Russia’s blitzkrieg in Georgia this week was not simply an act of aggression against a small, weak democracy. It was an assault on vital Western security interests.

Russia has taken South Ossetia now, driving Georgian troops out of their own territory and bringing the western Georgian territory of Abkhazia into the fight.

most of the Jewish community in Gori, an area near the conflict zone, have left for the capital Tbilisi.

In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly demanded that Jerusalem halt its military assistance to Georgia, finally threatening a crisis in bilateral relations.

The deal was approved a month before the German chancellor’s March stood up in the Knesset, promised to push for further sanctions against Iran and declared that Israel’s security was “nonnegotiable.”

talks between the US and Iranian delegations, representing President George W. Bush and Iranian supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have yielded ad hoc understandings on controversial issues.

Muhammed Taqi Usmani ran the Dow Jones Islamic division and various terrorist enterprises. Usmani is no longer employed by Dow Jones, which says it only recently learned of such “allegations.”

The issue raising concerns amongst some Muslim leaders in the US is not just Yasin’s cross-country tours promoting his toxic blend of rancid theology and conspiracy-mongering, but also about his fraudulent fundraising and questionable business practices.

Youssef M. Ibrahim, Pajams Media
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