Recently, a well-known Saudi cleric issued a religious edict (Fatwa) granting legal legitimacy to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the US and Britain and against their citizens. Sheik Nasser bin Hamd al-Fahad is recognized as one of the senior Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia and is associated with Bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization.

As of mid-April 2003, some fourteen American and other nationals, including women, lost their lives on the battlefield, as well as in Iraqi cities, while covering the Gulf War (Operation Iraqi Freedom). A heavy price, indeed, was paid by the media, in order to cover the creation of the new Iraq. This is the highest price ever paid by the press for covering such a short war.

The resulting Israeli system of compensation has now reached stability, following several major modifications. The resulting system is unfortunately the product of significant experience in administration, both in terms of the time period involved and the number of events and victims.

In the context of the Palestinian Authority's acceptance of the road map, it is important to understand the strategic goals of the moderate Palestinian leadership.

Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) is an emerging threat to American interests in Central and South Asia and the Middle East. It is a clandestine, cadre-operated, radical Islamist political organization that operates in 40 countries around the world, with headquarters apparently in London. Its proclaimed goal is jihad against America and the overthrow of existing political regimes and their replacement with a Caliphate (Khilafah in Arabic), a theocratic dictatorship based on the Shari'a (religious Islamic law). The model for Hizb is the "righteous" Caliphate, a militaristic Islamic state that existed in the 7th and 8th centuries under Mohammad and his first four successors, known as the "righteous Caliphs."

Since the collapse of the Iraqi regime, a number of Islamic web sites have carried reports of the establishment of an “Iraqi National Resistance Front” to carry out guerilla attacks and terrorism against coalition forces and their representatives in Iraq. This campaign is intended to bring about the withdrawal of coalition forces and the liberation of Iraq from “foreign occupation”

This paper argues that the peace process between the Palestinians and Israel, which began somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, after the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) debacle in Lebanon in the 1982 war, has been hampered and sabotaged constantly by the policies of its leader Yasser Arafat.

On 22 March, an Australian cameraman on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. was killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Iraq. Officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said they believed the Ansar al-Islam group, linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, was responsible.

An ongoing study by the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya provides an in-depth look at the fatalities on both sides of the current Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

The revelation that Asif Hanif, the terrorist who blew himself up in Tel Aviv on 29 April, and his accomplice and would-be bomber, Omar Khan Sharif, were British, should have come as no revelation. Nor should it have come as a surprise that they had links with Al-Muhajiroun (AM – The Emigrants). What was surprising, and perhaps unforgivable, was that their “religious” and ideological descent into attempted mass murder could not have been adequately monitored by either the British or Israeli security services and law enforcement agencies