Western Power

New India in the Crosshairs: Jihad isn't just against Bush, it's against the West, and must be...

They shot up the Leopold Cafe, a restaurant where foreigners enjoy the cheap beer and food, and held hostages at two luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi. They searched out Americans and Brits in particular.

Rich Lowry: Extremists wage war on the New India

They were young and cleanshaven, wearing T-shirts and carrying rucksacks. They could have fit in easily with the cosmopolitan and robustly growing "New India." If that weren't exactly the India they had come to destroy. India...

Malcolm X, lost cause martyr

James Baker once said the free advice from a man who offered his opinions often was worth what Baker paid for it. This is how blacks in America need to take Ayman al-Zawahiri's recent tape praising Malcolm X and condemning...

US: "Plausible" that Iran might resume nuclear weapons work (Extra)

Latest Headlines in Middle East US: "Plausible" that Iran might resume nuclear weapons work (Extra) Talkback Add your comment (no registration required) Until now, I have not believed that Western diplomats are as thick headed...

Power firm fined £200,000 over electrocution

A power company was fined £200,000 yesterday for errors that led to a university vice-chancellor being electrocuted on a country walk.Professor Roland Levinsky, 63, died instantly when an 11,000-volt shock ran through his head...

Hospitality industry as soft target

Inherent perils that the nature of the business bring with it New Delhi: Attacks on two luxury hotels — the Taj and the Trident — in the country’s financial capital have drawn attention again to the fact that hotels are a soft...

What now for cricket in India after Mumbai terrorist attacks?

The knock-on effects of the terrible atrocities in Mumbai are already being felt across the cricket world, via a series of postponements and possible cancellations. High alert: India must be able to convince that it can safely...

A Rogue Fleet in the Black Sea

by Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Russia’s Black Sea Fleet operated with total impunity—political and legal, as well as military—against Georgia during the August war. Breaching the neutrality of Ukraine, where it is...

Islamic Jihad will not stop despite Obama

The Islamist holy war against the West and the United States will continue despite the coming presidency of Barack Obama. A tape released by al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri leaves little doubt that jihadis still demand America's...

A new New Deal?

Democrats are thinking in terms of two-year investments and a mid-February deadline for passage of an economic stimulus bill sought by the incoming Obama administration. Democrats are thinking in terms of two-year investments...

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