This fascinating story from ABC News details the capture last month in Afghanistan of Dr. Aafia Siddique (or “Siddiqui”; Ar. عافية صديقي), the only woman ever named by the FBI as a top al-Qaeda operative.

Also significant was the “treasure trove”…

Obama’s highly anticipated overseas tour, which includes visits to countries throughout the Middle East and Europe, has generated a flurry of news coverage in the U.S. and around the world. One sign of the attention being paid to Obama’s trip:…

Not good: “‘More than 100 terror camps’ in operation in northwestern Pakistan”

A few days ago I wrote about the deteriorating situation in northwestern Pakistan and the rise of Taliban power and influence there. Apparently the situation is even worse than the…

The situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), which borders Afghanistan, has been going steadily downhill since 2006, when the Taliban began their campaign against the provincial and national Pakistani governments there.

To make a long story short, Pervez Musharraf’s government responded with a schizophrenic…

Where is Osama bin Laden?

An interview with an anonymous senior military analyst by NBC’s Robert Windrem explodes many of the media myths.

A “Western military analyst” was asked earlier this month about reports that Osama Bin Laden was seen on…

The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as  a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…

At 3:00PM this afternoon I participated in an editorial conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (former ambassador to Afghanistan and later Iraq). During the call, Ambassador Khalilzad addressed a broad range of topics, including repression in…

An incredible story out of Iraq’s Anbar province from the New York Sun: “Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden”:

The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq’s Anbar province is offering…

In an interesting update to the post I wrote on Friday concerning the erosion of freedom of speech worldwide, take a look at this headline from yesterday’s Daily Times in Pakistan: “Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression.”

The word…