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05/25/2010, Jonathan Schanzer
IF ONLY MORE OF THE MIDDLE EAST WERE LIKE THIS: Reporting from Kurdistan, FDD President Cliff May finds that Kurdistan is more than your usual developing nation:
foreign investors are welcomed, the p...
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05/18/2010, Jonathan Schanzer
IT'S SMART BUSINESS TO GET OUT OF IRAN: Last Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on companies that have provided Tehran with financial resources for its illicit nuclear pr...
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05/11/2010, Clifford D. May
GIVE CRIPPLING SANCTIONS A CHANCE: Under the leadership of FDD's Mark Dubowitz, we continue our extensive research into Iran's energy sector. This research recently exposed a significant loophole in I...
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05/4/2010, Clifford D. May
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: FDD's Claudia Rosett writes:
The UN's Economic and Social Council has just elected Iran to a seat on the UN's women's rights commission -- formally known as the Commission o...
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04/6/2010, Clifford D. May
FOREIGN POLICY 101: Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer asks:
What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama's America?... How can you explain a policy toward Britain that makes no strateg...
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03/30/2010, Clifford D. May
FORCING A CRISIS: Rich Lowry writes:
The Obama administration says it won't tolerate an Iranian nuclear weapon. It has given no one any reason to believe that. The credibility of the administration's...
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03/16/2010, Clifford D. May
JIHAD JANE: FDD Senior Fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht writes that for a certain breed of Westerner, finding militant Islam
is like finding a forgiving family. Past personal failures and insults to one's d...
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03/9/2010, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
IRAN'S GASOLINE SUPPLIERS: The Financial Times reports:
The world's largest oil traders have quietly stopped supplying petrol to Iran in a sign that the threat of sanctions and Washington's behind-th...
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03/2/2010, Clifford D. May
THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK, 1993: Last Friday was the 17th anniversary of the first World Trade Center bombing. As Andy McCarthy notes here, that attack should have been seen as a declaration of war. But ...
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02/16/2010, Clifford D. May
IRAN: The Washington Post, in an editorial, adopts what has long been FDD's position on sanctioning the regime ruling Iran. The Post advises that President Obama should
sign into law legislation, now...
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02/9/2010, Clifford D. May
A "CHINESE SOLUTION" IN IRAN? FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen writes:
It looks like February 11th will be the most violent confrontation to date. The regime is taking unusual measures to put down ...
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02/2/2010, Clifford D. May
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? Last week the Senate passed -- unanimously -- a bill that would give President Obama the means to impose serious sanctions on Iran's despotic rulers for the first time. ...
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01/26/2010, Clifford D. May
WHO HELPS HAITI? FDD's Claudia Rosett writes:
The earthquake in Haiti has brought out the best and the worst of the so-called international community. It has especially highlighted the contrast betwe...
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01/19/2010, Clifford D. May
ON IRAN -- RETREAT AND NONACTION? John Vinocur writes in The New York Times:
Oil looms again, this time looking like the West's possible -- but only partially used -- best shot to head off [Iran's] n...
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01/12/2010, Clifford D. May
SPY VS. SPY: FDD Senior Fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht says that al-Qaeda's use of a double agent as a suicide-bomber reveals that the terrorist organization
is capable of running sophisticated clandestin...
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01/5/2010, Clifford D. May
THE CHRISTMAS DAY ATTACK: In my Scripps Howard News Service column, I argue that we cannot make ourselves inoffensive to our enemies:
President Obama's Cairo speech, his respectful outreach to Iran'...
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12/29/2009, Clifford D. May
THE CHRISTMAS BOMBER: Andy McCarthy writes:
The object of terrorism is to terrorize, and obviously the mission has been accomplished even if the plane was not brought down.
In Willful Blindness, I r...
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12/15/2009, Clifford D. May
IRAN: Amir Taheri reports on the Iranian anti-regime movement:
On Jerusalem Day, Sept. 18, officially intended to express anti-Semitism, the opposition showed that Iranians have no hostility toward J...
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12/8/2009, Clifford D. May
THE PROBLEM WITH PEACE: My Scripps column this week argues
for more than half a century, Western politicians and diplomats have built upon a mirage: the belief that because we see peace as a benefit,...
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12/1/2009, Clifford D. May
THE NEXT TIME: The Heritage Foundation convened a group of experts and asked us this question: If you were an Islamist terrorist, what weapon would you use in your next attack? And how can we best def...
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Khairi Abaza is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he is focused on democratic reform in the Arab world, the spread of terrorism, and the influence of the media on politics. Abaza has served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Cultural Committees of the Egyptian Wafd Party, and is pursuing his doctorate in politics from the University of London. ...more
From From The Long War Journal: Former Gitmo Detainee Featured as Commander in al Qaeda Tape by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/28/2010
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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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