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March 26, 2012 Withdrawal Symptoms US Marines were disarmed before being addressed by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, who had flown in to Afghanistan after the Bales incident. The Americans, led by their president, were still i... March 26, 2012 Syria Crisis – Thursday 22 March 2012 Writing for Now Lebanon, defence analyst Tony Badran claimed US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had "emphatically dismissed" the idea of buffer zones during a meeting last month with Turkey&#0... March 23, 2012 Iran Exposed: GPM Interviews the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Introduction The FDD is a non-partisan institution focusing on national security and foreign policy. FDD was foun... March 23, 2012 Drones at Issue as US Rebuilds Ties to Pakistan On the American side, the drone program is also evolving. The pace has relented, with 64 strikes recorded in 2011, down from 117 in 2010, according to the Long War Journal, a Web site that closel... March 23, 2012 Pakistani Lawmakers Want a Halt to US Drone Strikes Drone strikes stopped for six weeks following the Nov. 26 incident, but then resumed in mid-January. Since then, at least 10 suspected U.S. attacks have been carried out in Pakistan’s triba... March 23, 2012 Countries Debate Whether to Arm Syrian Opposition Tony Badran, a research fellow at the D.C.-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News that the U.S. was "adamantly against any hint of inc... March 21, 2012 US Exempts 11 States from Iran Sanctions; China, India Exposed Mark Dubowitz, an advocate for tougher sanctions on Iran and the head of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, said Japan's example was likely to be significant. "The key numbe... March 21, 2012 Major Nations Could Face Economic Sanctions Over Iran Oil Buys Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-sanctions group, said the administration’s approach would help reassure nervous oil markets by showing that Japan can conti... March 21, 2012 US Exempts Japan and 10 Other Countries From Sanctions Over Iran Oil “It will calm oil market anxiety by signaling that the administration is going to let some Iranian oil flow,” said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of D... March 20, 2012 White House: A ‘Few Months’ Until bin Laden Documents Released "Also, in line with [Johnsen's] question: is this early leaking to Ignatius politically motivated, meant to 'shape' a narrative?" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counter-terrorism exper... March 16, 2012 Sanctioned Iran Banks Being Cut Off From Global Network Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions specialist in Washington who advised U.S. lawmakers on the Swift legislation, said yesterday’s decision, if strictly implemented, could limit the ability of Iran&... March 16, 2012 Iran Banks Face Cut-Off From SWIFT Network “This was a political blow to Iran to be expelled from what is the financial equivalent of the UN,” said Mark Dubowitz, who has been advising the White House and Congress on this and... March 16, 2012 Global Network Expels as Many as 30 of Iran’s Banks in Move to Isolate Its Economy “This could deny Iran’s banks the ability to move billions of dollars, and ratchet up the economic pressure on leaders who have so far refused to reach a negotiated settlement on thei... March 16, 2012 Freiheit Könnte Teuer Werden Viele Beobachter bezweifeln, dass sich das Paar aus eigener Kraft befreien konnte. Die Taliban hätten die Geiseln gegen Bedingungen freigelassen, sagen von Nachrichtenagenturen zitierte Mita... March 15, 2012 U.S. May Sanction India Over Level of Iran-Oil Imports Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington and an adviser to the administration on sanctions, said India shouldn’t assume it will a... March 15, 2012 Chinese Bank Pulls Out of Pakistan-Iran Pipeline Project "U.S. banks increasingly are not willing to do business with foreign financial institutions doing business with Iran," said Mark Dubowitz, an energy specialist at the Foundation for Defense of De... March 15, 2012 Iran’s Gaza Missile Gambit As Jonathan Schanzer writes in Foreign Policy, the latest terror offensive that led to more than 200 missiles being fired at Israel was the brainchild of the Iranians. By starting the fight that... March 13, 2012 Homs Massacre: Hillary Clinton Can Only Scold Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mailed me, “Didn’t we intervene in Libya to prevent massacres — just like the one reported in Homs?” Yes,... March 12, 2012 Can Israel Really Aid Iran’s Opposition, as Meir Dagan Suggests? Michael Ledeen, a freedom scholar at Foundation for Defense of Democracies and one of the biggest supporters of regime change in Iran, said he was happy to see Dagan’s remarks about aiding... March 9, 2012 Syria Crisis Gets A Hearty Embrace At Pro-Israel AIPAC Conference As Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, put it in one of the AIPAC panel discussions, "The consensus has shifted."... March 9, 2012 US House Members Introduce New Legislation to Expand Iran Sanctions Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz recently wrote an... March 9, 2012 Conservatives Lead From the Front, but Will Obama Follow? In February, a distinguished list of conservative foreign policy ex... March 8, 2012 Global Insurers Targeted in Latest U.S. Bid to Expand Sanctions on Iran The proposed measure “broadens the scope of U.S. sanctions to target Asian, Russian and other insurance and reinsurance companies looking to backfill on deals abandoned by their U.S. and Eu... March 7, 2012 Why Israel Still Can’t Trust That Obama Has Its Back Writing in The New York Times on Friday, Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation f... March 6, 2012 Congress Prepares to Go After All Iranian Banks Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative policy organization in Washington, told The Cable that the new measures were necessary to... March 6, 2012 America and the Middle East: An Explosive Mix Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who helped write the latest sanctions bill, admits that there is a risk oil prices... March 5, 2012 Obama Has ‘Israel’s Back’ Preventing Iran Nuke Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Washington-based policy research group Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the only audience that counts for Obama’s message that he won&rsq... March 2, 2012 How to Choke Iran Without Killing the World Economy Instead, our government wants Iran to keep shipping oil to some of its major customers -- but for cheap. "Policymakers need to ensure that they are not creating an embargo of Iranian oil but, ins... March 1, 2012 Iran Further Complicates Relations between Obama, Netanyahu Though the Israelis agree that stepped-up sanctions are starting to take a toll on Iran, they aren't working fast enough, says Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for... March 1, 2012 Slaughter of Shiites on the Rise in Pakistan According to the Long War Journal, Jundallah has a history of targeting Shiites in the country. "The two most high-profile attacks against Shia took place in May 2004, when Jundallah killed 38 Sh... March 1, 2012 Secret Memo Suggests White House Ignored SOS from Iranian Opposition "It's clear that the administration was not being asked to stay away," said Michael Ledeen, a scholar with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who worked as a senior official for R... March 1, 2012 A Call to Arm But the fact remains that weapons are reaching opposition members, and some, including Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Jonathan Schanzer, believe that since Saudi Arabia is supplying... March 1, 2012 Syria Hit List Targets Thousands According to Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert and fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the document contains the names of people wanted by the government's milit... February 29, 2012 US Skips Chance to Hit Foreign Firms with New Iran Penalties Before High-Stakes Israel Meeting Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions expert advising the administration on Iran, said announcing more penalties Wednesday would have sent a message that the administration was serious about sanctions enfor... February 29, 2012 Global Fuel Shortage Would Grow Without Iran’s Supply, U.S. Says “The report confirms that the majority of the price increase in February is due to supply and demand factors, with Iran sanctions playing a much less significant role,” Mark Dubowitz,... February 29, 2012 Iran Suffers ‘Crippling Effect’ of Sanctions Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington research, said the individual sanctions amount to a “co... February 28, 2012 The Syrian Activist Hit List Looks Like It’s Real "This kind of info on this scale cannot be available to the general public, or faked." —Ammar Abdulhamid, a fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies... February 28, 2012 U.S. Teaming With New Yemen Government on Strategy to Combat Al Qaeda Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group’s formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum. In response, the C.I.A. and Special Operations forces have carried out nearly a dozen drone... February 27, 2012 Will Israel Act as the West’s Protector? I asked Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has worked strenuously to develop and advocate for sanctions, where he thought we now stood and whether Israel should doubt... February 24, 2012 Tunisian President Marzouki Against Military Aid to Syria “A peaceful solution is a fantasy – we are talking about a war. The opposition needs weapons and funding. We need to start talking about arming the opposition; until then the internat... February 24, 2012 Swift May Expel Iran’s Central Bank, Hindering Oil Payments Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, said he believes Swift is seeking “political cover to do something unprecedented” tha... February 23, 2012 Activists Ensure that the World Sees Syria’s Bloodbath The United States should send a covert team into Syria to assess the rebels and what they need and start working on training, doctrine and building a chain of command, says Tony Badran, a researc... February 23, 2012 America is Ready to Fix Our Sanctions Mess for Us It’s also getting a bit much for the fiercely pro-sanctions Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, D.C. “Targeting Chinese companies may present a significant pol... February 22, 2012 International Bank Clearinghouse Ready to Evict Iranian Finance Institutions “If SWIFT follows through on its public commitment to ban Iranian banks, it could sever the Iranian regime’s financial lifeline,” said Mark Dubowitz, an Iran sanctions expert ad... February 22, 2012 As Syria Crackdown Intensifies, Debate Rages Over U.S. Options “What [the Obama administration] wants to see in Syria is a peaceful political solution," said Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Anybody wh... February 21, 2012 How Did We Forget About Mutually Assured Destruction? In the National Review, Clifford D May writes: "During the Cold War, t... February 21, 2012 Enacting Sanctions on Iran Isn’t Enough Sheryl Saperia, the Canadian policy director of the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says Canada should be making a serious effort, now more than ever, to ensure that... February 21, 2012 Conservatives Call for Obama to Intervene in Syria Fifty-six leading conservative foreign-policy experts wrote an open letter Friday to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to directly aid the Syrian opposition and protect the lives of Syri... February 21, 2012 EU Pays Price for Oil Sanctions on Iran: John Kemp THE SANCTIONS GAME PLAN In an influential report on the "Oil Market Impact of Sanctions Against the Central Bank of Iran", which has circulated widely in Washing... February 21, 2012 Swift Says Ready to Implement Sanctions on Iran Institutions Iran would be the first country to be cut off by Swift, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington policy group, who has advised the...

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