Think about the kind of mental construct that could produce this State of the Union address… Continue reading
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return, he never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate… Continue reading
The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading
As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on inconclusively, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Taliban insurgency is gaining ground… Continue reading
As Pakistanis burned American flags and the Washington Post wrote of “a new normal” in US-Pakistani relations earlier this month, it looked like the beginning of the end of five decades of friendly alliance between the two countries… Continue reading
I think Obama genuinely believes what he’s saying… Continue reading
The humanitarian situation in Somalia remains dire… Continue reading
When President Obama hosted his annual iftar dinner in August to commemorate Ramadan… Continue reading
Ten years after September 11, 2001, when the very phrase “war on terrorism” is barred from U.S. government usage by the president… Continue reading
On June 16 Al-Qaeda announced that after a period of consultations, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri had been appointed as Osama bin Laden’s heir… Continue reading
Leon Panetta, leaving the CIA directorship post to become secretary of defense, and General David Petraeus, leaving the job of commander… Continue reading
There’s a remarkable exchange from a May 2009 presidential press conference that is extraordinarily revealing… Continue reading
From the 1970s to the late 1990s, militant Islamic groups in Egypt posed the greatest challenge to the regime in terms of internal security… Continue reading
Mohamed Azahaf, a 28-year-old immigrant from Morocco, was hired by the east Amsterdam district to build trust between… Continue reading
On June 11, 2011 Somali police reported that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of Africa’s most wanted al-Qaeda operatives, was killed… Continue reading
A remarkable amount of what’s written on the Middle East in the mass media is nonsensical… Continue reading
Ayman al-Zawahiri, nephew of a Nazi collaborator and grandson of the man who helped produce the… Continue reading
President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech was met with skepticism in Iran, and said to be an expression of… Continue reading
A spokesman for the American State Department announced that the Army of Islam had been designated as a terrorist organization… Continue reading
Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
IHH, which plays a central role in organizing the upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip, joined Turkish Islamist organizations in… Continue reading
On Thursday, President Obama will “reach out” yet again to what he insists on calling “the Muslim world.” Think of it as… Continue reading
There’s something particularly poignant about news that at least 80 people were killed in Charsadda, Pakistan, by a Taliban attack on a… Continue reading
De enorme hoeveelheid aan materialen die gevonden zijn op de computers, diskettes en in aantekeningen in de Abbottabad villa van… Lees verder
Why is U.S. and European policy toward the Middle East so off-base, and why do policymakers believe the strange things they think and… Continue reading
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest pronouncements are just plain horrifying. Consider what she said… Continue reading
It was no surprise that the killing of Osama Bin Laden provoked a great deal of interest in Iran… Continue reading
Barack Obama, President of Israel’s best friend and ally, has picked the Muslim Brotherhood movement of the Middle East as his chosen partner… Continue reading
In a September 6 interview with liberal daily Al-Watan, former Al-Qaeda fighter Fawaz Al-Otaibi, whose surrender to… Continue reading
The Obama administration is presenting the successful Osama bin Laden hit as an epic American solo operation, unparalleled in… Continue reading
The U.S. won’t support any Fatah-Hamas government that includes Hamas unless the Islamist Jihadi group reforms… Continue reading
As so often happens, a peripheral issue has taken over the Western debate regarding the killing of Usama bin Laden… Continue reading
Hamas’ condemnation of killing Osama bin Laden reflects the movement’s deep identification with extremist jihadist Islam and… Continue reading
This is the kind of serious development that everyone better pay close attention to if they want to understand what’s going on in the Middle East… Continue reading
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