Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States, despite its latest $3 billion arms package, continues to deny an advanced bunker-buster munition to Israel. Officials acknowledged that the administration of President Barack Obama rebuffed at least three Israeli requests for the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, designed to destroy deep bunkers constructed by Iran and North Korea. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MANAMA — Bahrain has decided to end U.S. interference in the domestic affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom. The Bahraini Cabinet approved a plan to end interference by the U.S. ambassador to Manama, Thomas Krajeski. The Cabinet plan, which was not detailed, was submitted by parliament amid tension between Manama and […]
Sol W. Sanders The President of the United States and his administration are jeopardizing national security by rejecting the obvious ties between jihadist terrorism and Islam. By refusing to identify the terrorists as a part, however pernicious, of the overall Muslim community, he makes it difficult if not impossible for the kind of counterintelligence […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Israel Air Force has conducted another attack on a shipment of advanced missiles to Syria. Western diplomatic sources said Israel sent nearly a dozen F-15 and F-16 fighter-jets to destroy Iranian-origin missiles that arrived in Damascus. The sources said the attack took place on May 3 when warplanes fired […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner Benghazi may turn out to be President Obama’s Watergate. The scandal is a growing cancer on the administration, threatening its very existence. The more information comes out, the more damning it is. This is why Democrats — and their media allies — are desperately trying to sweep the truth under the rug. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The current issue of “The Economist” has a cover picture of people being discharged into a trash dump, with the headline “Generation Jobless” and the subtitle “The Global Rise of Youth Unemployment”. In the article inside the magazine it points out that global youth unemployment, as reported by official […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A leading U.S. military contractor for the Middle East has been fined for repeated violations of arms export laws. Raytheon, a missile supplier to U.S. allies in the Middle East, has been fined $8 million for hundreds of violations of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Britain has launched a program to train thousands of police officers in Libya. Officials said Britain has approved a program to train at least 4,000 Libyan officers. They said the program would include the renovation of the police training academy in the North African state. “A police force capable of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama has been recruiting Arab states to support a U.S. drive for a Palestinian state in 2014. Officials said the White House and State Department have been lobbying Arab allies of Washington, to support a peace deal with Israel that would enable the establishment of […]