Reading Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Mind
What is the successor to Osama bin Laden thinking?
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Last Superpower Standing?
Being a superpower is not like being a duke or an earl. It's not a hereditary title, not a status you retain however modest your circumstances become. Being a superpower is more like being t...
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The CIA and Al-Qaeda
In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...
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Are We Safer?
Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.
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Treachery
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar statements is a disgrace.
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Obama’s America Is September 10th America
This is June 2008. That means it marks the ten-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s indictment. He was first charged by my old office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Sou...
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NIE Report Fails to Explain Retreat on Nuclear Weapons
There's lots to wonder about in the Key Judgments of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, which informs us with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear bomb program four years a...
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Special Preview: When Jihad Came to America
On May 2 and 3, 1990, the U.S. embassy in Cairo alerted its counterpart in Khartoum that Egypt’s “leading radical,” Omar Abdel Rahman, was on his way to Sudan. Warning that his...
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The Times Swings Its Hatchet at Bush…and Hits Mukasey
Even by low Gray Lady standards, a journalistic abomination.
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A Hundred Years of War?
A growing number of Democrats have falsely accused Sen. John McCain of “promising” 100 years of war in Iraq. In fact, McCain’s point was that the presence of American forces pro...
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Change that Sees No Evil
Obama tries to explain Ayers.
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Thinking the Unthinkable
The next time Islamist terrorists attack us it could be with a nuclear weapon. By saying that, am I “fear mongering”? If so, I’m in good company. Graham Allison is a Harvard pro...
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Listen Up: Should the Telecoms be Punished for Helping Protect You from Terrorists?
Are you outraged? You’re supposed to be. According to Peter Eliasberg, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11/01 attacks, “ever...
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Se Debería Castigar a las Empresas de Telecomunicaciones por Ayudar a que Nos Protejamos de los Terr
¿Está Ud. indignado? Debería estarlo. Según Peter Eliasberg, abogado de la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (ACLU) después de los atentados del 11 d...
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A Bug’s Life
Six years after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11/01, 15 years after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, 25 years after the bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut,...
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15 Years @ War
The WTC bombing was radical Islam's declaration of war against the United States.
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Achieving the Impossible
President Barack Obama's response to the spread of unrest across the Middle East has been an unpredictable combination of neutrality (Tunisia), reluctant involvement (Egypt), and force...
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Whither Jihad?
Will Osama bin Laden’s demise advance the evanescence of jihadism in the Islamic world? Probably, but not by much. Islamic extremism was intellectually in full bloom long before bin L...
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The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore
Like all fundamentalists, Osama bin Laden was attuned to the past. When his speeches weren't about the economic decline of America, they recalled Islam's classical age, especially the r...
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Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet
The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...