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12/29/2010, Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal
A team of al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers stormed a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today and killed a senior police officer who has targeted al Qaeda's top leaders.Lieutenant...
Islamist and Leftists Cooperating? Surely You Jest …
12/29/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review's The Corner
Well, no, I don't. And for the gazillionth case in point, see today's fawning NYT profile of Al Akhbar- the proudly leftist Lebanese daily (and, like the Times, Wikileaks partner) that champions...
Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding
12/28/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Faster, Please
Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem. He is marrying Natal...
Corker's Case for START: As Convincing as 'A Letter from My Mother'
12/21/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, Faster, Please
Patting himself and his fellow Senate Republicans on the back for selling out on President Obama’s New START treaty, Bob Corker absurdly claims that all is well because — despite treaty terms th...
A New Anti-Semitic, Anti-Gitmo Myth is Born
12/20/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera broadcast a lengthy interview with Walid Muhammad Hajj, who was detained at Guantanamo for several years until he was transferred to his native Sudan in 2008. (MEMRI has...
Sanctions Are Hurting Iran's Regime, but Not Enough
12/20/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
Berlin - The Islamic Republic of Iran's economy is in disarray. On Sunday, gas prices surged 400 percent - an increase termed "a great victory for Iran" by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clumsily try...
The Iranian Death Spiral Speeds Up
12/19/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Faster, Please
The picturesque city of Chabahar is right on the Gulf of Oman , and was supposed to become Iran's biggest and most important naval base. As with so many grand projects of the fanatical buffoons wh...
AQAP Operative Fahd al Quso Denies Reports of His Death
12/16/2010, Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal
A top leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen who was rumored to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan has spoken to the media to quash the reports of his death.
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed...
Iran: The War of the Persian Succession (cont.)
12/13/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Faster, Please
So Foreign Minister Mottaki has been fired while on an official trip to Senegal. Meanwhile, executions go on apace within the prisons of the country, and several political prisoners prefer to star...
Gaza Flotilla Shakedown
12/13/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
In the "Believe It Or Not" mega-farce of Middle East politics, the latest candidate for world-turned-upside-down is the story of Israel offering $100,000 apiece in compensation to the families of ni...
Suspect in Baltimore Bombing Plot Is an American Convert to Islam
12/8/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO The Corner
ABC-7 News in Baltimore is reporting on Twitter that the suspect in custody for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center is Antonio Martinez, an American convert to Islam who is now known a...
Tomorrow Is National Student Day in Iran
12/6/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, NRO The Corner
We are coming up on National Student Day in Iran on the 7th (Tuesday, tomorrow), our Pearl Harbor Day. The Iranian democratic opposition is the most artistically gifted of any recent revolutionary mo...
Yemeni al Qaeda Commander Reported Killed in Mogadishu Clash
12/6/2010, Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal
An al Qaeda commander from Yemen who led a group of foreign fighters battling the Somali government and African Union forces was reported killed in Mogadishu.
The commander, Rajah Abu Khalid, was rep...
WikiLeaks: Fishing With Dynamite
12/5/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
Pity the U.S. diplomats in the field, whose jobs presumably require that they now compose classified cables reporting back to Washington on local responses to the blunter aspects of their own wikileak...
German Chancellor’s Top Mideast Advisor Indicates Support for Goldstone Report
12/3/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, The Weekly Standard Blog
The German equivalent of Charles W. Freeman Jr. has surfaced in a WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. embassy in Berlin. His name is Christoph Heusgen and he is a senior adviser on the Mideast to German ...
WikiLeaks: Top Merkel Adviser Told U.S. to Crack Down on Israel
12/2/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, NRO The Corner
Berlin - A senior adviser to German chancellor Angela Merkel urged the U.S. to water down its opposition to the U.N.'s anti-Israel "Goldstone Report" in order to force Israel to freeze settlement cons...
I'll See Your Cyberwar and Raise You One Subpoena
12/2/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online
Referring to the feckless cease-and-desist letter the State Department's Harold Koh sent to Wikileaker Julian Assange, Jonah aptly says in his column today, "When lawyers run your foreign policy, thi...
Does the First Amendment Mean What It Says Regarding Speech?
12/1/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO The Corner
As I noted earlier, yesterday's column was about WikiLeaks and dealt with whether there is a public "right to know." In part, that poses the question whether the First Amendment permits the governmen...
WikiLeaks Doc: Catch and Release in Afghanistan
11/30/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
A cable released by WikiLeaks that is available on the New York Times's web site underscores the difficulties that both the Bush and Obama administrations have had in transferring war on terror deta...
WikiLeaks Docs on Obama's Gitmo Diplomacy
11/29/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard
The press has highlighted several documents from the latest WikiLeaks cache that deal with the Obama administration's attempts to close Guantanamo. The administration can't close Gitmo without transfe...
Cablegate? I Kinda Like It, Actually
11/29/2010, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Faster, Please
Shortly before I went to work at the State Department, back in the last century, I asked Henry Kissinger for advice, and he had quite a bit of it. One terse statement has stayed with me: "the o...
According to WikiLeaks, Israel Was Right
11/29/2010, Benjamin Weinthal, National Review The Corner
Berlin - Never mind the Fleet Street-style diplomatic chitchat about European leaders; the most interesting thing to come from the latest WikiLeaks round is Arab world leaders' being forced to come ou...
North Korea and the Audacity of Nuclear Extortion
11/22/2010, Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
If they gave prizes for the art of nuclear blackmail, North Korea's Kim Jong Il would right now be hoisting his trophy for lifetime achievement. Call it the Plutonium-Uranium-Switcheroo Shakedown Awar...
NATO Considering Peacekeeping Force in Middle East
11/21/2010, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Commentary Contentions
Speaking at a press conference in Lisbon during NATO's summit, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that the alliance is prepared to consider sending a peacekeeping force to enforce...
Smearing America in Defense of A Terrorist
11/18/2010, Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard Blog
In response to the Ghailani verdict, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement (emphasis added):
CCR questions the ability of anyone who is Muslim to receive a trul...
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David B. Rivkin, Jr. is a partner in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler LLP. He serves as Co-Chair of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a joint initiative of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the National Review Institute. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Nixon Center and a Contributing Editor of the National Review magazine...more
From The Long War Journal: Suicide Assault Team Kills Mosul Emergency Police Chief by Bill Roggio, 12/29/2010
From National Review's The Corner: Islamist and Leftists Cooperating? Surely You Jest … by Andrew C. McCarthy, 12/29/2010
From Faster, Please: Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 12/28/2010
A team of al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers stormed a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today and killed a senior police officer who has targeted al Qaeda's top leaders...more
From National Review's The Corner: Islamist and Leftists Cooperating? Surely You Jest … by Andrew C. McCarthy, 12/29/2010
Well, no, I don't...more
From Faster, Please: Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 12/28/2010
Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem...more
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