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Russia Rearming

Written by International News Analysis Today

While the President of the United States is equivocating over troop support in Afghanistan and reducing defense spending at home, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is demanding greater efficiency from Russia's arms production facilities, which, he says, already produces "efficient and extremely ...

Turkey: An Ally No More

Written by Daniel Pipes

First published in The Jerusalem Post

"There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These ...

"Migrating from the Saudi Peninsula to Somalia"

Written by NEFA

In a posting on an Al-Qaida web forum, a jihadist recounted his journey from Saudi Arabia to join the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia, in the process providing valuable insight into the radicalization process and the logistics involved in waging jihad in a foreign land. Identifying the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 October 2009 12:26

Mitchell's Mission Impossible

Written by Efraim Inbar

BESA Center Perspectives Papers No. 93, October 22, 2009

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Senator George Mitchell, US Special Envoy to the Middle East, has an impossible task. American clout in the region has waned over the years, and Mitchell faces a situation where a US president advocates a quick end to the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:10

The Lone Voice of Truth At The UN Human Rights Council

Written by UNWatch.org

"As the lone voice, crying in the wilderness, truth is ignored, it goes unheeded. And when the war-mongers and hate merchants, with their spittle-flecked rhetoric, seek to forward their cause at the expense of truth as they are wont to do, all sides suffer."

In the October 16, 2009 emergency UN ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:28

Pakistan: The South Waziristan Migration

Written by Scott Stewart

Pakistan has been a busy place over the past few weeks. The Pakistani armed forces have been conducting raids and airstrikes against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other foreign Islamist fighters in Bajaur Agency, a district inside Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:07

The Historic Accord between Turkey and Armenia: What Lies Ahead?

Written by Gallia Lindenstrauss

INSS Insight No. 136

The agreement signed in Zurich on October 10, 2009 between Turkey and Armenia to establish diplomatic relations offers hope that some of the difficult problems in the southern Caucasus may soon be resolved. The two countries agreed in principle to open the border between them, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 October 2009 18:20

Obama’s Dangerous UN Agenda

Written by Ben Johnson - FrontPageMagazine.com

Much commentary about Barack Obama's speech to the United Nations Wednesday has focused on his description of pre-Obama America as a deadbeat, lawless, foot-dragging country that tortures innocent Muslims, or did until his glorious ascension to the right hand of power. The predictable emphasis on ...

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Last Updated on Saturday, 26 September 2009 18:47

President Obama Must Not Surrender to Russia on Missile Defense

Written by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. and Sally McNamara

Heritage.org

Reports in the Polish media strongly suggest that the Obama Administration is about to abandon its plans for "third site" missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic.[1] Abandoning the third site would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a ...

Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2009 11:13

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