Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Innocence of Muslims
The War on Free Speech
Last Friday, in his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama scolded Sony Pictures. Cancelling the theatrical release of “The Interview” following cyber-attacks from North Ko...
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What Happened to the ‘Sensitive Information’ Stolen in Benghazi?
The Justice Department has released a new, superseding indictment in the government’s case against Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the only suspect held by th...
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A Failure of Policy
Forty-one recently declassified State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, have reignited the controversy over the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack...
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Al Qaeda’s Expansion in Egypt Implications for U.S. Homeland Security
Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss al Qaeda’s presence in Egypt. The uprisings throughou...
Congressional Testimonies
CIA Warned of ‘Jihadist’ Threat to Cairo Embassy
The Obama administration’s editing of the Benghazi talking points not only obscured what really happened in Libya on September 11, 2012, it also confused the events of earlier that day in C...
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Petraeus’s Objection to the Benghazi Talking Points
After nearly two days of editing, then CIA director David Petraeus was sent the revised Benghazi talking points on September 15, 2012. He was less than impressed, to put it mildly. &ldqu...
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Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
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Ansar al Sharia Egypt Founder ‘Honored to be an Extension of al Qaeda’
In an interview with the Cairo-based publication Al Shuruq al Jadid in late October, Ahmed Ashush, the fo...
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Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement
Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio...
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The ‘Hybrid View’ of Benghazi
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The Great Salafi Gamble
In serving their patrons in Saudi Arabia, ultraconservative religious Salafis are stirring violent protests and flexing political muscle in North Africa and fledgling Arab democracies. But the in...
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Zawahiri Says Raids on Diplomatic Facilities Were ‘Defeats’ for US
In a new audio message addressed to Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Ayman al Zawahiri cites the raids on US diplomatic facilities in September as evidence of American weakness....
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Old School Egyptian Jihadists Linked to 9/11 Cairo Protest, Benghazi Suspect
Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, who is suspected of playing a significant role in the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, has longstanding ties to the...
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Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Incited Cairo Protest
Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, one of Egypt’s most notorious al Qaeda-linked terrorists, attended the U.S. embassy protest in Cairo on September 11. Musa was just one of several al Qaeda-affiliated...
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Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Helped Incite 9/11 Cairo Protest
Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged...
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Obama’s Foreign Policy Narrative Unravels
The failure to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi is a stain on the President's record Read more: http://www.nydail
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Al Qaeda Responsible for 4 Attacks on US Embassies in September
On and around September 11, 2012, al Qaeda attacked multiple American assets around the world. The attack that has received the most attention is the deadly attack on the American consulate in Be...
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Confronting Islamic Intimidation
In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie by Martin Scorsese, based on a novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, caused a storm of protests. Many Christian groups foun...
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Is the Press More Interested in Royal Breasts Than Defending Freedom?
It came as no surprise that members of the State Department's Camel Corps felt it necessary to condemn the movie The Innocence of Muslims even as a mob of film critics lay siege to a US emba...