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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...
April 19, 2012
CIA Seeks New Authority to Expand Yemen Drone Campaign
The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks drone operations, estimates that there have been 27 strikes in Yemen since 2009 and that 198 militants and 48 civilians have been killed. Awl...
April 19, 2012
Flake’s Past as Lobbyist at Odds With His Image
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank, noted that in the 1990s the Iranian regime “was not a friend of the U...
April 17, 2012
US Forces Make Gains After Trading Static Afghan Outposts for Mobility
“The belief was our presence there was radicalizing and driving the insurgents,” said Bill Roggio, who directs the Long War Journal for the...
April 16, 2012
Yemen Slides into Chaos Amid New Clashes
The Long War Journal, which monitors global counter-terrorism operations, observed, if missiles were fired, "they were most likely fired by U.S. Navy warships. "The Yemeni navy does not...
April 16, 2012
Obama, Annan, Assad and Mass Murder
Jonathan Schanzer and Claudia Rossett, writing in the New Republic say we should h...
April 13, 2012
Syrian Ceasefire Lasts Just Six Hours Before Civilian is Shot Dead and Roadside Bomb Kills Officer
Ammar Abdulhamid, an influential Syrian human rights activist, told Fox News that given Assad’s habit of breaking promises 'there was no reason for anyone to be surprised by the turn o...
April 12, 2012
Syrian Opposition Groups Says Annan Pan ‘Doomed,’ Offers Alternative
Detailing the opposition's alternative plan exclusively to Fox News, Ammar Abdulhamid, an influential Syrian human rights activist, said Annan’s initiative clearly had “failed.&r...
April 12, 2012
Iran’s Trail of Terror
Not since the fall of the Soviet Union has any nation so aggressively pursued alliances with bad actors in so many places worldwide, acknowledged Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who focu...
April 12, 2012
Iran Oil Output May Drop By 950,000 Barrels By July, IEA Says
By Ayesha Daya Iran’s oil production may decline by as much as 950,000 barrels a day by the middle of this year as European Union and U.S. embargoes take effect, the International...
April 12, 2012
Is Kofi Annan’s Peace Plan for Syria Naive?
Assad will never relent: "Annan set about his work admirably,"...
April 9, 2012
China Says Wanted Militants Use Nearby Countries to Stage Attacks
Mr. Turkistani has been leading Chinese fighters inside the tribal belt since May 2010, when an American drone killed his predecessor, Abdul Haq al-Turkistani. In May 2011, Al Qaeda announced tha...
April 9, 2012
Al-Qaida Fighters Mown Down in Airstrikes
The crash of a SOCOM U-28 aircraft in Djibouti confirmed reports that U.S. Special Operations units were deployed at Camp Lemonier, the Long War Journal, which monitors global counter-terrorism o...
April 6, 2012
Iran’s Spymaster Counters US Moves in the Mideast
Last October, a former Central Intelligence Agency spy, Reuel Marc Gerecht, testified before Congress that if the Qods Force's role in last year's alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassa...
April 6, 2012
US Not Backing Off as Iran Sanctions Bite
"If the administration did that it would provide more clarity and more comfort to companies engaged in trade with Iran that is permissible under U.S. law," said Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundat...
April 5, 2012
Will Drones Go Nuclear?
Bill Roggio, editor of The Long War Journal, agrees that at this stage, nuclear-powered drones are very much just an idea, and a potentially flawed one at that. “I don&rsq...
April 5, 2012
“Wir Stehen Kurz Vor der Bombe”
"Als Unterhändler hat Mousavian stets die offizielle Linie vertreten, dass das iranische Nuklearprogramm nur zivilen Zwecken diene. Dass er nun schreibt, der Iran habe schon 2002 die Fä...
April 4, 2012
In Yemen, Lines Blur as US Steps Up Airstrikes
U.S. officials would not say exactly how many strikes have been carried out in Yemen, and it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between Yemeni military attacks and American actions. Long W...
April 4, 2012
German Trial Shows al-Qaida Targeted Europe Economy
The six days of hearing have thus far revealed fresh evidence of the role of radical German Islamists in Iran. The popular website The Long War Journal has long documented the links between al-Qa...
April 3, 2012
German SPD Youth Group Calls for Attack on Iran if Sanctions Fail
Jerusalem Post journalist Benjamin Weinthal, who has thankfully returned to regular blogging,...
April 3, 2012
Obama’s Push to Fund UNESCO is No Joke
There is little chance that Congress will amend the law so as to allow the flow of U.S. taxpayer cash to resume. But those supporting such a move got a boost recently when Comedy Central’s...
April 3, 2012
Splits in ‘Friends of Syria’ Group May Help Embattled Leader Assad
But Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar appear to have stepped out in front of Ob...
April 3, 2012
US Lawmakers Target Iran Energy Sector for Expanded Sanctions
The proposed legislation expands on existing laws by making the Iranian energy sector a “no-go zone” for any foreign investment in energy, any imports of natural gas and the sale of e...
March 29, 2012
As Global March to J’lem Nears, Press War Rages
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a blog post for the website of The Weekly Standard...
March 29, 2012
‘Only a Credible US Threat will Deter Iran’
IRAN will only step back from developing nuclear weapons if it feels the threat of an American strike against it is credible – and so far that isn’t the case. That’s th...
March 29, 2012
Syria Is Obama’s Srebrenica
But as my able colleague Tony Badran reported in his blog in www.nowlebanon.com (confirming what I picked up during my recent visit to Turkey a few days ago), Secretary Clinton caught her Turkish...
March 29, 2012
Bush Institute Unveils Freedom Collection
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a contributo...
March 27, 2012
US and Pakistan Bargain Over CIA Drones
The diplomatic furor threatens to halt the CIA's drone program, which in the last eight years, has killed an estimated 2,223 Taliban, al Qaeda and other suspected militants with 289 strikes,...
March 26, 2012
Clairement, Il y a eu Défaillance
Pour Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, de la Foundation for Defense of Democracies, «l’une des clefs est de savoir s’il y a eu suffisamment d’échanges d’informations e...
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�...
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...
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