May 13, 2012 A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt’s presidential election has branded Israel a “racist state” and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was “a national security threat” that should be revised. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh also denounced Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s assassination by US special forces as an act of “state terrorism,” [...]

Published May 13, 2012 Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan –  An assassin armed with a silenced pistol shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday at a traffic intersection in the nation’s capital, police said. The killing strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war. Arsala Rahmani [...]

May 12, 2012 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that war was not essential to achieve the destruction of Israel, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported. “The destruction of the Zionist regime does not necessitate making war,” he said in a speech during a tour of northeast Iran. “If countries of the region cut ties [...]

The two-star general wrote the book on Vietnam and showed the way for the surge in Iraq. Now he’s back from 20 months in Afghanistan—and says the war can be won. May 11, 2012 – WSJ By DAVID FEITH Washington, D.C. ‘The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place [...]

May 12 – Oliver North WASHINGTON — Last week, this column described a deadly suicide attack by the Haqqani network on a secure compound outside Kabul, Afghanistan, and the failure of NATO officials to heed human intelligence that might have saved lives. I wrote, “The intel provided included information on how to precisely locate the [...]

By Sara Sorcher Updated: May 11, 2012 Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., returned this week from visits to Afghanistan and Egypt, among other countries. He discussed his trip with National Journal. Edited excerpts follow. NJ You were in Afghanistan just before President Obama signed the strategic-partnership agreement outlining the relationship between the [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, May 11, 2012 The U.S. dodged another terrorist bullet when a would-be “underwear bomber” turned out to be a double agent. The news became public this week after rumors had circulated in April that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a Yemini-based group that is now the chief terrorist [...]

May 11, 2912 By Elad Benari The United States is worried that Shaul Mofaz and his Kadima party’s joining a unity government with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could result in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities at any given moment, according to a report on Channel 10 News on Thursday. U.S. government officials told Channel [...]

A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq. May 9, 2012 – WSJ A captured senior Hezbollah operative who confessed to the torture and murder of American soldiers may soon walk free. This travesty is a betrayal of those fallen men, and an indictment of the Obama Administration’s politically contorted approach to [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Thursday, May 10, 2012 What the successful counterterrorism operations tells us about the war on terror. On Monday it was revealed that the CIA had thwarted a new al-Qaeda-sponsored terror plot hatched in Yemen. The scheme was brought down by a man said to have been a mole for the CIA and Saudi [...]