Mohamed Merah And The War On Terror’s New Front -- Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
The French gunman killed today represents a slippery new threat: al Qaeda-inspired lone wolves versed in evading detection. Christopher Dickey talks to NYPD’s police chief about how to stop them. Plus, Tracy McNicoll has new details from the police raid.
When Mohamed Merah died in a brief, ferocious gunfight with a French SWAT team today after a 32-hour siege in Toulouse, his own killing spree came to a definitive end. But there is growing concern among American and European law-enforcement officials that this petty-thief-turned-jihadist-murderer represents dangerous changes in the way terrorists operate that are extremely hard to monitor or to stop.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Why Iran Thinks America Won't Attack -- Reza Kahlili, American Thinker
Iran Watch: Is the United States waivering? -- Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy
Turkey Vs. Iran: The Regional Battle for Hearts and Minds -- Mustafa Akyol, Foreign Affairs
US tells Turkey to back off Syria -- Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon
Have We Learned Nothing From the Nineties? Syria is the Balkans All Over Again -- Radwan Ziadeh, The New Republic
Wrong Ways to Fight Assad -- New York Times editoria
An Iraq ruled by one – or none -- Michael Bell, Globe and Mail
No Saudi Spring -- Madawi Al-Rasheed, Real Clear World
In Egypt, a cellphone is a wireless lifeline -- Joseph Mayton, Jerusalem Post
Karzai The Ingrate -- IBD Editorial
A Split in China’s Leadership? The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much. -- Michael Auslin, NRO
China's foreign policy is playing catch-up with its new status -- Tania Branigan, The Guardian
Still the People’s Republic of Rumors -- Christina Larson, Foreign Policy
You Can't Teach a New Kim Old Tricks: In an unusually witless move, Pyongyang's missile launch shoots down its own strategy to get food aid. -- Andrei Lankov, Wall Street Journal
The Cracks in the BRICS -- Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
A Defeat for Democracy in Mali Coup -- Michael Rubin, Commentary
Africans must unite against the Mali coup -- Daily Nation editorial
Europeans choose sides over financial crisis -- Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
The Overextended America -- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., American Spectator
Faith-based energy policy -- Victor Davis Hanson, Chicago Tribune
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