Jordan foils Muslim Brotherhood terrorist plot
On April 15, the Jordanian General Intelligence Directorate (GID) announced that it “foiled plans aimed at targeting national security, sowing chaos, and sabotage within Jordan.” The GID...
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Analysis: The Lions’ Den and the Future of Militant Activity in the West Bank
In a joint Israeli security forces’ operation, a founder of the The Lions’ Den (TLD) was killed in the old city of Nablus on Oct. 25. The Lions’ Den commander, Wadee al-Houh was wanted for several...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s History with Ammonium Nitrate: The Danger to Europe
Ambassador Nathan Sales, U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State, announced last week that Hezbollah has transported and stored ammonium nitrate throughout Europe. While the disclosure...
Policy Briefs
Shock Wave Generator for Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
More than a Feasibility Study.
Monographs
Full Comment: Iran lied to get a deal that we can’t enforce anyway
Israel has just pulled off a spectacular covert mission to extract from a warehouse in southern Tehran 55,000 pages and 183 CDs of secret Iranian files detailing that country’s nuclear prog...
Op-eds
After Ankara, Cover-Ups and Conspiracies
Twin bombs rocked the Turkish capital Ankara on October 10, killing close to 100 civilians and injuring over...
Op-eds
Bahrain and Iran Expel Each Other’s Diplomats
Bahrain announced the withdrawal of its ambassador from Iran on Thursday and ordere...
Policy Briefs
Tunisia’s Heavy-Handed Counter-Terror Operations
Co-authored by Bridget Moreng Tunisian security forces Saturday night gunned down a suspect in the assassination of one of the country’s leading secularist politicians. It was the secon...
Policy Briefs
In Europe, a Growing Case for Banning Hezbollah
There's new evidence that the group's jihadist and political branches are intertwined.
Op-eds
What More Will It Take for the EU to Ban Hezbollah?
Last July, the then–foreign minister of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country held the European Union’s rotating presidency,...
Op-eds
US Adds 2 Senior Hezbollah Military Leaders to Terror List
Yesterday the US Treasury Department added both Hezbollah's military leader and the chief of its External Security Organization to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists....
Op-eds
Jamshid Muhtorov, the Islamic Jihad Union, and Joshua Foust
As regular Gunpowder & Lead readers will know, one of my preferred genres of writing is known informally as the “evisceration.” My...
Op-eds
Justice Was Not Done
Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i...
Op-eds
Ghailani Verdict A Miscarriage of Justice
A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than...
Op-eds
Embassy-Bombing Trial in Jeopardy
Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion. He even...
Op-eds
Judge Excludes Damning Testimony Against Al Qaeda Terrorist, Ahmed Ghailani
A judge's reason for excluding damning testimony against al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani makes no sense. The government’s case against Ahmed Ghailani, the terrorist who part...
Op-eds
The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah
The shootout occurred during an FBI raid designed to disrupt a variety of illegal activities being carried out by Abdullah and at least ten of his associates—activities that were uncovered...
Op-eds
One hundred insurgents detained in Baghdad during past week
BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi and Coalition forces in and around Baghdad captured more than 100 insurgents and defused 147 improved explosive devices during the past week as part of contin...
Op-eds
Iraqi security forces detain senior Sadrist during Maysan operation
The Iraqi security forces today formally kicked off the operations against the Mahdi Army in the southern province of Maysan. On the day the government's amnesty offer expired, the Ira...
Op-eds
Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper
Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...