FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel Earlier this month, by coincidence, as President…
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Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling out a charm offensive and getting good publicity for it. In…
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up…
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely with him during his 2-month tenure acknowledge. This is how he…
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is independently moving toward modernization, but not without obstacles. Freedom is still…
Recently, from his perch at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Germany’s former foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, wrote a commentary warning of the dangers in an American…
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do nothing to combat it. Bearing this in mind, Bahrain recently decided…
Problems on hold Over the past 15 months, since the November 2005 legislative elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) maintained a high public profile through a string…
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend sees itself as a force for order in the Middle East.…
The other day I wrote—- ”The role of religion and priest in society has a direct bearing on the rate of GDP development. There can be…
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he made as a young boy, Saudi religious prisoner, Hadi Al-Mutaif has…
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly out of gratitude for the 1991…
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its rules were replaced by “Islamic rules,” or it was used as…
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about the welfare of Fathi al-Jahmi, a leading Libyan dissident awaiting a…