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April 1, 2023 | David May |

Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel

Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...

November 16, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The president’s speech

The one he should give (but don’t hold your breath)

November 30, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Bloody Trail

The writing has been on the wall for so long that it has already begun to fade. The bloody trail of Islamist terrorism is the single most insidious threat to our free societies’ globalised...

July 23, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Radical Islam and the Culture War

What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...

October 31, 2013 | Bill Roggio, Clifford D. May

Drone Drama

In 1996, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United State...

September 11, 2012 |

How the Tragedy of 9/11 Made Canada a Better, More Sensible Country

How much has Canada changed in the last eleven years? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smoldering, the then-leader of Canada’s left-wing NDP party, Alexa McDonough,...

June 14, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Why We Should Use JLENS

The West shouldn’t be afraid to use its technological advantages.

August 25, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Among the Believers

Almost a decade after 9/11/01, we should better understand the varieties of Islamist experience.

August 9, 2011 |

Death By a Thousand Cuts

See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda's recent attacks haven't succeeded doesn't mean the terrorists are failing.

June 17, 2011 |

The Zawahiri Era Begins

What's in store for al-Qaeda's new leader?

June 14, 2011 | National Interest Online

Religion and Realism After 9/11

In 1996, halfway through America’s "holiday from history", terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp published an article warning of a surge in religious fanaticism that would manifest itself in "sp...

June 13, 2011 | Weekly Standard

The Canadian Peril: Why They’re Checking Passports at the Border Now

In terms of Islamic extremists in Canada [as] they regard the proximity of Canada to the U.S., it's making Canada a kind of Islamic extremist aircraft carrier for the launching of major assa...

June 10, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Al Qaeda’s Resurgence

FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...

April 11, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

U.S. Won’t Interrogate Top Al Qaeda Terrorist

Late last month I asked, who will interrogate top al Qaeda terrorist Umar Patek? Patek, who was captured in Pakistan, is wanted for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, among other attacks and plo...

March 31, 2011 |

Who Will Interrogate Top Terrorist?

An American intelligence official based in South Asia recently told me, “It has been a long time since we captured a senior al Qaeda leader.” His point was transparent: Without detain...

September 16, 2010 |

Cry Islamophobia!

We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...

June 24, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Senior Jemaah Islamiyah commander captured in Indonesia

Click the photo to view a presentation on Jemaah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's affiliate in Southeast Asia. The presentation was created by Nick Grace and Bill Roggio in January 2008....

August 24, 2008 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Meanwhile, Over at the UN: Cashing In On Terrorism?

While we wait for details of an Obama-Biden ticket that will surely propose an even deeper love affair with the United Nations than that of the Condi Rice State Department, here’s one of th...

July 23, 2008 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Beyond Complacency: The anti-anti-terrorists push for unilateral disarmament

It’s often said that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a “wake-up call’ – that they forced both the political class and the public to seriously (if belatedly) address a p...