The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
I can think of no better way to upset the lefties in your life – and please the inner you – than pre-ordering my forthcoming coming-of-rage book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World. Learn how I went
While our own president and his administration chose to remain quiet during almost all of the Libyan protests, giving little in direction other than to give the usual diplomatic language of strongly condemning government violence, Fidel Castro, on the other
The mounting violence in Libya could have the unintended consequence of reviving radical Islamists including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a terror organization aligned with al-Qaida. As Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-old dictatorship totters on the brink, U.S. policymakers should pay
“Gaddafi’s days are numbered. He will do what Hitler did-he will take his own life,” says former Libyan Justice Minister Mohamed Abud Al Jelell. There are also rumors that he has been shot. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later.
Since Dan Friedman asked that question here on Big Peace, other commentators are further questioning why, on the one hand, the White House finally (after confidence-shattering vacillation) decided to come down hard on, and ostentatiously demanded basic reform from, our
Even though the opposition had canceled the proposed demonstrations for the Iranian calendar, 5th of Esfand, 24th of February, the Iranian leaders frightened of continuation of demonstrations filled the streets of Tehran with military and security forces. The opposition has
I am not one who subscribes to the theory that Obama is creating crises in order to manipulate them. For one thing, Obama is not that smart. And more important, the theory is in the realm of the occult, impossible
Chaos in Libya; what’s going to happen to their chemical weapons? The Washington Times reports: “U.S. military and intelligence officials are closely watching Libya’s stockpiles of mustard gas and their precursor chemicals as the North African country descends further into
According to myth, because of his refusal to obey the Sphinx, Oedipus The King became a symbol of death and disgrace for everyone and everything he touched. After killing his father (patricide), he witnessed his own mother/wife’s suicide and then
CNN is reporting: Washington (CNN) — A Saudi national living in Texas was arrested Wednesday for allegedly researching and acquiring chemicals to make a bomb, authorities said Thursday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, of Lubbock, Texas, allegedly researched several possible targets,
American policymakers are trying to downplay any role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in an emerging Egyptian government, saying only that President Hosni Mubarak’s successors must be open and tolerant of religious minorities and govern an open society. Statements by
President Barack Obama has a new favorite word when it comes to the violence in the Middle East, particularly when it relates to Gaddafi’s crackdown in Libya: “unacceptable.” He has used it numerous times. But with Obama the unacceptable is
On this week’s special edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, we’re on location in Israel for analysis of the latest events in the region. CBN’s Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell joins me in Jerusalem for a closer look at what
On Tuesday, attackers armed with rifles killed 18 people in a village just outside of Jos, in central Nigeria. The attackers are believed to be members of the mostly Muslim Fulani ethnic group, according to Reuters. Nigeria, showing major historic
Last Friday marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual Guide” Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. Qaradawi’s own words were accompanied by images and
When a smitten Jesse Jackson yelled “Viva Che!– Viva Fidel!” alongside the latter at the University of Havana in 1984 with Jeremiah Wright (among Jackson’s entourage) clapping wildly from the sidelines, the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner languished in
Assuming among those who have followed the events in the Middle East know the likelihood of all this ending badly is probably even money at this point. Islamism is very much a part of the populace. It is organic with
AWR: On the morning of 9/11, what was your first thought when you received word that a plane had struck one of the towers of the World Trade Center? Sec. Rumsfeld: That it was an accident. AWR: After the second
