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It took enormous courage for the widow of Danny and mother of Einat and Yael, then 4 and 2, to even write this Washington Post op ed. How can any mother not scream about the monstrous death of her Einat who watched as her father was shot to death in front of […]

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Today’s Washington Post had a report on the results of their reviews of the redacted texts used by the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA). “Overall, this is a good report”, Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute who spearheaded the US Commission on International Religious Freedom June 11th report on its review of […]

by Jerry Gordon
America has a dearth of qualified Arabic and other critical language translators. So, you would think that training Americans in Arabic as a second language in colleges and universities would take a priority after 9/11.
Joel Pollak, a Harvard Law Student, tells us in this Washington Post op ed that the […]

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Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch sent us this humdinger. Terrorists caught on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan had already been to the US. Moreover, 365 Iraqi terrorists applied for refugee status under our legal humanitarian system were caught via US Defense and counter terrorism bio-metric and intelligence […]

by Jerry Gordon
There was a flurry of news articles on yesterday’s protest demonstration at the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Alexandria, Virginia. The Washington Post, entitled its version, “Group Says School Teaches “hate”, the Washington Times headlined theirs, “Islamic school draws fire”. Both pieces drew attention to the basis for protests, the Islamic […]

by Jerry Gordon, Saudi Watch, June 17, 2008
Christine Brim of the Center for Security Policy found a fascinating article from the Washington Post, circa, 2002, concerning the “withdrawal” of the embattled Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) from the prestigious Virginia Association of Independent Schools. According to the Washington Post, article:

Sources familiar with the decision […]

by Jerry Gordon
A tip of the hat to Jan P who sent us this story.
At last week’s AIPAC policy conference in Washington, Elizabeth Cheney, former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Near East Bureau in remarks on a panel let the truth prevail about why the Administration’s policy is ‘soft on Jihadis’. Apparently […]

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A tip of the hat to Jan P who sent me this article on Iran from today’s
Washington Post. The author of the Outlook piece, Ms. Moaveni is recounting her encounters with Iranians among whom she lived and reported on. It may surprise many of you, but not our ally […]

By Jerry Gordon
President Bush, according to the Washington Post is about to send a special envoy to Khartoum to palaver with Islamist President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Al-Bashir‘s regime had harbored bin Laden and has engaged in genocidal warfare against black Muslims in Darfur. Recently, Darfurian rebels attacked Khartoum, itself. The Washington Post makes much […]

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The appointment of General Petreaus, the architect of the “surge” strategy in Iraq and counterinsurgency expert to the Army’s general selection board is an important development. It signals that Colonels with the requisite background in special ops and counterinsurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan will be in the forefront of future generals […]