From The Times January 6, 2010 Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents ‘was triple agent’ Al-Balawi practised medicine at this UN clinic in the Hittin Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan Rana Sabbagh-Gargourin in Amman The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed several CIA agents in Afghanistan last week fooled Amman’s intelligence agency into believing that […]
Exclusive: The International Atomic Energy Agency: Nuclear Watchdog or Iran’s Lapdog? (Part One of Two) Dr. Robin McFee Author’s note: This is Part One of a series on the IAEA, nuclear threats and Iran. “The greatest danger to Israel, to the Middle East, and to all of humanity, is the encounter between extremist Islam and […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/05/pruden-a-little-religion-for-the-messiah/?feat=home_headlines PRUDEN: A little religion for the messiah Wesley Pruden Since it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, even downwind from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his deadly skivvies, we may owe a profound debt of gratitude to the Detroit underwear bomber. He’s the instrument, maybe, of Barack Obama getting a little religion, and if […]
Is Profiling the Solution to Stopping Terrorists? The Northwest Flight 253 bombing attempt has once again reignited the debate over using profiling as a security technique. Many have pointed out over the years that ethnic profiling could have stopped the attacks of September 11. And it probably could have. But profiling alone is not the […]
After Attack on Danish Cartoonist The West Is Choked by Fear An Editorial by Henryk M. Broder The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn’t the first attempt to carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie 20 years ago, the protests among intellectuals were loud. Today, though, Western writers and thinkers […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/saudi_arabia_spoilt_child_of_t.html Saudi Arabia: Spoilt Child of the Middle East By Michael I. Krauss In one of the supreme acts of chutzpah of our new decade, Saudi Arabia has just accused Israel of behaving like a “spoilt child,” getting away with “war crimes” (cf. Gaza operations) and “violations of international law” (cf. new “settlements” in Jerusalem). […]
Profiling? Heavens, Not Us! Posted By Jack Dunphy A few years ago, my wife and I traveled on the Eurostar train from Paris to London. When the train arrived at Waterloo Station (today Eurostar operates from St. Pancras), we disembarked with the other passengers and filed down a long walkway toward the terminal exit. A […]
OPINION: GLOBAL VIEW JANUARY 4, 2010, 10:44 P.M. ET Our Incompetent Civilization Sometimes we have to choose between evils. By BRET STEPHENS When does a civilization become incompetent? I’ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist […]
Dems look to skip formality on health bills Jennifer Haberkorn http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/05/democrats-look-to-skip-formality-on-health-bills//print/ Democratic leaders are looking to forgo a formal, public conference to merge the House and Senate’s health care overhaul bills, giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House free rein to hammer out the final measure behind closed […]
HANDING IT OVER WITH A TONGUE THAT CLEAVES TO THE PALATE AND A WITHERED HAND….THEY WILL FORGET JERUSALEM….RSK http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians Israel approves east Jerusalem building project By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 34 mins ago JERUSALEM – Israel has approved construction of four new apartment buildings in disputed east […]
