Doing Business with the Devil
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
In a segment last week on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly continued hammering away at General Electric over its ongoing business dealings with Iran.
According to O'Reilly: "GE has about $50 million on the table in business dealings with Iran. Doing the math, that means $250 million could have been derived since Iran began killing Americans in Iraq about five years ago."
Amazing that a home-grown American company like GE would even consider doing business with terrorists or state sponsors of terrorism - much less be permitted to do so - but it's apparently true. The relationship between GE and the Iranian mullahs has existed for years. GE agreed to pull out of Iran in early 2005. It is now 2008, and GE is still there. [more...]
Exclusive: How Dangerous Is Jihad Terror?
Newsweek Columnist's Bizarre Statistical Gymnastics
By Joel Himelfarb
"Are we safer" because of the Bush Administration's post-September 11 efforts against Islamist terror and its state sponsors? The political Left asks this question constantly and concludes that America couldn't possibly be - even though terrorists haven't attacked the American homeland in almost seven years. Elsewhere in the world, however, violent Jihadism and its backers appear to be ascendant. All one has to do is see the rise of Sunni and Shi'ite terrorist networks in Iraq since 2003; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Hezbollah's rise in Lebanon; Hamas' creation of a terror state in Gaza; the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Some, if not all, of these problems have worsened during the presidency of George W. Bush. So, the world seems to be getting more dangerous. How, then, can Bush (or John McCain, for that matter) possibly claim to be succeeding in the war on terror? [more...]
The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book
By Cliff Kincaid
Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the lives of two policemen and a security guard. Dohrn later served jail time for refusing to cooperate in an official investigation of the crime. [more...]
Exclusive: The New GI Bill
By KT McFarland
For the next few weeks Washington will be drawn into a battle over a new GI bill and like most things in Washington these days, it will be heavily politicized. The original GI bill received almost unanimous bipartisan support when it was enacted in 1944, and provided combat veterans returning from Germany and Japan with a free college education. Called the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act", the World War II GI bill covered college tuition, books, room and board. Millions of Americans got a college education they would otherwise never have had; it let them live the "American Dream." The original idea was it would stretch out the reentry of 8 million military personnel into the job market, reward them for their service, and lift the education standards of the nation. Experts have argued that the GI Bill "reinvented America" after World War II. Subsequent studies showed that every dollar spent on the GI bill's education benefits added seven dollars to the US economy. It was never intended as a recruitment tool - the attack on Pearl Harbor and the draft took care of that. [more...]
Criminal Networks in West Africa: An Emerging Security Challenge
By J.Peter Pham, PhD
On April 30th, Sidi Ould Sidna, a.k.a. Abou Jendel, an al Qaeda-linked militant who escaped earlier in the month from the courthouse in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where he was being tried for the Christmas Eve 2007 killing of four French tourists, was recaptured in a predawn police raid on a residence in the capital city's Arafat district. Captured with Sidna was another militant, Khadim Ould Semane, who had been sought for a February 1st attack on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital, one of only three members of the Arab League to host a full-fledge diplomatic mission from the Jewish state. Both men have admitted their association with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its predecessor organizations (see my May 8th update on AQIM). [more...]
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