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by Abigail R. Esman •
May 25, 2016 • Special to IPT News  
For
17 days this month, Dutch columnist Ebru Umar was held against her will in
Turkey, legally barred
from leaving the country. Her alleged crime: insulting President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But after extended negotiations between the two
governments, the controversial, outspoken Umar finally returned home to
Amsterdam on May 11.
But
she is hardly free, and certainly not home safe: threats against her life
mean she cannot return to her apartment. She stays in safe-houses in
"undisclosed" locations. She must notify police of her
whereabouts at all times. Officials have offered bodyguards, though she
refuses.
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May 25, 2016 • The
Times of Israel
Years of sanctions on Lebanese terror group Hezbollah
have left the organization "in its worst financial shape in
decades," a top US treasury official told Congress on Wednesday.
by Jessica Donati and Habib
Khan Totakhil • May 26, 2016 • The Wall Street
Journal
KABUL—The Taliban named religious leader Maulavi
Haibatullah to take charge of an insurgency confronting disunity as it
fights multiple enemies in its drive to expand across Afghanistan.
by Rosalind S. Helderman and
Tom Hamburger • May 25, 2016 • The Washington Post
The State Department's independent watchdog has issued a
highly critical analysis of Hillary Clinton's email practices while running
the department, concluding that she failed to seek legal approval for her
use of a private email server and that department staff would not have
given its blessing because of the "security risks in doing so."
by Adam Kredo • May
24, 2016 • The Washington Free Beacon
The Obama administration is taking steps to aid and
please Iran far beyond U.S. commitments under last summer's nuclear accord,
according to experts, who warned Tuesday during testimony on Capitol Hill
that the White House is becoming "dangerously close to becoming Iran's
trade promotion and business development authority."
by Paul Sperry • May
24, 2016 • New York Post
Last week's unanimous passage of a Senate bill making it
easier for 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia and other foreign terror
sponsors was widely heralded as a major victory. It's more of a cruel hoax.
by Tom Nichols • May
23, 2016 • The Federalist
Remember the Iran deal? Of course you do. The Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was one of the greatest diplomatic
agreements of our time, a last-ditch effort to stop Iran from acquiring a
nuclear bomb and thus avert inevitable military action by the United States
and its allies.
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