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...
Tony Blair
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
The Caliph-Strophic Debate
It seems that the US is having a hard time winning the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims, but an equally serious problem can be observed in the intellectual circles of America where some have...
Op-eds
Word Choice: Are We at War With “Islamic Fascism”?
Mohamed Eljahmi Bush's use of the term “Islamic fascist” is both sincere and correct. However, the scope of his definition is of limited utility. The problems of the curre...
Op-eds
Connecticut? This is London Calling
We are reading only about 24 arrests today. If we were already in the heralded antiwar world of Ned Lamont and the war-against-the-war crowd, it could be much different. We could just as easily b...
Op-eds
The Honest Broker
When it is finally written — probably in Arabic — the history of the war on terror will convey one over-arching lesson: One side fought with conviction; the other developed a convicti...
Op-eds
Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon
Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004's United Nati...
Op-eds
Ties that Bind
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Bombay's residents are an eclectic and colorful bunch. Strolling through the city's neighborhoods, you're likely to find Hindus, Buddhi...
Op-eds
Militant Islamism’s Shadow Rises Over Sub-Saharan Africa
While the genocidal activities currently being perpetrated in the Darfur region of western Sudan at the instance of the country's Khartoum-based Arabist Islamist regime – and this comi...
Op-eds
Anti-Antis Up the Ante
During the Cold War, there were Communists, anti-Communists and anti-anti-Communists. It would be unfair to call the anti-antis pro-Communist. But it was the anti-Communists – the Cold Warr...
Op-eds
Blaming America First
We had gathered at the venerable University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin to debate the resolution: “This house believes that George W. Bush is a danger to world stabilit...