This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Over 90 killed in massive street protests in Syria On Friday, tens of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets after midday prayers in cities across the country and chanted anti-government slogans, “Freedom, freedom,”
“What is seen just across the border from us… is what people have sometimes described as being worse than what is happening in Iraq.” -Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Today on Secure Freedom Radio: Sigifredo Gonzalez, sheriff of Zapata county in Texas,
Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a fencemending mission to Pakistan, accused Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of aiding the Haqqani militants, in an interview with Dawn (Pakistan). Adm. Mike Mullen meets with Pakistan’s Chairman
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Pakistan and India release each other’s fishing prisoners On Monday, India released 39 Pakistani prisoners who had allegedly been fishing in India’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. Pakistan released 89 Indian prisoners who
A meeting between CIA Director Leon Panetta and Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) head Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha in Washington was cut short on Monday, apparently over disagreements about joint US-Pakistan cooperation on the war on terror within Pakistan
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On March 17, when the United Nations Security Council passed the resolution authorizing military action against Libya, the vote was 10-0, with five abstentions: China, Russia, Brazil, Germany and India. (See “18-Mar-11 News — UN declares war after Gaddafi threatens
On March 9, al-Jazeera broadcast a show that interviewed several Bahraini protesters. Since then, all those interviewed have been arrested, or beaten or are in hiding, according to al-Jazeera. That shows how thorough Barain’s officials have been. Protester allegedly beaten
In a sharp about-face of policy, the Obama administration is backing away from President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, America’s long-time ally in the war against terror. The administration had fully supported Saleh until news leaked out this weekend, confirmed
Every media outlet has covered the crisis in Libya but none have identified how the crisis can actually jeopardize our own homeland security. With U.S. engagement in Libya, it’s highly likely that in one way or another, some form of
On Monday, more than 100 people were killed, and dozens injured, from an explosion in a weapons factory in Abyan province in Yemen, according to CNN. Yemen (CS Monitor) There is a bizarre story behind this explosion. On Sunday, around
It should have come as no surprise that the Saudi royals welcomed “the butcher of Tunis”, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali when others spurned his request for asylum. It’s worth noting that Bin Ali is neither the first tyrant nor the
A week ago President Obama, without Congressional approval, committed our armed forces to an international conflict in the nation of Libya. Today Congressman Amash (R-Mich) and I are introducing the RECLAIM Act to reclaim Congressional authority to declare war that
On March 11, a suspected terrorist broke into the home of an Israeli family and committed an unspeakable act, butchering five members of the family, including an infant, while they slept. Fox News Channel had the gruesome details: Five members
As world events are reported, another tragedy that rarely makes the headlines is happening and has been for several years, which our media on the right, left and Christian will not report and inform the people of the Western world.
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, explains in his book “Al-Din wal-Siyasa” (Religion and Politics) that religion and politics in Islam are inseparable: “The Islam which was initiated by Allah did not set aside any of
The Obama administration has bought the freedom of Raymond Davis, a U.S. special forces veteran-turned CIA contractor who was working under diplomatic cover in Pakistan when he killed two locals as they attempted an armed ambush while Davis was driving
Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports on the freeing of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was being held in Pakistan on murder charges. Davis said that he acted in self-defense. The report: ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan court on Wednesday freed CIA contractor Raymond
Saturday’s massive attack by Yemen’s security forces on unarmed protesters in Sanaa (see “13-Mar-11 News — Police in Yemen fire live bullets on protesters, killing three”), killing two protesters and injuring over 100, is having repercussions in the form of
Unmanned aerial assets are a real treat in the war on terror. They are cost efficient (roughly at $4 million respectively), stealthy and accurate at virtually no human costs on our end. They can survey from 6,000 to 20,000 feet
American leaders will suffer the same fate as despotic Middle Eastern rulers, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Thursday. Just as revolution brought about regime change in Egypt and Tunisia, the United States will be defeated by an Islamic
More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of
The hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community, scheduled to begin on March 10, 2011, are past due. The reluctance to confront this disease affected American policy makers, monitoring organizations and the media, and judging by the wide spread
If you want an illustration of successful multinational counterinsurgency and the potential for civilian life in Afghanistan, just look to Marja, says Rep. Bobby Schilling. “Last year, if you were to go there, what would happen is you would be
So Sunday, a few hundred protesters showed up in Times Square to denounce the upcoming House hearings on Radicalization in the American Muslim community. The crowd, well-organized with professional signs that read ” ‘Today I am a Muslim Too,” targeted
This is not 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down and democracy sprouted in Central Europe. North Africa and the Middle East are facing convulsions and it is more likely that perpetual conflict and civil war will be the future
13-year-old Jesse Bender was going to travel to Pakistan with her stepfather Mohammad Khan but she fled over fears that she was going there for an arranged marriage. the Daily Mail reports: “A 13-year-old girl who had been missing for
Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet minister, and a staunch opponent of his nation’s blasphemy laws, was gunned down Wednesday as he went to work in Islamabad. Police reportedly found leaflets from the Pakistan Taliban near the scene of Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination
Dictators ruled the Arab countries of the Middle East after World War One. These leaders have subjugated their people and made war on Israel and have brutalized each other in tribal and religious conflicts. During the dominance of the British
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi continued his defiant rhetoric on Friday, saying that he would “crush any enemy,” according to Reuters. He spoke to thousands of supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square, and threatened to open his military arsenals and make weapons
Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks provide another reminder that al-Qaida remains committed to obtaining weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and “dirty bombs.” Security briefing cables published by the London Telegraph – some as recent
I thought I was the only one that noticed this crucial and portentous development in the Middle East: the Egyptian military– the force so many Western observers believed would be the bulwark keeping the Islamist parties at bay– gave a
When a member of Salmaan Taseer’s personal security team pumped twenty-seven bullets into the Punjab Governor as he visited an Islamabad market, people wondered whether the scales had tipped against the voices of tolerance in favor of violent extremism. Thousands
14 Feburary 2011 Salween River: Burma on the left, Thailand on the right. The Salween River forms a border between Thailand and Burma. “Rambo” fictionally crossed this jungle current in the movie Rambo IV. But there is nothing fictional about
Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation On February 14, Sean Hannity asked whether the Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or “taqiyya”) during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse. Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28,
Muslim spokesmen and Islamic apologists in the West love to trot out the “shared Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage and values” line, insinuating that Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians, and also revere their prophets and scriptures. For example, Dr.
The United States and Pakistan are becoming increasingly divided over the fight against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. There are strong elements in Pakistani intelligence (ISI) who openly back the Taliban. And there is deep resentment against the United States
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America’s borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives
I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can
It is now becoming apparent that President Obama is heavily involved in regime change in Egypt. Despite earlier claims that the US was neutral, there is growing evidence that Obama has been working since the earliest stages to oust Hosni