As it is written: The Jihadists in their own words — Part II, Advancing terror to ‘savagery’

As it is written: The Jihadists in their own words — Part II, Advancing terror to ‘savagery’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [See: Part I, The subversion of Europe, May 13, 2016] In 2004, Sheikh Abu Bakr Naji published his main book titled “Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Islamic Nation Will Pass” which would define the […]

As it is written: The Jihadists in their own words — Part I, The subversion of Europe

As it is written: The Jihadists in their own words — Part I, The subversion of Europe

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Jihad is escalating into Europe. The mid-November 2015 jihadist strike at the heart of Paris, the late-March 2016 jihadist strike at the heart of Brussels, as well as the host of smaller “incidents” such as the mid-May 2016 stabbing […]

Memo to the West: Moscow’s increasing role in Syria and against the jihadist threat since 2012

Memo to the West: Moscow’s increasing role in Syria and against the jihadist threat since 2012

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]

Post-Gadhafi Libya now a jihadist springboard backed by Iran, Qatar, Sudan and Turkey

Post-Gadhafi Libya now a jihadist springboard backed by Iran, Qatar, Sudan and Turkey

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The consolidation of a self-proclaimed Caliphate in eastern Libya provides the jihadist camp with springboard into Africa and southern Europe. That strategic thrust, supported strongly by Qatar, Sudan, Iran, and Turkey, has already begun, and highlights the transformation of […]

Contrast: Putin backs existing Mideast balance of power as Obama boosts Iran’s ‘jihadist ascent’

Contrast: Putin backs existing Mideast balance of power as Obama boosts Iran’s ‘jihadist ascent’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The modern Arab State is gone, rejected by the vast majority of the populace. Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are no more, and Jordan and Yemen are not far behind. In their place there have emerged entities based on […]

Minutes of Sudan strategy session reveal hidden agenda to eliminate S. Sudan by backing Riek Machar

Minutes of Sudan strategy session reveal hidden agenda to eliminate S. Sudan by backing Riek Machar

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Even though the actual fighting in South Sudan is led by local commanders in pursuit of localized self-interests, there have been repeated efforts to negotiate a political solution. While the United States is an interested party, given the lingering […]

Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

Special to WorldTribune.com “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” —    Barack Hussein Obama (address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 2012) By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The jihadist murders at the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, on Jan. 7, […]

Bodansky: New granular evidence points to Saudi role in chemical weapons attack

Bodansky: New granular evidence points to Saudi role in chemical weapons attack

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Recent findings point increasingly toward the conclusion that the chemical weapons attack in Syria was indeed a self-inflicted attack by the Syrian opposition in order to provoke a U.S. and Western military intervention against the Ba’athist government of President Bashar Assad. Ultimately, it […]

The story Rush Limbaugh discussed on Sept. 3: Mounting evidence raises questions about Syrian chemical weapon attack

Special to WorldTribune.com Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters — which makes a very strong case, based on solid circumstantial evidence, that the Aug. 21 chemical […]