
U.S. Agenda for Libya Must Include Securing of WMD, Arms Stockpiles
A Libyan rebel holds a Kingdom of Libya flag at Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Joyful Libyan rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli bastion on Tuesday, seizing weapons and loot and destroying symbols of a 42-year dictatorship they declared was now over as they set about hunting down the fallen ruler and his […]

Breaking Down the Urban Area Security Initiative
A recent report by the National Urban Area Initiative Association attempts to demonstrate that the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program, created in 2003, is an effective homeland security program. Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the UASI program allocates grant funding to help high-risk, high-density urban areas develop the capacity “to […]

Syrian President Bashar Assad: Obama Should Resign
Syrian President Bashar Assad took advantage of the interview he gave to Syrian state television on Sunday and responded to U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for him to resign by saying Obama himself should resign. Assad said in the interview that the U.S. stands alongside Israel who commits crimes against Arabs and Palestinians. What the […]

Libyan Blues – Western Forces May Have Brought Civilization’s Worst Enemies to Power
by Daniel Pipes August 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Many are ready to party about the political demise of the hated, eccentric, and foul Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi as rebel troops move into Tripoli. I am not partying. Here’s why not. The NATO intervention in March 2011 was done without due diligence as to who […]

Breaking News: Gaddafi Loyalists Take Back Several Strategic Locations in Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Libya — Forces loyal to the fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the night before, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and tempering hopes that the battle for Tripoli was all but over. The dramatic appearance Monday night of […]

Ten U.S Cases in Which Sharia Law Trumped the Constitution in Courts
Below are ten cases of American Muslim Families who have encountered conflicts between the equal protection under the Constitution they should have received, and legal discrimination imposed on them by Shariah law – in American Courts (excerpted from“Shariah Law and American State Courts“). In cases 1-3, the Appellate Courts upheld Shariah law; in cases 4-7, […]

Hamas Breaks Its Ceasefire 14 Times in 24 Hours
Hamas has repeated its past performance of declaring a ceasefire and immediately breaking it, firing more than a dozen more rockets and mortar shells on southern Israel Sunday night and Monday morning. One rocket in the pre-dawn hours hit a building in the Eshkol region, adjacent to Gaza, causing damage but no injuries. The Israeli […]

Barrage of Bias: Horrendous Headlines
Headlines often set the entire tone of an article and are the first things that the reader sees. The events of the past few days have generated some horrendous headlines. Here are just a few that we spotted: Perhaps the worst headline belonged to The Independent, which attributed to Israel uniquely malevolent qualities. Was Israel […]

The Club-K: A Deadly “Pandora’s Box” of Cruise Missiles
Russia’s military-industrial complex is offering an ominous weapons system in the international arms market called the Club-K cruise missile system. It consists of a quadruple launcher for Club cruise missiles hidden inside an innocuous-looking cargo container that serves as cover for the missiles’ Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) and the control cabin, where two operators would handle the […]

Qadhafi Fall Would Deal a Double Blow to a Beleaguered Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) shakes hands with Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi in Tripoli on May 17, 2006. As jubilant Libyans take to the street to celebrate the imminent fall of Muammar Qadhafi, the fate of Libya’s leader remains uncertain: trial or exile? Press resources speculate that he may be headed to a friendly country. […]

Libyan Rebels Advance on Tripoli: The Approaching Endgame
Libyan rebels converged on the capital city of Tripoli early on Monday with reports that the forces arrested two of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s sons, that the presidential guard protecting Qadhafi surrendered, and that the rebel forces controlled much of the city with the exception of Qadhafi’s leadership compound. Meanwhile, President Obama released a statement saying the […]
