Ayatollah Democracy
Arrogant, dogmatic, and anti-American, Iraq's Shiite clerics are the last people enlightened Westerners want to see in power. Let's hope they prevail… More »
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has served as a specialist with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, now known as the Clandestine Service, and is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran.
Arrogant, dogmatic, and anti-American, Iraq's Shiite clerics are the last people enlightened Westerners want to see in power. Let's hope they prevail… More »
To Western ears, the author writes, the public utterances of Osama Bin Laden have always come across like the "tirades of a loony idealogue." But these skillful rhetorical constructions, rich in historical allusion, have enormous powers of penetration—and will survive their author… More »
A former CIA operative explains why the terrorist Usama bin Ladin has little to fear from American intelligence… More »
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