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A large Asian aid convoy called the Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan left India for the Gaza Strip with about 500 activists from 17 Asian countries. While convoy organizers try to position their action as solidarity with the Palestinian people

India just announced a $9 billion nuclear power deal with France. India’s Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL) currently has 17 atomic plants which only produce 3% of India’s power. That will change. AREVA, the French national nuclear power company, just closed

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) published an op-ed in the Denver Post this week, arguing that the US needs to scale backs its goals dramatically in Afghanistan. Our current mission in Afghanistan goes far beyond accomplishing our national security objectives. We

Newsweek first revealed that the Bush administration used harsh interrogation tactics to obtain intelligence from terrorist masterminds in 2004. American Progressives leapt at the chance to attack the evil, war-mongering, Halliburton-loving, Cheney-controlled Bush. Their pious, humanitarian tinged caterwauling was heard

Caption from the Lewiston (ME) Sun-Journal: Chelsea McLain, 20, of Ridge Road in Peru, holds the last family photograph of her and husband Buddy McLain and their son Owen. It was taken in June, about five months before Buddy, a

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic Shari’a law over America to its members, according to the 2010 ICNA Member’s Hand Book. This is a very different message than the group’s public outreach

Glenn Reynolds in today’s Washington Examiner: But I have a different character in mind. The more I watch this administration at work, the more I think we’re seeing the first Nigel Tufnel presidency. Nigel Tufnel, many will remember, was the

The Guardian caption to this Reuters photo says it all: “The WikiLeaks cables suggest Pakistan follows a covert military strategy at odds with US goals.” Kill the messenger? —- I’m hearing a lot about “blood on the hands” of WikiLeaks’

A Russian-made cargo plane crashed near residential apartments in Karachi, seconds after taking off from the city’s airport today, killing all eight people on board and injuring seven others.

The hallmark of the American approach to Afghanistan has been to negotiate with the Taliban. American diplomats, at the direction of the Obama Administration, have been sitting down for detailed negotiations with Mullah Mansour, a senior commander of the Taliban.

I have one more alert for you before heading out of the office for a bit on diaper duty with my second child (arriving in the next day or two!). CBN has acquired exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Al Qaeda’s North

A jury in federal court in Manhattan convicted Ahmed Ghalfan Ghailani Wednesday of conspiring in the 1998 destruction of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Many, however, are focusing on Ghailani’s acquittal on 224 counts of murder and

There is a necessary and comforting focus on cutting government spending here in DC. The orgy of excess over the past two years has caused that and obviously the biggest budgets attract the most attention. The Defense Department has a

Both former President Bush and now President Obama have committed to the United States to escalating the war in Afghanistan in an attempt to defeat the Taliban and bring some sense of stability to that country. Afghanistan is but one

Let’s see: Pakistan is believed to have nuclear weapons. Elements of the intelligence service (ISI) support the Taliban. Large portions of the countryside are ungovernable. Where will it all lead? Ex-CIA analyst Bruce Riedel believes that the country is already

This week we learned that Nazareth is an al-Qaida hub. Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim Sahfe, the Israeli imam of the Shihab al-Din mosque in the city, was indicted on Sunday for promoting and recruiting for global jihad and calling on

During the past month, Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on Muslims to acquire nuclear weapons “to terrorize their enemies.” He also boycotted an interfaith meeting with Jews on grounds he believes they support murdering

A defiant Pervez Musharraf questioned whether Pakistan will be “abandoned” by the U.S. and insisted his country has made no strategic mistakes in its participation in the war on terror. The former Pakistani president, in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 10

President Barack Obama’s now concluding trip to India seems to have turned out to be a failed or at the very least unhelpful effort. His false starts, unhelpful comments and bad policy moves mark this visit as a bit of

In recent months, we’ve seen China’s policies in the South China and the East China seas become increasingly confrontational and belligerent, as they’ve claimed that hundreds of islands, waters and sea lanes that have historically been part of other countries

National Public Radio, which fired news analyst Juan Williams last month after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has featured the Islamist group’s leaders on air nearly two dozen times in the past three years, while never addressing

No way, says Jim Talent. An excerpt from his piece today in National Review: “…every category of international risk facing the United States is demonstrably growing. Islamist extremists remain a formidable threat. They are fighting to reconstitute their safe havens

A private plane chartered to an Italy-based oil company crashed near the airport in Pakistan’s largest city on Friday after the pilot warned of engine trouble, officials said. All 21 people onboard, including an Italian, were killed.

Followers of the outspoken groups Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society are moving from ideology to violent action, a review of recent terror indictments by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows. U.S. counter terror agencies have traditionally paid little

On October 21, we told you that a DoD official had leaked the findings of a confidential investigation into Michael Furlong and his highly successful Force Protection program to the New York Times. The leak was authorized in an effort

On Saturday, Yemeni police arrested a college girl and her mother in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, a day after parcels containing bombs sparked a global security alert, according to Al-Jazeera. Printer plot bomb: Explosives were hidden in toner cartridge

Britain’s leadership has mismanaged and misinterpreted multiculturalism, leading to a fracturing of British society and mutual distrust between the Muslim community and the rest of the country, the U.K.’s minister of state for security and counterterrorism said Oct. 28. “Multiculturalism

Federal agents arrested a man Wednesday for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C., subway system, the Justice Department announced. It was the second arrest in as many days involving Americans hoping to wage violence for al-Qaida or the Taliban, and

My investigation into anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying professor Kaukab Siddique has brought Siddique and his employer, Lincoln University, under the spotlight of both the national media and Pennsylvania state lawmakers. My exclusive report, which originally aired on CBN News on October 18th

Am I the only one who feels like yanking my teeth out with needle nose pliers when he hears questions about what the ‘Tea Party’ is up to? What candidate they’ll promote, which direction they’ll move next, and how the

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports: “WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it had no problem with Iran sending bags of cash to President Hamid Karzai but hoped that this assistance would not have a ‘negative’ influence on Afghanistan.” There,

As President Obama delivers some “Tough Love” to visiting Pakistani officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, one has to imagine Mullah Omar’s name has come up multiple times. As regular readers of the BIG sites know, we

I’ve been sifting through hundreds of emails, stories, reactions to Juan Williams’ sensational firing by NPR over his remarks on Bill O’Reilly’s show, covered on Big Journalism for the past 24 hours. I’ve also read Slate’s ridiculous comparison of Williams

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