An interesting article by Ed Husian, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, got me thinking and does a fine job of helping people to put recent Middle Eastern issues into a different context. Rather than look at events as something that can be eliminated by making people like America more, Husain provides, what ... Read More »

Announced earlier last week was the filing of a civil money-laundering and in rem forfeiture complaint alleging a massive, international scheme in which Lebanese financial institutions, including a bank and two exchange houses linked to Hizballah, used the U.S. financial system to launder narcotics trafficking and other criminal proceeds through West Africa and back into Lebanon. As part of the ... Read More »