Al-Qaeda not weakening – BBC poll
US-led efforts to tackle the al-Qaeda group are not regarded as successful, an opinion poll…
Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Al-Qaeda, HUJI, LJ nexus suspected in Marriott attack
LAHORE: The Pakistani authorities probing the September 20th Marriott Hotel attack in Islamabad are now…
The Hidden Imam
Conventional wisdom holds that when Iran’s supreme leader says, “Jump,” millions of Shiites, from the…
Fidayeen-e-Islam a cover up by Harkatul Jehadul Islami
LAHORE: The Pakistani intelligence agencies probing the September 20, 2008 Marriot Hotel suicide bombing say…
Al-Qaeda linked Marriot suspect still at large
LAHORE: Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the chief of an al-Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi group Harkatul Jehadul…
Harkatul Jehadul Islami suspected for the Marriot suicide bombing
LAHORE: The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement…
Who is who of the Pakistani suicide bombers?
The endless wave of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan, the Marriot Hotel attack in Islamabad…
DISPUTE AMONG ISLAM SCHOLARS
A number of Islamic associations have put a quick end to their collaboration with a…
No dialogue in Lebanon’s mean streets
The national dialogue is on track again, albeit with its next session delayed until November…
He made a homeland of words (Mahmoud Darwish, 1941-2008)
“My homeland is not a suitcase and I am no traveler,” Mahmoud Darwish wrote in…
‘Damascus spring’ fades from memory
(photo: Prof. Aref Dalila at his release from six years of solitary confinement) * Aref…
Enters President Zardari
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Zardari, who has risen to the highest rung…
The state of jehad in Pakistan seven years after 9/11
Seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States that shook the entire…
Sunni dynamics shift in the North
The headline in the pro-opposition Al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday described the reconciliation in Tripoli as…
A Dangerous Precedent
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Libya last week represents the final step in…
Iran’s Asymmetric Naval Warfare
Policy Focus #87 Format: PDF, 40 Pages Published: September 2008 As nuclear negotiations between Iran…
The Devastation of Iraq’s Past
In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology…
Beware, the Friends of Bashar are here
Not very long ago, you will remember, there was the Friends of Lebanon group of…
Reconsidering Hamas: A View from Amman
PolicyWatch #1401 This PolicyWatch is the second of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with…
Goose Bumps and Hula Hoops for Barack
Melody Moezzi and Michelle Obama have three things in common — a law degree, a…
Concerned about ailing political prisoner deprived of treatment, RWB urges Sarkozy to raise human rights during Damascus visit
Ali Abdallah in his cell in section 13 * It has been about two years…