From the Editor
In this month’s feature article, Michael Knights assesses the future of Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Iran’s other proxies in Iraq. He notes that in the wake of the death of KH’s founder and leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a U.S. airstrike on January 3, 2020, “KH is still the engine room of anti-U.S. attacks in Iraq but it is less politically agile and operates in a more hostile counterterrorism environment where deniability and secrecy have become more important again.” He assesses that the “the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force is also leaning on a more diversified model in Iraq, drawing on non-KH factions like Saraya al-Jihad and Saraya al-Ashura, and engaging more directly with Iraq’s minorities, including Sunni communities and the Shi`a Kurdish Faylis and Turkmen. History may be repeating itself as Iran develops new smaller and more secure Iraqi cells that are reminiscent of the formation of Kata’ib Hezbollah itself.”
Our interview is with Drew Endy, Associate Chair, Bioengineering, Stanford University, who has served on the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He argues the United States urgently needs a bio strategy to take advantage of rapid advances in biotechnology, protect against the growing danger posed by its potential malevolent use, and prevent the United States from permanently falling behind as a biopower. “First, we need to demonstrate operational mastery of cells by learning to build them. Second and third, we need to build and secure the bio net. And we have to do this now, within the decade, so that we can translate these advances as infrastructure undergirding a uniquely American bio economy that projects power while advancing life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. If we do this, then we have a chance of taking infectious disease off the table. If we don’t develop and implement a coherent bio strategy, it’s game over, not to be dramatic.”
In early August 2020, fighters loyal to the Islamic State captured the town and port of Mocimboa da Praia in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. They have yet to be dislodged from the town. Tim Lister examines a jihadi insurgency in Mozambique that has grown in sophistication and reach.
This month marks 20 years since al-Qa`ida’s attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors. Lieutenant Colonel Pete Erickson, Seth Loertscher, First Lieutenant David C. Lane, and Captain Paul Erickson assess the search for justice.
Paul Cruickshank, Editor in Chief
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I assume , if Hunter sold access to his father when he was VP , there is possibly nothing illegal about this. Lobbyist raise and give money all the time to politicians. We have the best government money can buy.
That Biden said he knew nothing about Hunter's exploits/endeavors may prove to be a lie so that is not good and second, it seems to smack of poor taste if Biden knew his son was peddling influence that raises questions about "pop's" own character and that is not good.
If, in fact, "The Big Man" has become a security risk because of his errant son and his own failure to stop what he was doing, that too is not good. Why? Well, for two reasons. First, it is not wise to have a cloud over your head from your nation's enemy and second, in order to make voters think you are tough, you might over-react, like start a war to either take people's minds off your being corrupt and/or to show how tough you are.
During the last debate I got the feeling Biden came across as trying to appear tough/macho with his "c'mon man" garbage. It was like watching "Annie Get Your Gun" and Merman's featured song "Anything you can do I can do better.". Trump had a reasonable response: 'Joe, where were you for the past 47 years, you did nothing, you and Obama did a poor job and I ran because you and Obama failed.
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And so it seems to go: https://www.breitbart.com/
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As previously noted, Sudan gets in bed with Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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Hunter a loose and tragic cannon:
BREAKING: Chinese Reporters Shocked After Hunter Biden Went to Beijing, Secretly Met with CCP Spy and Asked for Mansion and Women
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What goes around often comes around and now Democrats are being boomeranged by what they did to Trump, To Kavanaugh, to Flynn and wanted to do to Barrett.
Breaking: Cranky Joe Biden Gets FURIOUS After Reporter Asks Reasonable Question about Huntergate
More:
Joe Biden Surrogate CAVES After Being Repeatedly Pressed Over Legitimacy of Hunter’s Emails
Uh Oh:
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Early clues from Salena Zito:
How Ohio will offer us early clues on election night
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