Will Bibi Break Obama?
Iraqi President’s Grandnephew Killed His American Teacher
At least eight Iraqis were killed today and another seven were wounded. Among the dead was President Jalal Talabani’s grandnephew, who committed suicide after killing his American teacher.
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The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based...
Corruption and the Citizen, American-Style
I have long nurtured this thoroughly depressing conviction that the United States, far from being a shining city on the hill, has become one of the most corrupt of nations. Why does America have more lawyers than the rest of the world combined? It is because the...
How the Media Got the Iran-IAEA Access Story Wrong
News media reported last week that Iran had flatly refused the IAEA access to its Parchin military test facility, based on the statement to reporters by IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, “We could not get access….” Now, however, both explicit statements...
Spies in New Brunswick
On June 2, 2009, a janitor in an office building in New Brunswick, N.J., noticed what he thought was terrorist-related literature and sophisticated surveillance equipment in an office he had been assigned to clean. He told his boss, who called the local police, who...
The Ghost and the Machine
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned 5 without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal, that his father was killed by an American...
Israeli Poll on Iran Undercuts Netanyahu on Eve of Major Meet
On the eve of a critical set of meetings between top U.S. and Israeli officials, a new survey finds little backing among the Israeli public for a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities without Washington's approval. According to the poll, released at a...
Iraq Reveals War Casualty Count as 20 More Iraqis Are Killed
Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh today gave the official government casualty figures for most of the last seven years. He said that 69,263 people were killed and 239,133 were wounded in Iraq between April 5, 2004 and December 31, 2011. At least 20 Iraqis were killed today and 41 more were wounded.
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