an influential Syrian human rights activist, said Annan’s initiative clearly had “failed.&r... April 12, 2012 Iran’s Trail of Terror Not since the fall of the Soviet Union has any nation so aggressively pursued alliances with bad actors in so many places worldwide, acknowledged Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who focu... April 12, 2012 Iran Oil Output May Drop By 950,000 Barrels By July, IEA Says By Ayesha Daya Iran’s oil production may decline by as much as 950,000 barrels a day by the middle of this year as European Union and U.S. embargoes take effect, the International... April 12, 2012 Is Kofi Annan’s Peace Plan for Syria Naive? Assad will never relent: "Annan set about his work admirably,"... April 11, 2012 Post Washington Forum Booklet April 11, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Special operations forces kill newly appointed IMU leader for Afghanistan and Taliban suicide bombers kill 17 in attacks in south, west. ... April 11, 2012 The John Batchelor Show The Muslim Brotherhood's mendacious charm campaign in Washington. Listen to the program here.... April 11, 2012 News Update Kofi Annan's mission in Syria.... April 10, 2012 What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,... April 10, 2012 The 700 Club FDD's Clifford May speaks on the growing Christian persecution in the Middle East following the Arab Spring.... April 9, 2012 Good Evening, Brussels! The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate for President.... April 9, 2012 China Says Wanted Militants Use Nearby Countries to Stage Attacks Mr. Turkistani has been leading Chinese fighters inside the tribal belt since May 2010, when an American drone killed his predecessor, Abdul Haq al-Turkistani. In May 2011, Al Qaeda announced tha... April 9, 2012 Al-Qaida Fighters Mown Down in Airstrikes The crash of a SOCOM U-28 aircraft in Djibouti confirmed reports that U.S. Special Operations units were deployed at Camp Lemonier, the Long War Journal, which monitors global counter-terrorism o... April 6, 2012 Iran’s Spymaster Counters US Moves in the Mideast Last October, a former Central Intelligence Agency spy, Reuel Marc Gerecht, testified before Congress that if the Qods Force's role in last year's alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassa... April 6, 2012 US Not Backing Off as Iran Sanctions Bite "If the administration did that it would provide more clarity and more comfort to companies engaged in trade with Iran that is permissible under U.S. law," said Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundat... April 6, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Recent developments in Syria. Listen to the show here.... April 5, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Turkey on the recent arrests of two generals and the MB presidential candidate in Cairo. Listen to the in... April 5, 2012 Australian Agenda FDD's Emanuele Ottolenghi discusses Iran with Peter Van Onselen and James Brown.... April 5, 2012 Will Drones Go Nuclear? Bill Roggio, editor of The Long War Journal, agrees that at this stage, nuclear-powered drones are very much just an idea, and a potentially flawed one at that. “I don&rsq... April 5, 2012 “Wir Stehen Kurz Vor der Bombe” "Als Unterhändler hat Mousavian stets die offizielle Linie vertreten, dass das iranische Nuklearprogramm nur zivilen Zwecken diene. Dass er nun schreibt, der Iran habe schon 2002 die Fä... April 4, 2012 In Yemen, Lines Blur as US Steps Up Airstrikes U.S. officials would not say exactly how many strikes have been carried out in Yemen, and it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between Yemeni military attacks and American actions. Long W... April 4, 2012 German Trial Shows al-Qaida Targeted Europe Economy The six days of hearing have thus far revealed fresh evidence of the role of radical German Islamists in Iran. The popular website The Long War Journal has long documented the links between al-Qa... April 4, 2012 The John Batchelor Show UNESCO, Gabon and Comedy Central.... April 3, 2012 Flash Brief FDD's Jonathan Schanzer and other analysts are asked whether a U.N. Security Council presidential statement will be enough to end Syria strife.... April 3, 2012 German SPD Youth Group Calls for Attack on Iran if Sanctions Fail Jerusalem Post journalist Benjamin Weinthal, who has thankfully returned to regular blogging,... April 3, 2012 Obama’s Push to Fund UNESCO is No Joke There is little chance that Congress will amend the law so as to allow the flow of U.S. taxpayer cash to resume. But those supporting such a move got a boost recently when Comedy Central’s... April 3, 2012 Splits in ‘Friends of Syria’ Group May Help Embattled Leader Assad But Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar appear to have stepped out in front of Ob... April 3, 2012 US Lawmakers Target Iran Energy Sector for Expanded Sanctions The proposed legislation expands on existing laws by making the Iranian energy sector a “no-go zone” for any foreign investment in energy, any imports of natural gas and the sale of e... March 29, 2012 As Global March to J’lem Nears, Press War Rages Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a blog post for the website of The Weekly Standard... March 29, 2012 ‘Only a Credible US Threat will Deter Iran’ IRAN will only step back from developing nuclear weapons if it feels the threat of an American strike against it is credible – and so far that isn’t the case. That’s th... March 29, 2012 Syria Is Obama’s Srebrenica But as my able colleague Tony Badran reported in his blog in www.nowlebanon.com (confirming what I picked up during my recent visit to Turkey a few days ago), Secretary Clinton caught her Turkish... March 29, 2012 Bush Institute Unveils Freedom Collection Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a contributo... March 28, 2012 Fox News.com Live FDD's Sebastian Gorka comments on efforts to dislodge Bashar al-Assad from power and the US's troubled relationship with Pakistan.... March 28, 2012 The Jon Justice Show Al Qaeda's continuing strategy.... March 27, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Afghan security forces kill 3 ISAF troops in south, east. Listen to the interview here.... March 27, 2012 US and Pakistan Bargain Over CIA Drones The diplomatic furor threatens to halt the CIA's drone program, which in the last eight years, has killed an estimated 2,223 Taliban, al Qaeda and other suspected militants with 289 strikes,...

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