http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/19/uscis-officials-transfer-probed/ USCIS official’s transfer probed Whistle blown on ‘negligence and mishandling’ of records By Jerry Seper The Office of Special Counsel is investigating the involuntary transfer of a top official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services who reported suspected “gross negligence and mishandling” of more than 600 certificates of citizenship and naturalization. The office, established […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/18/report-russian-spies-get-kremlins-highest-honors/ Report: Russian spies get Kremlin’s highest honors By Simon Shuster MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev bestowed the country’s highest state honor Monday on the Russian sleeper agents deported from the United States as part of the countries’ biggest spy swap since the Cold War, the Interfax news agency reported. Anna Chapman, a Russian national […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/19/pakistans-haven-for-terror-unit-irks-us/ Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chats with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. (Associated Press) Pakistan’s haven for terror unit irks U.S. Clinton to meet with key delegates By Ashish Kumar Sen With U.S.-Pakistani strategic talks set to start in Washington on Wednesday, the Obama administration is growing increasingly frustrated with Islamabad’s reluctance […]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sousa-mendes-saved-more-lives-than-schindler-so-why-isnt-he-a-household-name-too-2105882.html Sousa Mendes saved more lives than Schindler so why isn’t he a household name too? With the Nazi invasion of France came an order from Portugal that no Jews or dissidents be granted passage. But one man stood tall against the decree – and in issuing visas for 30,000 people, Aristides de Sousa Mendes […]
Why The West Presses Israel By David Isaac http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=340&Source=email“[T]here is good reason why the Israeli government should heed Defense Minister Barak’s advice and extend a settlement freeze. If nothing else, a freeze would prove that the obstacle to Middle East agreement isn’t the settlements … but the more basic refusal of the Palestinian leadership to […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/asia/17headley.html U.S. Had Warnings on Plotter of Mumbai Attack By JANE PERLEZ, ERIC SCHMITT and GINGER THOMPSON Less than a year before terrorists killed at least 163 people in Mumbai, India, a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband, David C. Headley, was plotting an […]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/fault-lines_508824.html • By NOEMIE EMERY Fault Lines The president’s apologists look for scapegoats A few years ago, you met a dark, handsome stranger, with a cool, remote manner and a smooth line of talk. You didn’t know him well, but he had a certain je ne sais quoi that you found irresistible. He was yourself, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304410504575559973666125394.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By JOHN BOLTON Direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, for 21 months the centerpiece of Obama administration Middle East policy, are moving inevitably toward collapse. The talks may limp past our Nov. 2 election, but they are doomed to fail. The Palestinian Authority (PA) fully understands that the talks—and the “two state solution”—will fail. It needs a plan […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1548/Future-Shock.aspx Future Shock Written by: Diana West Mohammed Enait, counselor for plaintiffs in the Wilders Trial — The spectacle continues. Following Friday’s announcement that prosecutors in the Geert Wilders trial in Amsterdam have recommended that Wilders be acquitted, the trial of course (?) continues until November 5 when the judge hands down his or — […]
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Troops-chafe-at-restrictive-rules-of-engagement_-talks-with-Taliban-1226055-105202284.html Troops chafe at restrictive rules of engagement, talks with Taliban By: Sara A. Carter National Security Correspondent October 19, 2010 A U.S. Army Chinook helicopter from the 101st Airborne Division transports U.S. infantrymen from one position to another in Zhari District, southern Afghanistan. (AP file photo) KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — To the U.S. Army soldiers […]
