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THE OBAMA VACUUM

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Obama Vacuum Lee Smith February 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 20 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Among other reasons for its silence, the Obama administration wants help from Algeria in Mali. It is unlikely to receive it, however, because the regime in Algiers cares only for its own

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THE JIHADIST ERUPTION IN AFRICA

   January 18, 2013 Shiraz Maher: The Jihadist Eruption in Africa Al Qaeda affiliates capture Westerners in Algeria and hold a Texas-size piece of territory in neighboring Mali. By Shiraz Maher Mr. Maher is a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London. The hostage crisis that broke

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  January 13, 2013 The Struggle for the Fertile Crescent Syria’s sectarian civil war has upended the political equation across the region, from Baghdad to Lebanon. By FOUAD AJAMI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Perhaps things would not be as they are if the Obama administration had opted for a residual U.S. presence in Iraq that

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OBAMA – SECRET WEAPON DEALS – ISLAMISTS

  HOTAIR.COM NYT: Obama admin approved secret weapons deals that ended up arming Islamists in Libya  December 6, 2012 by Ed Morrissey Oopsie! In what has to be one of the least-shocking outcomes of Barack Obama’s Libyan adventure, the New York Times reports that his administration secretly gave approval of weapons shipments to Libyan resistance

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FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OUT ON LACK OF EMBASSY SECURITY

  December 4, 2012 My Experience With Lax Embassy Security The fears—and frustrations— of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi were familiar to American diplomats. By MATTHEW BRYZA   Mr. Bryza served as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2011-12 and as a deputy assistant secretary of state from 2005-09. He is now director of the International Centre

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MARK STEYN – JILL KELLEY FOR SECRETARY OF STATE

  Mark Steyn: Jill Kelley for secretary of state By MARK STEYN 2012-11-23 Let us turn from the post-Thanksgiving scenes of inflamed mobs clubbing each other to the ground for a discounted television set to the comparatively placid boulevards of the Middle East. In Cairo, no sooner had Hillary Clinton’s plane cleared Egyptian air space

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THERE’S TROUBLE ABROAD FOR OBAMA

  Trouble abroad for Obama’s approach By Jackson Diehl – The Washington Post  Jackson Diehl is deputy editorial page editor at The Washington Post.   November 12, 2012 President Barack Obama spent his first term undoing what he saw as the excesses of U.S. post-Cold War foreign policy, from land wars in the Middle East to

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DID TURKEY PLAY A ROLE IN BENGHAZI ATTACK?

  Published on #1 News Site on the Threat of Radical Islam (http://www.radicalislam.org)   Home > RI.org Exclusive: Did Turkey Play a Role in Benghazi Attack? RI.org Exclusive: Did Turkey Play a Role in Benghazi Attack?   Clare Lopez is a senior fellow at RadicalIslam.org and a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus

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