The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the co...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...
Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy
"There has never been a fake bin Laden tape," a U.S. counterterrorism official announced, but they are investigating as the voice sounds suspiciously like that of Sacha Baron Cohen.
The Guardian | Julian Borger and Declan Walsh | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
He is still alive. That is the one thing that can be said about Osama bin Laden these days with any degree of certainty. At least, he was still alive ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
Al Qaeda is running out of money and out of options. They have lost the good will of their hosts and might be in some serious trouble. Osama bin Laden will be killed or captured within the year.
Matt Littman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Comedy
Dear Dave, I take to heart your belated apology for your disgusting, inappropriate joke about my daughter. It took a long time for you to man up an...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan, and the spy agency is hoping to close in on him as that country's military c...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
ROME — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi faced angry protests and tough questions on human rights Thursday as he gave a speech at a Rome university ...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The next time you see a Republican defend torture or Guantanamo, think of what is going on in North Korea now and what Lakhdar Boumediene went through.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.
Derek Flood | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Obama attempted to refute violent Islamism with what I'll term "Unifying Abrahamism." Quoting the three holy books, he forced his audience to confront their shared histories.
Politico | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world was loaded with phrases and ideas aimed very much at rattling one man he never mentioned: Osama bi...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com DRESDEN, GERMANY -- The whirlwind tour continues here Friday as President Obama sees Buchenwald concent...
William Bradley | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Aides told us reporters traveling with Obama that the speech tomorrow in Cairo will last between 40 and 45 minutes. They also announced an unprecedented social networking blitz to engage the Muslim world.
AP | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The White House says it's not surprised that Osama bin Laden has released a new audio recording threatening America just ...
AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
CAIRO — Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio recording aired Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the ...
Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
An American list of the top 100 intellectuals was dominated by Muslims in the top 10; the only other American list dominated by Muslims is the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Watching President Obama and former Vice President Cheney duel on terror suspects: can Spock replace Rambo in the approach to Gitmo?
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
It has been nearly eight years since Al-Qaeda struck the United States on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that transformational event, some ha...
William Bradley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
The move from McKiernan to McChrystal also seems to signify an end to nation-building fantasies in Afghanistan.
New Yorker | Steve Coll | Posted 08.01.2009 | World