Michael Totten on Tunisia
Intrepid Middle East traveler and reporter extraordinaire Michael Totten has a new post up about radical Islamists in Tunisia.
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Meanwhile, in the wider the world…
…Syria is in an uproar. Sound familiar? As with similar situations before, the rebels can easily be overpowered by the government, if their numbers don’t reach a critical mass, and if the army and police stay loyal to ruler Assad. … Continue reading →
Egypt’s Christians not having a Merry Christmas
John Hinderaker has an update. Hinderaker writes that the story of the post-revolution mistreatment of Christians in Egypt has been “mysteriously underreported.” I’m not sure what’s so mysterious about it: most of the MSM has a very short attention span, … Continue reading →
Muslim Brotherhood doing well in Egyptian elections: is anyone surprised?
Early election results indicate the Muslim Brotherhood is doing well in Egypt: The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was … Continue reading →
Michael Totten…
…on the Christians of Egypt. Remember them?
Continue reading →Andrew McCarthy on the Libyan War, Obama, and Gaddafi
Here’s an excellent article by Andrew McCarthy that skewers Obama and the left (with a small dig at RINO Lindsay Graham along the way) for their hypocrisy in dealing with Libya and Gaddafi vs. Iraq and Bush. I will quote … Continue reading →
Springtime for Islamists in Libya?
The headline reads “interim [Libyan] ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law.” There’s that word again: expected. But those who thought they knew what to expect in Libya were either arrogant or daft, or both. And one … Continue reading →
Gaddafi and the desecration of the dead
It’s hard to escape the grisly death photos and videos of Gaddafi. A flamboyant figure who was photographed often during his long and very public life, his well-earned enemies have made sure that his death has been especially well-documented, too. … Continue reading →
Gaddafi captured, Gaddafi killed?
We’re getting conflicting reports, but something seems to be going on in Libya with Gaddafi. He appears to have been either captured or killed: National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded … Continue reading →
Libya’s missiles have gone missing
This should come as absolutely no surprise. And yet it seems to have done so, for a bunch of nameless “U.S. officials”: U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of … Continue reading →
Where is Egypt heading?
Caroline Glick assesses the situation in Egypt in light of the recent mob attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. The crowd was prevented from killing six Israeli security officers only because the military leaders of Egypt, who had been … Continue reading →
David Warren on the news from Libya
David Warren makes some spot-on observations on why the reporting from Libya has been so unreliable: The issue is not crude bias. It is, so far as I am able to understand, the compounded effect of two large factors. Journalists … Continue reading →