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09/1/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
In his desire to fast-track the peace-process negotiations between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday and Thursday in Washin...
BarackObama.ir
08/31/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, NRO The Corner
Did you know that the Islamic Republic of Iran has devoted a website to President Obama? It's mostly gossip, but there's a bit of deep thinking, mullah-style. Voila.
Imam Feisal Meets With UAE Mosque and Money Crowd
08/31/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
As the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, continues his State Department-hosted "public diplomacy" visit to the United Arab Emirates, the glimpses of his activities over th...
Daisy Khan's 'Postponed' Travels — Now What?
08/30/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
Yet another news flash on the whereabouts of the self-described "bridge-building" couple behind the Ground Zero mosque:
Last week, Daisy Khan was poised to travel to the Middle East, planning a $12,...
Amnesty International Official Calls Israel a 'Scum State'
08/26/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
On Monday the head of Finland's branch of Amnesty International, Frank Johansson, termed Israela "scum state." Writing in his blog, which appears on the Web site of Iltalehti, one of Finland's la...
Germany Learns to Tolerate Radical Islamic Intolerance
08/25/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, The Weekly Standard Blog
Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, offered the following justification for not traveling with his gay partner to Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: "We want to encourage the idea of...
The Spiraling Consequences of Iran's Nuclear Drive
08/24/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
On Saturday, Iran's Russian enablers jump-started the fueling of the Islamic Republic's first nuclear power plant, Bushehr. While the U.S. State Department pooh-poohed Bushehr as not "a proliferation ...
Imam Rauf and the 'One State Solution' for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
08/23/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO The Corner
Understandably, Feisal Rauf's assertion that the U.S. has more innocent blood on its hands than does al-Qaeda is getting lots of attention (see, e.g., Keep America Safe). Something else caught my ...
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Surrenders in Yemen
08/23/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War Journal
Yemeni authorities announced on Saturday that a former Guantanamo detainee who rejoined al Qaeda has turned himself in. Ali Hussein al Taiss was a wanted "al Qaeda element," according to Saba News Ag...
Imam Feisal's Trip of 'Great Importance': We Have a Sighting in Bahrain
08/21/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
Thank you, New York Post. We have a report Saturday that "[a]ppearing in public for the first time in weeks," the man behind the Ground Zero mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, has surfaced - speaking a...
The Imam Has Landed… So When Does He Phone Home?
08/19/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
It's now almost a month since the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project answered any questions from the U.S. media (or any other media, as far as I'm aware), or even bestirred himself to fill in...
Imam Feisal Watch: Let's Try It Again, Where's the Man Behind the GZ Mosque?
08/17/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
Where exactly is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the $100 million Ground Zero mosque project? I keep asking because weeks after he stopped answering any questions about his "Cordoba House" pla...
An Endorsement for Ground Zero from Gaza
08/16/2010, Jonathan Schanzer, NRO The Corner
Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, reportedly weighed in over the weekend about the controversial mosque slated to be built two blocks from Ground Zero.
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Are Europe and Obama Finally Cracking Down on Turkey?
08/16/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his radical Islamic Justice and Development Party have remained remarkably immune from Western criticism, despite Erdogan's alliance with Mahmoud Ahma...
Only in America
08/15/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Faster, Please
Over the weekend, I participated in one of those events that makes you feel good to be an American. Along with a close friend, I gave away the bride at a small wedding ceremony on Long Island. It was ...
Seriously, Where Is Imam Feisal, and What's With His Web Site?
08/14/2010, Claudia Rosett, From The Rosett Report
If you look past the rhetoric, the realities - or should I say the morphing unrealities? - of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's Ground Zero mosque and Islamic center project grow ever more curious. Polls sh...
Gitmo Lawyers Argue to Exclude Video Evidence That Appeared on National TV
08/13/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
Omar Khadr's trial before a military commission at Guantanamo has reportedly been delayed once again. This time, Khadr's attorney has suffered some illness and the trial has been put on hold for thirt...
Willful Ignorance at the New York Times
08/12/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
The New York Times has published an article by Jeremy Peters, who whines about the military's media tours at Guantanamo Bay. (Note: I was on such a tour in December 2009.) This (news?) piece begins w...
From Germany, a Lesson for Mayor Bloomberg
08/10/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
While New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was energetically defending the Ground Zero mosque, German authorities banned on Monday the Masjid Taiba mosque of Hamburg, which served as the launching pad for...
Free Speech 1, Bloomberg 0 on the Ground Zero Mosque
08/10/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO The Corner
A group opposing the Ground Zero mosque attempted to run ads against the project on New York City buses and trains, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority refused to permit them because they di...
UN: Taliban Responsible for 76% of Deaths in Afghanistan
08/10/2010, Bill Roggio, The Weekly Standard Blog
The Taliban's responsibility for the vast majority of civilian deaths is perhaps the most underreported story from Afghanistan since the war began. A United Nations report, which was released today, ...
Taliban Flog, Execute Pregnant Woman in Afghanistan
08/9/2010, Bill Roggio, The Weekly Standard Blog
Time magazine's cover, featuring a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were chopped off by her Taliban husband for dishonoring him, has sparked plenty of outrage from folks who should be rising to ...
Former Gitmo Detainee Turned Taliban Leader Threatens Afghan Elders
08/4/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War Journal
A former Guantanamo detainee who is currently a senior Taliban leader has threatened to kill tribal elders cooperating with coalition forces and the Afghan government. According to Newsweek, Abdul Ra...
Mosques, Barracks and Bayonets
08/4/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO The Corner
NRO's excellent editorial this morning on the Ground Zero Mosque (GZM), coupled with Barbara Lerner's terrific essay yesterday about the rulers who have pulled Turkey back into the Islamist camp, go...
Vote On DNI Held Up By Gitmo Concerns
08/4/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
Senate Republicans have blocked a vote on President Obama's nominee to fill the Director of National Intelligence spot, James Clapper. Why? They want more transparency from the most transparent admini...
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Claudia Rosett, a former foreign correspondent and member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, is FDD's full-time journalist-in-residence. She won a national journalism award for exposing the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal...more
From NRO The Corner: The Two Dirty Little Secrets of the Mideast Peace Process by Benjamin Weinthal, 09/1/2010
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From The Rosett Report: Imam Feisal Meets With UAE Mosque and Money Crowd by Claudia Rosett, 08/31/2010
In his desire to fast-track the peace-process negotiations between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday and Thursday in Washington, President Obama has failed to acknowledge two dirty little secrets...more
From NRO The Corner: BarackObama.ir by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 08/31/2010
Did you know that the Islamic Republic of Iran has devoted a website to President Obama' It's mostly gossip, but there's a bit of deep thinking, mullah-style...more
From The Rosett Report: Imam Feisal Meets With UAE Mosque and Money Crowd by Claudia Rosett, 08/31/2010
As the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, continues his State Department-hosted "public diplomacy" visit to the United Arab Emirates, the glimpses of his activities over there get ever more interesting...more
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