Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:01 pm CET
Post Pic

ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization

Overall analysis of a jihadi terrorist organisation… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sun, January 12, 2014 at 19:59 pm CET
Post Pic

The Hopelessness of Victory

Middle Eastern policy is deemed to flourish on victory… Read more

Topics: Egypt • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, December 16, 2013 at 23:10 pm CET
Post Pic

Why al-Qa’ida Is Attractive (for U.S. Support of Other Islamists)

The wrong ideas are deeply embedded in large parts of the arrogant, ignorant, and financially interested establishment… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamism • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sun, November 17, 2013 at 23:25 pm CET
Post Pic

The Al-Nusra Front’s Major Role in the Rebel Takeover of a Large Syrian Army Arsenal

A large rebel military operation took control of a Syrian army precinct in the village of Mahin… Continue reading

Topics: Jabhat al-Nusra • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, August 29, 2013 at 21:35 pm CEST
Post Pic

Writing the bin Laden Story

Reviewing the biographies of America’s late enemy number one… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 21:22 pm CEST
Post Pic

Unlike Madonna, the Middle East Isn’t a “Material Girl”

The problem is radical ideology in command on the sides of both leaders and the masses… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Culture • Islamism • Religion • The Middle East • Western Culture 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
Post Pic

Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Wed, April 17, 2013 at 12:29 pm CEST
Post Pic

Some Theories on the Boston Marathon Bombing

Some thoughts on the source of the attack… Continue reading

Topics: Counter-terrorism • Islamic Terrorism • Rob Harris • Security and Defense • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Fri, February 22, 2013 at 17:21 pm CET
Post Pic

Why the CIA Director is Wrong: Rethinking al-Qaida

It’s time, a dozen years after September 11 and following Islamist coups in the Middle East, to rethink completely our view of al-Qaida… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Muslim Brotherhood • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Wed, February 13, 2013 at 22:33 pm CET
Post Pic

State of the Union Address on Foreign Policy: Careful Phrasing Conceals Disasters

Think about the kind of mental construct that could produce this State of the Union address… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Obamaism • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, January 31, 2013 at 00:25 am CET
Post Pic

Why Israel Attacked A Syrian Base

Israel forces carried out a strike overnight on a convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 16:39 pm CET
Post Pic

Algerian Hostage Crisis Ends with Military Assault: So How is Al-Qaida Dead?

An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Algeria • Islamic Terrorism • Maghreb • Religion • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 15:58 pm CET
Post Pic

What Difference Does It Make that Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Care Why Terrorists Killed Americans in Libya?

Clinton’s show of indifference isn’t just a question of distracting attention or callousness, it is a clear symptom of exactly what is wrong with the Obama Administration’s handling of this and other issues… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Libya • Obamaism • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, January 16, 2013 at 17:33 pm CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Mali Government Released “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” Detainees

Malian newspaper l’Independant carried a front page news story stating that Mali’s Government released four AQIM detainees… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • France • Maghreb • Mali • Security and Defense • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Wed, November 21, 2012 at 13:14 pm CET
Post Pic

Syria: Spillover into Iraq?

Is the resurgent of Al-Qaida in Iraq a result from the growing civil war in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Iraq • Islamic Terrorism • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, May 13, 2012 at 22:12 pm CEST
Post Pic

The Obama Government Backs the Atrocity-Producing Forces So How Will it Stop Atrocities?

How can one write satire when the Obama Administration has created an Atrocities Prevention Board to prevent mass murder and genocide at the same time as it has been largely supporting the forces most likely to commit mass murder and genocide… Continue reading

Topics: Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • US-Israel Relations • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, April 26, 2012 at 20:04 pm CEST
Post Pic

The Media Discovers What Obama’s Been Doing All Along: Al-Qaida Bad, Islamists Good

Since then, America’s enemies have made great progress; the Obama Administration almost none at all… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamism • Liberalism • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, April 26, 2012 at 17:52 pm CEST
Post Pic

The Jihadist Roots of the Norway Massacre

Anders Breivik, who went on a shooting spree in Norway last year, killing some 70 people, recently confessed his inspiration: al-Qaeda, the jihadists par excellence of the modern world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • History • Jihadism • Norway • Religion • The Crusades 
Posted on Sun, March 25, 2012 at 11:13 am CEST
Post Pic

France: Here Comes the Whitewash

The murders in Toulouse should be a wake-up call for France and all of Europe… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Anti-Semitism • Counter-terrorism • France • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Jihadism • Political Correctness 
Posted on Tue, February 21, 2012 at 22:52 pm CET
Post Pic

Bashar’s ‘Iron Fist’

The iron fist against “terrorist gangs” as promised by Bashar Assad got off to a fairly impressive start two weeks ago… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Religion • Security and Defense • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:53 pm CET
Post Pic

The Middle East in 2012: The Year of Living Dangerously

The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, December 9, 2011 at 22:34 pm CET
Post Pic

Obama Gives a Preview of How He’ll Campaign on Foreign Policy

I think Obama genuinely believes what he’s saying… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Islamism • Politics • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sat, November 19, 2011 at 14:35 pm CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Syria – State Sponsor of Terrorism

Syria in 2009 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist groups… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Funding Islamic Terrorism • Hamas • Hezbollah • Palestinian Terrorism • Politics • Syria • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sat, November 12, 2011 at 01:03 am CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Mustafa Abdul Jalil, an Islamist all along

When Abdul Jalil talks about reforms, he is (and was) doing so with an Islamist agenda in mind… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Islamism • Libya • U.S. Middle East Policy • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Thu, November 10, 2011 at 21:26 pm CET
Post Pic

Libya Heading Towards Islamism

Islamism will be the dominant political force in Libya… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Libya • Sharia Law