The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, September 29th at 9 am: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy will hold a symposium on America and the Challenges of a Turbulent Middle East: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. Two panels will precede William Burns’s keynote a ...
How Belgium Became a Jihadist-Recruiting Hub
ANTWERP, Belgium—Nabil Kasmi left for Syria’s battlefields in May 2012, the first jihadist an extremist Islamic group named Sharia4Belgium dispatched from this city, Belgian authorities allege. On Monday, the 23-year-old Mr. Kasmi and 45 other Sharia4Belgium members will go on trial, in Europe’s mos ...
'MANUFACTURED' Diseases
Recently, it was revealed on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website that a cancer (which is a virus) known as SV40 was injected into people who were being vaccinated for Polio. (The CDC has quickly removed the page from their website, which is now cached.) See: http://worldtruth.t ...
I Do!
As a married woman, I think the world's best date night is attending someone else's wedding. There is romance, you're surrounded by good mutual friends of the bride or groom, you get fed, and you can dance the night away. You don't have to stress about the color of the table linens or worry about th ...
York: US troops arrive in West Africa to help fight Ebola outbreak
Via The Globe and Mail, Geoffrey York writes: U.S. troops arrive in West Africa to help fight Ebola outbreak. Excerpt: The U.S. troops have arrived in the Ebola epidemic zone, and they’re not carrying guns. Instead, clipped to the belt loops of their military uniforms are tiny plastic bottles of han ...
Readings: Marc Sageman on Stagnation in Terrorism Research
Marc Sageman probably needs no introduction to most Lawfare readers. Author of two of the past decade’s most influential books on the conceptualization of transnational terrorists and terrorist groups, Understanding Terrorist Networks (2004) and Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First ...
Commentary: America broke Iraq
Colin Powell famously told President George W. Bush before the Iraq invasion, “If you break it, you own it.” Well, it’s safe to say we broke Iraq. That’s the story I heard last week from two people who live there. I met with the Rev. Canon Andrew ...
AU Completes 5th Air Shipment To Iraq But Rules Out Syria Intervention
The statement said that the delivery of 11.5 tonnes and other military ammunitions to Iraq was duly approved and well cooperated with the Iraqi officials based in Baghdad. The department highlighted that any contribution coming from Australia will be ...
Iraq deployment awaits safeguards for Australian military: Bishop
AUSTRALIA is still negotiating with Baghdad over legal safeguards for our military personnel, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says, noting the interim Iraqi government is still without ministers for defence or interior affairs. The National Security ...
