President Obama’s address by video Saturday to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/13/president-obama-addresses-us-islamic-world-forum In it, he announces “that I am appointing my Special Envoy to the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] —Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a […]
February 14, 2010 India police: Pune bomb likely meant for Chabad House By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent and AP Explosion in Pune restaurant popular with foreigners near famed meditation center kills 9, wounds 53. A bomb tore through a crowded cafe popular with foreigners on Saturday in the city of Pune in western India, killing […]
Cut! Cameron blasts Israel boycotts BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT 12/02/2010 WASHINGTON – Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has strongly condemned efforts to boycott Israeli artists after his name was wrongly added to one such recent petition. “To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor February 12, 2010 4:00 P.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/424948/no-compromise-on-enemy-combatants/andrew-c-mccarthy No Compromise on Enemy Combatants We’re winning because we should be winning. Imagine the Yanks are beating the Mets 12–0 in the eighth inning (I know — not hard to imagine). Now, imagine if the Mets approach the Yanks and […]
Hamas leader warns of new war with Israel involving entire region 12 February 2010 The exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has warned that if a new war broke out with Israel it would not be limited to the Gaza Strip but involve the wider Middle East. In an interview with the Arab newspaper ‘al-Hayat’, which […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot A Bipartisan Terror Trial Posted by Max Boot on February 12, 2010 @ 11:24 AM It’s nice to know that, according to the Washington Post [1], “President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,†although this raises the obvious question […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-677078,00.html Karl Bernd Karwasz “Banned, Destroyed, Obliterated. Your Freedom came through Murder,” reads this sign by far-right protesters at last year’s anniversary of the Dresden bombing. Far-Right Gears Up to Mourn Dresden Bombing By Steffen Winter The German far right traditionally stages a march on Feb. 13 of each year to commemorate the bombing of […]
Taliban Wants to Exchange U.S. Soldier for ‘Lady Al-Qaeda’ Posted By Annie Jacobsen Last week, a jury in a New York federal court convicted Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui [1] on two counts of attempted murder. In 2008, while detained in Afghanistan, Siddiqui grabbed a rifle and fired at Army officers and FBI agents. Now, in […]
Abbas aide sex tape scandal shakes Palestinians By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writers Karin Laub And Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press Writers 4 mins ago RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian officials on Friday rallied around a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after a video surfaced showing him in the nude in […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/424653/obamas-very-weak-hand/james-c-capretta Obama’s Very Weak Hand When all else fails, try bipartisanship. Suddenly, bipartisanship is all the rage at the Obama White House. The president has announced that he will hold a bipartisan gathering on February 25 at Blair House, across the street from the White House, in an effort to get the health-care legislative effort […]
