Eli Lake is a national security and foreign policy journalist who has reported for numerous major publications including Bloomberg View, the Washington Times, and the New York Sun. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2001–2002, writing extensively about Middle East policy, the Iraqi opposition, and the war on terror. He is known for his deep sourcing within the intelligence and national security communities.
ON OCTOBER 20, Saddam Hussein blinked. In the face of an American president's resolve to disarm him, the Iraqi dictator opened the gates of his jails and freed his nation's thieves, rapists, and murderers. (Exempted from his amnesty were prisoners deemed American or Zionist spies.) Two days later,…
ON JUNE 11, the Pentagon's number three official, Doug Feith, delivered a blunt defense of the Iraqi National Congress to four Iraqi opposition leaders dissatisfied with the INC, the U.S.-supported umbrella group of those working to unseat Saddam Hussein. According to minutes of the private…
MAY 21 WAS A TOUGH DAY for Yasser Arafat. In Ramallah, an opinion poll was released that showed most Palestinians are fed up with his leadership. According to the survey, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research between May 15 and 18, only 35 percent of the Palestinian…
THE DAY THE WHITE HOUSE announced it would resume talks with "axis of evil" charter member North Korea, the president's administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development told an audience of policymakers and journalists in Washington just how evil that regime really is. Even as Andrew…
GAZA IN THE COMING DAYS, President Bush will send CIA director George Tenet to Gaza and the West Bank to assess the capacity of the ravaged Palestinian security services to prevent the suicide bombings that have made everyday life perilous for Israelis. Tenet and other CIA men on the ground in the…
WHEN PALESTINIAN suicide bomber Abdel-Basset Odeh, a member of the Hamas military wing known as the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, walked into the Park Hotel in Netanya on the first night of Passover last week and blew himself up along with 20 Israelis, he probably did his own family a service. The…
KHARTOUM When CIA agents landed here in June 2000 to begin what Washington assumed would be secret counterterrorism cooperation with Sudan, the Sudanese foreign minister held a press conference announcing their arrival. Mustafa Osman Ismail says American officials asked him to conceal the CIA's…
GENERAL NIZAR AL-KHAZRAJI, chief of staff of Saddam Hussein's army when Iraq invaded Kuwait, lives in a suburb of Copenhagen called Soroe. There, four Danish police officers guard him round-the-clock, while the Danish Ministry of Justice investigates his role in massacres against the Kurds over 13…
AS SECRETARY OF STATE Colin Powell makes his way to Moscow this week, he will no doubt seek to follow up on issues discussed at the Bush-Putin summit last month in Crawford, Texas. High on the agenda will be nuclear proliferation to and by Iran. The Bush administration is developing a deal under…
IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, the Bush administration has publicly signaled that a tougher Iraq policy may be on the horizon. For example, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said on November 8: "There is plenty of reason to watch Iraq, there is plenty of reason to make very clear to the Iraqis…