Al Qaeda Disarms Select Taliban Commanders09/8/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War JournalCentral Asia Online reports:
Al-Qaeda is blocking Taliban fighters who favour peace talks from negotiating with Kabul.
The terror movement has disarmed two Taliban commanders, Mullah Laal Muhammad a...
Why is Merkel Protecting Iran's Terror Bank? 09/8/2010,
Benjamin Weinthal, The Weekly StandardGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad and fa...
This Is Where We Begin to Say No09/8/2010,
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review OnlineA tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West.Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasant truth that in...
Moussa Sadr and the Islamic Revolution in Iran… and Lebanon09/8/2010,
Tony Badran, NOW LebanonLast Tuesday marked the anniversary of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa as-Sadr-often dubbed the father of the Shia resurgence in Lebanon-during a visit to Libya in 1978. While the view assigni...
Beyond the Water’s Edge: Learning from the Somali Piracy Challenge09/7/2010,
Dr. J. Peter Pham, Journal of International Peace OperationsWhile military force combined with greater vigilance on the part of the commercial shipping and fishing industries can reduce the threat posed by pirates, achieving maritime security requires a landwa...
Yemen Arrests Ex-Gitmo Detainee who Fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir09/7/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War JournalA former Guantanamo detainee who joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) after graduating from a Saudi rehabilitation program has been arrested in Yemen. Fox News reported Tuesday that Yemeni...
Iran Pays Bounties to Taliban for Dead Americans09/6/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly StandardThe Sunday Times (UK) reported yesterday, based on Taliban sources, that the Iranians are paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers. (The Times's account is behind a pay wall, but su...
Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War09/3/2010,
Dr. J. Peter Pham, RUSI JournalMorgan brings to the writing of his history an unusual combination of French roots and both military and journalistic experience [which imbue] his work with a granularity absent from the usual analyse...
Internationalism Run Amok09/3/2010,
Claudia Rosett, ForbesAmerica was founded as a country where no citizen would ever have to submit to the will of a king, or any other brand of despot. But hey, that's yesterday's news. President Barack Obama's administrati...
Putting Paid to Gaza09/3/2010,
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, HaaretzForeign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently suggested that Israel end its role as an occupying power in Gaza. Is he onto something?
Supporters of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in 2005, argued t...
Interview: Accomplice to Evil09/3/2010,
Dr. Michael Ledeen, interviewed by FrontPage MagazineFrontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and a Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is the author of The Iranian Time Bomb, M...
Why Are Germans Upset Over Critic of Islam?09/2/2010,
Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem PostBERLIN – “Everyone’s against Sarrazin!” was the headline that Bild,Germany’s largest daily newspaper, chose for its Tuesday issue. Deutsche Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin has sharply...
The Worst of Time09/2/2010,
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News ServiceHenry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as "the first ...
Libya Frees Ex-Gitmo Detainee09/2/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War JournalThe Libyan government has released dozens of Islamist extremists and terrorists in recent days as part of an effort to reconcile with its opposition. The initiative is being led by Saif al Islam Qadda...
The Iran-Houston Connection09/1/2010,
Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer, ForbesEnergy companies continue to leave the Iranian market in response to a series of new sanctions laws passed by the United States, the European Union, Canada and Australia, all of which are eager to sto...
Transnational Absurdity09/1/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly StandardWhen Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban, he probably never imagined that he would be captured and his detention would be turned into a legal fi...
The West Is Downplaying Iran's Reactor at Its Peril09/1/2010,
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, The Jewish ChronicleLast week's feeding of fuel into Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor came as a surprise. For years, Russia dragged its feet and found recurrent excuses to delay the completion of the Bushehr project. The c...
Mideast Peace Talks' Hidden Threat09/1/2010,
Jonathan Schanzer, PoliticoSome 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is "pro-Palestinian," according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked higher. After all, ...
US Treasury Sanctions Pakistani Taliban, Top Two Leaders09/1/2010,
Bill Roggio, The Long War JournalYears after its appearance as a major terrorist organization, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan was today named as a terrorist entity by the US Treasury, and the group's top two leaders were lis...
Al Qaeda Leader in Yemen Tries to Woo Saudi Soldiers08/31/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War JournalIn a nearly 15-minute audio tape released in early August, Said al Shihri, one of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) top leaders, tried to convince Saudi soldiers and security officers to se...
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