As the aircraft landed on the carrier last year, I was personally amused by the idea that a U.S. president would perform such a feat. Regardless of the ensuing brouhaha, an American president in...
Has Osama bin Laden turned into Osama bin Trotsky? As I was watching bin Laden reading carefully from his prepared speech, I couldn't help but notice the dramatic drifting in the rhetoric fr...
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion...
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion of Islam. Omar al Baghdadi, in an audio statement said Lars Vilks, who "dared insult the Prophet", should be killed for a reward of $100,000 and, if "slaughtered like a lamb", the killer will receive another $50,000. In addition, he offered a Jihadi financial reward of $50,000 for the murder of Ulf Johansson, the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks' cartoon on August 19.
FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....
QUESTION: What has changed about "Future Jihad" since the book first appeared? Answer: Between November 2005 and November 2006, very important developments have been taking place on the...
By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the last 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed...
By: Dr. Walid Phares. In world history, it is rare to see a monarchy leading a revolution, but in Jordan, it may be happening now. Since the bloody strikes by terrorist Abu Mus&...
By: Dr. Walid Phares. A number of North American-based Muslim organizations, clerics and activists held a recent press conference in Washington to release a "fatwa against Terro...
By: Dr. Walid Phares. When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: In the hours aft...
By: Joseph Morrison Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. A few weeks ago the election season opened with a bang in Baquba, a city of 280,000 people located on the eastern edge of t...
By: Dr. Walid Phares. Many asked the question last week: How is Iraq faring one year after the capture of Saddam Hussein? A Byzantine debate ensued immediately. To the natural a...
By: Amb. Richard Carlson, Barbara Newman, and William Cowan. A factor complicating the coalition mission of bringing stability to Iraq is the covert role played by Syria in fina...
By: Dr. Walid Phares. Now that U.S. and Iraqi forces control “Jihad City,” (a.k.a Fallujah), what should we expect next in the war with Iraq's jihadist insurgen...
The Times is Pulling Out All the Stops
We've come to believe we had just two choices in Iraq: (1) stay out and hope to keep Saddam Hussein “in his box”; or (2) proceed exactly as President Bush did – remove the...
We often tend to reject the message simply because of who the messenger is — especially if the messenger can't seem to keep his story straight from one day to the next. But it would be...
On the third anniversary of 9/11, the question remains: are we winning the War on Terror? The answer has serious consequences not only for America's national security and international relat...
Terrorists bombed two hotels in Istanbul this week. Neither happened to be the hotel in which I was staying. Still, considering that last November al Qaeda-linked terrorists bombed the British co...