Our Libyan Adventure
Qaddafi’s dictatorship was preferable to an Islamist Libya.
Minnesota
Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?
Op-eds
Cast a Wider Net
The Islamic radicalization hearings need to hear from witnesses beyond cops and Muslims.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Texans Uneasy Over Chinese Oil Investment in Lone Star State
The mainstream news has been relatively quiet in the last month about a recent and significant Chinese investment in South Texas oil. But Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, has...
Op-eds
Critical Questions Regarding The Role of Foreign Fighters in Shabaab
Earlier today I served as a panelist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's annual conference on foreign fighters, discussing the phenomenon in Somalia. The panel discussion was based ar...
Op-eds
About Those Somali Terrorist Arrests in New Jersey
On Sunday, Dan noted this New York Times report by Will Rashbaum about two men arrested in New Jersey on terrorism...
Op-eds
Western Terrorism Recruits in Somalia
On Monday, the United States unsealed terrorism charges against eight defendants for supporting a Somali Islamist group called al-Shabaab. While few lay people in Canada or the United States have...
Op-eds
Arrest in Netherlands May Yield Insight Into Shabaab Recruiting Networks
Yesterday the Star Tribune (published in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reported on a seemingly significant arrest in the Netherlands related to the al Shabaab recruiting networks that have centered on th...
Op-eds
Somali President Sheikh Sharif’s Diplomatic Efforts in the U.S.
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed traveled to the U.S. in early October; among other things, h...
Op-eds
Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...
Op-eds
The Indictment of Abdow Munye Abdow and the Application of “False Statements” Charges
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. Madeleine Gruen On Oct. 13, 2009, a Minnesota grand jury indicted 26-year-old Abdow Munye Abdow on two counts of ma...
Op-eds
Eritrea: Spoiler Exacerbates Crisis in the Horn of Africa and Beyond
By Dr. J. Peter Pham One of the frustrations with which Africa's friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African l...
Op-eds
Putting Puntland’s Potential into Play
By Dr. J. Peter Pham In last week's column, I noted that the United States military and intelligence communitie...
Op-eds
Danger Zone to be Broadcast Internationally and in the US on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio
July 21, 2009 (Washington, D.C.) -- Danger Zone, FDD's popular and respected radio show about terrorism, democracy and international security issues, now in its 5th year, wi...
Press Releases
Fiddling While Somalia Burns
Difficult as it may be to conceive, the already-bad security situation in Somalia deteriorated further over the weekend. Yet as Islamist militants brought their offensive to the edge of Mogadishu...