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May 14, 2012 Iran: Atombomben-Netzwerk aufgedeckt? Wien. Die Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) in Wien blieb versiegelt. Ihre Mitarbeiter wollten nicht einmal darüber Auskunft geben, ob sie Post von der iranischen Opposition er... May 14, 2012 Iran: Atombomben-Netzwerk aufgedeckt? Wien. Die Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) in Wien blieb versiegelt. Ihre Mitarbeiter wollten nicht einmal darüber Auskunft geben, ob sie Post von der iranischen Opposition er... May 14, 2012 Syrian Exiles Lead Call to Arm the Opposition Five years after being jailed, beaten, and tortured by government forces as a student in Damascus, Ahed al-Hendi is a Syrian dissident in the U.S. calling for Washington to arm the opposition fig... May 14, 2012 MEK: Tehran Accelerating Its Nuclear Program Iran is accelerating its nuclear weapons program, according to a report Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) Iranian opposition group compiled and The Jerusalem Post ob... May 14, 2012 Palestinian Refugees and the UN There are many reasons to detest the United Nations. It treats proponents of genocide as legitimate world leaders. It is among the most anti-Semitic institutions on the planet. By inaction it has... May 11, 2012 ‘Saudi Clerics Use Social Media to Spread Hate’ Saudi clerics have toned down calls for violence in the decade since the September 11 attacks, according to a new report on social media in the kingdom, but still regularly use web technology to... May 11, 2012 Wahhabi Intolerance in the 21st Century In early 2011, along with a handful of other American journalists, I interviewed Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in Jerusalem. Ayalon pressed the need for recognition of Israel on th... May 11, 2012 Will the Young Eat the Revolution? Revolutions, it is often said, eat their young; the Palestinian revolutionary movement, in all its splinters, certainly has swallowed generations of Palestinian children. A... May 11, 2012 News Update Underwear bomb plot.... May 11, 2012 News Update The situation in Syria, Russia's policy, the Annan plan, and the two suicide bombings in Damascus.... May 10, 2012 The US is Right to Strike Hard at Terrorists in Yemen THE RECOVERY of a sophisticated bomb that U.S. officials believe was intended to be used in a suicide attack against the United States has underlined the reality that the war against al-Qaeda is... May 10, 2012 Double Agent Led CIA, Allies to Terrorists, Underwear Bomb WASHINGTON — The latest al-Qaida bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double agent — working on behalf of... May 10, 2012 Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists CIA officers are no doubt horrified by the disclosures, although those who work in Langley refuse to say anything publicly about the subject. Obama White House officials, however, “are prob... May 9, 2012 Indians Host Clinton While Also Wooing Iran Mrs. Clinton never mentioned the presence of the Iranian delegation, nor the rupee payment system, yet American officials do not seem to mind. Mark Dubowitz, an Iran specialist in Washington, sai... May 9, 2012 Risk of Cyberattacks Clouds Natural Gas Boom “The natural gas sector would be the obvious place for enemies of the United States to target just because of the [industry’s] enormous economic potential,” said Mark Dubowitz,... May 9, 2012 Washington’s War of Words Against Iran Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a neoconservative-dominated thinktank composed of well-known hawks, has been analogizing sanctions as "silver shrapnel" that that... May 9, 2012 ‘We’re Not There Yet’ Elizabeth Warren Can Have 1/32nd of an Acre "Ever ready to meddle where it's least needed, the United Nations Human Rights Council recently dispatched its special rap... May 9, 2012 The Jon Justice Show Thwarted underwear bomb plot in Yemen.... May 8, 2012 The John Batchelor Show U.S. drone strike kills nine in Pakistan, officials say. Listen to the program here.... May 8, 2012 America Tonight Facebook Fatwa.... May 8, 2012 The Mitch Albom Show The thwarted underwear bomb plot.... May 8, 2012 If You Oppose Wife-Beating, Please “Like” This Post You need some cognitive dissonance to harness modern media to spread the word that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it. Yet that's one of many incongruous uses of the Internet s... May 8, 2012 A Peak Inside Saudi Social Media The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy released an unprecedented survey yesterday of the Saudi social media sphere—a vast space on Twitter, Facebook, and a host of blogs, message board... May 8, 2012 Saudi Muslims Venting Radical Beliefs on Facebook A growing number of Wahhabi Muslims in Saudi Arabia are now expressing their radical views on social media sites like Facebook, according to a new study. The Foundation for Defense of De... May 8, 2012 Bomb Plot Underscores Terrorist Threat From Yemen The Obama administration has reacted to al-Qaida's growing foothold in Yemen by sharply ramping up the number of airstrikes there. The U.S. conducted 10 drone, air, and cruise-missile strike... May 7, 2012 America’s Remote-Controlled War on Terror Scrolling through the headlines in the Long War Journal — a Web site dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global d... May 7, 2012 Bin Laden Worried About Legacy and Sought to Kill Obama Seeing a more three-dimensional portrait of Bin Laden would require the release of a more representative batch of the documents, said Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Long War Journal, a websi... May 7, 2012 Did Obama Improve Our Position in Afghanistan? I asked Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies his take on whether the Taliban was growing stronger. He answered via e-mail: “They have an ideology/theology they believe in.... May 7, 2012 Militant Tied to Ship Bombing Is Said to Be Killed Before the strike, the C.I.A. and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command were known to have carried out at least 29 air and missile strikes inside Yemen since December 2009, accord... May 7, 2012 CIA Drone Strike Kills Al Qaeda Leader According to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, the U.S. has carried out at least six airstrikes in Yemen in the month of April, for a total of 13 so far... May 7, 2012 The Drive Home The newly released bin Laden documents.... May 7, 2012 The Drive Home President Obama's plan for Afghanistan.... May 7, 2012 Biz Asia America Obama's speech in Afghanistan.... May 6, 2012 مؤسسة الدفاع عن الديمقراطيات تصدر دراسة متطورة عن وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية السعودية بيان صحفي للنشر الفوري «&#1605... May 6, 2012 FDD Releases Cutting Edge Study of Saudi Social Media PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (FDD, May 7, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what... May 4, 2012 Foreign Entanglements On Foreign Entanglements, Matt Duss (Center for American Progress, ThinkProgress) and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, daveedgr.com) discuss... May 3, 2012 Lou Dobbs Tonight FDD's Jonathan Schanzer and Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, on President Obama's visit to Afghanistan and other threats in the region.... May 3, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Taliban launch suicide assault in Kabul following Obama's departure. Listen to the program here.... May 2, 2012 The Scott Hennen Show President Obama politicizing the death of Osama Bin Laden and in general the state of Al Qaeda following Bin Laden's death.... May 2, 2012 The John Batchelor Show Obama makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan. Listen to the program here.... May 2, 2012 The Drive Home Obama's speech in Afghanistan.... May 2, 2012 Phone Logs Reveal Top Chinese Officials’ Knowledge of Organ Harvesting Ethan Gutmann was provided with a translated transcript of the calls and asked to evaluate the information they provide on the subject of organ harvesting from... May 2, 2012 Middle East Non-Leadership In the meantime, our claim to the moral high ground evaporates. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defens... May 1, 2012 Syrian Uprising Shifts Toward Suicide Bombings. Al Qaeda’s Handiwork? "The only Al Qaeda cells that operate in Syria are those manipulated by Assad's security apparatuses," said Ammar Abdulhamid, a US-based Syrian opposition activist in an online newsletter em... April 30, 2012 Year After bin Laden’s Death: Al-Qaeda ‘Far From Defeated’ "He created an organization and developed it," said Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA official and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "I don't think his deat... April 30, 2012 Washington Journal FDD's Bill Roggio discusses the expanded authority and drone use by the CIA to conduct “signature strikes” in Yemen, the opening up of U.S. airspace to drones, and other drone-rel... April 27, 2012 A Drive in the Country with Joe Weber Law Games.... April 27, 2012 News Update Syria and the Annan mission.... April 27, 2012 Delaware’s Afternoon News with Allan Loudel Iran and the death of Osama bin Laden anniversary.... April 27, 2012 Taliban Website Under Repeat Attack By Hackers Unknown hackers brought down the main Taliban website earlier this month, when El Emara's English-language page was replaced temporarily with images of Taliban atrocities and photographs of...

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