Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Victim of Egyptian Islam’s Misogyny and Jew-Hatred Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and raped in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a
Our men rot in military prison; their enemies comes out in “detainee release shuras.” More than 350 Taliban war prisoners have been released since this particular “reintegration” program began in January 2010. How about a little “reintegration” for the Leavenworth
If denying Air and Artillery support to our Forces as they are under fire is a reprehensible act, prosecuting those same Warriors for ‘war crimes’ against an incalcitrant and murderous band of thugs is the very definition of an evil
Report: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to accept a phone call from US President Barack Obama, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi reported Thursday. The report says Mubarak feels “humiliated and embittered at Obama’s most recent statement about the need for
AP reports: WASHINGTON — If the U.S. captures top al-Qaida leaders Osama Bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, they would likely be sent to the Guantanamo Bay military prison, CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators Wednesday. This suggests that, given the
With questions looming about Islamist influence in a transitional Egypt, an organization that calls itself “the leading Islamic Institute in the West” is teaching students to support Sharia law in Egypt and around the world. Teachers at Houston-based Al Maghrib
Absentee voting trouble for our troops is the biggest civil rights issue in America today. Politicians in Washington who were so hell-bent on pushing through “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the name of civil rights don’t seem quite as motivated
He’s in — on a sentence far longer than any of his now-free co-defendants — he’s out; he’s free, gets his life and family back together. Now, as of this week, Sgt. Hutchins is going back to military prison. Once
After Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that he would take over Israel’s Galilee region in a future war and threatened to harm Israeli leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shot back. While speaking to a group of American Jewish leaders in
A female journalist was sexually and brutally assaulted by a gang of 200 Egyptians in Tahir Square. What does the terrible personal tragedy of Lara Logan tell us about “modern” Egypt and more broadly about the Arab culture? The most
CBS war correspondent Lara Logan went to Egypt to cover the protests against Hosni Mubarek in its early, heady days of hope n’ change. She was detained, interrogated, and released. Undeterred, she returned to Egypt last week to continue covering
If developments in Egypt have gone as well as one could hope for, future prospects remain unclear. The exciting part is over, now come the worries. Let’s start with three pieces of good news: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s strongman who appeared
Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, speaking on his al-Jazeera show “Shari’a and Life” on Sunday urged the young Egyptian protesters to “consider their revolution on-going until they achieve what they seek.” He also included
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a blistering speech in Bushehr, a city in Iran’s southwest that also is the site of nuclear facilities. According to Press TV of Iran today (as translated by MEMRI) the Iranian Prez said that the
From the border: “A U.S. immigration official was shot dead and another agent wounded in Mexico Tuesday afternoon. Jaime Zapata was killed while travelling with an as yet unnamed colleague in the central San Luis Potosi area when they stopped
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Though this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, economic concerns–especially those pertaining to the deficit–continue to dominate the national political conversation. This point was hammered home at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held over
Muslim spokesmen and Islamic apologists in the West love to trot out the “shared Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage and values” line, insinuating that Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians, and also revere their prophets and scriptures. For example, Dr.
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined for two segments by former United States Attorney General, Michael Mukasey. AG Mukasey has recently published a new book entitled, How Obama has Mishandled the War on Terror. Frank and
Obviously Democrats are serious about cutting federal spending. Why else would they propose an amendment to forbid the Pentagon from spending money sponsoring NASCAR? Last year the Army spent a whopping $7 million on a NASCAR sponsorship. (No other branch
On his radio show today, Sean Hannity hosted Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz as they confronted American Conservative Union board members Suhail Khan and Cleta Mitchell about the growing controversy surrounding Khan’s past radical statements and associations with Muslim Brotherhood
Proving that once again nothing pays better than government corruption, The Moscow Times reports: New documents confirm that the Kremlin property chief approved construction of a posh seaside palace rumored to be a residence for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, despite
This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a “stalwart” of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of resurgent Islamic totalitarianism: We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson schools MSNBC’s Mika on what has happened in Egypt and Obama’s incompetence. Just devastating. And this guy teaches at Harvard. [youtube V9sMo-LTdSc nolink]
The United States and Pakistan are becoming increasingly divided over the fight against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. There are strong elements in Pakistani intelligence (ISI) who openly back the Taliban. And there is deep resentment against the United States
