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Red Team, CENTCOM thinks outside the box on Hamas and Hezbollah.

The same senior officer wasn't impressed. "Putting Hizballah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda in the same sentence, as if they are all the same, is just stupid," he

Watching Israel Delegitimize the U.S.

The U.S.-Israeli relationship has long been America's Achilles heel. Our first president warned against "entangled alliances" particularly when, as here, there's a "passionate attachment."

Al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya and Political Islam in Somalia

This paper analyzes the factors that aided and hampered the growth and popularity of political Islam in Somalia by tracing the history of al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya. After examining the emergence of

Why is the Arab world frozen in time?

Why is it that at the beginning of the 21st century the Arab world seems stuck in time? Why are most Arabs still ruled by kings or military dictatorships? And

Yemen: Seventh Int’l Conference on Islamic moderation begins

Scholars, thinkers, and academics from Yemen , Sudan , Morocco , Egypt , Syria , Bahrain , Jordan and Germany met on Wednesday May 19, in the seventh International Conference

America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai

The Obama administration’s devolving relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul is also an eerie summary of relations between the Kennedy administration and South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

Watching Innocent Iraqis Die

The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org

It’s All about Reconciliation

Tariq Ramadan is a public intellectual who has been a figure of both much praise and much condemnation, occasioned by controversial statements and positions that have cast him alternately as

Terrorist or militia member, where is the line?

The media went nuts, especially the cable networks. WAR ON TERROR banners crawled across every news alert.

Who’s afraid of 9/11 conspiracy theories?

Maidhc ? Cathail views some of the more intriguing facts as reported in the mainstream media implicating Israel in the 9/11 attack on the New York Twin Towers.