Did the three suspected Iranians terrorists in Bangkok reenact a scene from the early 1920s silent film comedies -- the Keystone Kops featuring clumsy and incompetent fictional policemen? At first look, it would seem so.

On Monday, Feb. 13, an explosion shattered a house in Soi Pridi Banomyong 31,...

With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations. With the Holocaust as a fresh memory, Israelis do not take lightly the Iranian leadership's repeated threats to wipe Israel off...

Was it an accident that on January 11, 2012 in the Seyed Khandan neighborhood
of northern Tehran an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed when a bomb was attached
to his car by two passing motorcyclists?

The fact that this attack was operationally similar to an attack on an...

It took only 30 seconds of a gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881 to make history, when only Wyatt Earp remained standing at the end of a seven-man gunfight. One hundred thirty years later, is the world facing yet another historic gunfight, this time...

Ahmad Rezaee (31) an Iranian national was found dead on November 12, on the floor of room 23 on the 18th floor of Gloria Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai.

When discovered, he had already been dead for three days, with a copy of the Holy Koran laid...

The League of Arab States has issued an ultimatum to Syria: cease all hostilities against your rebelling citizens by November 16, or face expulsion from the League. This is not a token threat: The next move could be an Arab military intervention condoned by the League. On Monday, November...

To bomb or not to bomb Iran's nuclear installations, that is the question asked by many world leaders following the UN International Atomic Energy Agency report which provided the smoking gun: Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Inevitably President Ahmadinejad immediately rejected the report. The summary of his response is:...

Ekaterina "Katia" Zatuliveter insists that she is not a Russian spy operating in the UK. Russia also insists that she was not their spy. MI5, the British internal intelligence service insists that she was working for Russian intelligence and wants her deported from the UK. Zatuliveter is currently fighting in...

Last week President Obama announced that all US troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year. That would formally end more than eight years of combat that cost the U.S more than 4,400 lives, more than 33,000 injured servicemen and servicewomen, and up to one trillion dollars in...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's brutal death has been confirmed, but the fear is that it doesn't mark the end of hostilities in Libya, but the beginning of an equally brutal civil war.

You might think that there have been only two major players in Libya's power struggle: Gaddafi's government and...

Turkey is at it again behaving like the schoolyard bully. This time, Turkey's target is not Israel but the Republic of Cyprus. In an interview to Zaman, a Turkish newspaper, Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış has threatened that if the Republic of Cyprus enters claimed Turkish terrestrial waters during their...

One day before the publication of the UN report on the Israeli-Turkish conflict, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister has issued a 24 hour ultimatum to Israel to "apologize, or else..." The Turkish foreign minister has demanded Israel's contrition for the May 2010 raid on the MV Mavi Marmara,...

Durban III, a UN conference charged with finding the real root of racism, is scheduled to commence on September 21, 2011, in New York. The Durban Conferences are the natural, albeit indirect extension of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The two previous Durban conferences became a platform for political hatred...

Come September, the UN General Assembly will consider the Palestinian Authority's request to be admitted as a member. Historically, the UN has played a major role in the Palestinian refugees' problem; it could now bring to its resolution.

Fact: According to the UN, there are five million Palestinians, mostly...

Those who wondered why the U.S and its European allies limit their reaction to the Syrian massacre of its citizens to lip service only should listen to the Russian offered explanation. The Russians believe that the message NATO and the U.S are sending Syria and ultimately Iran is, "we are...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn ("DSK") is accused of sexual attack on a hotel chambermaid. But will his status as the IMF head allow him to wriggle out from under criminal prosecution in New York by claiming immunity?

Theoretically, DSK would have two available types of immunities: status-based immunity and conduct-based immunity. These...

Why is the UN Security Council unwilling to condemn Syria? President Bashar al-Assad is butchering his own rebellious citizens and other than public expressions reproaching the massacre in Syria, the world does nothing. Why? Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was bombed by NATO for similar atrocities, then why the preferential treatment...

The Iranian meddling in Bahrain was temporarily to be put to a hold. However, the prey, albeit small in acreage, is too lucrative to be let go, and Iranian clandestine intervention continues. Bahrain, a small island kingdom in the Gulf, is coveted by Iran, its neighbor across the bay, as...

"Quo vadis?" (where are you going? in Latin) asked St. Peter fleeing from certain crucifixion in Rome, when he met Jesus. According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Jesus answered, "Eo Romam iterum crucifigi, (I am going to Rome to be crucified again." )

Is it time to ask, Quo...

Many have misread the recent eruption of riots in the streets of Manama, capital of the tiny, oil-rich Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain.

The government of Bahrain points an accusing finger at Iran. They say that the riots in Bahrain resulted from a well-planned sinister master plan of...