Joyce Arnold’s original piece, with updates added. Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. Fox News reported that the suspect suffered severe burns. [New York Post] MORE [...]
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Secretary John Kerry Sets Intense Itinerary for First Overseas Trip
SECRETARY KERRY is hitting the skies on his first overseas diplomatic mission and it’s going to be a grinding trip. From February 24 to March 6, Kerry is traveling to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. From the State Department, some details: The Secretary travels first to London, [...]
Secretary Clinton’s Full Remarks on Benghazi to Senate Foreign Relations Committee [Video Update]
SECRETARY CLINTON’s full remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are below. The ARB, the declassified Accountability Review Board Report on Benghazi is now online, as is Secretary Clinton’s letter about the ARB to Senator John Kerry, who has been nominated as her successor, from back in December. Other documents are available as well. Thank [...]
News Desk — Watchdog Group: Syria Rebels Seize Oilfield as Blast Rocks Damascus
Syria rebels seize oilfield as blast rocks Damascus (via AFP) Rebels seized a major oilfield and shot down a warplane in eastern Syria Sunday, a watchdog said, notching up new battlefield successes even as the main opposition met in Qatar under US pressure for a makeover. The rebel advances in the eastern province of Deir [...]
Top Story: President Obama’s Address to U.N. [Full Remarks]
PRESIDENT OBAMA spoke to the United Nations today, his remarks are below. He began by talking about the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens, emphasizing the work he did in a country he loved. Obama went on to say that the attack in Benghazi was “an attack on America.” The President went further, saying the attack [...]
News Desk: Saudi Arabia to Build Cities Dedicated to All-Female Professionals and Employees
SEXUAL SEGREGATION in Saudi Arabia is built deep into the culture. So how does a fundamentalist country move into the 20th century, let alone acknowledge that women in the modern world want to attain financial independence? They’re letting the Jeannie out of the bottle by creating city islands where women can work, but also still [...]
Saudi Female Judoka Controversy, from Modified Hijab to Lower Olympic Standards
Wodjan Shaherkani’s participation in the London 2012 Games had been in doubt after the International Judo Federation said she needed to remove the head scarf for her match. … She and teammate Sarah Attar, the kingdom’s first ever female Olympic competitors, have both signed agreements agreeing to compete only in kit that ‘sticks to Islamic [...]
Saudis for Syria
A fundraising campaign launched by the Saudi royal family on behalf of the people of Syria generated more than $32 million worth of donations in one day. The nationwide show of support has been extended for another week and could raise millions more by Friday. As no other countries have demonstrated a willingness to intervene [...]
Saudis Look to Funding Free Syrian Army
UK GUARDIAN reports: Saudi officials are preparing to pay the salaries of the Free Syria Army as a means of encouraging mass defections from the military and increasing pressure on the Assad regime, the Guardian has learned. The move, which has been discussed between Riyadh and senior officials in the US and Arab world, is [...]
U.S. Infiltrates AQAP, Foiling Bomb Plot
**updated** A plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to attack a US-bound plane using an updated “underwear bomb” was foiled by an insider infiltrating a terror cell, US officials say. – BBC “Initial exploitation indicates that the device is very similar to IEDs that have been used previously by Al Qaeda in the Arabian [...]
Picture of the Day Comes from Syria
“In a desperate attempt to crush the uprising, Syrian forces have executed people in cold blood, civilians and opposition fighters alike,” said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch. “They are doing it in broad daylight and in front of witnesses, evidently not concerned about any accountability for their crimes.” – Syria: Extrajudicial Executions [...]
Secretary Clinton: ‘Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights’
The United States will begin using American foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad, Obama administration officials said on Tuesday. President Obama issued a memorandum directing American agencies to look for ways to combat efforts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. – U.S. to Use Foreign Aid to Promote Gay Rights Abroad What Pres. Obama [...]
One Woman Supercommittee: Revenues for Entitlement Cuts
That’s the debt deal cog, revenues for entitlement cuts, which Speaker Boehner addressed yesterday. From CBS News: “I think there is room for revenues, but I think there clearly is a limit to the amount of revenues that are available,” Boehner told reporters. The comment was significant because Boehner and other Republican leaders have repeatedly [...]
Hillary’s Close-Up
“We came. We saw. He died.” – Secy. Hillary Clinton, TIME magazine The issue above is slated to hit newsstands on November 7, the day before my book, The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss comes out. I urge you to read this article, which is behind a subscriber wall. It [...]
RAILROADED? Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Gets 7 Years in Jail
**UPDATED** While most people are pondering the odd intersection between Iran and a Mexico drug cartel in the alleged assassination attempt of the Saudi ambassador, which sounds like a weird spy novel, at least so far, about which I’m extremely skeptical [update: See interview with Bob Baer]. What caught my eye is something else. This [...]
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