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May 29, 2012 The Weekly Wrap — May 25, 2012 How to incentivize bad behavior for the greater good: Last year, Mark Dubowitz, a Washington-based advocate of regime change in Iran, was mulling a conundrum with a colleague -- how to cla... May 29, 2012 US Troops Winning War Against IEDs of Taliban The U.S. military is on a path toward significantly fewer battlefield deaths in Afghanistan this year because it has become b... May 29, 2012 Assad May Hold on After All The Post reports: “The United States and several other Western nations... May 29, 2012 41 Reported Dead in Hama; Annan: Houla Massacre ‘Appalling’ Security forces killed 41 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, activists said Monday, after the United Nations envoy to Syria slammed the killing of more than 100 people in a nearby city as an... May 25, 2012 After More Iranian Stalling, What’s Next? It’s hard to take the administration seriously on Iran when it continually reveals how little it understands the Iranian regime and how absence is any sense of urgency. The... May 25, 2012 US Senate Dramatically Scales Down Definition of Palestinian ‘Refugees’ The US Senate approved language Thursday night that could shrink the number of Palestinian refugees recognized by the United States from 5 million to about 30,000. An amendment to a bill... May 25, 2012 ‘Jihad Central’ in Syria With the 15-month old demonstrations in Syria spiraling into civil war, the mounting death toll has topped 10,000. Accompanying the chaos on the ground is a sharp increase in suicide bombings sin... May 25, 2012 State Department Lists Abdallah Azzam Brigades As Terror Organization The U.S. State Department said Thursday it designated the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, or AAB, as a foreign terrorist organization. AAB, based in both Lebanon and the Arabian Peninsula, is r... May 24, 2012 Senate Fight Today Over Palestinian ‘Refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just ar... May 23, 2012 Iranian Charade: The UN’s Scant Deal on Nuclear Research The Post reports: “Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency are near agreement on a plan that could lift the veil on some of the Islamic Republic’s past nuclear research, U.N. officials said... May 23, 2012 Major Powers Seek Iran Concessions at Baghdad Talks BAGHDAD, May 23 (Reuters) - World powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear programme at talks on Wednesday aimed at easing a decade-old standof... May 23, 2012 Iranian ‘Evidence’ of Israeli Spy Likely a Forgery WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A claim by Iranian television that an alleged spy had an Israeli passport appears to be based on a forgery. Majid Jamali Fashi, who was hanged May 15 by Ir... May 22, 2012 US Won’t Ease Oil Sanctions at Iran Nuclear Talks Negotiators headed to Baghdad for a second round of talks on Iran’s nuclea... May 21, 2012 The Commander in Chief is Tired of Commanding On Sunday, the New York Times ran a rather stunning piece on the pres... May 18, 2012 Iran Sanctions: Now or Never The next round of “P5+1” talks with Iran are... May 17, 2012 US Senate to Consider New Iran Sanctions WASHINGTON: US Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid will ask the chamber to approve a new package of oil and economic sanctions on Thursday aimed at further pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear... 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...

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