By John Price, Thursday, September 25, 2014 Fighting between tribal and religious factions is not new. Rulers and dictators have come and gone through history. In the 12th century Sultan Saladin’s Muslim forces defeated the Crusaders, and created a caliphate in the Middle East and North Africa. The mantle was passed on to the Ottoman Empire rulers who […]
Read MoreOsama Bin Laden Could Have Been Captured Earlier
By John Price, Wednesday August 6, 2014 On May 1, 2012, I wrote an article on Osama bin Laden noting that he could have been captured before 1996. I had spent five years researching al-Qaeda’s terrorist activities in the Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Middle East for my book “When the White House Calls”. I served […]
Read MoreWhat Did the Arab Spring Accomplish?
By John Price, Wednesday July 30, 2014 The root of discontent stemmed from unjust governance, poverty, food insecurity and unemployment issues. Regime change did not build democratic institutions. The political instability opened the door to Islamists bent on creating Islamic states. The Arab Spring in North Africa began in Tunisia in December 2010, with the self-immolation […]
Read MoreEducation is Best Way to Defeat Radical Islam
By John Price, Thursday July 17, 2014 On June 10, 2014 our family returned to Africa as we do every year. Kenya’s Masai Mara was again selected. There were fourteen of us, including twelve family members and two close friends, ranging in age from eight to eighty. The youngest family member had been to Africa […]
Read MoreGlobal War on Terror has become more dangerous
By John Price, Friday June 6, 2014 The Obama Administration has increased the risk of Islamist attacks against Americans with the release of five–most dangerous and seasoned–jihadists from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp (GITMO). They are as brutal as Osama bin Laden, and capable of planning major terrorist attacks. They have had over twelve years in […]
Read MoreRegime Change Will Not Diminish Al-Qaeda Attacks
John Price, Friday May 30, 2014 In Syria how will the U.S. clearly define moderate opposition groups? That has become a major difficulty as well in Libya. Rebel groups break down into tribes, clans, and broader religious factions—some with fundamentalist beliefs, while others have a more radical interpretation of Islam which includes armed jihad. In […]
Read MoreSpecial Panel on Benghazi Needed for Answers
By John Price, Monday May 12, 2014 We could have learned a lesson from the terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait in 1983. The State Department did not heed these early warnings. In 1998 terrorists again attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The State Department needed to protect Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, […]
Read MoreNigeria’s Boko Haram shows radical Islam is growing in Africa – Heard on Fox News
Former U.S. Ambassador John Price told Fox News’ Lauren Green the U.S. is putting “blinders on” and ignoring the threat posed by the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram. He says the militant group’s current violent streak is a result of Africa “not being on our radar screen.” “Congressional [leaders] don’t know much about what is […]
Read MoreThe 9/11 Memorial Museum Film Tells the Truth
By John Price, Monday April 28, 2014 An Interfaith panel and several Muslim organizations are upset over the film “The Rise of al-Qaeda” depicting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attackers as Islamic jihadists. They do not want the world to believe the hijackers that carried out the heinous attacks against the United States were linked […]
Read MoreGunboat Diplomacy in China Sea Can Lead to a Red Line
By John Price, Thursday April 17, 2014 The United States may be heading for another Red Line moment–this time with China. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel making his fourth trip to the China Sea region recently, wanted to reassure Japan and other nations that the U.S. stands with them if China pursues stated territorial annexation. The “Sleeping […]
Read MoreKeep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer
Opinion/Commentary By John Price, Tuesday April 8, 2014 This old cliché is still apropos in President Barrack Obama’s saber-rattling standoff with President Vladimir Putin. In Europe last week Mr. Obama said that Russia was a declining “regional power”. In seizing Crimea, Mr. Putin was expanding Russia’s influence over Ukraine–part of the lost former Soviet Empire–was the […]
Read MoreA Giant is Gone But His Legacy Lives On
By John Price, Thursday December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela at age 95, lost his battle with respiratory failure, reportedly, the result of recurring infections contracted during his years of prison confinement. Mr. Mandela had spent almost 27 years in a prison cell, eighteen years of which were on Robben Island. His incarceration emboldened thousands of […]
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