Al-Awlaki Praises WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera

By Steven Stalinsky March 18, 2011

Over the past two years, Yemeni-American jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has emerged as a key leader of al-Qaeda. His manipulation of Western media outlets as early as 2001 led many ...

Gaddafi Calls Out ‘Greasy Rats’ and ‘Foreign Agents’

By Steven Stalinsky February 22, 2011

In a bizarre and rambling speech lasting over an hour on Libyan state TV, Moammar Gaddafi repeatedly warned Libyans, “Beware, America will come and rule you, like Afghanistan and Iraq.” He ...

Re: The Jews Are Doing It

By Steven Stalinsky February 22, 2011

Just as you had reports from Egypt that the Jews/Zionists/America infiltrated the protests at Tahrir Square, the state media of Libya have been doing the same, as Kathryn mentioned earlier. The ...

Libya: The Islamists Respond

By Steven Stalinsky February 22, 2011

MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor just finished a review of what the online forums and websites of Islamist organizations are saying about the situation in Libya. The main jihadi ...

Politics & Policy

Eight Years Later

By Steven Stalinsky September 11, 2009

“We are patient. . . . Our patience will only end with the collapse of America . . . ” – Al-Qaeda’s Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, on Islamist internet forum Al-Qal‘a, November 2003 In the days leading up to the attacks ...

Politics & Policy

Rabid Speculation

By Steven Stalinsky September 11, 2006

Is it conceivable that Muslims did the killing on 9/11? Yes, they did. They killed 3,000 people… It must have been an American conspiracy… The concept of conspiracy has spread ...

Politics & Policy

Terrorist Tv

By Steven Stalinsky April 4, 2006

On March 23, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced pursuant to Executive Order 13224, that Al-Manar, a satellite television channel operated, owned, and controlled by the Iranian-funded Hezbollah terrorist ...

Politics & Policy

The False Dawn of Peace

By Steven Stalinsky December 7, 2004

With Arafat’s death, there has been an unprecedented amount of optimism in the West regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state and the possibility of peace. Yet amongst Palestinian officials ...

Politics & Policy

Denial Is a River…

By Steven Stalinsky September 16, 2004

Despite being the U.S.’s closest Arab ally, for the past three years Egypt’s government-controlled media has been unremittingly antagonistic in its reporting about September 11. Setting the tone was Egyptian ...

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Mixed Signals

By Steven Stalinsky August 11, 2004

Over the past few weeks it was announced that the Arabic TV channel al Jazeera will now be reaching Arab and Muslim audiences in Canada and Britain. The channel, with ...