Author: Uri Friedman

Eating Off Saddam's Plates: Iraqi Militaria as a Hobby

Park Avenue Autumn

A New York restaurant is using plates looted from Saddam's palaces

By Uri Friedman

Jul 20, 2011

Awlaki's Escape in Yemen Gets the Action Movie Treatment

In the ABC News version, the Al Qaeda leader dodged missiles and fireballs

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 19, 2011

Iranian Lawmaker Claims Iran Shot Down U.S. Spy Plane

The unmanned aircraft was allegedly shot down near a nuclear facility

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 19, 2011

Decades-Old Debate Resolved: Chile's Allende Killed Himself

Experts exhumed the former president's remains as part of a human rights probe

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 19, 2011

Reddit's Aaron Swartz Charged with Data Theft

The Internet activist is accused of downloading millions of files from a library archive

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 19, 2011

What It Took for the U.N. to Declare a Famine in Somalia

A drought in the Horn of Africa has raised levels of malnutrition and deaths from hunger

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 19, 2011

Luxury Market Surges While the Rest of the Economy Sputters

Job growth may be anemic but China is snapping up all sorts of expensive goods

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 18, 2011

Attention Foreign Media: The Syrian E-Army Is Marching Your Way

The virtual army is battling protesters and the western world

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 18, 2011

Can a Webcam Combat Corruption in India?

The Kerala government website now features a live feed of its offices

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 18, 2011

Catcalls Greet Wall Street Journal's Phone-Hacking Editorial

The Murdoch-owned paper argues that politicians and rivals are exploiting the scandal

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 15, 2011

The Libyan Stalemate Suggested by Google Earth

The rebels can't advance, the allies are wavering, and Qaddafi's forces haven't caved

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 15, 2011

China Has a Pork-Flation Problem

The government has released frozen "pork reserves"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 15, 2011

Are We Sure This Is Mexico's Largest Marijuana Farm?

The military has discovered a 300-acre plantation in Baja California

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 14, 2011

How George Clooney's Satellite Group Is Identifying Mass Graves in Sudan

Clooney established the Satellite Sentinel Project to serve as an "early warning system"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 14, 2011

Judge Declares Mistrial in Clemens Case

Judge Reggie Walton ruled the prosecution showed the jury inadmissible evidence

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 14, 2011

S&P Warns Members of Congress of Danger to the U.S. Credit Rating

The ratings agency's private warning to lawmakers follows Moody's bond rating review

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 14, 2011

New Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since Mid-April

Requests for unemployment benefits fell to 405,000 but retail sales are stagnating

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 14, 2011

Bomber Attacks Memorial Service for Karzai's Half Brother

The suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban, killing four

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 13, 2011

America's Expanding Presence in Somalia

The U.S. is conducting drone strikes and CIA operations

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 13, 2011

A Tour of the World's Worst Photoshop Propaganda

A photo of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is only the latest installment

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 13, 2011

Three Outside-the-Box Ways to Jumpstart the Economy

Suggestions include legalizing gambling, tackling mortgage debt, and anticipating a "hard slog"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 13, 2011

Bin Laden Was a Failure for the Last Six Years of His Life

U.S. officials say the al-Qaeda leader's last success was the 2005 London bombing

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 13, 2011

Weeping Karzai Climbs Into Grave During Half Brother's Funeral

The Afghan president said the Taliban "should stop killing their own people"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 12, 2011

Syrian Embassy Spokesman Calls It Quits

Ahmed Salkini says he's been "pained by every drop of Syrian blood lost"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 12, 2011

Obama Awards Army Ranger with Medal of Honor

Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry grabbed an exploding grenade

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 12, 2011

Did the CIA Do Enough to Protect Bin Laden's Hunter?

An analyst has gone "under cover" amidst speculation about his identity

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 12, 2011

The Creation of a Syrian Activist

A scientist in the Philadelphia suburbs is hit by the Syrian crackdown

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 12, 2011

Reasons to Doubt the Taliban Killed Karzai's Half Brother

The militant group says it was working with Ahmed Wali Karzai's killer

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

Misurata's Newly Famous Pizza Guy

Emmad Daihy is delivering pizza to the rebels after returning home to Libya

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

The Gripping Reports From Undercover Journalists in Syria

The Economist reports from the ever-volatile Hama while VBS files from the Turkish border

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

The Bizarre Moments from Glenn Beck's Knesset Visit

The conservative pundit expressed his support for Israel and talked ties

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

Have the French Given Up on a Military Libya Campaign?

The French defense minister says the rebels and Qaddafi loyalists should negotiate

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 11, 2011

Ali Abdullah Saleh Is Looking More Like Himself

Photos have emerged from the Yemeni president's meeting with America's counterterrorism chief

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 8, 2011

Yemen's Uprising Appears to Be Stagnating

Protesters have grown dispirited after President Saleh's TV appearance

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 8, 2011

How the Libyan Rebels Came to Be Called 'Rebels,' Against Their Will

Anti-Qaddafi forces prefer "freedom fighters" or "revolutionaries"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 8, 2011

The U.S. Ambassador Visits the Syrian Uprising

The State Department says "we stand with those Syrians" protesting the regime

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 7, 2011

The Businesses Benefiting From the Arab Spring

Levi's wants protesters to wear their jeans as a "uniform of progress"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 7, 2011

Andy Coulson to Be Arrested Over Phone Hacking Scandal

The former News of the World Editor will be questioned tomorrow

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 7, 2011

A Very Different-Looking Saleh Makes First Appearance Since Attack

The Yemeni president criticized those who want him to step down

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 7, 2011

Sockless Picasso Pilferer Arrested in San Francisco

Police say they've arrested the man who casually took a sketch off a gallery wall

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 7, 2011

Some Phone Hacking Scoops That Doomed News of the World

Scouring voicemail for scoops didn't produce many bombshell stories

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 6, 2011

Saudi Arms Sales Elicit Outcry in Germany, Peep in U.S.

Germany has reportedly struck a secret tank deal with Saudi Arabia

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 6, 2011

Online Rumors of a Death Offer Lessons in Chinese Censorship

Any references to former president Jiang Zemin's health are being aggressively filtered

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 6, 2011

Afghan Lawmakers Come to Blows Over Karzai Impeachment

The parliamentarians hurled shoes and water bottles during a heated debate

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 6, 2011

Advertisers Ditch News of the World as Cameron Takes Heat

The tabloid may have also targeted victims of London's terrorist attacks

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Gingrich, Staffless and Debt-Ridden, Turns to Google+

The presidential candidate wants to talk policy on "Hangouts"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Blogger and Picasa Are Casualties of a Unified Google Brand

The blog and photo services will become "Google Blogs" and "Google Photos"

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Keith Olbermann's Audience Tumbles 29% in Second Week

A natural drop-off in curiosity and the July Fourth holiday weekend are blamed

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Unlike 1982, Syria's Crackdown in Hama Will Be Documented

Cell phones and the internet are ensuring that the regime's actions are broadcast

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Slain Journalist Leak: The Latest Sign of Souring U.S.-Pakistani Relations

U.S. officials are implicating Pakistan's spy agency in Saleem Shahzad's death

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 5, 2011

Profiling the CIA Analyst Behind the Bin Laden Raid Isn't Easy

The analyst, identified only as "John," spent ten years hunting the al-Qaeda leader

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