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.
Editor’s note: this post is based in part on reporting by Scott Swett that appeared recently at American Thinker. Imagine this scenario: It is December 31, 1944. American and Allied Forces are in a fierce battle with German troops, who
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just served notice that the U.S. nuclear deterrent is in free-fall. All other things being equal, the nation’s arsenal will have to shrink to perhaps as few as 500-1000 weapons in the not-too-distant future.
In the wake of the tsunami of protests from its members over the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) endorsement of a slew of anti-military incumbents, the VFW’s “leadership” has issued a new statement trying to calm the furor and, in
All right now, it is pretty easy to get spun up about a story like this. Warrior faced with split-second, life and death decision second guessed and then sacrificed by the lard-asses in the rear with the gear. It happens
So would aiding and abetting terrorists to kill US soldiers qualify as behavior unbefitting of a sitting US senator? On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ),
On October 11, 2010, The Centre for Social Cohesion Director Douglas Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch politician and renowned author, won a major debate in New York organised by Intelligence Squared. They were arguing against the motion
Murad I (d. 1389), Ottoman conqueror of Sofia in 1385 A.D. The first of two recent reports by the invaluable Ned May at Gates of Vienna highlights the resurgent jihadism in the former Ottoman Muslim colony of Bulgaria. Given the
While visiting the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay in 2008, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey stopped by the cell of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). What he saw startled him: KSM had his own exercise center adjoining his cell,
Al-Qaeda makes a full press for Muslims in America and other Western nations to wage homegrown terrorist attacks in the second issue of its English-language magazine, offering grisly suggestions that “would cause chaos and trauma among the public.” The second
Israeli media watchdog Itamar Marcus makes a career of following the Palestinian press. His website provides timely and accurate translations of the Arabic language broadcasts and publications that are watched and read by the Palestinian public on the West Bank
Oskar Freysinger of the Swiss People’s Party and Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang outside the Flemish Parliament on October 9, 2010. From what I can gather from assorted reports, Oskar Freysinger, the Swiss force of nature (Alpine avalanche?) behind the
Monday, controversial Imam Feisal Rauf moved to dismiss the complaint which Vincent Forras, a First Responder, had filed against him and his planned Ground Zero Mosque, and countersued Forras reportedly for $50,000 USD. Forras and his counsel have not yet
David Be’eri is either much admired or much hated, depending on how you feel about Israel and Jewish heritage. Be’eri is the founder and head of the Ir David Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to excavating, preserving and developing biblical
Geert Wilders, on trial in Amsterdam for “inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims,” has also been summoned by a court in The Hague because imam Fawaz Jneid is demanding €55,000 in “damages” from the Dutch MP. The so-called basis for
A. Millar rightly calls our attention to the increasingly urgent case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a brave Austrian who faces the possibility of three years in prison in Austria for delivering a lecture on the Islamic threat to liberty — a
Why did Major Malik Nidal Hassan murder 13 of his fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood last year? What thinking animated this violence? The answer to these questions are deeply important to understand. On today’ Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney,
From the Associated Press: SAN DIEGO (AP) – A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ landmark
The latest efforts to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians are hanging by a thread, which should be no surprise. Perhaps, based on the 2000 Camp David peace talks, sponsored by President Clinton, when the Palestinians walked away, essentially,
(See Part 1 and Part 2.) The history of SOF is replete with such examples (re. Hind helo’s) – too many to mention. Brown himself has received numerous awards and citations for his contributions by governments far and wide. His
Marc Thiessen writes in the Washington Post: “If President Obama needed a clarifying moment to help him decide whether to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, a federal judge’s decision last week to bar the testimony
What is it that the West doesn’t understand about the leaders of Iran and their belief in Allah? Why is it that, after three decades, some people in the West still believe that America is at fault and that a
President Obama has no experience in the national security arena. He seems to consider it an inconvenience distracting him from his mission of fundamentally transforming America into a humble social democracy. But up until now he has at least kept
Retired Brig. General Anthony Tata, a regular contributor to Big Peace, is one of the contestants in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit Contest.” (As far as I can tell, he appears to be the only conservative in the
I have written in the past about the prospect of a nuclear Iran and its destabilizing effect in the world’s most important energy region. But what if Israel strikes before Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are realized? Although given that Iran currently
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas says that he will resign as PA president if Israel resumes building West Bank settlements, which would cause the collapse of the Mideast peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands
