Added on 05/02/2012
Common Ground News Service
Al Qaeda , Anwar al-Awlaki , Baghdad , DC , Iraq , Oil , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , President , San Diego , Saudi Arabia , Taliban , United States , Washington , Yemen
KEN BALLEN, CGNEWS: ‘You can kill extremists but you don’t kill extremism with missiles’. Perhaps the U.S should look at new policies.
Added on 13/01/2012
David Roberts
Al Qaeda , America , Iran , Israel , Middle East , Nuclear technology , Pakistan , Saudi Arabia , Security services , United States
DAVID ROBERTS: The Saudi authorities clearly have a vested interest in the failure of the Iranian nuclear programme. So could they have been involved in the recent assassination?
Added on 06/01/2012
Ahmed-Al-Omran
Abdul Aziz Khoja , Activist , Al Qaeda , Al Watan , Cairo , Democracy , Marriott Hotel , minister of information and culture , Ministry of Culture and Information , Paris , Riyadh , Saleh Al-Shehi , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Twitter , Women , Women's issues
AHMED AL OMRAN: The fallout from the ‘Marriott Foyer Incident’ continues. Is such debate an unnecessary diversion from the real issues facing the Kingdom?
Added on 30/12/2011
Juan Cole
Abdullah , Al Qaeda , Algeria , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Ali Khamenei , Arab Spring , Ayman al-Zawahiri , Baath Party in Syria , Bahrain , Balkans , Ben Ali , Binyamin Netanyahu , Bush Administration , David Cameron , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Europe , France , G8 , Gaza , George W. Bush , Hamas , Hillary Clinton , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Iraq , Islam , Israel , Joe Biden , Libya , Manama , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , Misrata , Moncef Marzouki , Morocco , Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Oil , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Saddam Hussein , Saudi Arabia , School of Oriental and African Studies , Social services , Supreme , Suzanne Mubarak , Syria , Syrian National Council , Tahrir Square , Tel Aviv , Tunisia , Turkey , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States , Washington , West Bank , Western Europe , Western Mountain region , Yemen
JUAN COLE: So much that is misinformed, over-hyped and simply plain wrong has been written about the Arab Spring. So let’s sort the wheat from the chaff.
Added on 26/12/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , Army , Beirut , Cairo , Christianity , Christmas , Egypt , George W. Bush , Hizbullah , Hosni Mubarak , Iraq , Lebanon , Middle East , Mosul , Nancy Ajram , Northern Iraq , Palestine Liberation Organization , President , US Federal Reserve , Wafd , Wafd Party , West Bank
JUAN COLE: The some 12 million Arab Christians (out of plus 350 million Arabs) are very much agents in their own fates. They make alliances, and sometimes switch them.
Added on 17/11/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Al Qaeda , Aleppo , Arab League , Army , Bashar al-Assad , Ba’ath Party , China , Damascus , Egypt , Energy , Europe , Hama , Hilary Clinton , Homs , Idlib , Libya , Libyan army , Media outlets , New York Times , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Russia , Secretary of State , Security Council , Sergei Lavrov , Syria , Syrian government , Syrian military , Syrian National Council , The Times , The Washington Post , Tunisia , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: The lines are thus drawn, between US-led Western camp and Russia and its own camp, which vehemently rejects a repeat of a Libyan scenario.
Added on 16/11/2011
Tabsir
Al Qaeda , Arabian Peninsula , Civil society , France , Lebanon , Muscat , Oman , Omani government , security official , the Associated Press , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: For many years foreigners taken hostage in Yemen had little to fear. That was until Al Qaeda killings in the mid-2000s.
Added on 23/10/2011
James M. Dorsey
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Al Shabab , Ayman al-Zawahiri , Basketball , East Africa , Food and Drink , Hamas , handball , Hizballah , Islamist , James M. Dorsey , Lebanon , Middle East , Nanyang Technological University , North Africa , Osama Bin Laden , Palestinian Territories , President , recruitment tool , S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies , Singapore , Soccer , Somalia , Taliban , UN Court , United Nations , woman athlete
JAMES M. DORSEY: While Al Qaeda is attempting to portray a gentler face, distributing aid to famine victims, Al Shabab, are ensuring strict adherence to a ban on women’s sports.
Added on 09/10/2011
Tabsir
Al Qaeda , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , Foreign media , Islamic party , Liberia , President , social worker , Women , Women's issues , Yemen , Yemeni government
DANIEL M. VARISCO: The award of the Nobel to Tawwakul Karman represents many positive developments not least a shift in the view of Muslim women
Added on 03/10/2011
Tabsir
Al Qaeda , Ali Abdullah Saleh , America , Democratic Party , Facebook , Muslim Brotherhood , Obama , President , Republican Party , Stalin , Taliban , The Washington Post , Time Magazine , United States , Washington , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: It’s the ‘same old, same old’ with Yemen’s recently returned President, blather, bluster and baloney. In the words of the song ‘he just keeps hangin’ on’
Added on 02/10/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , United States
JUAN COLE: Whatever about the military significance of Anwar al Awlaqi’s killing there are some profound legal and constitutional implications that must worry all defenders of human rights.
Added on 30/09/2011
Michael J. Totten
Al Qaeda , Iran , Iranian government , Islamic Republic of Iran , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Middle East , President , U.S. government , United States
MICHAEL TOTTEN: You couldn’t make it up but conspiracy theories have a way of making odd bedfellows. Take Al Qaeda and the U.S in opposition to Iran. It’s true.
Added on 14/09/2011
Crossroads Arabia
9/11 , Abdullah , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Crown Prince , Iraq , Mecca , Saudi Arabia , Saudi government , Terrorism , United States
CROSSROADS ARABIA: When Saudi awoke, it acted decisively. Its war against Al-Qaeda was successful in driving the group out of the Kingdom, though at some cost.
Added on 12/09/2011
Juan Cole
9/11 , Abdel Bari Atwan , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Barack Obama , Ben Ali , Bin Laden , Bush Administration , Cairo , Central Intelligence Agency , Dick Cheney , Donald Rumsfeld , Egypt , George W. Bush , Hosni Mubarak , Iraq , Israel , Journalist , Libya , Martin Luther King Jr. , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , Mustafa Abdel Jalil , national government , Northern Pakistan , oil fields , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Palestinian Territories , Pentagon , President , Ronald Reagan , Saudi Arabia , Sayyid Qutb , Tahrir Square , Taliban , Tunisia , United Nations , United States , US government , Washington , Western Europe , Yemen
JUAN COLE: Al Qaeda’s vision for the Arab World has been comprehensively rejected. It appears that Arabs – in particular, young Arabs – are prepared to put their lives on the line, not for a Caliphate, but for parliamentary democracy.
Added on 07/09/2011
Common Ground News Service
9/11 , Africa , Al Qaeda , Democracy , Egypt , Hassan bin Talal , Jordan , Middle East , Palestinian Territories , Tunisia , United States
HRH PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL, CGNEWS: It’s been a tumultuous decade defined in large part by violence and death but how different is the Middle East today?
Added on 01/09/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Algeria , Arabic media , Barack Obama , Democracy , George W. Bush , Hillary Clinton , Iraq , James Stavridis , Libya , Moammar Ghaddafi , National Transitional Council , NATO , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Secretary of State , Syria , The New York Times , Tripoli , United Nations , United States , Yugoslavia
RAMZY BAROUD: The intervention by NATO in Libya was driven by clear, strategic political and economic interests. Their aims are unlikely, however, to be in the best interests of the Libyan people.
Added on 22/08/2011
Juan Cole
Africa , Al Qaeda , Arab League , Baghdad , Barack Obama , Ben Ali , BP , chess , Egypt , Europe , France , George W. Bush , Hosni Mubarak , India , Iran , John McCain , Lebanon , Libya , McClatchy , Netherlands , Nicolas Sarkozy , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama administration , Oil , oil markets , oil prices , Oil wealth , Pentagon , President , Prime Minister , Robert Gates , Saif al-Islam Qaddafi , Secretary of Defense , Silvio Berlusconi , Spain , Tobruk , Transitional National Council , Tripoli , Tunisia , United Kingdom , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States , Western Europe , Western Mountain region , Zine el Abidine Ben Ali
JUAN COLE: It is worthwhile reviewing the myths about the Libyan Revolution that led so many observers to make so many fantastic or just mistaken assertions about it.
Added on 13/08/2011
Michael J. Totten
Afghanistan , Al Azhar University , Al Qaeda , Army , autocratic President , Cairo , Civil society , Democracy , Editor-in-Chief , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood , Egypt’s Brotherhood , Facebook , Fidel Castro , Free Egypt Party , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Journalist , Justice Party , Ku Klux Klan , Libya , Mobile Phones , model , Mohamed El-Baradei , Mohammad Adel , Mona , Mubarak's government , Muslim Brotherhood , Omar Suleiman , Osama Bin Laden , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tahrir Square , Taliban , Turkey , United States , United States government , Washington , West Bank
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: What exactly is the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘game-plan’ for Egypt? One way of finding out is to talk to former loyalists…
Added on 30/07/2011
Lucy Emmerson
Al Qaeda , Anders Behring Breivik , English Defense League , Islam , Labour Party , Norway , Prime Minister , The Guardian , United Kingdom , United States
LUCY EMMERSON: There has been much debate about how we should characterise the Norwegian mass-killer Anders Breivik. Were he Muslim there would have been no debate.
Added on 29/07/2011
Juan Cole
Al Qaeda , America , Anders Breivik , Christian , France , Glenn Beck , High Priest , Islam , Lord’s Resistance Army , Mecca , New Orleans , New York , New York city , Norway , specialist , United Nations , United States
JUAN COLE: In spite of the aggressive blather of Bill O’Reilly it would appear that so-called ‘Christian’ and ‘Muslim’ fundamentalists have much in common.
