Spain must learn from other European countries and adopt clear measures for restraining the power of radicalized messages. They cannot worry that they are violating rights or sacrificing liberties. It is not about sacrificing rights. It is instead about protecting democracy and freedom; it is about fighting against the enemies of democracy and freedom that are in our midst and just outside our borders. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Five suicide bombings since April 11 are enough to conclude that terrorism is not residual in Algeria and its increasingly ferocious manifestation should call everyone’s attention in the Maghreb as well as in Europe – if it has not occurred yet.

The death of four suicide bombers in Casablanca on April 10th, and the bomb attacks in Algiers on the following day, perpetrated by three suicide bombers, must be considered as one more step in the unstoppable surge that the Salafist Jihadistthreat means for all us, regardless of who provides the victims every time. (When we finished writing this analysis, the tally was 33 casualties and 200 injured). Download PDF

Mueller also says the threat to the average American is overblown. "Your chances of being killed, at present rates, by an international terrorist outside of a war zone is something like 1 in 80,000," he says. "It's about the same as being killed by an asteroid." Download PDF

The terror war now extends to four continents--running from Thailand and Indonesia to India and Pakistan, down the Horn of Africa to Somalia and Yemen and back up to Afghanistan, on to Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, and thence to Europe and the United States. Download PDF

Hollywood seems to have its priorities out of order... Download PDF

Just what does it mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for? Download PDF

Hassan Nasrallah is to Pan-Islamism what Gamal Abd-Nasser was to Pan-Arabism. His Islamic argument refers to religion as the neuralgic nucleus of the national identity and in this manner nourishes the pride of being a part of the mentioned identity. Download PDF

Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days. Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from a recent visit, one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable. Download PDF Descargar PDF

The most basic function of any government is to provide security to its people. That the Iraqi government is currently failing at this task in large areas of the country reduces the Iraqi population's willingness and ability to support the counterinsurgency effort, undermines the government's legitimacy, hinders the political process, and derails recon-struction. It is the single most serious problem in Iraq today. Yet coalition forces have not stepped in to fill the security gap. Download PDF

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