I recently blogged about the strange case of “Amina,” the Croatian convert to Islam who reportedly left her home, got hitched to the infamous Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, and inadvertently played a key role in his getting set up for death...
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Update: How Irena from Bjelovar became Mrs. Awlaki
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Fixing America’s Military
Something is very wrong with America’s armed forces. Despite the astonishing competence of the U.S. military at a tactical level – where they are pretty much unstoppable, by anybody, anywhere – in terms of strategy the last decade has been...
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Canada’s Big Beta Spy Scandal
Canada is a very nice country, indeed one of the nicest in the world (I used to live there, I certify that), but not exactly … exciting. Considering how big a country and economy Canada is, globally speaking, not to...
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Great story … but is it true?
Al-Qa’ida has repeatedly warned would-be jihadists that women can be a temptation and a problem for even the most committed holy warrior. Especially blondes. In one of my favorite passages of unintentional muj hilarity, back in the 1990s, al-Qa’ida cautioned...
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“RECONQUEST!”: This is how Europe gets ugly
As if Greece’s “new type of civil war” weren’t enough for Europe-watchers to fret over, yesterday a group of young activists in France took over a mosque site. The group, Génération Identitaire, has recently emerged with an agenda of “native rights”...
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“A new type of civil war”: Welcome to the Greek nightmare
Last week this blog discussed how Switzerland is preparing for the possibility that Europe’s current economic-cum-political crisis might get very ugly. The Swiss military, long known for its thorough preparedness, is readying for serious instability reaching the country’s borders. What...
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Intel: More questions about Benghazi
As if this week’s Presidential debate kerfuffle about Libya weren’t enough – thanks, Candy, for getting the facts wrong on-air – now the AP is reporting that DC actually got information from U.S. intelligence in-country, just 24 hours after the...
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Who killed Bruno Bušić?
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Bruno Busic. Who? you might well ask, even if you’re a seasoned spywatcher. Even in his native Croatia, where he’s not been forgotten altogether, the anniversary of his brutal killing was hardly...
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America’s Wars of Ottoman Succession
It has often been noted that all five of America’s most recent wars – Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya – have taken place in societies that possess large Muslim populations (in the case of four of them, overwhelmingly so)....
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Who Bombed Burgas?
Back in July, a suicide bomber killed six people, plus himself, at the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas. Five of the dead were Israelis, while the sixth was the driver of the incinerated bus (who was a Muslim). There are...