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Who Pays For Terrorism?
Everybody. New laws to protect the United States from a ship-borne dirty bomb or weapons of mass destruction will impose a major financial burden on to US trade partners and consumers, experts warned ...
Naval News Today
Canadian navy scare off pirates The Canadian navy said Wednesday one of its patrol helicopters scared off pirates attacking a commercial vessel with small arms fire a day earlier in the Gulf of Aden, ...
The Price Of Hate
I’ve got a pretty diverse reading list that keeps my busy and frequently exhibits subtle links in content that surprise me. For instance, I was reading an article about forgiveness which contain...
Poll Avoids The Important Question On Iran
I love polls, not because they’re all useful, but because it’s often thoroughly entertaining to examine the questions and methodology to divine the intent of the poll. Take, for example, t...
“Hirabis” Has A Nice Ring To It
The NYT ran an op-ed that for me answers a question that’s surfaced from time to time. Knowing what I do about the culture in the Middle East and the need to speak to militant Muslims in terms t...
Bin Laden Message A Surrender In Iraq?
The latest series of Bin Laden messages look more like a surrender in Iraq than a sign of strength....
Building A Case For War In Iran - Part 6
In this update on my ongoing series, there’s another data point on the thinking in Washington, this from the Jerusalem Post: US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming mo...
Building A Case For War In Iran - Part 5
In this update on my previous posts, and after laying out the situation in the Middle East and the argument I think will prevail, there’s more news on several fronts. First, Lebanon has finally ...
Naval News Today
General Dynamics Names Retired Admiral as Next CEO General Dynamics Corp., the U.S. Navy’s second-largest shipbuilder, will turn to retired admiral and former U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Jay ...
Building A Case For War In Iran - Part 4
In this final installment, there are three interesting developments that warrant this emergent update to my series on the situation in the Middle East. First, a fresh report of pending action against ...
Building a Case for War in Iran - Part 3
As of this writing, the situation in Lebanon outlined in my last post in this series has considerably worsened. Open fighting has broken out on the streets of Beirut, refugees are starting to mass at ...
Naval News Today
US Ships Head For Myanmar As Officials Decry Delay Four US Navy ships [ESSEX Strike Group] steamed toward cyclone-stricken Myanmar on Thursday as the Bush administration stepped up pressure on the co...
African Union Troops Take Retaliation for U.S. Strike
In the wake of a U.S. strike on terrorists in Somali, the Al-Qaida afilliated militants announced a campaign of retaliation against the only target around: AU peacekeepers. In retaliation [for the att...
Ordnance on Target in Somalia
Looks like somebody’s gotten to send a few more Tomahawks downrange: The man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia was killed in an overnight airstrike along with eight other p...
Naval News Today
Suicide bombers kill five at Pakistan navy college Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a prestigious naval college in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least five peopl...
A Question or Two for the Obamanon
It’s hard to avoid politics completely during an election year, especially when there seems to be so much on the line for those of us wearing the Cloth of the Country. My problem is, I tend to g...
Scholar: Iran Immune to Traditional Nuclear Deterrence
When Bernard Lewis speaks, the world should listen. Well, he’s talking again, and he doesn’t have good news. A leading U.S. scholar on the Middle East has asserted that Iran’s leader...