Iran’s Top Terrorist Emerges From the Shadows

Brigadier Gen. Qassem Suleimani, head of Iran’s supersecret overseas intelligence and sabotage service, is beginning to show a little more ankle, but he remains pretty much an enigma among Iran experts in Washington — including U.S. intelligence agencies, some say.

CQ Politics (04/11/2008)

Washington Not Ready to Add Nicaragua to the Axis of Evil

Alarms have been raised about Iran’s ties to Nicaragua, but the Bush administration isn’t seeing much to get upset about — yet. Maybe it’s because the Iranians haven’t shown up with the cash for all their grandiose plans. When Nicaraguans hear about the $350 million port and other projects the Iranians are supposed to be building, they simply roll their eyes.

CQ Homeland Security (03/28/2007)

John McCain’s Polish Moment, Iranian Style

The Republican candidate’s insistence, then backtracking, then his campaign’s backtracking on the backtracking, that Iran is training al Qaeda evoked President Gerald R. Ford’s declaration that “there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” For others, it was a reminder that we have all been here before — and we are once again exposed to the ignorance of top American officials about the Middle East.

CQ Homeland Security (03/21/2007)

Top U.N. Nuclear Watchdog a Russian Spy: Defector

The top U.N. official responsible for monitoring the clandestine nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan is a Russian spy, according to a new book on Moscow’s espionage operations in the United States and Canada.
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CQ Politics(01/18/2008)

Libya May Escape Final Judgment in Pan-Am 103 Case

Libya is close to getting off the hook for millions of dollars in payments to relatives of the 189 Americans who died in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103, amid a stiff new challenge to the 2001 verdict and rapidly warming relations between the erstwhile terrorist state and Washington.
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CQ Politics(12/20/2007)

Iran Intelligence Report: Garbage In, Garbage Out

"Nobody knows anything,” the screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood. You might say the same about U.S. intelligence, which can’t seem to make up its mind about Iran. Two years ago it said Iran was racing to make nukes. Last week it said — well, you know: Nev-er-mind. Which is it?
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CQ Homeland Security (06/01/2007)

Another Homeland Boondoggle in the Works

Who needs to spend $22 million on a commission to study homegrown terrorism? Only Congress, of course -- no matter that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, think tanks, universities, journalists and independent scholars have studied it to death.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/26/2007)

U.S. Claim That Iran Attended North Korean Launch Would Be Explosive -- If True

With the current strife in the Middle East as bad as it is, you wouldn’t think Bush administration officials would dare to make up reasons to get us into another war.
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CQ Homeland Security
(7/28/2006)