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The 9 lives of AQAP’s no. 2

Said al-Shihri just won't stay dead. Each time the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has reportedly been killed, he has popped up again several months later with a new piece of propaganda. He did so after supposedly being killed in...

Published Wed, Apr 10 2013 4:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, al Qaeda, Middle East, Intelligence, Yemen, National Security

Five reasons Tony Blair would make a bad Middle East envoy

Peter McDiarmid/Getty Images White House officials put out the word this week that the United States would love to make outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair its point man on Middle East peace. Blair would represent the "Quartet" of key...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2007 2:25 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Britain, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, U.S. Foreign Policy, Bush Administration

The Muslim Brotherhood comes to Washington

Just days after announcin g that it would back deputy leader Khairat El-Shater as a presidential candidate in Egypt's upcoming election, the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party made a pit stop at Georgetown University on Wednesday as...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 12:36 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Pirates, Justice, Law, Elections, Middle East, Economics, North Africa, Egypt

Khartoum's love affair with Scott Gration

In the world of diplomacy, it doesn't hurt to be liked by the people you are negotiating with. But in the case of the U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, it might not be such good news that the country's Khartoum government gives him a...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2009 11:41 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, Human Rights, Diplomacy, State Department, Sudan

Is Okonjo-Iweala the 'establishment choice' for the World Bank?

On his FP blog today, Stephen Walt writes : "When Washington gets lucky and the African Union endorses a Nigerian economist with a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT, who also has ample experience at the World Bank, and who is a woman of color...

Published Mon, Apr 02 2012 10:58 AM by FP Passport

Westerners Aren't the Only Ones Flummoxed by China's Reform Plans

After the Third Plenum, a high-level meeting to discuss China's future, ended on Nov. 12, Beijing released a major document likely to affect many of its 1.3 billion citizens' lives for years. Western media responded to the 5,000-plus character...

Published Wed, Nov 13 2013 1:32 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China, Internet, TLN

Why Serbia is still bullish on the EU

Responding to the news of recent acceptance of Serbia as a membership candidate for the EU, Alan Sked has a new piece today asking why any country would still want to join the union. I recently discussed this question with Serbia's ambassador to the...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 8:01 AM by FP Passport

Accused Nazi war criminal arrested

Early this morning , Hungarian law enforcement detained accused Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary. The judge in the case ordered him placed under house arrest. Csatary was a commander for the Royal Hungarian police force in Kassa, in modern-day Slovakia...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 12:21 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Law

Status-Anxious CEOs Will Sacrifice Profits for a Knighthood

Picture the platonic, if slightly exaggerated, ideal of a CEO: a focused leader of their subordinates, a relentless pursuer of profit -- that is, of course, unless he or she gets distracted along the way. Come to think of it, "sir CEO" has a...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2014 1:48 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Pacific, Business

'Someone in Libya is still watching YouTube'

As we noted last week, Internet service has been shut down in Libya , but the implementation is quite different from the Internet blackout put in place by Hosni Mubarak's regime last month. Rather than cutting off traffic at the router level, the...

Published Mon, Mar 07 2011 9:15 AM by FP Passport

No lawyers for Swiss animals

A setback for animal-rights activists in Switzerland: Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to introduce a nationwide system of state-funded lawyers to represent animals in court. Animal rights groups had proposed the move, saying that without...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 9:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Law, Environment

Facebook's Zuckerberg facing the death penalty in Pakistan

A Pakistani lawyer is seeking the death penalty for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg over the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" controversy: BBC Urdu reports — according to a Google Translation — that Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General has launched...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 9:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Pakistan, Freedom, Media, Fun Stuff

NFL Receiver Donte’ Stallworth’s Secret Life as a Foreign Policy Wonk

Donté Stallworth is currently a free agent who has been a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Redskins. He also has some thoughts on Iran...

Published Thu, Oct 03 2013 2:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Celebs, U.S. Foreign Policy

5 ways you know you're eating rat meat

On Thursday, China's Ministry of Public Security announced that the police had arrested 63 traders accused of buying rat, fox, and mink meat and then selling the meat as mutton. Apparently, the crime ring had been mixing the meat with gelatin, red...

Published Fri, May 03 2013 4:10 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China, Food/Agriculture

Andrew Sullivan vs. TNR: Please shoot me now

I was expecting fireworks after reading Leon Wieseltier's 4,250-word attack piece on blogger and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan , and the Internet did not disappoint. Here's the quick and dirty summary: Wieseltier uses a W.H. Auden...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 6:48 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Internet, Israel/Palestine