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Recent arrests of Islamic State sympathizers highlight persistent threats to US
In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston, drove his rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing...
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Mideast trip shows Biden choosing pragmatism, rejecting ‘Woke’ policy
'Progressives' dislike Saudi Arabia, Israel because they stand firm against ill-advised US policy on Iran
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Gaza 2021: How Biden Handled His Far-Left Hamas Caucus Problem
In Gaza Conflict 2021, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer provides the first in-depth look at the May 2021 war initiated by Hamas against Israel,...
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American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution
He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.
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U.S. ambassador urges inquiry of German magazine’s anti-Americanism
Der Spiegel faced criticism for its bias against the Jewish state.
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We Got Lucky … This Time
At approximately 9:35 a.m. on Saturday, September 17, a garbage can exploded along the route of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps Charity 5K Race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Fortunately, no o...
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Giving Peace a Chance
Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...
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Is the Terrorist Threat Declining? The Use and Abuse of Statistics
Earlier this month, terrorism analyst Peter Bergen wrote at CNN that the declining number of...
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Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...
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Misunderstanding 9/11
Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.
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Iran Pastor Facing Death for Apostasy
Iran has scheduled a September court date for evangelical Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, whose incarceration for practicing Christianity reaches the 1,000-day mark on Sunday. In an email to T...
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Our Libyan Adventure
Qaddafi’s dictatorship was preferable to an Islamist Libya.
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Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?
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Cast a Wider Net
The Islamic radicalization hearings need to hear from witnesses beyond cops and Muslims.
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Time for U.S. to Reject U.N.’s Anti-Democratic Conference
If a group of despotic governments wants to organize a global mega-conference dedicated to fueling hatred of Jews, Israel and the United States, the United Nations might not be able to stop it. B...
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Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued …
My column this weekend was about the Obama administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood — an infatuation that flies under the lunatic banner of “Islamic Outreach.&rd...
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U.S. Senators Demand that Germany Close Iran EIH Bank
U.S. frustration with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, seems to have reached a breaking point this week. Germany's recalcitrant position about shutting d...
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Steel Deal Reveals Pawlenty’s Priorities on Security, Jobs
If former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty decides, as expected, to run for president in 2012, he likely will talk about a unique national security qualification from 2007 in which he nudged an Indian c...
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Review: Somalia, the New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa
Since the tattered remnants of what was the country's last central government fled the capital aboard a column of their last functioning tanks in January 1991, Somalia has been such a striki...