Last Sunday, as Coptic Christians assembled peacefully in Maspero, Egypt to protest the burning of a Coptic church. The army responded by opening fire on protesters and deliberately driving armored vehicles into the crowd. Video (Warning: graphic), shows military vehicles plowing into the crowds, actively attempting to run down protestors at high speeds. According...
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It seems as though it is now understood and was even at the time, that the September 11th attacks marked the true demarcation line between the 20th and 21st centuries. The 20th century, filled though it was with both innovation and horror in equal measure, was nevertheless the “modern” century. And on that September...
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I recently attended a briefing by a former NYPD counterterrorism official on the risk to the United States from so-called “Lone Wolf” terror attacks. Generally speaking a “Lone Wolf” is a terrorist who is not a member of any larger international or domestic terrorist organization, who launches a terrorist attack utilizing only what weapons...
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As the Arab Spring has transformed itself into the long, hot Islamic summer, optimism about the Arab world has had to undergo a significant reality check in America and the West. First off, the sobering results of a recent poll, taken by  Zogby International together with the Arab American Institute; this poll, which was...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Roaches scatter when the lights go on. Hollywood movies have taught us that once the hero has shined a light on the doers of evil, bringing troubling matters to light, the cops swoop in, the bad actors are rounded up, the credits roll, and the camera pans up to...
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President Barack Obama took the opportunity while speaking before a crowd of thousands at the AIPAC annual meeting this week to reiterate his Middle East policy as presented in an earlier speech to the State Department — a speech which raised serious concerns among the pro-Israel policy community.  The general message of his remarks...
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In the days following the killing of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, a number of things have come sharply into focus. One of them, the duplicity of our supposed ally “Pakistan,” which claims to have been blissfully unaware of Bin Laden’s immense residence and safe house, located smack dab in the middle of Abbottabad, one...
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President Jimmy Carter’s ultimate transformation into what might politely be called “a shill of Hamas” and what would less politely be termed a, “material supporter of terrorism,” is a tragedy, yet in many ways instructive. His current state looks like the final, tragic stage of the degenerative disease that could be called “peace-process-ism.” Although...
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One of the great mysteries of the federal terrorism Holy Land Foundation Trial, which blew the lid off the Muslim Brotherhood (M.B.) in America, was why, although the government had the evidence, further prosecutions never took place against the long list of co-conspirators . Documents and wire taps had named dozens of Brothers and...
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A shocking memorandum by Syrian intelligence uncovered last week instructed plainclothes secret policemen, who have mixed with the protesters, to open fire upon their own military officers and security forces, “in order to further deceive the enemy.”  “In the event of protesters’ deaths,” security officials were instructed to say , “armed gangs and extremist...
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