http://pjmedia.com/blog/congress-warned-about-evolution-of-jihadist-networks/?print=1 WASHINGTON – Terrorism experts warned Congress last week that Islamist terrorist groups are expanding in complex networks across the Middle East, highlighting the evolving nature of the threat these organizations pose to the region. Seth Jones, a national security analyst with the RAND Corporation, told the House Armed Services Committee that there has been […]
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/02/12/dont-celebrate-eric-holders-departure/?print=1 Nobody should celebrate the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will be leaving the administration this year. Whoever replaces Holder will be just as radical and ideological. What the replacement will enjoy, however, is a clean slate. Some will naively assume a new attorney general means a fresh start and an attorney general better […]
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2014/02/12/israel-at-a-point-of-no-return-in-the-right-direction/ I should like to advance a conjecture which I lack the qualifications to adequately develop: The global Left, and the Israeli Left most of all, perceives that the clock is running out, and has worked itself up into a froth of hysteria against Israel. The world of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” where there are no […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/371025/delaying-obamacare-death-john-daniel-davidson Given the number and frequency of the Obama administration’s delays of Obamacare — more than a dozen, by some counts — it’s clear that the White House believes the law is as malleable as it needs it to be and that almost any alteration of it falls within the purview of executive authority. But […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/371002/print We didn’t need the Olympics to be reminded that Vladimir Putin still has a soft spot for his nation’s defunct Communist system. In 2009, Russian state television aired a documentary called “The Wall.” It detailed how, as a KGB major in Dresden in 1989, he faced down a crowd of East German dissidents who […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370985/obamas-newspeak-victor-davis-hanson The meaning of words, and history itself, are malleable when it comes to our president and his record. The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels “1984 and Animal Farm gave us the word “Orwellian.” That adjective reflects a vast government’s efforts not just to deceive and control the people, but also to […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/businesses_must_swear_to_the_irs_that_obamacare_had_nothing_to_do_with_firings.html Businesses must swear to the IRS that Obamacare had nothing to do with firings In delaying the employer mandate – again – the White House made it clear that businesses thinking of downsizing their company to avoid Obamacare mandates better think again. Fox News: Is the latest delay of ObamaCare regulations politically motivated? Consider […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3766/tensions_high_in_british_town_after_muslim_youths_attack_white_girls A video from earlier this week claims to show a gang of “Muslim youths” attacking “white girls” in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne Tensions are running high in the northern English town of Ashton-under-Lyne after a video circulating online showed a gang of what is reported as British-Pakistani youths attacking young “white girls” at a […]
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Rabab Fathy reports for The Cairo Post that on Feb. 11, 2014, the U.S. embassy in Cairo confirmed that the Egyptian governments National Security Agency had arrested a local embassy employee on Jan. 25.
Mofid al-Deek, Media Attaché and the spokesperson of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, said: We confirm that one of our local employees was arrested on Jan. 25. According to our information, there are no charges against him so far. The embassy is communicating with the Egyptian government to understand the reason for the employees detention.
A security source reported National Security arrested Ahmed A., a U.S embassy employee in charge of the political Islam file, who was in constant contact with Khairat el-Shater, First Deputy of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, when the group ruled the country.
The suspect was arrested while participating with others in marches and riots in Giza Governorate. He is being investigated by the National Security Agency to determine the dimensions of his activity.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4167/nuland-ukraine-eu No one in the world takes the unelected, unaccountable and non-transparent EU seriously, except its members — least of all the Iranians, who benefit so much from their greed and naïevté. The biggest farce in international politics is the European Union. Last week, the EU’s international figurehead, Catherine Ashton, the “High Representative of the […]
