WASHINGTON TIMES Sol Sanders Archive Tuesday, February 1, 2011 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING World gone mad: Where’s Uncle Sam just when he’s needed the most? Picture a barred door. On one side is Uncle Sam holding it with bracing shoulder. On the other side are smaller figures pushing, but not too hard, and looking back over […]
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood wants, start with its motto. By AYAAN HIRSI ALI, author of Infidel ‘Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” So
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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Protester Killed in Bahrain; Skirmishes in Yemen; Call for Rebel Executions in Iran By JOE PARKINSON, ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN BARNES Protests that started in Tunisia and spread across the Middle East have resulted in the deaths of two people in Bahrain, where the opposition bloc in parliament defected in response. Farnaz
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 In 1979, Western thinkers were quick to call the Ayatollah Khomeini ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive.’ By BRET STEPHENS It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? The Saudi royal family is corrupt, infirm, increasingly criticized in social media—and about to face a delicate, perhaps divisive succession process. By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE Riyadh, Saudi Arabia In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Will its new government come to resemble Pakistan? Indonesia? Turkey? Or something entirely different? By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Washington So what’s next for Egypt? When people talk about possible outcomes after the collapse of the Mubarak regime, they usually have other Muslim countries in mind. This crisis has been so unexpected that something
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This has the potential of becoming a huge human tidal wave and it is headed straight for Europe! EUROPE NEWS FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Tunisian Influx Taxes Italy By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Political instability in Tunisia has unleashed a wave of migrants toward Italian shores, igniting a crisis that has exposed the pitfalls of Italy’s reliance on
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David Horowitz speaks of the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood
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Vote monitors trained with funds from US In November, demonstrators decried what they called widespread vote rigging in Egypt’s parliamentary elections. US funds helped train election monitors who observed that election. By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Staff / February 13, 2011 WASHINGTON — A small, controversial effort launched under President George W. Bush
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Published February 11, 2011 | FoxNews.com AP2011 Feb. 11: Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. DEVELOPING: CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed control to the military, Vice
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