Posted in Philip Carl Salzman, Lebanon, Terrorism, Culture on May 11th, 2008 No Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman
After modest initiatives in recent days by the Lebanese government to restrict the independent operations of Hezbollah, fighters of Hezbollah and Amal flooded into the streets of west Beirut, attacked and dispersed government fighters, set up road blocks, and occupied government and media offices. The Druze and Christian militias did not act, […]
Posted in Daniel Byman, Yemen, Adam Garfinkle, Bernard Haykel, Terrorism, Qaeda on May 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Daniel Byman
The Washington Post’s reporting on the weekend that “all the defendants convicted in the [2000] attack [on the USS Cole] have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials” will hardly surprise anyone watching how Yemen has handled the issue of terrorism since 9/11. While Yemeni security forces have at times made […]
Posted in Raymond Tanter, Terrorism, Iran on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
From Raymond Tanter
On April 30, the U.S. Department of State released the 2007 edition of Country Reports on Terrorism, which reports descriptions of State Sponsors of Terrorism and groups listed as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Country Reports rightly identifies the Iranian regime as the “most active state sponsor of terrorism,” which is consistent with evidence of […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Chuck Freilich, Michael Mandelbaum, Israel, Jacqueline Newmyer, Stephen Peter Rosen, Terrorism, Nuclear, Iran on Apr 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen
The extension of American nuclear guarantees in the Middle East has been posed as a question of American guarantees to Israel. This is understandable given the intense hostility to Israel expressed by the Iranian regime. However, there is a broader objective that may be served by U.S. nuclear guarantees […]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Terrorism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title—not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same […]
Posted in Terrorism, Iraq on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
In November 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education asked a number of scholars this question: “What will the world be like five years after a war with Iraq?” To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, MESH asked all of the respondents to revisit their predictions. This week, MESH will post the responses it […]
Posted in Matthew Levitt, Daniel Byman, Terrorism, Qaeda, Martin Kramer, Afghanistan on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
Fifteen years from now, when classified documents produced today begin to be declassified, we will surely look back with some discomfort and see just how far off some of our judgments were when written in 2008. Such is the nature of intelligence assessments. What would be worse, however, would be for us to […]
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