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Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris called it Hillary's "badwill tour of Iraq." Certainly Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's grousing to the troops brought no wild cheers, unlike the scene when President George W. Bush showed up unannounced on Thanksgiving Day to serve turkey to servicemen and women on combat duty in Baghdad. According to some reports, she is so unpopular among the armed forces that her Pentagon minders had to assign soldiers to greet her. The former first lady, touted by many Democrats as their best hope at wresting the presidency from Bush in 2004, insisted that she had...

Was Hillary's Iraq ploy treason?Officials say Clinton's 'badwill tour' plays into hands of enemies Posted: December 11, 20035:00 p.m. Eastern By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2003 Insight/News World Communications Inc. Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris called it Hillary's "badwill tour of Iraq." Certainly Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's grousing to the troops brought no wild cheers, unlike the scene when President George W. Bush showed up unannounced on Thanksgiving Day to serve turkey to servicemen and women on combat duty in Baghdad. According to some reports, she is so unpopular among the armed forces that her Pentagon minders had to assign soldiers...

Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris called it Hillary's "badwill tour of Iraq." Certainly Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's grousing to the troops brought no wild cheers, unlike the scene when President George W. Bush showed up unannounced on Thanksgiving Day to serve turkey to servicemen and women on combat duty in Baghdad. According to some reports, she is so unpopular among the armed forces that her Pentagon minders had to assign soldiers to greet her. The former first lady, touted by many Democrats as their best hope at wresting the presidency from Bush in 2004, insisted that she had...

Receive FREE updates by email: | Author Reveals Depths of Hatred in Muslim World By Sean GrindlayNovember 25, 2003 Anyone trying to make sense of the situation in the Middle East must understand the mindset that pervades most of the Muslim world, says Kenneth Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. This mindset, he says, is characterized by an extremely intense and deep-seated hatred of all things Jewish-and, by extension, all things Western. Timmerman discussed this and other aspects of his book at a November 20 luncheon held by Accuracy in Media. Drawing on...

Nine months before the Iraq war, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) planners conducted detailed analysis of postwar requirements, which they called "Phase IV." In December 2002, the initial concepts were turned over to an operational planning team based in Qatar known as Joint Task Force IV (JTF-IV). The planning team "included representatives from the departments of Defense, State and the Treasury, USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development], CIA and, from the White House, staff of the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget [OMB]," OMB Director Joshua B. Bolten told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in July. It...

A Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez Journalist Kenneth R. Timmerman is author, most recently, of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. He recently spoke to NRO about his book, Islam, and the war on terror. Kathryn Jean Lopez: What first took you to the Middle East and the Arab world? Kenneth R. Timmerman: I first began reporting on the Middle East during the 1982 war in Lebanon as a radio stringer, and promptly wound up kidnapped by Fatah guerillas in Beirut and held for 24 days in a cellar prison. It was an experience that changed my...

MEDIA MATTERSDavid Kay rebukes Washington PostWMD-search chief says reporter misidentified source in weapons hunt Posted: November 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2003 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The head of the CIA's Iraq Study Group that is investigating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs issued a stinging rebuke of the Washington Post on Saturday. David Kay alleged that Post reporter Barton Gellman knowingly misrepresented information he had gathered in Iraq about the hunt for Saddam's WMDs and had misidentified a key source as well as the information Kay had provided Gellman in an interview. Gellman's front-page story, which ran...

Saudi Wealth Fuels Global Jihadism Posted Oct. 27, 2003 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Generations of Muslims in the Middle East have been raised on the anti-Western, anti-Semitic theologies of Ayatollah Khomeini and in the Saudi Wahhabi system of madrassas (religious schools). This foundation set the stage for the rise of Osama bin Laden. Doaa 'Amer is a professional TV anchor who hosts Muslim Woman Magazine on IQRAA TV, a satellite channel broadcasting throughout the Arab world. As she tells it, her job is to educate the next generation of children to be "true Muslims." Readers accustomed to hearing Islam described...

Good thing President George W. Bush didn't stick around to listen to French President Jacques Chirac's speech at the United Nations on Sept. 23, even though it came right on the heels of his own call for greater international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He might have had second thoughts about meeting Chirac later. "No one can act alone in the name of all," Chirac intoned, "and no one can accept the anarchy of a lawless society. There is no alternative to the United Nations." French diplomats were quick to point...

French Propose Their World Order By Kenneth R. Timmerman In an Aug. 25 speech that was almost surreal for its flighty idealism, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin called for a "new world organization" to replace the United Nations as it is currently structured. At an annual conference in Paris bringing together 200 top French diplomats and Foreign Ministry officials, de Villepin reiterated his view that the United States must cede power to a new "collective-security" organization. "[B]uilding a new world, founding a new order" was "urgent," he insisted, "an immense task that is incumbent upon us." It was France's...

A meeting between George W. Bush and the Rev. Jesse Jackson after the president addressed the National Urban League in Pittsburgh on Monday has black Republicans roiling with anger and incomprehension. "We are outraged that the people around the president would do such a thing," said Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). "This amounts to aiding and abetting a hustler who has been exposed and is a total repudiation of people like my father, Roy Innis, who have been fighting for a positive cause for years." The 15-minute closed-door meeting also was attended by Rep. Elijah...

Where's Jesse now?As Clinton's point man in Africa, Jackson helped create Liberian crisisPosted: July 26, 20031:00 a.m. EasternEditor's note: WorldNetDaily is pleased to have a content-sharing agreement with Insight magazine, the bold Washington publication not afraid to ruffle establishment feathers. Subscribe to Insight at WorldNetDaily's online store and save 71 percent off the cover price. By Kenneth R. Timmerman© 2003 News World Communications Inc. While the Congressional Black Caucus clamored for President George W. Bush to dispatch U.S. troops to Liberia, as he ultimately decided yesterday to do, neither the Congressional Black Caucus nor Bush is talking publicly about how Liberia began...

... The average Frenchman listening to state-run France Inter radio or Antenne 2 television during the first week of the war in Iraq saw the United States spiraling toward a humiliating defeat, and Bush, the "cowboy" president, headed for ignominy if not impeachment. In tones that mixed elation and awe, newsmen and pundits began speculating on how the Middle East would look the day after the United States lost the war against Saddam. Wouldn't this dramatic display of U.S. vulnerability encourage other nations and terrorist groups to challenge overrated U.S. military might?...

The news had been bad from the start. U.S. and British troops were "bogged down" in southern Iraq in the face of "fierce resistance" from Iraqi forces loyal to Saddam Hussein. U.S. supply lines had been cut, and an ambush by cunning Iraqi defenders had killed dozens of U.S. troops. American prisoners of war, shown on French television in footage that was withheld in the United States, seemed pitiably small, helpless and afraid. U.S. helicopters were crashing like mosquitoes hitting a bug zapper, and a U.S. Patriot missile had shot down a British warplane in a friendly-fire incident that...