Friday, December 7

Congressional review of NIE Iran findings sought

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The following article mentions a "growing backlash" against the Iran NIE by conservatives, neoconservatives, and Republicans in ge...
Thursday, December 6

Why is good intelligence on the worst regimes so hard to come by these days?

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Spook86 has posted an illuminating discussion at In From the Cold about the limitations of sources and methods used for intelligence gathe...

Aw, John Bolton takes Thomas Fingar's ouija board away from him. And unnamed officials scamble to explain away NIE problems

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First I'll turn to John Bolton's discussion for today's Washington Post : [...] Consider these flaws in the NIE's "key ...
Wednesday, December 5

YIKES! Thomas Fingar one of three main authors of NIE report on Iran's nuke program! Start building a bomb shelter!

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Just this past February I strenuously warned readers about Thomas Fingar's very limited capacity -- okay, zero capacity -- as a threat ...

Okay, Africa, how much will it cost to ease the pain and suffering you experienced under European colonialism?

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Here's the good news about the Africa-EU summit this weekend in Lisbon, Portugal: LISBON ( Reuters ) - European and African leaders will...
Tuesday, December 4

Finally President Bush speaks up about Qatif Girl case

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This is not enough; President Bush needs to instruct the State Department to lodge a formal complaint with Saudi King Abdullah about the cas...

Catch us if you can: a possible sign that Qaeda is moving into Gaza

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The US military announced today that forty senior al Qaeda in Iraq members were captured or killed in November. A spokesman for the US mil...
Monday, December 3

Northern Nigeria backs away from purely Islamic justice system while still able to do so

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I have not had time to write the post I intended to publish around 4:00 PM today; it will have to wait until tomorrow. For now: The quest fo...

Iran halted nuke weapons program in 2003 according to latest US National Intelligence Estimate report

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The consensus view of 16 US intelligence agencies is that Iran halted its weapons project in 2003 because it feared international sanctions:...

Vladimir Putin and US policy toward Russia

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"Pundita, dear, there has not been a peep out of you for many months, or has it been more than a year? about Putin or Russia. Are you ...

Gillian Gibbons pardoned and freed, but the matter will not end there

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Two of Britain's peers were successful today at wangling a pardon from Sudan's president for Gillian Gibbons. She has been released ...

Good luck, Venezuela

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Enough Venezuelans woke up to defeat the referendum yesterday on giving Chavez new powers and scrapping term limits on his rule. The nationa...
Saturday, December 1

Death to Gillian Gibbons, bring us the head of Taslima Nasrin, hang Atefeh Sahaaleh, 200 lashes for the Qatif Girl: Islamic justice in action

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Ibrahim Ramey, who has the title of Civil and Human Rights Director of MAS Freedom, a sister organization to the Muslim American Society, ha...
Friday, November 30

The strange case of Gillian Gibbons: sometimes it takes the actions of a dolt to clarify a situation

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Thousands of protesters, many brandishing clubs and swords, took to the streets of Sudan’s capital Friday, demanding the execution of a Brit...
Thursday, November 29

Gillian Gibbons, an unlikely Helen of Troy

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Crikey, this story is getting bigger, nastier, and more surreal by the hour -- ever since Khartoum decided on Wednesday to charge Gillian wi...
Wednesday, November 28

Did the Annapolis meeting accomplish anything? The Blue-Eyed Genie to the rescue.

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The Washington Post's David Ignatius believes something was accomplished, and I think you can read into his analysis how Condoleezza Ri...
Tuesday, November 27

British teacher jailed in Sudan, facing 40 lashes over naming of a teddy bear

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The woman sounds a complete dolt but -- 40 lashes? I am afraid that apologists are running out of creative ways to argue that Islam must be ...

Why the hell was China's foreign minister invited to Annapolis?

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And why Portugal, Slovenia, Mexico and the Vatican for that matter? Look at the guest list! It's not a conference on developing a new fr...
Monday, November 26

We'll take the deal, for now

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On November 19 Threats Watch listed various signs that Iran has recently begun cooperating to help stabilize Iraq at least temporarily. The...