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September 18, 2014
Insight – After Mahmoud Abbas, Who Will Lead the Palestinians?
... "He doesn't have a protege, he hasn't facilitated a system in which people feel they can rise to the top," said Grant Rumley,...
September 18, 2014
Jihadist in Beheading Video May Have Taken Drugs
... On the possibility of drug use, there is evidence of some Islamic State fighters taking amphetamines to improve their battlefield performance, said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior...
September 18, 2014
Have Three Detainees Swapped for Bowe Bergdahl Now Joined ISIS?
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that while he doesn’t doubt that the ex-detainees are dangerous to United States int...
September 18, 2014
Like A Sibling Spat for Attention, Islamic State-al Qaeda ‘Competition’ Could Prompt U.S. Strikes
... Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Long War Journal, a project of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said the Islamic State...
September 18, 2014
Obama Plans to Tightly Control Strikes on Syria
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September 18, 2014
ISIS Is Already An Oil-Rich State, Former Cheney Adviser Says
As Western nations are now poised to take action against ISIS, the Islamic terrorists are already “closer to being an actual state than any American s...
September 17, 2014
Senators Seek to Choke Off IS Funds
... IS, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is an offshoot of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) which was led by the lat...
September 17, 2014
Qatar and Turkey As Supporters of Terrorism
... Last week Jonathan Schanzer, vice-president of research for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Hamas&rsq...
September 16, 2014
Turkey and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
... Turkey’s support of terror groups signals its continuing estrangement from the West. Jonathan Schanzer described this in Where the Shadiest Players Find a Home, which appeared...
September 16, 2014
Qatar’s terror funding makes it more foe than friend to U.S., critics say
... Lebanon’s Daily Star recently reported that the Qataris sent a delegation to meet face-to-face with both the Al Nusra Front and Islamic State to discuss Lebanese hostages held...
September 16, 2014
From No Strategy to Sorry Strategy
... Three cheers for the excellent post by FDD’s Ben Weinthal on the importance of factoring Iran’s promotion of terrorism into...
September 16, 2014
Breaking: Deal Approved For Gaza Reconstruction
... Reuters also reported that “[t]he Palestinian Authority said in a study recently that the reconstruction work would cost $7.8 billion.”...
September 15, 2014
Why Does Qatar Support Hamas?
... Backing Islamists in the long run was a losing bet, said Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He noted the ouster last...
September 15, 2014
Who Are These ‘Moderate’ Syrians Obama Wants to Pit Against ISIS?
... “There are certainly moderates remaining,” says Jonathan Schanzer, a Mideast expert with the Washington-based think tank the...
September 15, 2014
ISIS is Spreading, Experts Warn
... According to analysis by The Long War Journal, run by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, ISIS now has active supporters in at le...
September 15, 2014
We Called It: Obama Trying to Cozy Up to Iran
... “Imploring Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to cooperate and compromise,” also has terrible implications for our nuc...
September 12, 2014
ISIS Has Mastered High-End Video Production in its New Propaganda Wing
... “Al-Qaeda will issue a propaganda statement, what, once every month?” says Bill Roggio, the editor of The Long War Journal, a promi...
September 12, 2014
Yemen and Somalia Are Examples of U.S. Mission Creep, Not Success
... On Thursday, the United States killed five AQAP militants in its first dron...
September 12, 2014
No Time to Forget Iran’s Terrorism
... As my Foundation for Defense of Democracies colleague Bill Roggio wrote: The US air camp...
September 12, 2014
U.S. to Rely on Local Forces to Fight Islamic State
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September 12, 2014
Obama Team Unveils New Russia Sanctions
... Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said previous and current sanctions have indeed hurt the Russian economy: Growth is flat, the ruble is...
September 12, 2014
Obama May Have Just Dealt A Crushing Blow To Russia’s Oil Exploration
... Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on previous sanctions leveled against countries like Iran, told Business Insider it w...
September 11, 2014
Boko Haram’s Predatory State Within a Predatory State
... Establishing Sharia in all of Nigeria has always been seen as Boko Haram’s ultimate goal. On Aug. 24, the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, reinforced this notion by relea...
September 11, 2014
Obama, in Speech on ISIS, Promises Sustained Effort to Rout Militants
... #g-us-drone-strikes-Artboard_1{ position:relative; overflow:hidden;...
September 11, 2014
13 Years After Sept. 11, Jihadists Control More Territory
... As the U.S. stops to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the country may be safer from another catastrophic terrorist strike, but there is no question that the jihadis...
September 11, 2014
ISIS Doesn’t Have Much Of An Ability To Strike The Continental US — At Least For Now
... As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on violent non-state groups explained to Business Insider,...
September 11, 2014
How should Republicans respond to Obama’s speech on the Islamic State?
... The president says the Islamic State is not Islamic nor a state. Huh? Members of the group sure consider themselves Muslim, so who is the president to pass doctrinal judgment?...
September 10, 2014
U.S., Allies Step Up Efforts to Choke Off Islamic State’s Funding
... "Oil sales require companies and traders operating at oil field and refineries that can be monitored and leave paper trails," said Emanu...
September 10, 2014
Germany, Czech Republic Seek to Conduct “Business as Usual” with Iran
On Sunday, Benjamin Weinthal documented the expansion of business ties between Iran, Germany and the Czech Republic, which have been undermining the leverage that sanctions initially provided in...
September 10, 2014
House Panel Urged to Probe Turkish, Qatari Support of Hamas
... The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy’s Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer warned in testimony submitted to the hearing that after relations between Hamas and...
September 10, 2014
Dick Cheney: How Obama and the isolationists got it wrong
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reminds us that this is...
September 10, 2014
The Danger of Depending on Turkey
... This brings us to the second reason. Turkey is hardly in a position to complain about Kurdish “terrorism” when it provides financial and political support to other terror...
September 9, 2014
In Amerli, An Unusual Alliance Defeated Islamic Radicals. Don’t Count on That Lasting.
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September 9, 2014
Obama Lacks Eyes and Ears in Hot Spots Around the World
... The Middle East has the weakest U.S. ambassadorial presence. When the Egyptian military toppled the democratically-elected government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, ther...
September 9, 2014
How Kurds Came to Play Key Role in U.S. Plans to Combat Islamic State
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August 28, 2014
Turkey Hosting at Least 12 Hamas Operatives
... Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, warned that Turkey and Hamas are only growing closer....
August 28, 2014
In Major Tactical Victory, Israeli Air Strikes Eliminate Top Hamas Figures
... Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted on Twitter that the scenario ru...
August 28, 2014
Iran Shenanigans, Obama Capitulation Coming?
... Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tells Right Turn: “It is impossible to know from this story whether [Iran'...
August 27, 2014
What Now For Gaza?
... Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies is likewise skeptical that the end of the war means that peace is around the corner. He tells Right Turn via e-mail: &l...
August 26, 2014
ISIS Trail Of Terror
... Is ISIS Part of Al Qaeda? Although originally an al Qaeda affiliate, ISIS and al-Baghdadi had a public falling out last year with Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama b...
August 26, 2014
Did Qatar Pay Ransom For Release of US Journalist Peter Curtis?
... David Weinberg, a senior fellow specialising in Gulf affairs at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies who testified recently before the US Congress on Qatar's role in fundin...
August 26, 2014
The Rise Of ISIS Creates A Trap For Obama In Syria
... Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider that Assad and Iran have been adjusting policy based on Obama's clear reluctan...
August 26, 2014
Obama’s Iraq-Syria Dilemma: No Force Now on the Ground Can Beat ISIS
... The gap between rhetoric and action was on vivid display this weekend with pinprick U.S. strikes in northern Iraq. “Bombing raids could s...
August 26, 2014
Insurgency Deepens Iraqi Ethnic, Sectarian Divides
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August 25, 2014
What are Obama’s Options For Stomping Out ISIS in Iraq and Syria?
... Why there are drawbacks: “It’s not as simple as, ‘A-ha, bomb Syria now,’&rd...
August 22, 2014
The Re-Baathification of Iraq
... More recently, the ideological fissures in the alliance have become pronounced. In late July, JRTN put out a ...
August 22, 2014
U.S. options for retribution are limited in the wake of James Foley’s murder
... The focus must be on long-term emasculation of ISIS, said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross,a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "The fir...
August 21, 2014
A Leading Hamas Commander Just Said The Group Was Behind June’s West Bank Kidnappings
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August 19, 2014
This Map Explains Why The War In Gaza Is Unlikely To Re-Start Any Time Soon
... Israel organized its Gaza campaign around a network of cross-border maps that it believes it has entirely destroyed, as this new map from the W...
August 19, 2014
State Dept. Defends Arms Sales to Turkey Despite Hamas Ties
... Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, said there is no evidence that the Obama administration and its partners are expressing dismay...
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