The long list of essentially bogus terrorism convictions in America inevitably raises the question whether there actually is any real terrorism present in the US.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
The debate over whether Al Qaeda is or is not in Iraq misses the broader point of what Republicans will charge a U.S. withdrawal under a Democratic president may portend for Iraq.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
It was a classic gaffe that, if caught, would have turned last Tuesday's debate and maybe would have pushed Obama into a downward spiral from which he...
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted al-Qaida in Iraq leader from Saudi Arabia who was responsible for t...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan's wild frontier zone on Thursday, killing up to 12 suspected mi...
Mike German | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
Security measures that don't make us more secure must be abandoned. Only standing up for the rule of law can truly make us safe.
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
AP reports: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain mocked Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday for saying he would take action as president "if a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Tomorrow night may be the last debate in the Democratic primary race. This will be the twentieth debate so far, which has to be some kind of record. ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
What are Americans going to have to sacrifice if he has his way on Iraq? Health care? Decent jobs? We can't do it all, but John McCain seems to pretend that we can.
Jon Soltz | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
Senator Warner and the rest of the Bush supporters should start taking troops at their word and pressure the president to address the equipment issues in Afghanistan.
Michael Shaw | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media
I had my suspicions about the suicide bombers, but it didn't stop a wide swath of media from jumping on the story, producing headlines and visuals like the one above.
Sen. Russ Feingold | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
The administration is still considering keeping at least 130,000 troops in Iraq -- a level which is unsustainable and undermines our ability to respond to contingencies elsewhere and defend our own country.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
The last thing McCain needs is a media that begins reminding the American people why his unyielding support for a long term commitment of U.S. forces in Iraq is just a carryover of Bush's Iraq disaster.
CNN | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
Video provided to CNN shows an al Qaeda in Iraq firing squad executing one-time allies -- fellow Sunni extremists -- who were not loyal enough to the ...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
Mr. Bush's Middle East adventures underscore the enormity of his foreign policy failures, from which it may take America years to recover.
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
So after years and years of doing nothing with the detainees at Guantanamo, the Bush administration decides to launch the "al Qaeda trials" -- which...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
It is surely no coincidence, that the charges against the Guantánamo detainees came just six days after the director of the CIA, admitted that three of the "high-value" detainees had been subjected to waterboarding.
Russ Wellen | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
If anything bears repeating, alerting the world to nuclear terrorism does. Paul Williams fights the extreme form of jihad that nuclear terrorism constitutes with his own brand of extreme jeremiad.
AFP | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
Hundreds of members of an anti-Al-Qaeda front in Iraq's central city of Baquba on Friday donned keffiyeh headdresses and took to the streets demanding...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
The US military has spent $12 million on a mobile court complex, which is intended to be used for the trial by Military Commission of up to 80 detainees, beginning in May.
CBS News | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Videotapes seized during U.S. raids on suspected al Qaeda in Iraq hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and assassinate civili...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are need...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida, increasingly tamped down in Iraq, is establishing cells in other countries as Osama bin Laden's organization uses Pakista...
International Herald Tribune | Brian Knowlton | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
The top American intelligence official said on Tuesday that Al Qaeda is improving its ability to attack within the United States by recruiting and tra...
Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his hea...
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
The insta-polls, which provide viewers with a somewhat skewed but important insight into how each...
You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an...
In Debate II, John McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American...
We've come to lower our expectations for real debates in the...
They say that Senator McCain's strong suit is the town hall debate. If this was, in fact, Senator McCain's strength, he might...
Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric...
Madonna went on VP candidate "Sarah fucking Paling" at her Madison Square Garden show Monday...
Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst...
Fresh from the celebration of their 16th wedding anniversary on Friday, the Obamas shared...
The view from a hovering...
NEW YORK — A stock market empowered by an emergency interest rate cut...
The newest issue of Men's Health has what is sure to be an illuminating...
Philip Giraldi | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics