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May 17, 2012
FBI Chief Says Leak on Qaeda Plot Is Being Investigated
WASHINGTON — The...
May 17, 2012
US Escalates Clandestine War in Yemen
WASHINGTON -- In an escalation of America’s clandestine war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S. troops is providing targeting data for Yemeni airstrikes as government forces battle to disl...
May 17, 2012
Syria Scours More Trade Routes in Search for Grain
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Syria is casting a wide net in a frantic bid to secure grain for its population as a sanctions-induced trade fina...
May 17, 2012
Iran Sanctions Bill Coming to Senate Floor Again
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is bringing the Johnson-Shelby Iran s...
May 16, 2012
Bush: The Authoritarian Regimes of the Arab World Will Fall
President George W. Bush predicted Tuesday that the remaining authoritarian regimes in North Africa and the Middle East are unsustainable and will give way to movements driven by the quest for fr...
May 15, 2012
Ahead of Iran Talks, Slew of Reports Should Be Taken with Grain of Salt
The slew of new reports and "exclusive" details on Iran's nuclear weapons program do not enhance in any significant what we already know on the subject, nor do they present the definitive "s...
May 15, 2012
It’s Time to Admit: Iran Sanctions Have Failed
The As...
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 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 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 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 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...
April 27, 2012
US to Step Up Drone Strikes Inside Yemen
The C.I.A. and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command are known to have carried out at least 29 air and missile strikes inside Yemen since December 2009, according to the Long War...
April 27, 2012
Reagan’s “October Surprise” is Still Getting Debunked
Twenty years later in 2012, Emanuele Ottolenghi has found new problems with this source. It turns out Ben-Menashe invented some of the people he spoke to Sick about:...
April 27, 2012
Oil Report Seen Supporting Iran Sanctions
"The last thing the administration would do ahead of Baghdad talks would be to show any sign that they are not full steam ahead on oil market sanctions," said Mark Dubowitz, the head of the Found...
April 27, 2012
Syrian Opposition Activists Ask Kosovo for Advice
Ammar Abdulhamid, an exiled anti-Assad activist, said that seeing a new country "emerging out of the nightmare and emerging as a state" could be inspiring for Syrian dissidents. Assad�...
April 26, 2012
UN Mission in Syria Faces Criticism
For some anti-Assad activists, those aren’t enough to successfully overturn the regime. Ammar Abdulhamid, a Damascus-born activist serving as a fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Demo...
April 25, 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...
April 25, 2012
Backlash Builds Over ‘60 Minutes’ Hatchet Job on Israel
And Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies had this to say: “It’s truly mystifying: Is this the result of ignorance or bias or some cocktail of the two? Recently, the...
April 24, 2012
US Sets New Sanctions Against Technology for Syria and Iran
The White House said that the restrictions were primarily aimed at entities based inside the two countries, but that American technology companies had been consulted and understood that complianc...
April 23, 2012
Al-Qaeda is Down, but Far From Out
The numbers tell the story: America’s counter-terrorism campaign is gradually shifting from Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and other parts of Africa. In just...
April 23, 2012
CIA Wants to Use ‘Signature Strikes’ Against Terror Suspects in Yemen
Citing the Long War Journal, a website that tracks drone operations, the Post said there have been an estimated 27 strikes in Yemen since 2009 -- killing 198 militants and 48 civilians....
April 23, 2012
Israel Can’t Afford the Happy Talk
Reuel Marc Gerecht posits that real success is almost certainly unattainable and would...
April 23, 2012
Militants and Politics Bedevil Yemen’s New Leaders
The United States, which recently announced it was increasing its antiterrorism cooperation with Yemen, also appears to be stepping up its use of...
April 19, 2012
Syria’s Revolution: An Interview with Ammar Abdulhamid
(Ammar Abdulhamid has been the most articulate and credible voice of the Syrian opposition and the movement to overthrow the current regime. Barry Rubin interviewed him to get a clearer view...
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...
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