If there was one lesson to be learned from Oct 7, it s don t negotiate with terrorists. But that s the one lesson no one seems to be willing to learn, as David Wurmser notes at the Center for Security Policy: "A U.S. plan, spearheaded by the diplomatic
The unusual suspects On 11th August 2022 Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein walked into a Beirut bank brandishing a rifle and a canister of petrol and threatened to set himself on fire if he wasn’t given $210,000. Seven hours later, having taken several employees of Federal Bank hostage, the food delivery driver accepted an offer of $30,000 and surrendered to […]
Hours-long exchange of fire involved snipers, pistols, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades; 20 wounded; not clear who fired at whom, how clashes broke out and why