Josh vs. Al Qaeda

There are a couple of things in today's NYT article about the big news from Pakistan (Musharraf is expected to resign soon) that need...

The NYT filed this scary report today: Al Qaeda’s success in forging close ties to Pakistani militant groups has given it an increasingly ...

One of the earliest posts on this blog was a profile of the radical Lebanese Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam. (I occasionally profile people an...

There's some big (and good) news out of Pakistan today: The leader of the Pakistan People's Party, Asif Ali Zardari, and the leader...

Given the subtitle of this blog—the prize lyric from "Rock the Casbah," the Clash's prescient takedown of militant Islam and i...

Today's Stratfor report summarizes the drama along the Afghan-Pakistani border—and the apparent conundrum for the US: The increasing pow...

Ever since Hezbollah's military "victory" against Israel in 2006, the media has been hyping their ascendancy. I've always...

I keep arguing that containment and bolstering the economy (not invading) is the way to beat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The q...

A former CIA agent agrees with me and writes an opinion piece in today's Washington Post. He concludes: The threat from Islamic terrori...

The NYT continues its drumbeat for action against Pakistan: With a smidgen of breaking news (the latest word from the DOD) they published t...

The secularists in Turkey don't get it. They're trying to get rid of the conservative government ( this time apparently, with a cou...

Courtesy of An American Pessoptomist comes this scary story about war crimes that may have been committed by Somali and Ethiopian soldiers...

The New York Times is rolling out a series of lengthy stories about the reemergence of Al Qaeda. In the last two days they've documente...

... is because Hezbollah didn't get everything it wanted. Yes, as was widely reported in late May, after a week of street fighting wher...

Al Qaeda wants to set up a pre-fab Afghan War in Pakistan, and the U.S. just might go in. As the NYT reports, NATO was drawn in and retu...