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March 21, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard |

A Faulty Intelligence Report Lives On

The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program lives on in the imagination of some government officials. At the end of a...

February 16, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Is Iran Behind the Death of its Own Scientists?

The way attacks were conducted against the car of an Israeli diplomat’s wife in Delhi has contributed to an interesting, if disconcerting theory among pundits. Iran’s wave of attacks...

January 30, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Strategic Retreat

The war on terror is far from over. Why are we coming home?

January 24, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The United Kingdom Bans Iran’s Media Outlet

The Guardian reported on Friday that Press TV, the English-language news outlet op...

January 13, 2012 |

A Case of Leftist ‘McCarthyism’?

One of the most notorious newspapers ever published in America was The Spotlight, founded in 1975 by white supremacist Willis Carto. For many years the country's premier hate rag, it peaked...

December 21, 2011 |

How Biden Gets it Wrong (Again) in Newsweek

When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008, the media lauded the decision as the perfect choice to beef up a ticket in need of foreign policy credentials. Announcing his...

August 11, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Why al-Qaeda is Winning

One of al-Qaeda's major goals has been satisfied: America's economy is far weaker now than it was 10 years ago. In 1999, not only was the U.S. economy strong, president Bill Clinton tho...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Shroud of Turin

Turin, Italy — The Turin book fair this year features Israeli literature, and Israeli president Shimon Peres is coming to the opening ceremony next weekend. Lots of others will be there, to...

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May

Not the News

The elite media's coverage of Iraq is a fiasco

May 16, 2011 |

Hamas Mourns Osama

 It requires a keen sense of irony to write the headline Newsweek featured last week: “The Wrath of Abbas: Fed up with stalled peace talks, the Palestinian leader defies Israel and ven...

April 11, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

Two Former Gitmo Detainees among Afghanistan’s Most Wanted

Newsweek’s Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau have published a list of the “12 of the most-hunted insurgent commanders on the front lines” in Afghanistan. The list is made up “...

January 19, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

The Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’?

 Tuesday morning, NBC News broadcast an interview with Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantanamo detainee. Madni’s story is an old one and there is no real “news” here. The New...

September 24, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Lady al Qaeda’ Sentenced to 86 Years in Prison

A New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, who has been dubbed "Lady al Qaeda" by the press, to 86 years in prison yesterday. Siddiqui's sentence follows her conviction on charges related to...

September 11, 2010 |

America May Have Overreacted to September 11 … but Americans Didn’t

Did America overreact to September 11? In a recent column in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria answered that with an emphatic and mournful “yes.” In Mr. Zakaria’s telling, we’ve sq...

August 12, 2010 | Clifford D. May

The Taboo of the Intellectuals

The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist. On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely...

August 4, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn Long War Journal

Former Gitmo Detainee Turned Taliban Leader Threatens Afghan Elders

 A former Guantanamo detainee who is currently a senior Taliban leader has threatened to kill tribal elders cooperating with Coalition forces and the Afghan government. According to Newsweek...

May 13, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Long and Foggy War

Political and media elites continue to view the global conflict through clouded eyes.

November 12, 2009 | World Defense Review

Return of the Somali Pirates

By Dr. Peter Pham After maintaining a relatively low profile since the end of the monsoon season two months ago, Somali pirates literally shot their way back into the headlines...

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

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...

November 3, 2009 | World Defense review

Climate Change and Security in Africa

By Dr. J. Peter Pham For much of Africa's post-independence history, "African unity" was more an aspiration than a reality. Consequently, even when, as I...