National Security

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Historical note to “Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.,” published 2/17/11 in the Washington Post: The small and brutally oppressed Afghan Jewish community was liquidated by 1950, shortly after the creation of Israel. According to a 1950 report, the

This well-known political figure gave a speech before a group of intellectuals and proclaimed that the world must function “as a family.” Can you guess who delivered it? The answer will probably surprise you. Some excerpts: Almost 20 years ago

Music is the voice of peace, but to some anything to do with Israel is a reason for hate. A few weeks ago, singer Macy Gray was the target as she planned her visit in Israel. Now it’s the Israeli

Why CBS kept mum for four days about the brutal sexual assault of network correspondent Lara Logan by a Tahrir Square mob on Feb. 11 we just don’t know. Did Logan, flown out of Cairo by a network-chartered jet to

When a member of Salmaan Taseer’s personal security team pumped twenty-seven bullets into the Punjab Governor as he visited an Islamabad market, people wondered whether the scales had tipped against the voices of tolerance in favor of violent extremism. Thousands

The Obama administration’s handling of Egypt reveals a level of incompetence that renders the U.S.–and the entire world– a more dangerous place. In the early days of the protests in Egypt, the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines.

14 Feburary 2011 Salween River: Burma on the left, Thailand on the right. The Salween River forms a border between Thailand and Burma. “Rambo” fictionally crossed this jungle current in the movie Rambo IV. But there is nothing fictional about

This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes:

Nationalist feelings in both Cambodia and Thailand have resulted in border clashes, thanks to a disagreements about the ownership of the ancient Preah Vihear Hindu temple, on what is today the border between the two countries, according to CNN. Preah

The Parole Commission voted today to deny parole to terrorist Oscar Lopez. The commission got it right. If you engage in terrorism against the United States, you will spend the rest of your life in prison, regardless of your political

Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard are under house arrest. All communications have been cut off and his body guards dismissed. Iranian security forces have taken over. It is unknown at this time exactly which organization the security forces

Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation On February 14, Sean Hannity asked whether the Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or “taqiyya”) during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse. Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28,

In follow-up to the Lara Logan sexual assault in Cairo story, I was interviewed today (2/18/11) during the 8 AM hour on the Helen Glover Show. The interview included discussion of the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood “Spiritual

General Votel in the field JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command, is the guys who get out of the black helicopters and scarf up bad guys or sometimes simply ventilate them and allow them to return to room temperature. They are

Among the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian revolution has been the significance of the widespread violence against the foreign media covering the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The Western media have been unanimous in their sympathetic coverage of the

At at a 2:45 PM meeting on Wednesday with Counsul General Jacob Dayan of Israel at Scripps College, I asked him what he says to the people who wrongly say that Hezbollah isn’t a terrorist organization. He answered very directly,

World officials are shocked at the violent response of the Bahrain government to peaceful protesters, including women and children, in Manama, the capital city. At dawn on Thursday, police smashed into demonstrators wit guns, clubs and teargas, killing at least

Senator Marco Rubio means business…but not with Castro. Senator Marco Rubio’s first filed amendment seeks to enhance our national security. Naturally this entails trying to nullify a recent Obama Executive Order. Last month president Obama , finally despairing that the

If you’ve been a longtime, stalwart ally of the United States, you’d better run for your life. Since Barack Obama has been president, he has managed to diss each one of our allies, in varying degrees of seriousness from merely

Rusty and company at the Jawa Report have been one of the webs best anti-jihadist blogs for years. The bloggers have always blogged anonymously for reasons both professional and personal – including threats from jihadists. An attorney that has already

Caroline Glick wrote a column this month to explain what she calls “Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab societies” — an apparent paradox, it seems, to American naifs who believe that a functioning ballot box is all a society

It was nearly surreal to be a veteran Ikhwan-watcher yesterday. The Drudge Report ran a headline feature from Der Spiegel on the most influential Sunni cleric in the world today, Yuself al-Qaradawi. The article was picked up on talk radio,

Irrefutable and adorable don’t often go hand in hand. Nor do we think of David and Goliath as embodied by the same man. Chris Christie’s most recent and, as far as I know, most publicized appearance, the brief but telling

Last night on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank was joined for two segments by former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. In this unique and up-close look at how key decisions in history are made, Secretary Rumsfeld discusses his newly