Call it one of many of Obama’s dirty secrets. Washington covertly recruits, funds, arms, trains, and directs extremist Islamic State and other Takfiri terrorists. The same ones it lies about waging war on. Uses them as proxies against its adversaries. Notably during Obama’s tenure against Libya’s Gaddafi. Currently against Assad in Syria. Ahead against future […]
By INSS Mark A. Heller Like the leaders of other Western countries targeted by Islamist terrorists, French President François Hollande has insisted that the recent attacks in Paris are not a product of Islam. In a press conference immediately following the atrocity in the offices of Charlie Hebdo, Hollande stressed that “Islam has nothing to […]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A Qatari man declared an enemy combatant by the Bush administration following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and imprisoned over links to al-Qaida has returned home to the Gulf nation after quietly being released by U.S. authorities. Ali al-Marri was arrested in December 2001 while attending graduate school in central Illinois. […]
Miss Lebanon can breathe a sigh of relief: Despite the fact that a photograph of her alongside with Miss Israel appeared on the internet, she will not be stripped of her title or punished. “According to the information we obtained, Miss Lebanon [Saly Greige] did not have bad intentions that necessitates her being stripped of […]
The election victory of Greece’s Syriza party and Alexis Tsipras is “bad news for Israel.” The party has constantly identified itself with the Palestinian cause and its programme include a demand for abolition of Greece’s military cooperation with Israel and the support for the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Israel and […]
One of the surviving cartoonists for the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo shrugged off the support the publication was receiving since last week’s Islamic terrorist attack from figures such as Queen Elizabeth and Pope Francis, saying, “we vomit on all these people.” Bernard ‘Willem’ Holtrop, a cartoonist for satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. (AP) Cartoonist Bernard Holtrop, […]
January 27 is International Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. With this in mind and the aftermath of the Paris terror attack on a kosher supermarket, there has been a great deal of discussion and commemoration in the media. But could the BBC have asked a more crass, insensitive […]
The United States believes it has killed about 6,000 jihadists in its air strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, defense officials said Thursday, according to AFP. Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, however, warned against resorting to “body counts” to measure progress in the war. The estimate of how many ISIS fighters had been taken out […]
By Patrick Henningsen Poor John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Washington’s real first couple. They only want to arm the ‘moderate opposition’ in Syria. Three years on, how come their master plan isn’t working, while ISIS has grown so strong? In the light of the recent Paris Attacks it’s more important than ever to take a […]
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday reiterated once again that he will veto proposed bipartisan legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran so long as diplomatic negotiations over a nuclear deal remain underway. “I will veto a bill that comes to my desk,” Obama said in response to a question from ABC News at a […]
