The Latest - Terrorist Detainees
Iran Plot
Trumped up case? There are conspiracy theories floating around claiming that this bizarre plot — the Iranians recruit a Mexican drug cartel guy who just happened to be a DEA informant to rub out the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. more...
Awlaki’s Law
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released a martyrdom statement for Anwar al Awlaki, the al Qaeda cleric who was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month. more...
Moderation, Saudi-Style
A woman is sentenced to be whipped ten lashes for . . . drumroll . . . driving a car. That might have made for a fairly typical week in Saudi Arabia. more...
War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen killed by President Bush. more...
Guantanamo Recidivism Rate Climbs Higher
During a joint hearing of the Senate and House intelligence committees yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that the recidivism rate for former Guantanamo detainees has risen to an estimated 27 percent. more...
Of Mafiosi and Mullahs
This was supposed to be a reflection on 9/11 and what we’ve learned in the decade since — what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong. It would be foolish, though, to waste time retracing our steps when the lesson is simple and the threat that we will unlearn it is immediate and concrete. more...
Appeal Denied for HIG Facilitator Detained at Gitmo
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court affirmed a district court's decision to reject Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Khan's habeas petition was originally denied in September 2010. more...
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Killed in Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced today that a "combined Afghan and coalition security force" had killed "a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network during a security operation in Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province." The deceased "insurgent leader" has been identified as a a former Guantanamo detainee named Sabar Lal Melma. more...
How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right
‘Every conspiracy against Islam and scheming against Islam and the Muslims — its source is America.” “Jihad is Jihad. There is no such thing as commerce, industry, and science in jihad. This is calling things other than by its [sic] own name. more...
Losing Malmo
Do you remember the jihadist terror campaign that ravaged Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city? Do you recall the bombings, the suicide-hijackings, and the random assassinations that finally coerced the city to surrender to Islamization? more...
Et Tu, Yoo?
I’m disheartened to find my friend John Yoo lending his voice to the bogus claim that opposition to U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war makes one an “isolationist.” more...
History, Hardliners, and Humility
Liberty must always be exercised, and may only be maintained, “in a way of subjection to authority.” This sounds like it could have been written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the trailblazer of the modern Left, whose “social compact” decreed that any dissenter from “the general will” would be compelled to obey — meaning “nothing less than that he will be forced to be free.” more...
Al Qaeda Fighter’s Detention Upheld By DC Circuit Court
On July 22, a DC Circuit Court panel affirmed a district court's denial of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Government prosecutors introduced evidence showing that al Alwi, who is a Yemeni, traveled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in its fight against the Northern Alliance. more...
The Obama Administration Opens Formal Contacts With the Muslim Brotherhood
Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Besides explaining what the Muslim Brotherhood is and has always been, the major point of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the West Sabotage America was to warn that this day was coming. more...
The Daqduq Dilemma
An Iran-backed Hezbollah commander who killed American soldiers in cold blood has been in U.S. custody for four years. Most Americans would see this as a good thing. more...
Questioning ‘High’ Risk Gitmo Detainee Transfers
On July 1, President Obama announced that he was nominating Matthew Olsen for the position of National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) director. more...
Alleged Shabaab Operative to Stand Trial in New York
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the indictment of a Somali man who allegedly worked for Shabaab and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). more...
Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Tim Pawlenty winced audibly when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg made the obvious explicit. In the race for the GOP presidential nomination, the columnist posited, “I guess you represent the John McCain-Lindsey Graham foreign-policy wing.” more...
Don’t Break Out the Champagne Quite Yet on the New Moroccan Constitution
Roger Kimball has beaten me to the punch in reacting to Jen Rubin’s post in praise of King Mohammed VI’s new constitution for Morocco. The constitution appears to transfer some important powers from the monarch to a democratically elected legislature and chief executive. more...
Cast a Wider Net
Peter King, the New York Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, has been a good friend to those of us who work to protect American national security. more...
