From Ending Israeli-Palestinian Dispute Won’t Resolve Other Mideast Problems by Youssef Ibrahim: Some claim that settling the 100-year-old dispute between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs is a sine qua non to resolving other Middle East catastrophes, but the whole argument is a red herring from start to finish. The catastrophes in the Middle East lie in five areas:–Internecine conflicts...
Keith Ellison named to Judiciary Committee
From Associated Press: Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison has been named to the House Judiciary Committee, a panel that has oversight over issues such as civil liberties, immigration and courts…. “I look forward to pursuing a progressive agenda in the committee, including the restoration of American citizen’s civil liberties that have come under increasing attack over the past six...
Update on the developments in Somalia
Ralph Peters hails developments in Somalia, under the headline “Terrorizing Terrorists”: The devastation left behind by our gunships is only part of a very big U.S. win: * Thanks to resolute military action by Ethiopia’s government (quietly backed by Washington), the terror regime in Mogadishu crumbled overnight – collapsing the lie that extremist Islam is on the march to...
It’s Not About Israel
If Israel did not exist would Iraq and Iran have chosen not to pursue an eight-year war that cost more than a million fatalities? Would Iraq have decided not to invade Kuwait in 1990? Would it have rethought its use of chemical weapons against both its own Kurdish population and Iran? If Israel did not exist would Syria have refrained from slaughtering over 10,000 of its own citizens in Hama in...
Iraq executed Saddam too soon
It was a mistake because Saddam Hussein was tried and convicted for perpetrating a mass murder that took place in 1982 that killed 148 Shiite Muslims in the northern town of Dujail. Just one incident involving one case of mass murder. The only way to actually right the wrong that Saddam perpetrated on the Iraqi people would have been to try him for every event and enter every event into the court...
Deluded to the Last
From Deluded to the Last: Saddam Hussein was once, in the 1980s, an enforcer of the Sunni Arab order of power, its gendarme against the hurricane of the Iranian revolution from the east. He took up his sword against the “fire-worshipping” Persians, and gave himself the task of quarantining the revolutionary brigades of Ruhollah Khomeini. Egypt had walked away from its pan-Arab...
Crime and Punishment
From Crime and Punishment: “There will be few, beyond the Ba’athist terrorists in Iraq, who will mourn Saddam’s death. If ever a man deserved to hang, it was Saddam, brutal dictator and mass murderer. Perhaps the link between Saddam’s criminality and his subsequent execution will help establish the principle that tyranny will be punished rather than appeased.”
Al-Qaeda No. 2 Berates Moderate Arabs
From Al-Qaeda No. 2 Berates Moderate Arabs: Ayman al-Zawahri, deputy leader of al-Qaeda, accused moderate Arab leaders of being traitors for cooperating with the U.S. in a message posted on the Internet Saturday. He lashed out at Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement: “Those who had sold Palestine, the secular traitors, cannot be your brothers. Do not recognize their legitimacy….And...
Video: Saddam’s Men Torturing Iraqis
A grisly videotape showing acts of torture carried out by Iraqi Republican Guard and Saddam Fedayeen militiamen has been declassified and obtained by Fox News.After the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in April, an Iraqi in Baghdad gave the tape to the U.S. Army’s 308th Civil Affairs Brigade, V Corps. He told the soldiers he had more videos and was directly involved in their taping, having...
Saddam Hussein’s hanging
With hundreds of thousands of voices screaming from their graves, the Iraqi government has executed Saddam Hussein. Chronicle of the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein: Hussein’s regime killed, tortured, raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and its neighbors for over two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of Saddam’s actions. Saddam had approximately 40 of...
