Syro-Iranian massacre of politicians in Lebanon
By Walid Phares
June 16, 2007
With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room had opened a bloody hunt against the democratically elected Lebanese Parliament. After the withdrawal of […]

The Syrian-Jihadi “highway” in Lebanon
by Walid Phares
World Defense Review columnist
A curious “debate” is growing rapidly among a number of Western-based analysts about the “impossibility” of the existence of Syrian Jihadi-Salafist links. More particularly, some analysts went to the extent of describing the existence of links between the Syrian Mukhabarat and the group Fatah al Islam […]

 Saturday May 19, 2007

AL QAEDA'S NEW FRONT IN LEBANON
Walid Phares 
This morning in northern Lebanon, a group named Fatah al Islam conducted several attacks against the Lebanese Army killing (up to) 20 soldiers and losing (up to) 10 members in addition to civilian casualties. The fighting is still raging at this hour. This security development, […]

British minister fails the war of ideas
By Walid Phares In a speech on British policy on Terrorism, the international development secretary of the UK failed the basic understanding of the ongoing War on Terror. M Hilary Benn, a candidate for Labor Party deputy leadership said “President George Bush’s concept of a “war on terror” has […]

Admedinejad’s “Plan B” - The Circus Continues
By Walid Phares
With the decision to release the 15 British sailors, the Ahmedinejad three-ring circus and the mullah’s propaganda machine have produced a better end to the hostage crisis: Release them quickly and invest heavily in their merciful “liberation.” Hence the new debate worldwide is about the mullahs and […]

The Mullahs’ Next Steps
By Walid Phares
Since Day One of the planned operation to snatch British sailors from Iraqi waters, the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) “War Kitchen” in Tehran had already drawn multiple recipes for the following weeks and potentially months to come. Indeed the regime, reacting to rising pressures from sectors of its own population and […]

A Jihadi Circus in Tehran and the 15 sailors
By Walid Phares
Since day one of the planned operation to snatch British sailors from Iraqi (or international waters), the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) “Kitchen” in Tehran, had already drawn multiple scenarios for the following weeks and potentially months to come. Indeed the regime, reacting to significant rising pressures […]

Royal Navy Incident: Iran’s Plan to Drag the US and the UK
By Walid Phares
The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran’s Jihadi chess players to provoke a “projected” counter move by London and […]