Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Obama administration is facilitating the activities of foreign jihadists and Al Qaida throughout the Middle East, while claiming that it is fighting Al Qaida and that the organization has been “decimated.” This monumental deception is being carried out not only by the administration but its supporters. It is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Algeria’s armed forces on Jan. 17 attempted a rescue operation of foreign hostages held by Al Qaida at a natural gas facility. [Reuters reported that, according to a source, six hostages and eights captors were killed when the Algerian military opened fire on a vehicle being used by the captors. […]
Wesley Pruden There’s no mystery about why Hillary Clinton spends so much time on airplanes to dreary places that everybody else avoids like the plague (or the stomach flu). The climate anywhere is better than in the comfortable ineptitude of Foggy Bottom. The report of an independent panel inquiring into what happened in Benghazi, and […]
Sol W. Sanders Despite superficial controversy either purposely manufactured by the Obama administration to cover its tracks or simply the product of a kept main stream media, fundamental issues associated with the assassination of four Americans hovers ghostlike over the political scene. Neither Gen. David Petraeus’ sexual peccadilloes — and, apparently, other high level […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is losing the trust of the American people. In fact, his administration is collapsing under the weight of its numerous lies and false statements. The result: Mr. Obama’s credibility is eroding, his popularity dwindling. The electorate is slowly but decisively turning against him. The administration has been caught in a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Egypt, despite a longstanding agreement to demilitarize much of the Sinai Peninsula, has deployed U.S.-origin missiles and combat platforms near the border with Israel. Western defense sources said the Egyptian Army has deployed in Sinai a range of assets supplied by the United States. They cited main battle tanks and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Iran’s leading opposition group has agreed to re-settle thousands of members and their families in Iraq. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said it would continue to relocate members from Iraq’s Camp Ashraf as part of a deal to be removed from the U.S. State Department list of organizations […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey and the United States have been engaged in a dispute over freedom of expression under Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Ankara and Washington were arguing over what the State Department contended has been the decline of personal freedom in Turkey. Officials, including the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, have focused on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States plans to increase counter-insurgency cooperation with Egypt. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has begun consultations with Egypt on ways to increase security aid and cooperation. They said the cooperation would focus on intelligence exchange, border security and advanced technology to track insurgency squads in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid It is a subject that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama don’t want to talk about. But former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy on Wednesday offered a virtual indictment of top State Department official Huma Abedin as a security risk and said that Obama’s embrace of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood constitutes […]