debkafile’s Iranian sources report a large bomb exploded against the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s heavily secured armored convoy as it drove through the northern Iranian city of Hamadan Wednesday, Aug. 4. He was reported unhurt. Some of his bodyguards and bystanders were killed or injured. Iranian media reported the explosion hit a minivan carrying correspondents […]
What were photographers and journalists doing at the scene of the incident before a deadly exchange of fire between Lebanese and Israeli forces? A fatal exchange of fire between Lebanese soldiers and the IDF on Israel’s northern border has left one Israeli soldier dead along with 4 other fatalities on the Lebanese side. The incident also raises […]
Posted by The Directors If you read no further, know this: RedState supports the Anti-Defamation League in its opposition to the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The ADL is right on all counts: in its rejection of bigotry, its affirmation of American religious freedom, and its declaration that common decency demands the end of this effort. […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online August 3, 2010 Britain’s largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based […]
by Daniel Pipes August 2, 2010 It was twenty years ago on this day, that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, initiating a crisis that lasted half a year and beginning the slow turn of events that led eventually to his own overthrow and execution, followed by the American-led occupation. While immensely important in the history of […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu New jihadi anti-American incitement features an animated clip of a sword beheading U.S. President Barack Obama. Other candidates for beheading in the clip are U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, U.S. General David Petraeus and Pope Benedict. The website’s message, translated by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), was posted Monday […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Turkey’s rapid drift to the Iranian-Hamas axis has reached new heights, with de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh naming his grandson “Erdogan,” after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The honor bestowed by Haniyeh came a week after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met in Damascus with Hamas’s top leader, […]
by Elad Benari The US military announced on Sunday that it has a plan in place to strike Iran should the need arise to do so. During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US, said that although he believes that a military […]
by Eli Stutz If you heard about an attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in which hundreds of civilians were killed, would you assume that the attack had been perpetrated by Israel? According to Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, you very likely would – and you’d be wrong. In an op-ed that appears today in […]
By Aaron Klein– A religion adviser to President Obama has close ties to a radical Muslim group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas. The group, the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, has an extensive relationship with the Obama administration. In February, Obama named a Chicago Muslim, […]
