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Salman Taseer, the Punjabi governor known for his opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, was assassinated earlier th is year. While his murderer has become something of a hero at home, the West lamented the death of this prominent Islamic moderate.

Marine BG John Toolan: More stuff for Afghans … or else. — At the very end of this story lies the money quote on the thunking bankruptcy, military and political, of the American strategy in Afghanistan. It is the bankruptcy

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Another horrific day of slaughter in Hama, Syria People duck to avoid gunfire from snipers in Hama (Reuters) It’s been another horrific day of slaughter by the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, targeting ordinary

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Ethnic and political violence kills 34 in two days in Karachi, Pakistan Burned out vehicles in Karachi (EPA) Ethnic violence and politically-motivated targeted killings have left at least 34 people dead in Pakistan’s southern

On Sunday July 31, 20011, the front page of the New York Times featured a lengthy article- “The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement”- that recounted the Center for Security Policy‘s successful four-year educational campaign to educate the public on the

On Sunday July 31, 2011, the front page of the New York Times featured a lengthy article– “The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement”– that recounted the Center for Security Policy‘s successful four-year educational campaign to educate the public on the

The U.S. Department of Treasury has announced the designation of several Iran-based al-Qaida agents and their facilitators which are part of a network “operating under an agreement between al-Qa’ida and the Iranian government.” The action, which targets Iran’s government as

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. India swoons over Pakistan’s hot new Foreign Minister India’s 79 year old FM S.M. Krishna poses with Pakistan’s new FM Hina Rabbani Khar (AFP) In her first visit to India, Pakistan’s hot new Foreign

Brevik, the Norwegian mass murderer of non-Muslims, is an isolated monster with no Christian religious affiliation whatsoever. The jihad, however, is a mass Islamic religious phenomenon of monstrous proportions, with some 17,500 jihadist attacks having been committed worldwide since 9/11,

Reports have emerged demonstrating U.S. funding the Taliban–the very enemy which our best and brightest have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001. This should be no surprise to many. In May, Fox News reported similar activities of funding these Pashto

Richard Starr of The Weekly Standard has uncovered The Manifesto Behind the Horror in Norway. Starr writes, “The Norwegian terrorist seems to have penned a long Unabomber-style manifesto, “2083: A European Declaration of Indpendence,” which can be downloaded, for now

An explosive device was detonated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Shortly after the initial explosion, small arms fire followed on a crowd of innocents. At the time of this writing, a lot still must be uncovered as little information

The FBI arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, director of the Kashimiri American Foundation, on Tuesday. Fai is charged with “illegal lobbying” on behalf of Pakistan. It’s believed that he worked for Pakistan’s intelligence service. Illegal lobbying is the legal term

President Obama’s accelerated “drawdown” of US troops in Afghanistan will, at the very least, create a power vacuum; and the list of candidates to fill it is not encouraging. No serious analyst believes the government of Hamid Karzai will get

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Fox News Foreign Correspondent Catherine Herridge, author of the new book, The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits, joins Frank to bring us up to date on the war

Eureka! COIN has “borne fruit” in Afghanistan! Who cares what it means. So says Petraeus Maximus in yet another exit interview, this one with American Forces Press Services and posted at the Pentagon website: During his last full week commanding

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Obama agrees to support Russia’s bid to end Libya action with mediation Medvedev and Obama meeting in Moscow in 2009 (AP) President Barack Obama will support the mediation attempt by Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev

From the point of view of generational theory, a crisis era turns into a crisis war between two countries following a series of shocks and surprises, with each side crossing some kind of “red line,” and the other side making

The United States has numerous intelligence flaws. While the nation has some of the best technical capabilities for intelligence collection, analysis, and production, we continue to encounter several gaps within our intelligence process. As identified in an earlier Fox News

A radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government – or caliphate – that it distributed a draft constitution during a recent conference outside of Chicago.

Are Pakistan and the United States about to get a divorce? The United States is threatening to cut aid, holding back some $800 million, nearly a third of the $2 billion that we give the country every year. Now Pakistan

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Emergency EU meeting on Monday will discuss crisis in Italy Italy 10-year bond yields (Bloomberg) A sharp spike in Italy’s bond yields (interest rates) on Friday, combined with the fact that Italy has the

From the Associated Press: KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and its allies are within reach of defeating al-Qaida after killing Osama bin Laden and gaining new insights about the terrorist group’s other leading figures, new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Half a million people protest in Hama, Syria Protests in Hama on Friday (AFP) Despite a bloody, brutal assault on the city of Hama by Syrian security forces earlier this week, half a million

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel’s airport gears up for ‘Welcome to Palestine’ activists Israeli police deploy at Tel Aviv airport on Thursday Israel braced on Thursday for the anticipated arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists at Ben Gurion

President Barack Obama’s recent announcement of an unexpectedly rapid drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan is producing a bitter reaction in Pakistan to the effect that America makes promises but, once again, is ignoring its promises and abandoning its allies,

OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu: “Blasphemy, Blasphemy Mucho” *(apologies to Andrea Bocelli) Bat Ye’or has appositely characterized Geert Wilder’s recent acquittal as a “Copernican revolution,” achieved by a solitary “unarmed man, constantly threatened by death and whose only defense was

Pete Schweizer has asked me, for Independence Day, to write something upbeat and optimistic. This is not an easy task for me, given that I’m the gloomiest person in the world. The Future But in fact, I AM upbeat and

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. delays release of funds to Pakistan Predator drone aircraft The U.S. is delaying the release of $500 million in the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to Pakistan, and is threatening to cut off Pakistan’s

At least sixteen people including eight attackers have been killed while eight others sustained injuries when heavily armed assailants stormed Intercontinental Hotel Kabul, Tuesday night, according to the Wakht News Agency (Kabul). The clash between the attackers and the security

Following a major split in the Muslim Brotherhood over elections, reports are emerging that the Brotherhood is much closer to its affiliate political party than it previously admitted. Recent moves are yet another sign that the Muslim Brotherhood has not

By Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer In a capitulation to Islamic supremacists and violent radical Leftists, French and European Union authorities have canceled a free speech rally that we had planned with a coalition of American and European human rights

Left to right: Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon, Sudanese President ‘Omar Al-Bashir, Pakistani President Asif ‘Ali Zardari, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, at the “World Without Terrorism

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syria’s al-Assad gives speech that infuriates protesters Bashar al-Assad gives speech on Monday On Monday, in a nationally televised address that lasted over an hour in front of a crowd of cheering supporters at

Every day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our attention and, more often than not, our intense concern. Just this week, major stories have come out