National Security

In April, I reported that the New York Times was about to publish a list of covert American operatives providing force protection for our troops in Afghanistan. A month later, the Times admitted that it did in fact have the

Singapore papers are reporting: “AN AMERICAN, who accompanied his wife to Singapore last December for fertility treatment, and overstayed, could be the first US citizen to be caned in 16 years. After his three-month social visit pass expired on March

The Christian Science Monitor offers this fascinating and troubling report on the use of private contractors in Afghanistan. Half of the private security companies that the Pentagon is paying in that country are Afghan owned. The paper writes: “The Senate

The Chinese indeed have a grand strategy for Total War according to which they are marching steadily forward. Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank lays out an in depth account of Chinese domination of, not only rare earth

Last night, while watching ABC News (ok, I get it- but, given the other choices to watch, this was the least offensive) Dianne Sawyer introduced a report where Bill Clinton supposedly lost the ‘biscuit‘; that is, the unlock codes for

Despite connections to some of the hijackers and a record of radical sermons and speeches in the United States, fugitive al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was a lunch guest at a Pentagon “Muslim outreach” event just months after the 9/11 attacks,

Troubling reports in Russia concerning conflict between Muslim troops and Slavic officers in the Armed Forces. The reliable blogger Larussophobe reports: “Last week we were appalled and terrified by the spectacle that unfolded in the Siberian city of Perm. The

In the summer of 2000, analysts and pollsters believed the Palestinian people were ready for peace. Yet Yasser Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David and two months later the bloodshed of the Second Intifada began. Jonathan

France is ablaze with violent protests, Greece is broke, and the British government is going to lay off half a million workers. Missed from the headlines is the biggest casualty in all of this: the death of the “European model.”

There is an effort underway to change America’s preeminent position as the world’s sole super power. We never really aimed for that role, but so be it. The parties who want to have a post-American power structure are both external

Germany’s influential Der Spiegel shows how delusional they are with an editorial about the decline of Obama in America. There is no attempt here to understand the Tea Party movement or what it represents. As usual, the European Left is

[youtube NnwcUkPrZLw nolink] Lt. Dan Choi, who has become a symbol of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in the US Military, voiced his anger and disgust at the Obama Administration for playing politics with the controversial policy.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the world finally recognized what Judaism had claimed for three and a half millennia: the Jews needed a land to call their own. In order to ensure that the Jews would no longer be

On September 30, something important happened in Ecuador. A rebellion by police officers took place in protest against cuts in their bonuses and salaries. The discontented police threw tear gas that directly reached President Rafael Correa who was lightly harmed.

In the one area where bipartisan support was fairly robust, such as the Nunn-Lugar program to dismantle nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union, the recent defense budget requests of the new administration have outlined a plan for a four

Last week, I reported that Oskar Freysinger, the prominent member of the Swiss People’s Party who led the successful and model campaign to ban minaret construction in Switzerland (and whom I interviewed here), had been invited to Brussels to speak

Army Times reporting: Someone fired shots at the Pentagon early Tuesday in what security officials described as ‘a random event.’ No one was injured in the pre-dawn incident in which shots were fired into two windows at the sprawling Defense

Recently on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank was joined by Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI) to discuss what will happen, come the 111th Congress, with the defense budget. If there is a new Republican majority, will the Republican Party lead

Our attention is largely focused half way around the world—Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and the Middle East. The threat from Islamist terrorism is real. But largely overlooked in my mind is the problem posed by a security threat next door, namely

Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, the ISI, was heavily involved in 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, a 109-page classified Indian government report obtained by the British newspaper The Guardian alleges. The report is based on confessions of American Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) operative David

Kaukab Siddique is a naturalized American citizen born in Pakistan who is an associate professor of literature at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University. He recently attended a Labor Day weekend event to address radical Muslims and leftists at an anti-Israel rally in

Last month, a Pennsylvania college professor publicly called for destruction of the state of Israel. His name is Kaukab Siddique, and he is an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University. Siddique made the remarks at an annual gathering

This is no political commentary, just a semi-biased first person account of a case most of the media missed earlier this month…Operation Smoking Dragon. The good guys got it right and no one seemed to care. Much of my twenty-six

A federal judge sentenced a Jordanian man to 24 years in prison Tuesday after he admitted plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper. Hosam Smadi’s plea agreement signed in May capped his maximum sentence at 30 years. He admitted driving

Last month I revealed that the FBI Chicago field office had selected Hamas operative Kifah Mustapha to participate in a six-week Citizen Academy that included a tour of the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and FBI Headquarters. Critics have noted that