Obama’s Joke of a Counterterrorism Strategery
Mount Obama belched forth a mousy counterterrorism strategy, which you can read here in its inglorious en...
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Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?
A doubter's analysis.
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Osama Targets Europe
The latest message of Osama bin Laden is strangely trying to convince the Europeans — six years later — that they were wrong to follow the United States into Afghanistan. As al Qaeda&...
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Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House
Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....
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Tony Blair: To Defeat al Qaeda We Must Also Defeat Iran
“How do you deal with al Qaeda?” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked rhetorically during a public hearing in London earlier this month. Mr. Blair quickly answered his own q...
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Tony Blair on Iran and Al Qaeda
For the second time in less than a year, former British prime minister Tony Blair testified before the Iraq Inquiry today. The Inquiry is investigating the circumstances that led up to the...
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Journalists Keep The Hezbollah Myth Alive
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah’s speech last week, in which he rehashed an old conspiracy theory featuring former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, offered an opportunity...
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British Pay Jihadists to Tell Tall Tales of Torture
The UK government has decided to award seven former Guantanamo detainees millions of dollars in an out-of-court settlement, according to multiple press accounts. Why? The ex-Gitmo detainees claim...
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US Official Explains National Counterterrorism Center’s View of The Enemy
In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee yesterday, Michael Leiter provided an overview of how his National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) sees the terror...
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...
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British Surrender to Former Gitmo Detainees
Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government has agreed to investigate torture allegations made by former Guantanamo detainees. The inquiry is expected to last on...
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Book Review: What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B. Krueger (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 180 pp. Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein...
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Al Qaeda’s Threat to British Leaders
The Spectator reports that three 'British-born Muslims of Asian origin from Blackburn, Lancashire, and ... aged 21, 22 and 23' have been arrested in connection with a threat/truce...
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Hate To Break This To You: Moderate Isn’t Mainstream and Extremist Isn’t Radical
Hard to decide what is more maddening in stories like these — the fact that there are ALWAYS stories like these, or the media’s stubborn refusal to come to grips with the evidence of...
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Hot in Tehran
On the same day that Tony Blair debuted in Portugal as Middle East envoy for the Quartet, a group attempting to advance peace efforts in the Middle East, another kind of meeting convened in Syria...
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Islamic Terror Strikes the U.K. …Again
The investigation of the latest terror plot to target the United Kingdom is very fluid. Right now, the headlines are these: There have been at least three attempted car-bomb attacks, the perpetra...
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Nuclear Motives
There’s no denying it. Iran’s capture of 15 British hostages was a stroke of cunning — and a brilliant one at that. The mullahs were in a pickle. They had decided to do two thin...
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Royal Navy Incident: Iran’s Plan to Drag the U.S. and the U.K.
The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran's Jihadi chess playe...
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See Cynthia and Mohamad Play Tag Team
Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebano...
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An Unveiling
Muslim women veiling has become the subject of intense controversy in Britain in recent days, with Prime Minister Tony Blair calling the veil a “mark of separation.” National Revi...