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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Thailand heads for a major election crisis Yingluck Shinawatra (Spiegel) The fault line between the élite fair-skinned market dominant minority Thai-Chinese and the dark-skinned indigenous Thai-Thai majority laboring class may soon become violent again,

We owe these informants a lot. The Obama needs to move heaven and earth to protect them. From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to

News Flash: Since the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration has engaged in a trust-building effort with Pakistan…. I’m trying to be calm. What this means after the US zeroed in on OBL living in plain Pakistani sight,

The New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristof is a simpleton. There is really no other way to say it, no gentler phrasing possible, to explain how childish and uncluttered his tiny little mind really is. The latest example of his utter

More proof that our soldiers are tough as nails and have, well, GUTS. From the Daily Mail: Private Moss was on patrol in Paktika Province in Eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, March 16, when his unit was attacked – likely by

From the Associated Press: CHICAGO — In 2000, David Coleman Headley called a phone number he saw on a recruiting poster in a mosque in Pakistan, and in doing so launched a nearly decade-long career as a terrorist. For the

Like most Americans, I rejoiced on learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. On any number of levels, it’s a good thing that he is dead, and dead “by our hand.” As details of the operation that took his

The Living Legacy of Zia Ul-Haq, Godfather of Pakistan’s Modern Jihadist Military Then U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, alarmed by her interaction with trainees at Pakistan’s National Defense University (NDU), where, after addressing them, she had “received astonishingly

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China: ‘Any attack on Pakistan is an attack on China’ Pakistan media are reporting that China has issued an ultimatum to Washington that “Any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Violence grows in Yemen after Saleh again refused to resign Anti-government protesters in Sanaa, Yemen (AFP) Full scale tribal warfare appears to be breaking out around Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on Monday, as

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Major terrorist attack on Navy airbase in Karachi, Pakistan Pakistan’s PNS Mehran naval base, Karachi (Tribune) A well-planned professional terrorist attack was launched on the Pakistan’s PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi, Pakistan, on

I suppose in the much larger picture, 50 fighter jets from China do not mean a lot, especially since Pakistan entered the joint venture with China for their production in the first place. It is worth noting that China footed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Crete Monument to the Greek victory over the Nazis at the Battle of Crete (Kathimerini) On May 20, 1941, Hitler’s elite paratroopers invaded Crete overnight

The Pakistani affiliate of Gallup International, “Gallup Pakistan,” and the Gilani Foundation polled a representative sample of 2,530 men and women in the rural and urban areas comprising a cross-section of various education, income, age and linguistic backgrounds. The majority

From the Daily Mail (UK): Gary Faulkner: I forced Bin Laden out of the mountains The United States will not pay out the $25 million bounty placed on the head of Osama bin Laden, government sources have revealed. Three weeks

On Monday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told Xinhua, “We are proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend and China will always find Pakistan standing beside it at all times.” Chinese warship docked in

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. borrowing exceeds the debt limit The U.S. Treasury Dept. reported that new debt auctions of $72 billion will push the debt past the debt limit by Tuesday morning, meaning that the Treasury can’t

From the Associated Press: A Miami imam and two of his sons have been arrested on federal charges they provided financial support to the Pakistani Taliban, while three others in Pakistan have been indicted on charges of handling distribution of

Ikram Irked by Unclean Infidels’ Charges–The Unindicted Taliban Imam’s Son Doth Protest According to the US District Court of Southern Florida indictment of imam Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan, Law enforcement agents recorded a series of phone calls in 2009

From the Associated Press: A terrorism trial that starts Monday in Chicago could feature testimony alleging links between Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed more than 160 people.

A terrorism trial that starts Monday in Chicago could feature testimony alleging links between Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed more than 160 people.

George Mitchell, President Obama’s Special Envoy for the Mideast, resigned on Friday, after two years on the job, accomplishing pretty much nothing. It comes as Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the founding of Israel, the “Naqba” or catastrophe. It also

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hundreds of refugees crossing border from Syria to Lebanon Syria has been cracking down violently on protesters in the town of Talkilakh, on the border with Lebanon. Hundreds of women and children are fleeing

The indictment can be read here, and features charges against the “spiritual” leader of the so-called Miami Mosque: Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan is a US citizen and resident of Florida. Khan has been the imam, or spiritual leader at

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. ‘Years of retrenchment’ for America’s ‘zombie consumers’ During the credit bubble a few years ago, the world could count on America’s “generation of ‘zombie consumers’” to spend their time at the mall, providing the

With the death of Osama Bin Laden, the search must continue to seek and destroy Al Qaeda leadership. Many names come to mind but the greatest blow to Al Qaeda would be the killing of Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri. If

From the Associated Press: Protests in Pakistan draw masses upset over the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, with some vowing a revolution to avenge his death. This comes as a military center is bombed, in apparent retaliation for

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. was prepared to fight Pakistani forces The Obama administration had “very detailed contingency plans” for military action against Pakistani forces if they had tried to stop the U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden’s

Osama Bin Laden’s putative sea burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson was performed “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices” according to repeated assertions by chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Indeed, there is more than ample reason to

For inviting the rapper-“poet” named “Common,” to the White House, our First Lady is currently taking some heat. Common’s lyric, it appears, are a trifle “racy,” plus in his “poetry,” he hails Black-Panther/Cop-killer Joanne “Assata Shakur” Chesimard. But for inviting

With Osama bin Laden dead and buried thanks to the Navy SEALs, the Obama Administration needs to reevaluate America’s relationship with Pakistan. As Jay Leno joked last week, Osama bin Laden was not “hiding out” in Pakistan – he was

Badruddin Haqqani is a terrorist. He is the leader of the Taliban affiliated group known as the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan. This group predominantly operates in Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. Today, the U.S. State Department released a new Executive

A top leader of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), who was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department along with two other Lashkar operatives and an al-Qaida leader in July 2009, is helping the Pakistan terror group obtain biological weapons and anthrax through his

Over the weekend, the Department of Defense released soundless video clips of what appear to be previously unpublished “outtakes” from Osama Bin Laden video messages. The clips were reportedly discovered among materials seized at the compound in Abottabad, Pakistan, that

This title is probably the only fact we have heard about the death of Osama bin Laden (OBL). There has been so much misinformation out there it’s like an Oliver Stone movie. Does any of it matter? The only thing

On May 7th, two Muslim Imams, Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul, were taken off a Memphis flight. “It’s racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion,” one of the imams, Masudur Rahman