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The Saudi-Syria-Lebanon Tangle

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Introduction: As if recent events in Syria involving Russia and Iran weren’t enough of a complication, there are signs that the Saudi-Syrian-Iranian contest in Lebanon is heating up again, as is the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over influencing Syria’s and Lebanon’s Sunnis. These things should not be taken…

U.S. Vulnerabilities to EMP Attack

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Introduction: Concerns about a possible electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States are not new. No serious steps were taken to mitigate such threat because the U.S. assumes that major...

The Terrorists’ Internationale

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

* The Terrorist Internationale, J. Millard Burr’s new book, will soon be available, for free, on the ACD website. We’ll be bringing you, exclusively, excerpts from the book, starting today with the Introduction. ** J....

Is Algeria Next?

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Introduction: The election of radical  Islamist  Abderrezak Mokri, to the leadership of Algeria’s  ”Movement for a Peaceful Society” (MSP),  and the presence of Islamist leaders from Tunisia, Libya, Syria and Egypt “and even Palestinian movement Hamas,”...

CyberSecurity is Still Lagging Behind *Exclusive*

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

If you are one of some 600,000 subscribers to the Financial Times, you may wish to change your account’s password. Earlier today, a few of the paper’s Twitter accounts and a...

How the Arab Boycott of Israel Works

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

The most recent victim of the Arab boycott of Israel is the Lebanese-born film director Ziad Doueiri. His crime? Filming in Israel. The Arab League instructed its member states to ban his...

No Jihadist Left Behind

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

No child is left behind the new mandatory Jihadist education program in Gaza. Muslim Brotherhood’s ideologue and chairman of the International Federation of Muslim Clerics, Youssef Qaradawi, was surely proud to see...

Benghazi: The Honor of the American Military is Hanging in the Balance

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Despite the distractions of a continuing unemployment crisis and the media’s concentration on stories of human depravity, the scandal of the death of four Americans including an ambassador in Benghazi-”a...

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