ISLAMABAD — Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of an insurgent movement led by a former Afghan prime minister who has been branded a terrorist by Washington, a relative of the rebel
From the Tehran Times: Nuke U? TEHRAN – A number of students at the Sharif University of Technology have announced their readiness to work in the nuclear industry promising to rob the enemies of sleep, Mehrdad Bazrpash, an official at
From the Associated Press: NAIROBI, Kenya — The October al-Qaida video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African — he’s a Wisconsin native
From the Army Times: High school yearbook photo of Baxam Federal prosecutors have charged a former Army trooper with trying to provide support to terrorists after he allegedly traveled to Africa to link up with the violent militant group al-Shabaab.
(Reuters) – A young man dressed as “Father Frost” – the Russian equivalent of Father Christmas – was stabbed to death in Tajikistan on Monday in an attack police believe was motivated by religious hatred, two police sources said. A
From the National Post: Give Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney credit for at least this much: On Monday, when he announced that the citizenship oath must now be taken with an uncovered face, he did not pretend that it
From Foreign Policy: U.S. assistance to Egypt is helping political parties of all ideologies prepare for the upcoming elections — even Islamic parties that may have anti-Western agendas. “We don’t do party support. What we do is party training…. And
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) began in the days of detente as a forum for discussion and debate between East and West on issues like “conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.” Unfortunately since the dissolution
Remember: Pakistan already possesses nuclear warheads. From Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper: It flies: but where is it pointed? ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said it had successfully test-fired Friday a stealth cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The military said the “Hatf VII”
Egyptian Presidential Candidate Muhammad Al-Nishai is a walking contradiction. He hates the west….but lives in London and admits that his children are British and American nationals. How can you hate and despise a place that you have chosen to live
From a Middle East correspondent: Beirut Arab news agency al Nashra reported on Saturday November 22, that [White House Muslim envoy] Dalia Mogahed has succeeded in canceling a meeting between the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon and President Barack Obama. Writing
Pakistan supports militants trying to overthrow is government. The United States helped to put him in power. But Afghan President Karzai says he would side with Pakistan over the United States. File under: lack of gratitude. From the Associated Press:
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Will this revolution turn out better than the last one? From Wired: Ahmed Maher: It worked in Egypt, it can work in the US, too! One of the key activists behind Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” is now giving advice to a
WASHINGTON: A miniature “kamikaze” drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army’s arsenal, officials say. Dubbed the “Switchblade,” the robotic aircraft represents the latest
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File it under no good deed goes unpunished. Having fought now for ten years to deliver Afghans from the clutches of the Taliban, now comes a survey which demonstrates that, well, the work has gone unappreciated by a majority of
From the Associated Press: BOSTON — Prosecutors in the case of a Massachusetts man accused of plotting to kill American troops in Iraq won’t be allowed to refer to the troops as “our soldiers” during his trial, a federal judge
Roy Egan defends himself saying that it’s free speech. “I’m not doing anything illegal,” he told this reporter. TSA officials are pushing to fire him. [youtube AplyBYc3ekA]
From the UK’s Daily Mail: A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today. The girl was lured on a shopping
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From the Tehran Times: TEHRAN – The protests on Wall Street are a prelude to the arrival of the American spring, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri said on Sunday. Jazayeri: It’s revolution… The Wall Street protests will
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Dr. Shakeel Afridi A Pakistani doctor accused of running a vaccination programme for the CIA to help track down Osama Bin Laden should be put on trial for high treason, a government commission in Pakistan
Two crucial events are taking place simultaneously. First, the political winds in Iraq continue to blow for the US to “Get Out.” Iraq’s President Jalal al-Talabani just went on record declaring that “all Iraqi political leaders are united that the
From Defense News: Officials oversee destruction of Libyan missiles The NTC [ Libya’s National Transitional Council] estimates that almost 5,000 SAM-7s from Gadhafi’s stockpiles are still unaccounted for – raising concerns that the missiles could fall into the wrong hands
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From the Tehran Times: Vahidi: we don’t need a stinkin’ hotline TEHRAN – Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has said that there is no need for the establishment of a direct military hotline between Iran and the United States. “We had
No, this is not a parody. So who do you root for in this debate? From the UK’s Guardian: Al Qaeda to Ahmadinejad: enough already, give us some credit! Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
David Goldman writes the terrific Spengler column at the Asia Times, and he has a new book out that will completely change the view that many of us have of the Muslim world. In short: the Muslim world is dying.
Bizarre symbols written in ‘invisible paint’ on the undercarriage of several Southwest Airline’s planes are being investigated by the FBI. The writing – which only shows up with heat – appears to be Arabic script. The special chemical paint appears
Brilliant. This is a powerful, thoughtful, and important speech by a Swiss Member of Parliament who lays out precisely how Islamists intend to dominate Europe and the western world. Not every day that you see a pony-tailed MP denouncing “power
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heading to New York for the annual UN General Assembly. He has been weakened internally by political forces, and what’s troubling is that those forces appear to be even more hardline than he is. So
Who can forget the grizzly photos of the Fogel family who were murdered in Itamar? The parents were killed, and then Hakim Awad went on to slit the throats of a 3 month old baby, 11 year old Yoav, and
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Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer is never one to be warm and fuzzy. But he has laid down the gauntlet in his piece over at The National Interest. Scheuer says its time to stop lying to ourselves: we didn’t win
Where will the revolution end up? Foreign Policy reports: Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya’s transitional government Behind the scenes and off the record, officials close to the NTC describe the fissures that have opened up between top military commanders
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Turkey has a fleet of 1,940 aircraft, including F-16s and F-4s. They also have 874 helos. From ynet news: Turkey’s F-16s are now targeting Israel Turkey has developed a new radar system for its US-made F-16 fighter jets that will
From the Associated Press: Libya’s new leaders pledged “moderate” Islamic rule and affirmed their commitment to human rights on Tuesday, even as their fighters were accused of committing possible war crimes. A defiant Moamer Kadhafi, meanwhile, vowed from hiding to