Is Faisal Shahzad Crazy?
Weapons of Mass Destruction???
Over the weekend, a crude car bomb (a Nissan Pathfinder SUV with propane tanks and gas cans wired to a crude detonator – alarm clocks connected to a can filled with fireworks – and fertilizer in the cargo area, but not the explosive ammonium nitrate fertilizer such as...
Aborted Bomb Plot Tests US-Pakistan Ties
Amid mounting evidence that Saturday's aborted car-bombing in New York's Times Square was linked to violent Islamist groups in Pakistan, observers here are expressing concern that recently enhanced cooperation between Washington and Islamabad could be negatively...
Muslim Blowback?
It is hard to overstate just how deeply unpopular the United States is in the Muslim world. A 2008 poll of six majority Muslim countries found that overwhelmingly large portions of the population, ranging from 71 percent in Morocco to 87 percent in Egypt, held...
Thursday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 13 Wounded
Updated at 10:28 p.m. EDT, May 6, 2010
At least five Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Meanwhile, a mass grave containing 55 Iraqis soldiers killed in Kuwait during the 1991 war was discovered there. Also, a day after terms of a political alliance were leaked to the press, one important condition came under closer scrutiny.
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A Timetable For War
Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America
Hope Amidst Grim Prospects for Mideast Peace
RAMALLAH - Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel's continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough. However, there appear to...
