Dancing in the street: A wedding procession through the streets of old Sanaa draws the neighbors out to celebrate the occasion with singing and dancing (Pic: Sandy Choi, Courtesy: Foreign Policy Magazine)
With pundits on TV talking about Yemen, being “tomorrow’s war” – we were curious to see what this incubator of A [...]
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Post Cards From Yemen
Dancing in the street: A wedding procession through the streets of old Sanaa draws the neighbors out to celebrate the occasion with singing and dancing (Pic: Sandy Choi, Courtesy: Foreign Policy Magazine)
With pundits on TV talking about Yemen, being “tomorrow’s war” – we were curious to see what this incubator of A [...]
Youssef Al Khattab, Alleged Al Qaeda ...
Youssef Al Khattab angered many by being an open Al-Qaeda supporter and making anti-Semitic remarks on his website. He now lives in Morocco
It may have been one of the coldest days this season, but that did not deter angry protesters from gathering at 54-11, the Woodside residence of Youssef Al-Khattab, a Jewish convert to Islam and an open A [...]
Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge: Fiv...
Tony Karon’s new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama’s call for a troop escalation.
Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama’s Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months:
1. Expanding the ground war against the Talib [...]
Afghanistan – A Foggy Future
Quickly reviewing all major post World War II wars, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg asks a series of tough questions he would like the president to answer on Tuesday:
Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate “safe havens” in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other—well, options, from Sudan [...]