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05/26/2010, Dr. Walid Phares, quoted by Jana Winter, FOXNews.com
J. Peter Pham, senior fellow and director of the Africa Project at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, said that for the past ten years there's been suspicion by U.S. law enforcement th...
Iran Set to Receive Gasoline cargo From Turkey
05/26/2010, Mark Dubowitz, quoted by Luke Pachymuthu, Reuters
The threat of U.S. sanctions on fuel suppliers to Iran has reduced the pool of firms prepared to sell gasoline to the OPEC member. [ID:nN12203147]
"Turkey's decision to ship gasoline to Iran at the s...
Brennan Seeks Non-Existent Hizballah Moderates
05/24/2010, Dr. Walid Phares, quoted by the Investigative Project on Terrorism News
During recent Lebanese elections, Hizballah operatives burned automobiles and election headquarters of their opponents, "leaving no room for opposing candidates to run against the Khomeinist organizat...
IRGC Cell Broken up in Kuwait
05/18/2010, Tony Badran, quoted by Austin Knuppe, The Long War Journal: Threat Matrix
Tony Badran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reports in NOW Lebanon that Kuwaiti and Saudi officials have unearthed a group of Iranian agents allegedly tied to the Islamic Revolut...
Would-Be Warriors
05/18/2010, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Laura Grossman, mentioned by Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND Occasional Paper
Marc Sageman's insightful work, Understanding Terror Networks (Sageman, 2004), and the excellent empirical research of Mitchell Silber and Arvin Bhatt of the New York Police Department (Silber and Bha...
Italian Pols Urge Addition of Iranian Guard to EU's Terror
05/18/2010, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, quoted by Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem Post
BERLIN - A bipartisan group of legislators in Italy's Chamber of Deputies are seeking to have the country's Foreign Ministry put the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on the EU's list of terrorist org...
Hizbullah on The Homefront
05/17/2010, Tony Badran, quoted by Caroline B. Glick, The Jerusalem Post
Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war. In "The shape of things to come," he discussed the significance of the br...
Congress Pushes Forward on Bill Amid Possible Deal on U.N. Sanctions
05/17/2010, Mark Dubowitz, quoted by Emily Cadei and Edward Epstein, Congressional Quarterly
Mark Dubowitz, director of the Iran Energy Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank, said the development at the United Nations "certainly frees up Rep. Berm...
Somalia Calls for Russian Explanation on Pirates
05/14/2010, Dr. J. Peter Pham, quoted by Abdiaziz Hassan, Reuters
Russian officials said last week the pirates were set free because there were no grounds to prosecute them in Russia and experts say bringing pirates to trial is notoriously difficult.
"Many countrie...
Interview With a Chinese Ex-Vampire
05/12/2010, Ethan Gutmann, quoted by Thomas Ricks, Foreign Policy
Ethan Guttman has a fascinating piece in World Affairs Journal about China's efforts to track and quash dissidents through computer surveillance. The centerpiece of the article is an interview with Ha...
Security Coalition Set to Oppose Cuts
05/11/2010, Clifford D. May, mentioned by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
The group includes former Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese, now with the Heritage Foundation; Clifford May, head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy; Herbert London, presi...
Terrorism's New Rules
05/10/2010, Dr. Walid Phares, quoted by David Lee Miller, FoxNews.com
You can call Faisal Shahzad a lot of bad names. The one causing the latest controversy is Amateur. He is an Amateur with a capital A. And that's the problem.
Moments after his failed incendia...
Miranda and Public Safety
05/9/2010, Andrew C. McCarthy, quoted by Charles Krauthammer, The Jerusalem Post
Even posing this choice demonstrates why the very use of the civilian judicial system to interrogate terrorists is misconceived, even if they are, like Shahzad, (naturalized) American citizens. Ameri...
Times Square Bomb Suspect May Have Received Online Education in Jihad
05/5/2010, Dr. Walid Phares, quoted by Jana Winter, FoxNews.com
"If the person on these websites is indeed the suspected bomber, the postings show that he was intellectually thinking about engaging in jihadism for a few years," said Dr. Walid Phares, director of t...
Hedgehogs and Foxes in the Middle East
04/30/2010, Tony Badran, Quoted by Noah Pollack, Commentary's Contentions
The fox, as Isaiah Berlin wrote, knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Reagan was a hedgehog because his presidency was animated by a basic belief in the superiority of democracy a...
White House Seeks to Soften Iran Sanctions
04/29/2010, Mark Dubowitz, quoted by Eli Lake, The Washington Times
The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns fr...
The Austrian-Iranian Axis
04/27/2010, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, quoted by Simone Dinah Hartmann, The Wall Street Journal Europe
While most European countries have reduced their business ties with the mullahs, Austrian exports to Iran, including sophisticated machinery and electronic goods, rose by almost 6% in 2009, reaching a...
China Accused of Vast Trade in Organ
04/27/2010, Ethan Gutmann, quoted by Julia Duin, Washington Times
In a news conference on Capitol Hill, several speakers, including attorney David Matas of B'nai Brith Canada and Ethan Gutmann of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said their investigatio...
US Congress to Advance Legislation Against Iran
04/26/2010, Mark Dubowitz, quoted by Yitzhak Benhorin, YNet News
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), which is following the sanctions and their influence on Iran, claims that "Congress' patience with Iran i...
Conferees Lean Toward Senate's Position on Sanctions for Iran
04/26/2010, Mark Dubowitz, quoted by Emily Cadei, Congressional Quarterly Today
"The main points of contention are between Congress and the administration, rather than between the Senate or the House, or between Democrats and Republicans," said Mark Dubowitz, executive director o...
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David B. Rivkin, Jr. is a partner in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler LLP. He serves as Co-Chair of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a joint initiative of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the National Review Institute. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Nixon Center and a Contributing Editor of the National Review magazine...more
From From The Long War Journal: Former Gitmo Detainee Featured as Commander in al Qaeda Tape by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/28/2010
From The Weekly Standard Blog: Inside the Gitmo Task Force's Final Report by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/27/2010
From NRO The Corner: The Grand Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy, 05/26/2010
A videotape released by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) earlier this week says that a former Guantanamo detainee is now a commander within the terrorist organization...more
From The Weekly Standard Blog: Inside the Gitmo Task Force's Final Report by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/27/2010
On January 22, President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force completed its final report, which outlined the administration's plan for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo...more
From NRO The Corner: The Grand Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy, 05/26/2010
Sorry for the radio silence the last few days, but I'm delighted to report that my new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is doing well - even though it only came out officially yesterday...more
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