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September 13, 2011 Bush and Obama, Shoulder to Shoulder In Mr. Obama’s first year in office, the C.I.A. carried out 53 drone strikes in Pakistan. The next year, it more than doubled that figure, to 117, according to The Long War Journal, a Web s... September 12, 2011 What Have We Learned? In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the U.S. Treasury immediately went to work finding al-Qaeda’s funding. On September 23, Pres. George W. Bush issued an executive order designat... September 9, 2011 What I Remember CLIFFORD D. MAY As an ex-reporter it has long been my habit to keep a television on in my office — just the picture, no sound. I look up from time to time to see i... September 9, 2011 It’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending Nowhere has that profligacy been more evident than in the area of homeland security. “Things done in haste are not done particularly well,” says Jackson. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross wr... September 9, 2011 HuJI Has Close Tes With Anti-India Terror Groups According to the Long War Journal, HuJI was formed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan's Punjab province in the early 1980s to help battle the... September 8, 2011 The Defector’s Tale: Inside North Korea’s Secret Economy Following the collapse of the global socialist market in the early 1990s, an unexpected thing happened on North Korea’s road to financial oblivion: The same economy that cannot produce a us... September 7, 2011 Is al-Qaida Really Losing? Al-Qaida's capabilities to carry out large-scale attacks have been severely diminished, and not just because of Bin Laden's killing. The organization's moral standing in the Muslim... September 7, 2011 Kadafi Son Had a Hollywood Connection A Treasury De... September 7, 2011 Exclusive: China Curbs Iran Energy Work Many U.S. lawmakers believe Beijing has not done enough to curtail ties with Iran. New legislation could increase pressure on the Obama administration to punish Chinese energy firms, said Mark Du... September 7, 2011 Pakistan Army Arrests Al-Qaeda’s Global Operations Chief With U.S. Help The army described Al-Mauritani as “al-Qaeda commander for external operations” who planned strikes at economic targets in the U.S. Europe and Australia and had considered attacks on... September 6, 2011 The Retribution Will Not Be Televised Kashmiri and Rahman are just the latest in a long line of al-Qaida plotters who were supposed to hit us but got hit instead. You can find a... September 6, 2011 Pakistan Claims Significant al-Qaeda Arrests According to the Long War Journal, a U.S.-based Web site that covers the war on terror, a detained German-Afghan al-Qaeda figure falsely identified al... August 31, 2011 The Long War’s Long Tail What if someone came up with a terrific approach to surviving the war on terror and nobody listened? That is the dilemma at the heart of... August 29, 2011 Did the Palestinian Authority Think Through its U.N. Gambit? But there are good arguments why that should come to an end if the PA gets its upgraded status from the U.N. Jonathan Schanzer from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies lays out several grou... August 25, 2011 Computer Firm Faces Scrutiny Over Iran Downloads But former OFAC official Jonathan Schanzer said the law clearly places the onus on a firm to stop suspicious downloads once it is made aware of them. “If you were aware of the use... August 25, 2011 Israel’s Egypt Problem This is troubling news, if in fact the report is accurate. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies tells me that “while this story must be verified, it should be... August 23, 2011 Rebel Hold on Libya in Doubt as Fighting Rages On "One has to wonder how all this is going to end and whether there is a transitional government that could come in to place right now and command respect and govern efficiently," Dr. Jonatha... August 23, 2011 Will Obama’s Call for Assad to Step Down Pack a Punch? Yet there are other reasons to believe that the calls for Assad to step down and the tougher sanctions won't have much of an impact on the Assad regime. For starters, regional heavyweights l... August 23, 2011 What’s Next for Syria? So Obama, argues Tony Badran, a veteran Middle East watcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, decided he had to call openly for regime change, while Turkey has continued “to hol... August 23, 2011 U.S. Joins Calls for Syria’s Bashar Assad to Resign Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Obama's statement is a late-in-coming step but gives U.S. allies, the Syrian opposition and "fence-sitters"... August 23, 2011 Obama Finally Tells Assad to Go So why did Obama finally leap into action? Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tells me, “Very little has happened in recent days that wasn’t happening five... August 19, 2011 Conservatives Suggest Syria Next Steps President Barack Obama said yesterday that he wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down from office, and promised to implement more sanctions on the Syrian regime. But conservatives... August 18, 2011 Obama Tolerates Terror Operations Run Out of Syria’s Embassy Aside from the impact on our own citizens, American quietude is inexplicable from a diplomatic standpoint. Tony Badran, a Syria expert with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, e-mailed me:... August 16, 2011 New Iran Sanctions Could Bring Unintended Blowback "You want to move the market so that you have a smaller number of buyers" of Iranian oil, added Mark Dubowitz, director of the Iran Energy Project at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a... August 16, 2011 Diplomatic Chorus Grows for Sanctions on Syrian Oil Mark Dubowitz, FDD executive editor and director of its Iran Energy Project, said important sanctions bills have recently been introduced in both houses of the US Congress, but that the most cons... August 12, 2011 Taking Out a Tyrant These leaders, says Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “will essentially be militia heads, like those who arose during Lebanon’s civil wars.&... August 12, 2011 C.I.A. Is Disputed on Civilian Toll in Drone Strikes Others who question the C.I.A. claim include strong supporters of the drone program like Bill Roggio, editor of The Long War Journal, who closely tracks the strikes. “The Taliban d... August 12, 2011 Assad’s Noose Tightens Kuwait’s turnaround may be the most significant since, as Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains, Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf have reac... August 9, 2011 Syrian Defense Minister Killed? Syria expert Tony Badran of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies is cautious. He e-mails me, “Well, first we don’t yet know for sure if he’s actually dead. There are some n... August 8, 2011 Senators Demand Obama Step Up Iran Policy Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been intimately involved in drafting sanctions legislation and in urging a series of escalating measures. He e-mailed me this mornin... August 4, 2011 US Looks at Intensifying Sanctions Against Syria Over a quarter of the Syrian regime’s revenue comes from the sale of oil, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz assessed that... August 4, 2011 Iran Sanctions Failing Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been intimately involved in helping to craft sanctions efforts. But he, too, recognizes that sanctions alone are insufficient. He e-... August 2, 2011 Obama Finally ‘Appalled’ at Syria Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mailed me: “Syria is an increasingly ugly mess, and I don’t see anyone from the international community willing to ste... August 2, 2011 Obama ‘Horrified’ as Syrian Forces Kill at Least 80 in Hama “What the regime is facing here is a tribal insurrection in the east stretching from the north in Deir al- Zor, through the middle in Albu Kamal,” Tony Badran, a research fellow with... July 29, 2011 Whatever the Fate of al-Qaeda, the Islamist Terrorist Threat Remains There is a clear and present danger of premature triumphalism when American counter-terrorism officials proclaim al-Qaeda is “on the brink of collapse.” As Daveed Garstenstein-R... July 29, 2011 Oh, Yeah, There is an Iran-al-Qaeda Connection Iran expert and former CIA analyst Reuel Marc Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies was part of that debate. He e-mails me: Iranian-al-Qaeda ties... July 26, 2011 Even Dead, Osama Has a Winning Strategy (Hint: It’s Muhammad Ali’s) Osama bin Laden is dead. And the Obama administration that killed him is smelling the successful conclusion to the war on terrorism. “There will come a time when they simply can no longer r... July 26, 2011 Rally in London Calls For an End to The Persecution of Falun Gong At an event in the UK Parliament on July 12, investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann said that the persecution of Falun Gong is one of the “clearest cases of genocide in this century”.... July 22, 2011 US is Right to Give Aid to Somalia, Despite Risk of Helping Al Shabab The answer to the crisis would seem to be aid from the outside, but control of southern Somalia by al Shabab, an Islamic militia designated as a terrorist group by the US State Department, poses... July 21, 2011 Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa Jon Huntsman made an interesting comment the other day. He said the al Qaeda terrorism sweeping the world these last decades represents the collapse of old regimes much as collapse swept old Euro... July 19, 2011 Do We Have An Iran Policy? I spoke to Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies yesterday about the state of the administration’s Iran policy. He was blunt: I&rsquo... July 18, 2011 The Secret War in Somalia Writing in the Nation this week, Jeremy Scahill revealed that the CIA is running "a counterterrorism trai... July 15, 2011 Middle East Diplomacy Adrift Although the General Assembly action may not be able to grant the Palestinians membership in the U.N., Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies cautions that serious consequ... July 15, 2011 Austrian FM Faces Criticism for Visit of Iran Minister BERLIN - Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger's decision to meet with sanctioned Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Tuesday triggered criticism from the Au... July 15, 2011 Egypt Might Postpone Elections Until November “This will definitely come at the expense of the Brotherhood. This has been the wish of the liberal democrats in Egypt since the first day after the fall of Mubarak,” said Jonathan Sc... July 15, 2011 It’s a Fact: U.S.-Israel Relations at Low Ebb But let’s see where we are today. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mails me while we await the results of the Quartet meeting today: “The Quartet, afte... July 15, 2011 Syria’s Opposition Boycotts Government Talks “It’s the regime talking to itself, essentially,” said Tony Badran, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “They reached out to certain veteran opposition... July 13, 2011 The Panetta Doctrine: Declare Victory, Don’t Go Home A forthcoming book from Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism analyst with the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, contends al-Qaida’s primary strategy against the U.S. i... July 5, 2011 Analysis: Why is the Bundestag Courting Iran? BERLIN – German-Israeli relations were strained last week because a delegation of Israeli lawmakers headed by MK Shaul Mofaz discovered during their visit to Berlin that the German... June 28, 2011 Dutch MP Calls to Slash Funding of Anti-Israel NGOs BERLIN – A panel in the Dutch parliament earlier this month titled “To discuss the activity of NGOs in Israel and Palestine” has generated a heated debate among lawmakers and th...

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