The always helpful SITE Institute has summarized the latest speech by al-Zawahiri: “On the subject of America, Zawahiri claims Bush to be an “alcoholic”, addicted to drinking, lying, and gambling, … [Keep reading >>]

“Eighteen people have been killed when a car bomb ripped through a bus carrying members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards in a sensitive southeastern border province.”

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The attack was … [Keep reading >>]

AS reported by Al Jazeera, the Egyptian authorities have released a Muslim cleric kidnapped in a suspected CIA operation in Italy: “Asked whether Nasr would remain silent as to … [Keep reading >>]

Al Jazeera reports on the ‘new’ rules for trying terror suspects held for years in Guantanamo: “At a Pentagon briefing, Dan Dell’Orto, the deputy to the defence department’s top counsel, … [Keep reading >>]

Al Jazeera is reporting that efforts to find peacekeepers for Somalia have stalled, leading to imposition of a state of emergency in the country: “South Africa is among those delaying … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Fayetteville (NC) Observer, Rebekah Sanderlin responds to some of the comments she generated from a radio interview she conducted on NPR about the often wide gaps … [Keep reading >>]

The BBC has published transcripts of Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s call for jihad in Somalia: “Today, America is weaker than before as the mujahidin dealt a fatal blow to it in Afghanistan … [Keep reading >>]

As reported by Al Jazeera, the government is trying to take guns out of the hands of Mogadishu residents, but the task is both daunting and deadly: “The country’s police … [Keep reading >>]

Chris Hedges took a break from war reporting a couple of years ago. He wrote a book — War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning. Then a … [Keep reading >>]

$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that for the war on drugs. Alongside the regular military … [Keep reading >>]

As reported by the BBC’s Adam Brookes, the person set to take over the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee has some ‘catching up’ to do: “When asked whether al-Qaeda … [Keep reading >>]

Edward Jay Epstein’s website is the go-to place for the latest on the Litvinenko poisoning. It is not at all clear that Putin or his people had anything to … [Keep reading >>]

The Guardian’s George Monbiot assesses the ‘efforts’ of the US to fight terror and defend national ideals: “From this delightful experiment, US interrogators appear to have extracted a useful lesson: … [Keep reading >>]

In what should be a very sobering article to those who locate the center of Al-Qaeda in NW Pakistan, SE Afghanistan Carlotta Gall and Ismail Khan report that far from … [Keep reading >>]

Pinchet, Kirkpatrick within a few days of each other. How fitting….

“The air will feel lighter tomorrow, we will feel a sense of liberation,” Mr. Villagra said. “But I lament … [Keep reading >>]

The St. Petersburg Times’ Robyn Blumner examines the ‘work’ of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals: “There have been 558 tribunal hearings for the Guantanamo prisoners. Their stated purpose was to … [Keep reading >>]

Apart from sharing half a name with her, and possibly some distant distant kin-folk, Jeane Kirkpatrick and I had nothing in common. There were a few Killer Academics lower … [Keep reading >>]

Extraordinary. If only it were extraordinary.

So, a winger sends threats and white powder to liberals, the LA Times buries the story in local news, and nobody else … [Keep reading >>]

This post by Eric Margolis is an eye-opener in more ways than one.

Just who fatally poisoned former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko with the radioactive isotope Polonium-210 in London remains … [Keep reading >>]

There is no end to the carnage in Iraq. Juan Cole reports….

A string of car bombings in Sadr City and Kadhimiya (Shiite neighborhoods) wrought vast slaughter and destruction, leaving … [Keep reading >>]