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  • Moussaoui: Wrong court, wrong debate

    05/04/2006 4:43:06 AM PDT · by SJackson · 5 replies · 376+ views
    Jewish World Review ^ | 5-4-06 | Walid Phares:
    Should we be surprised by the watershed debate following Zacarias Moussaoui's trial ending? Not really. The jury rendering of its recommendation is not unusual throughout the American legal war with Terrorism: For the five years court struggle to try al Qaida members and other terrorists in the US legal structure hasn't been working. After the classroom, America's court room is too alien to the conflict. In short Moussaoui's case is not the only one to display a systemic crisis, all other cases did and will continue to do. My take on it, as an analyst of past and future terror...
  • 1 year after the pull out: Syria, Iran still control Lebanon

    04/27/2006 4:59:47 AM PDT · by unionblue83 · 7 replies · 279+ views
    WorldNet Daily ^ | 27 april 2006 | Dr. Walid Phares
    WASHINGTON – On April 26, 2005, pictures of the "last" Syrian soldiers were seen around the world. Today, on the first annual withdrawal of the Syrian regular forces from Lebanon, there are reasons for celebration and other reasons for great concern. While Syrian road blocks have vanished from Beirut and the various regions of Lebanon, many questions are still troubling the minds of most Lebanese and their friends around the world. The truth – the whole truth – is not yet fully out in the open. What caused the abrupt Syrian withdrawal, and is the latter complete? What is causing...
  • Jihadists in the Tower

    03/21/2006 12:41:28 PM PST · by JSedreporter · 1 replies · 493+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | March 21, 2006 | Julia A. Seymour
    When the airliners took down the World Trade Center towers, Americans struggled to find answers. They found some, but a discernible haze over the minds and eyes of Americans existed in those post 9/11 days. The truth many failed to realize was that the jihadists were already here. They were in our towers; the ivory ones.
  • Dr. Walid Phares: The Cartoon Offensive ...

    02/26/2006 10:58:00 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 11 replies · 662+ views
    Yubanet ^ | Feb 15, 2006 at 07:26 | Dr. Walid Phares
    "In my religion" said Imam abu Laban, leading Muslim cleric of Denmark, "drawing images of Prophet Muhammad is forbidden." In my country, said the editor in chief of Copenhagen's Jyllands Posten newspaper, "there is a freedom of press." The BBC TV forum was attempting to educate its vast public worldwide about the cartoon drama. Unfortunately, the debate left viewers in greater disarray. The anchor seemed to ignore why theological cartoons are offensive to Muslims to start with, but also missed why secular democracies are clashing with their antithesis. World media and their respective governments have been reacting to television images...
  • The US and Pakistan

    01/22/2006 4:48:48 PM PST · by SuzyQ2 · 3 replies · 598+ views
    World Defense Review ^ | January 16, 2006 | Walid Phares
    The U.S. Predator strike inside Pakistan's border area, aimed at al-Zawahri's possible stay in a village may or may not have missed its target. But the missile attack triggered a series of political explosions in the region. In short, the issues are out. I addressed them in a series of interviews over the weekend. Here is a summary:
  • Catch them, but do not watch them!

    12/28/2005 6:14:31 AM PST · by SuzyQ2 · 10 replies · 758+ views
    World Defense Review ^ | December 20, 2005 | Walid Phares
    Al-Qaeda knew it was under surveillance in America, but it didn't know much about that system. Soon, it will know and will use this knowledge to its advantage. While some among us are rotating their pre-9/11 planet back in time, future jihad is railing against another of its enemies' fatal weaknesses.
  • Spying on American Terrorists

    12/19/2005 4:42:21 AM PST · by unionblue83 · 12 replies · 531+ views
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | 19 December 2005 | Dr. Walid Phares
    Use their systems, passports, citizenship, laws, traditions, books and media, create internal divisions among them, and inflict defeat on the kuffars [infidels], for in the current balance of power, all we need to do is to use their weaknesses as our strength." – Abul ala’, comment posted in the Al-Ansar chat room, September 2005. Opening the first salvo in the newly launched "battle of the terrorist surveillance," the Associated Press wrote: "President Bush said Saturday he personally has authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. more than 30 times since the Sept. 11 attacks and he lashed out at...
  • Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America

    12/14/2005 7:37:57 AM PST · by Valin · 11 replies · 639+ views
    Townhall ^ | 11/14/05 | Todd Walters
    Walid Phares concludes Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America with a passage that could have been excised verbatim from one of President Bush’s post-9/11 speeches. Referring to the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism, Phares declares that “many visionary people in the West and many more brave people in the Muslim world will contribute. This will decide if future jihads end up with mushroom clouds around the world, or if peace, democracy, and freedom mushroom worldwide.” Apocalyptic admonishments like this pervade Future Jihad, a flawed, but nonetheless critical piece of work. Phares, a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University and...
  • Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America

    11/25/2005 2:41:00 PM PST · by tentmaker · 7 replies · 874+ views
    http://futurejihad.com/ ^ | 11/18/2005 | Walid Phares
    From the editor's review Palgrave/St Martin This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Called by the press, 'the only person who really can read the minds of terrorists', Phares is uniquely qualified to identify the aims and strategies of the organizations waging war on the West. He answers such critical questions as: How long will this war last? Is the United States secure on the inside? Will...
  • 11/9--Jihad strikes Jordan – and it's not because of Operation Iraqi Freedom

    11/10/2005 5:00:07 AM PST · by SJackson · 23 replies · 951+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | November 10, 2005 | Dr. Walid Phares
    After every jihadist terror attack or violent outburst around the world, the mainstream media always advances its myriad theories about the so-called “root causes” of the particular attack in question. Unfortunately, most of the time their analyses are fictions. That was the case last week with the interpretations of the French Intifada. And this is the case again just hours after terrorists struck three hotels in downtown Amman, Jordan. Some commentators rushed to conclude that Jordan was targeted just because it was an ally of the United States and a backer of the war in Iraq. From al-Jazeera's opinion-makers to...
  • London: Behind Infidel Lines--More explosions -- and the Jihadists' message we need to get.

    07/22/2005 6:57:13 AM PDT · by SJackson · 5 replies · 440+ views
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 7-22-05 | Walid Phares
    “We have to wait and see if these incidents are terrorism related.” When I heard this sentence uttered by anchors quoting officials in Great Britain after Thursday’s explosions in London’s subways, I told myself: Western instincts are still numbed, even though progress in popular mobilization is clear. On several radio shows during yesterday morning, I compared the current legalistic logic in the terror war with odd statements the British would have never made back during the Blitz of 1940. Let’s just imagine after each wave of Nazis bombers, city officials would caution the media from rushing to quick conclusions, saying:...
  • Walid Phares: A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July

    07/01/2005 11:30:47 AM PDT · by quidnunc · 4 replies · 603+ views
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | July 4, 2005 | Walid Phares
    Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of July weekend is how much Middle Easterners know about America's ideals, values, and revolutionary principles of liberty. What viewers and audiences in the U.S. were not told is the magnitude of political and social change America is provoking in the region, even beyond the wildest imagination of those planners who said they were entering a “war of ideas” a few years ago. What students in this country are forbidden to learn — too often by...
  • The Long-Planned "Spontaneous" Riots--They weren't about the Koran....

    05/19/2005 5:45:47 AM PDT · by SJackson · 23 replies · 825+ views
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 5-18-05 | Dr. Walid Phares
    With one sentence, Newsweek triggered a series of violent intifadas in countries as remote as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and beyond. That's at least how mainstream media, government officials, and most of the public see it. The truth is more complicated: Islamists had been planning these riots long before this story ever made it into print. True, the short piece by Michael Isikoff and John Barry, which attempted to unveil a new scandal, became the trigger for mass violence led by Islamists across the world. But the jihadists had mobilized for a counteroffensive against the "infidels" long ago. Ironically, these two developments...
  • The Russia-Syria Connection-Russia's arming of a tyranny undermines democracy in the Middle East

    03/18/2005 5:44:03 AM PST · by SJackson · 17 replies · 856+ views
    Frontpagemag ^ | 3-18-05 | Dr. Walid Phares
    How Russia's arming of a Ba'athist tyranny undermines democracy in the Middle East Dr. Walid Phares gave the following testimony before the U.S. Senate on the issue of Russia's arming of longtime ally Syria. We reproduce it here in full. -- The Editors.I am pleased to participate in this timely hearing on the subject of Russian involvement with Syria. I shall focus my remarks upon the impact of Russian-Syrian relations on Lebanon. I am a professor of international relations, an expert on terrorism and am originally from Lebanon. I am the Secretary-General of the World Lebanese Cultural Union, and in...
  • WALID PHARES: Sign of Strength (Hezbollah demonstration)or Something Else?

    03/10/2005 4:17:19 PM PST · by Ooh-Ah · 6 replies · 603+ views
    Fox News ^ | March 10, 2005 | Brit Hume interview
    ...There were 500 buses carrying Syrian workers actually from the Bekka Valley into... ... Arab TV stations were interviewing members of these demonstrations. And they proudly said that they were Syrians coming in solidarity with the Hezbollah. But more over, they were Palestinians from the Palestinian camps. They put all their strength — it is true, that Hezbollah has 40,000 members. Forty thousand times four, each one brought four. This is the maximum that Hezbollah and the Syrians could muster. The problem is that they cannot do it every single...
  • Wrong turn in Lebanon

    02/22/2005 12:27:31 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 5 replies · 392+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 | By Walid Phares
    When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: In the hours after the barbaric killing, the dice were rolling. Muslim Sunnis were breaking away from Syrian President Bashar Assad's control, and a Sunni-Druze-Christians alliance was rising while reaching out to the Shi'ite community. How is it that the Syrian regime, known to be a shrewd planner and a long term strategist, would commit a political suicide? Execute Hariri in daylight and wait for the funerals to take place and for the international community to react, is...
  • What is Inside the Mind of Syrian Baath (A old Mid-East hand has some interesting insights)

    02/18/2005 7:26:35 PM PST · by quidnunc · 19 replies · 886+ views
    The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ^ | February 18, 2005 | Walid Phares [Lebanon Wire]
    When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: On the one hand, Damascus' regime has decided to choose the path of Saddam, while the majority of the Lebanese opted for regime change. In the following hours after the barbaric killing, the dice were rolling already. Nothing was to stop the Muslim Sunnis from breaking away from Assad's control, and nothing will stop a Sunni-Druze-Christians alliance from reaching out to the Shiite community. How is it that the Syrian regime, known to be a shrewd planner and...
  • Iraqi democracy debuts in pre-election debate

    01/29/2005 8:01:11 AM PST · by knighthawk · 2 replies · 330+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 29 2005 | WALID PHARES
    Last Sunday, when Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi aired his infamous declaration of holy war against democracy, six main Iraqi leaders performed Iraq's first televised electoral debate on Al Hurra TV. The contrast between naked jihadism -- calling for the assassination of free choice -- and campaigning with ideas and words, is flagrant. The war in Iraq was never as clear as today, and its stakes were never as high as Sunday. The debate participants represented six major tickets. Iraq's future assembly will have 275 seats. More than 4,000 candidates have gathered in ''coalition lists'' representing ethnic, ideological and political interests -- the...
  • Unmasked Men

    10/16/2004 11:05:26 AM PDT · by focusandclarity · 16 replies · 938+ views
    World Magazine.Com ^ | October 16, 2004 Issue | Mindy Belz
    COVER STORY: Leaked Iraqi intelligence documents connect Saddam Hussein to prominent terror leaders, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden. Only question is, when will John Kerry change his stump speech? by Mindy Belz Walid Phares thumbed a sheaf of documents, all in Arabic and nearly all bearing the spherical slogan of Iraq's intelligence service, or Mukhabarat. The Middle East scholar, a Lebanese-American Christian who speaks four languages and is a recognized expert on Islamic militants and terrorism, has interrupted a sick day (prior engagement with a root canal) in order to evaluate 42 just-leaked intelligence documents confiscated by...
  • Expert: Documents Show Iraqi Ruler Had WMD, Terrorist Ties

    10/11/2004 3:48:18 PM PDT · by mrplind · 78 replies · 2,278+ views
    (CNSNews.com) - A Middle East scholar and recognized expert on Islamic militants and terrorism agreed that leaked Iraqi intelligence documents recently published by CNSNews.com demonstrate that Saddam Hussein collaborated with and supported Islamic terrorist groups, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, World Magazine reports. "This is a watershed. This is big," said Walid Phares, who reviewed the documents at World Magazine's request on Oct. 6