Analysis & Commentary
Shia Hizballah’s and Sunni Salafists’ Deal or No Deal
Dr. Walid Phares is asked to comment on the memorandum of understanding between Hezbollah and Lebanese Sunni Salafists.
The Lost Boys
“It’s a problem,” says Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a US-based expert on al-Shabaab, “that is being thought about in very advanced terms in American counter-terrorism circles. They are worried about it. What we don’t know is what Al Qaeda’s strategic goals are in Africa.”
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Tehran’s Hostages
Given the Iranian regime’s past success with hostage-taking—whether with U.S. diplomats in Tehran in 1979 or Westerners in Beirut in the 1980s—they may also figure that Prime Minister Tony Blair is willing to pay a steep price to secure release of the sailors before he leaves office...
Iraq Translators Face Closed Door U.S. Immigration Policy
A delayed refugee crisis in Iraq has left thousands of translators, aides to Americans in Iraq and others fleeing religious persecution and violent reprisal seeking escape to an unwelcoming United States.
Radical Islamic Groups Exploit Internet for Jihad
The global jihadist movement wants the world to adopt Islam’s 7th century values, and it’s using 21st century technology to do it. In fact, Radical Islamic Web sites are years ahead of any Western counter-efforts, say Web watchers and terror trackers.
Experts: Iraq Key Battleground in Terror War
WASHINGTON—“Iraq and Afghanistan still remain the central fronts in the war on terror. A premature withdrawal from either would only embolden Islamic radicals and terrorist extremists in their efforts, leading to more death and destruction for Americans and others.”
Man Provided Hezbollah TV
Javed Iqbal, who runs HDTV Corp., a Brooklyn-based satellite provider, was charged with conspiring to support a terrorist group. In March, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hezbollah’s al-Manar a “global terrorist network,” effectively freezing the station’s assets in the United...
Lessons for Iran, Mideast in North Korea’s nukes
Claudia Rosett has this to say: “The lesson to date is that America, faced with nuclear blackmail, will bow down, dignify and fortify tyrants, fork over look, and celebrate the process as a victory for diplomacy.”
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The Internet Search for the Rove “Indictment”
It has now been more than a week since the website Truthout.org reported that top White House aide Karl Rove has been indicted in the CIA leak investigation. According to the scenario described by Truthout writer Jason Leopold, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent the better part of a day...
America Says It’s Prepared To Listen to Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
America is open to widening its contacts among opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad following the setting up of an alliance between a former Syrian vice president and the country’s militant Muslim Brotherhood.
Debate Addresses Motives of Suicide Terrorism
Students, faculty and community members packed into Filene Auditorium Friday evening for a vocal discussion on Islamic fundamentalism, suicide terrorism and the future of U.S. foreign policy. Former Dartmouth professor Robert Pape and Israeli counter-terrorism agent Ram Sidi participated...
Engaging Terrorists
Juniors Amanda Downing and Arielle Kuiper thought that their trip to a maximum security prison in Israel to interview terrorists would be like those in the movies. As the two William and Mary students passed through layer after layer of security with about 30 other students making the...
Better Ties with Muslims Sought
The FBI has promised to assign agents to mosques as liaisons to build better relations between law enforcement and Muslims.
Proxy War
“The United States is watching Hezbollah winning against the Cedars Revolution without major counter strategies,” complained Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a Lebanese-American.
“The American public will begin to ask questions about the meaning...
The Plame Game
Looks like the hysterical Democratic rush to judgment regarding Karl Rove is running off the tracks.
