by Piper Bayard | Jan 11, 2015 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes With the “ISIS crisis” occupying the headlines in Europe and North America, the US and NATO military operations in Afghanistan have been all but forgotten in the media. On December 28, 2014, US President Obama announced that after thirteen...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 30, 2013 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On Saturday, September 21, terrorists of Somalia’s al-Shabaab al-Qaeda affiliate entered the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and went on a four-day killing and hostage-taking spree. They allowed people who appeared to be Muslim to leave...
by Piper Bayard | Apr 22, 2013 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes By now, you will have heard about the bombs that detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Before offering opinions concerning that event, I would like to point out an important fact that is easy to miss as the United States...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 29, 2012 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, News
Perspective on Benghazi By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* Image of burning US Consulate in Benghazi by Voice of America employee, public domain. On September 11, 2012, Islamic terrorists attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi. They murdered US Ambassador to Libya...
by Piper Bayard | May 2, 2011 | Apocalypse, Foreign Affairs, History
I have been out of town for the past several days, and, as it happens, I was with my writing partner, “Holmes,” in Arizona last night when the news went public that Bin Laden is dead. We broke open a bottle of champagne and toasted. Not in merriment or triumph, but in...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 10, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes In 1984, the United Kingdom broke off relations with Libya when a Libyan Embassy staff member gunned down London policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, in front of the Libyan Embassy. The British SAS was called in to storm the Libyan Embassy. US Navy Sixth Fleet...
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