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October 16, 2014
Who Benefits From U.S. War on Islamic State? Maybe Al Qaida
... “Their preferred outcome is that it chews up the leadership (of the Islamic State), leaves the foot soldiers and they can get the foot so...
October 16, 2014
Pants on Fire: Duncan Hunter Makes Unconfirmed Claim Border Patrol Caught At Least 10 ISIS Fighters
... "It’s implausible given the way the criminal-justice system works to have 10 ISIS fighters arrested at the border and never charged,"...
October 16, 2014
Isis Still on the Front Foot in Iraq
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the centre for the study of terrorist radicalisation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, believes that it is probably the latter....
October 15, 2014
Iran Executions Surge Amid U.S. Nuclear Talks
... “The administration has really made a big mistake in not repeatedly highlighting abuses,” said Mark Dubowitz, an authority o...
October 14, 2014
Did Israel Sabotage Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Facilities at Parchin?
... Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, believes that the Hezbollah operation may have been triggered for different reasons. “The attac...
October 14, 2014
Iran’s Message to World: You Need Us to Fight Islamists
... “Once perceived as the mastermind behind terrorist attacks against the U.S. military in Iraq, Suleimani suddenly emerges as an ally in th...
October 14, 2014
Iran Gears Up to Open for Business
... “This is an effort to further undermine Western leverage vis-à-vis Iran at a critical time in the nuclear negotiations by encourag...
October 14, 2014
Al-Qaeda Terror Financier Worked for Qatari Government
... Dr David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank investigating Qatar’s links to terror funding, said: “The U...
October 14, 2014
Turkey, the Pretender
... When civil war broke out in 2011, Mr. Erdogan aided the Islamic State and al-Qaida because he expected Assad to fall, said Jonathan Schanzer, who analyzed terrorist finances for the...
October 14, 2014
Shady Ally? Qatar Accused of Sponsoring Terror
... "Qatar has pledged, over the last decade or so, over a half a billion dollars to Hamas governments, to Hamas infrastructure projects, and Hamas...
October 14, 2014
First Rule of the Anti-ISIS Club Is: You Do Not Talk About the Anti-ISIS Club
... Turkey’s behavior has been the subject of much debate. If they are an ally, they have an awfully funny way of showing it. As Jonathan Sch...
October 10, 2014
Column One: Bringing Happiness to Iran
Dr. Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been closely following the Iranian regime since he served in the Reagan administration in the...
October 10, 2014
Al-Qaeda Calls For Truce With Islamic State So Jihadists Can Unite Against America
At the Long War Journal, Tom Joscelyn and Oren Adaki report that a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda’s Arabian Peninsula franchise has called on rival j...
October 9, 2014
Islamic State Grooms Chechen Fighters Against Putin
... Al-Shishani is the tactical mastermind behind Islamic State’s swift military gains on the ground in Iraq’s Anbar province, west of...
October 9, 2014
Kurdish Ammo Runs Low in Kobani as Turkey Controls Exit
... “The U.S. has been hesitant in providing arms to the YPG, both because of its ties to the PKK, which is a designated terrorist organizati...
October 8, 2014
Fatal Flaw in Obama ISIS Strategy?
... U.S. allies in the region such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia "cannot have a situation in which Assad survives. That's impossible," sai...
October 8, 2014
Raid contro l’Isis poco efficaci. L’America prova ad accelerare
... Quando il presidente Barack Obama ordina l’inizio dei raid sull’Iraq l’8 agosto aerei, droni e missili del Pentagono «colpiscono in gran parte blindati, tank,...
October 7, 2014
Explosion at Iran Nuke Site Kills Two, Iran Says
... “The Parchin site is among the military sites of Tehran which produce solid fuel for ballistic missiles without any safety rules and prec...
October 7, 2014
Our World: Israel Bashers’ Phony Contrition
... As Benjamin Weinthal documented in Monday’s Post, Swedish Social Democrat politicians with no connection to foreign policy have lo...
October 7, 2014
Turkey’s President Calls for Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State
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October 7, 2014
What’s So New About the Islamic State’s Governance?
... Although the militant group’s speed may have been surprising, its ability to hold territory and act like a “state” is hardly unusual. Recently on the Monkey Cage, A...
October 6, 2014
Banker who financed 9/11 mastermind now funding terrorists in Syria and Iraq
... Dr David Weinberg, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who recently testified on Qatari terror finance before the US Congress, said he was preparing a report...
October 6, 2014
Qatar’s Moneymen Behind the Kidnappers
... Dr David Weinberg, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank preparing a report on Qatari funding of terrorism, said: “Q...
October 6, 2014
US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations
... To gain insight into the negotiations, I spoke to Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He confirmed that the US negotiating position ha...
October 2, 2014
ISIS and al-Qaida Are ‘One and the Same’ to Obama Despite Evidence of Schism
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said that while he expected low-level Isis fighters defect to al-Qaida as the US-led war advances,...
October 1, 2014
US Talk of Thawing Iran Relations Highlights Rift with Israel
... “Nuclear compromise appears to be the get-out-of-jail card for a pariah regime despite administration assurances that a nuclear deal woul...
September 30, 2014
Schoolgirl Jihadis: the Female Islamists Leaving Home to Join ISIS Fighters
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counter-terrorism expert at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, downplayed the issue in the US, saying the number of women and girl...
September 30, 2014
US-Sicherheitsberater warnt “Al-Qaida ist die größere strategische Gefahr”
13 Jahre nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September ist der Islamismus alles andere als besiegt. B.Z. sprach mit Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Terrorismus-Experte und Sicherheitsberater des US-Senats...
September 30, 2014
Algeria, Oklahoma Beheadings Suggest Islamic State Reach Extends Beyond Mideast
... That message of violence has been especially attractive to young foreign fighters, says Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies....
September 30, 2014
Islamic State: Chechen Militants Outnumber Other Foreign Fighters, Experts Say
... "The tactical prowess of the fighters from the Caucasus, who have battled Russian troops for three decades, is evident on the Syrian battlefiel...
September 30, 2014
The 9 Biggest Myths About ISIS Debunked
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a scholar and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argued that ISIS' "strategy is a mess,"...
September 30, 2014
The Case Against Qatar
... Heads have begun to in Washington. In a Sept. 9 hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, witnesses and congressmen suggested measures that would dramatically recast the relation...
September 29, 2014
ISIS Baghdad March: Is Islamic State Targeting The Iraqi Capital?
... But ISIS' goal of taking most of western and central Iraq hasn't changed since the airstrikes, said Bill Roggio, a senior fell...
September 29, 2014
Palestinian Leader Calls for Status Talks
... Mr. Abbas's latest overture to the U.N. represents a new push by the Palestinians to internationalize the peace process and ratchet up pre...
September 29, 2014
Iran’s Rouhani Calls for Renewed U.S. – Iranian Trust
... Mark Dubowitz, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has conferred with the Obama administration and testified before Congress on Iran sanctions, says...
September 29, 2014
Turkish activist that participated in Marmara flotilla killed in US strike
... “Recent reports of the Turkish military intercepting an alleged IHH weapons truck on the Syrian border was an indication that the flotill...
September 29, 2014
Iran Makes the Rules
... "The Iranian nuclear game is to compromise on the elements of the program they've already perfected in order to gain time on the elements...
September 26, 2014
Hong Kong And Beijing: The Future Of Economic Freedom
... Claudia Rosett however, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a Forbes contributor who spent many years in Hong Kong, argues...
September 25, 2014
Senators Urge Admin to Ban Russia From Global Financial System
... Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said that excluding Russian banks from SWIFT would send a...
September 25, 2014
Obama’s Arab Backers May Draw the U.S. Deep Into the Mideast Quagmire
... “The administration was sending an important message to the people of Syria and Iraq” when it bombed the Khorasan Group, an...
September 25, 2014
ISIS, Nusra and “Khorasan”: What’s the Difference?
... “In Syria, they have had two very different approaches,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for D...
September 25, 2014
ISIS’ Harsh Brand of Islam Is Rooted in Austere Saudi Creed
... For Al Qaeda, meanwhile, disputes with the Islamic State are an opportunity “to reposition themselves as the more rational jihadists,&rdq...
September 25, 2014
Will Iran Sell Out Al Qaeda for Nukes?
... Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior editor of The Long War Journal, said Iran’s government could hand over intelligence on...
September 25, 2014
Analysts Blast Proposed Deal on Iran Centrifuge “Plumbing”
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September 25, 2014
Why Bombing ISIS Helps al-Qaeda
... First, and most importantly, Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda branch, has friends among the allegedly moderate Syrian rebels. "In general, ISIS�...
September 25, 2014
What Is the Khorasan Group and Why Is It Being Targeted by the U.S.?
... But Mustafa Alani, senior advisor and program director in security and terrorism studies at the Gulf Research Center, told BuzzFeed that Al-Fadhli is "not a field commander" and "mor...
September 25, 2014
Islamic State Beheadings Beget Beheadings
... "It's too early to tell how popular this technique is going to become," said Thomas Jocelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for...
September 25, 2014
The Khorasan Group: 5 Things to Know
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said embedding top leaders in other militant groups was common to al Qaeda....
September 24, 2014
Al Qaeda Plotters in Syria ‘Went Dark,’ U.S. Spies Say
... “My suspicion is what we are hearing about Khorasan is only part of the group,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an expert on a...
September 24, 2014
Why Did Arab Bank Stand and Fight When Iran Ran?
... With the historic verdict against Arab Bank in Monday night, "bank compliance officers across the Middle East may already be scouring their acc...
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