Joseph Mussomeli, charge d’affairs at the U.S. embassy in Manila, was quoted April 11 as saying that the southern island of Mindanao, where U.S. and Philippine forces are battling Muslim rebels, could be the next Afghanistan. According to a report… Read moreMindanao: “Next Afghanistan”?
The recent moves towards peace between India and Pakistan, symbolized by the historic establishment of bus service across the line of control in divided Kashmir, are a welcome development. But the April 6 arson attack on a Srinagar compound where… Read moreKashmir water war
Largely gone from the headlines and overshadowed by the horrorshow in Iraq, violence continues in Afghanistan, especially in the Taliban-sympathetic zone along that Pakistan border. We recently reported on an especially grisly incident involving U.S. troops. Now comes a similarly… Read moreAfghan border violence continues
We recently reported that U.S. military forces have been approved to engage in drug enforcement operations in Afghanistan. Now comes this report of DEA agents in New York busting a major opium lord said to be linked to the Taliban… Read moreAfghan drug lord busted
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man to be charged with a crime related to 9-11 in the U.S., was finally allowed to enter a plea in federal court April 22, and, in his inimitably garbled fashion, pleaded guilty to all six… Read moreMoussaoui pleads guilty (sort of)
Kudos to Pacific New Service for picking up our recent commentary on the coordinated propaganda blitz against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Readers of WW4 REPORT are aware that within a week of each other, Otto Reich called in a National Review… Read moreJINSA, National Review in anti-Chavez blitz
Even after the Justice Department has blinked in the case of whistle-blowing FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, declassifying her claims and allowing her suit to go ahead, the judiciary is now blocking public accesss to the proceedings… The Silencing of Sibel… Read moreCourts silence Sibel Edmonds
The New York Times is seemingly allergic to the word “occupation” when it comes to describing the Israel-Palestine conflict. It rarely mentions that all Israeli settlements, including those in East Jerusalem, violate international law. Daniel Okrent, the Times’ public editor,… Read moreNYT defends lack of “occupation”
From a blogger working with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other groups comes this April 16 appeal on the case of two teenage Muslim girls detained on immigration charges following spurious claims they had been considering suicide-terror martyrdom:… Read moreNYC: Appeal for detained immigrant girls
Ethnic tensions are rising in southwest Iran’s Khuzistan province along the Iraqi border, where violence has left three dead and injured in recent days. Protests by the region’s Arab minority were sparked by reports that authorities were planning to colonize… Read moreArab unrest, peace protests in Iran
Hours after polls closed in Saudi Arabia’s third and final round of quasi-democratic elections, presumed Islamic militants attacked a security checkpoint in the holy city of Mecca, sparking a gunbattle in which one police officer was killed and several wounded…. Read moreClashes in Mecca
Italy has finally blinked. Afer two generations of delay, the first of three pieces of a third-century Ethiopian obelisk plundered by the Italian fascist occupation in the 1930s has touched ground in the ancient city of Axum, where it was… Read moreItaly blinks in obelisk controversy
