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Fort Hood Victims: Adding Insult to Injury
Newscom The Pentagon announced this week that those service members who had been wounded during the deadly attack at Fort Hood, Texas, perpetrated by Major Nidal Hassan would not be considered eligible...
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Europe Must Face Up to Hezbollah’s Bloody Legacy
MAZEN MAHDI/EPA/Newscom This week, the parliament of Bahrain voted unanimously to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization. “It is time we join the world in outlawing this group, which has terrorized...
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Solar Flare: EMP Is Still a Threat
Newscom Last week, NASA observed the largest solar flare of the year. The coronal mass ejection was one “powerful enough to cause a brief radio blackout.” Indeed, there were some small instances of...
View ArticleChechnya: A Troubled Land
News out of Boston today has focused attention on the increasing extremist violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region, as two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings have been identified as Chechnya...
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Boston Bombers Have Roots in the Ungovernable, Islamist North Caucasus
The North Caucasus has emerged as an ungovernable safe haven for terrorists, as the government of Russia is at the end of its wits as to how to stem the Islamist insurrection. The brothers who...
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Afghanistan: “Zero Option” Has Zero Chance of Working
EdStock/iStock Photo Senator John McCain (R–AZ) bombarded top U.S. commander in Afghanistan General Joseph Dunford at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with tough questions when he...
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Boston Bombers Received Welfare Benefits
FBI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom According to the Boston Herald and other news sources, the family of the Boston Marathon bombers received large amounts of welfare benefits. This calls attention to the...
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Outrage Grows Over U.N. Official’s Boston Comments
CEM TURKEL/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The chorus of those calling for the resignation of Richard Falk from his position with the U.N. Human Rights Council is growing ever louder. Falk is the U.N....
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Defense Budget Cuts Troubling in a Dangerous World
Newscom Cuts in President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 defense budget submission are troubling, according to Mike Rogers (R–AL), Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, House Armed Services...
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Pakistan Elections May Go to the Terrorists
HAJI MUSLIM/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom In the lead up to the historic May 11 elections, the Pakistani Taliban (also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP) and other radical Islamist groups are...
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Benghazi Exposes Failures of Obama Doctrine
MCT/Newscom President Obama’s aggressive response to legitimate questions about Benghazi at his news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron—calling these important investigations a...
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With Growing National Security Threats, A New Counterterrorism Direction Is...
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Later this week, President Obama will travel to the National Defense University (NDU) for a major policy address. Under massive pressure to address his...
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London Terror Attack A Reminder Terrorism Is Not Over
JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Yesterday’s horrific daylight terror attack in London, which left one British soldier dead, is another reminder that Islamic fundamentalists will stop at nothing...
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Morning Bell: President Obama Is Tired of Fighting Terrorism
Polaris/Newscom “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” These...
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Will President Obama Call the London Attack Terrorism?
JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom President Obama refused to call the London terror attack terrorism yesterday in his major speech on countering terrorism. In fact, he did not even utter the word...
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Phone Records and the NSA: Legal and Keeping America Safe
Guardian/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/EPA/Newscom A couple weeks ago, Edward Snowden exposed a NSA counterterrorism program that collects the phone records of millions of U.S. citizens. As Mr. Snowden...
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Iran in Latin America: State Department Ignores Allies
Newscom The State Department recently released a report to Congress assessing the threat posed by Iran in the Western Hemisphere. Regrettably, it seems that the State Department neglected to consult...
View ArticleGreat Green Fleet = Big Red Ink
It seems that Washington has a mandate, subsidy, or loan program for every bad idea. Today’s example is military biofuels. Just this spring, the Defense Department issued another multimillion-dollar...
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Embassy Closings Reflect Benghazi Failure
Newscom The closing of 21 U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East grows out of the September 11, 2012, Benghazi attack in at least two ways: The failure of the Obama Administration to retaliate in...
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War of Tweets: The State Department Takes on Islamists
Newscom Twitter and other social media are the new battle ground in the war of ideas between Islamist radicals and the U.S. State Department. Since July 17, Islamist tweeters and the State Department’s...
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