May 5, 2012 (AP) TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s support in Iran’s parliament crumbled as final results released Saturday showed conservative rivals consolidating their hold on the legislative body in a runoff vote.  Iran has touted a robust turnout for Friday’s vote as a show of support for the country’s religious leadership in its [...]

By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: May 5, 2012 GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed fingered his long, henna-dyed beard and stared down in silence on Saturday, pointedly ignoring a military commissions judge asking in vain whether the self-described architect of the Sept. 11 attacks understood what was being said and whether he was willing to [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Saturday, May 5, 2012 Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, briefed Christian supporters of the Jewish state this morning. He told a hushed audience crowded into his Embassy’s Jerusalem Auditorium of a recent visit by U.S. intelligence specialists. They [...]

John Hudson  May 4, 2012 Remember back in 2008, when Iran Photoshopped an extra missile into a photograph of its missile test? Turns out, bad habits die hard. The Atlantic Wire has caught Iran’s semi-official Mehrs News Agency (MNA) using another digitally-altered image to depict its missile program. Only this time, the image is even more egregiously Photoshopped.  On [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, May 4, 2012 WASHINGTON — My old American Heritage Dictionary defines the word “theater,” inter alia, as “a large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated.” Throughout World War II, official dispatches and press reports described military action and events in the European, Pacific and China-Burma-India “theaters of [...]

Politically correct Defense Department mobilizes to defend Islam By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, May 3, 2012 America’s top-line military schools are supposed to be cutting-edge centers of strategic education. But say a bad word about Islam there, and it could end your career. On April 24, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs [...]

By Mike Baker Published May 03, 2012 FoxNews.com In a dazzling demonstration of pure coincidence, President Obama landed in Afghanistan this week on the one year anniversary of Usama bin Laden’s death. I say coincidence because only a hardened cynic would think that the White House political team cooked up an opportunity to give a [...]

Published May 04, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON –  It may be time for the world to acknowledge that a cease-fire is not holding in Syria, and that it is time to try another approach to stop the violence, the White House said Thursday. “If the regime’s intransigence continues, the international community is going to have [...]

May 4, 2012 (AP) MEXICO CITY – Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in [...]

Al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn a fan of 60 Minutes but said Fox News ‘lacks neutrality’ and CBS is ‘close to being unbiased’  Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 May 2012 15.01 EDT Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from [...]