Terrorist TV in Eurabia
While much has been made about the anti-American bias of Arabic-language television networks like al-Jazeera in recent years, policymakers have largely ignored the incitement and violent propagan...
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Milestone in Partnership to Counter Terrorism in the Sahel
By Dr. J. Peter Pham Last Saturday, military personnel from the Unites States and thirteen African and European countries wrapped up a joint military exercise in the Malian capi...
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Bin Laden Unplugged
Analyzing the latest video
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Osama Targets Europe
The latest message of Osama bin Laden is strangely trying to convince the Europeans — six years later — that they were wrong to follow the United States into Afghanistan. As al Qaeda&...
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Down the Mideast Peace Process Rabbit Hole (Yet Again)
One of the more curious aspects of President Obama's May 19 Middle East speech was his decision to devote so much attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The president's main the...
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Lawfare’s Soft Targets
The failure of the Bush administration to reverse its predecessors’ drastic shrinkage of our armed services is notorious. Yet, because our fighters are the greatest in human history, the most pern...
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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&...
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Top Democrats Spout Nonsense on Intelligence Reform
Fear is not caused by administration rhetoric; we are genuinely less safe.
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Peace Process, RIP
Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with Hamas. Or Fatah.
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Obama and Syria: Courting Disaster
As many others have lamented, the administration's fecklessness on Syria is rapidly turning into a national disgrace. It represents a moral and strategic failing of major proportions....
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A False Martyr
Late last year, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr agreed to a plea deal that will require him to serve a maximum of eight years, with just one of those years in Cuba. Khadr is then set to be returne...
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Backseat for U.S. on Libya Airstrikes?
Sunday morning, the United States’ most senior uniformed officer described the military campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi as “limited.” Appearing on NBC’s &ld...
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to Jordan this month for talks with King Abdullah II, just days after the monarch swore in a new governme...
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Jihad 101
Last month, Americans celebrated the holidays without a terrorist attack on American soil. That should be a source of relief but not complacency. – Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Ph...
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The Ashburn Jihadist Signals A Greater Danger
The FBI’s arrest of Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn, Va., for allegedly assisting al Qaeda in planning multiple bombings around the nation’s capital paints a sobering picture of the threat...
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9/11 Hijackers’ Mosque Tied to Recent Terror Plot Against Europe
The recently uncovered terror plot against European cities, which was to involve attacks similar to the November 2008 attack in Mumbai, is tied to the same Hamburg mosque that was attended by som...
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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...
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Moderate Muslims Are Not the Answer
The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait recently underscored a view about Islamic militancy versus the West that is widely held on both the left and right and should be challenged. To quote Mr. C...
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The System Failed
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released an unclassified summary of its investigation into the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day 2009. The committee’s bottom line...
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Why Morocco Must Stay
After a nineteen year UN presence in the Western Sahara, the Security Council is about to follow Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's recommendation and vote to extend the mandate of the United N...