MIDDLE EAST NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2011, 6:54 A.M. ET By CHARLES LEVINSON and TAHANI KARRAR-LEWSLEY CAIRO—Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya Sunday, as the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule. Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed 233 deaths […]
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 By AMIR TAHERI ‘Hang them! Hang them!” the mob shouted while goose-stepping towards the podium. Some beat their chests and others raised clenched fists. “Allah is the greatest!” chanted the turbaned clerics. This was the scene Tuesday in the Islamic Majlis, Iran’s ersatz parliament. Members raged against the “heads of sedition,” calling
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Supporting the nation’s restive people is the key By Thomas Joscelyn and Michael Ledeen – The Washington Times January 28, 2011 “How do you deal with al Qaeda?” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked rhetorically during a public hearing in London earlier this month. Mr. Blair quickly answered his own question: “You can’t deal
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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 Iran’s Leadership Cracks Down In Aftermath of Protests, State Makes More Arrests, as White House Sharpens Support of the Opposition By FARNAZ FASSIHI The Iranian government threatened opposition leaders with execution and made a fresh wave of arrests, a day after the largest protests in a year prompted clashes in which at
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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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January 31, 2011The Scrapbook intends no disrespect to British prime minister David Cameron. But the more we hear from his predecessor Tony Blair, the more we’d like him back in office, if only to explain the world to Barack Obama. Last week, Blair testified once again before Britain’s Iraq Inquiry commission, which is examining the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 It’s often forgotten—although The Scrapbook certainly remembers—that Stephen Colbert’s famous excoriation of President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner was only briefly about George W. Bush. It was actually part of an extended tribute to Helen Thomas, who was still
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‘Son of Hamas’, Mosel Hassan Yousef, will be appearing on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at the University of North Carolina campus, Chapel Hill, at the Student Union Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free to students and members of the community and must be picked up at the Box Office at 255 South Road,
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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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