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Tag Archives: Terrorism
Motive for Mumbai Attacks Emerges
A Deccan Mujahedeen gunman has spoken by telephone to a television station from within the Oberoi Trident Hotel (which has since been raided by Indian special forces units), and said the motivation of the attacks was to end persecution of … Continue reading
Nebraska Boots Ayers
A bit of old news I didn’t have a chance to mention, but it seems that grotesque little terrorist William Ayers won’t be speaking at my beloved UNL. Good for us.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Ayers, Bill Ayers, Nebraska, Terrorism, terrorist, University of Nebraska, UNL
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Armies of the Obsolete
Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading
Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology
Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen
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Priority of the Estate
Andrew Cochran reports that some media organizations he’s familiar with have reassigned terrorism specialists to investigate Sarah Palin. Andrew sees this as part of a long-term decline of media interest in the threat of transnational terrorism and US counterterrorism policy, … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Andrew Cochran, counter-terrorism, Domestic Politics, journalists, Media, msm, Pamela Geller, Satah Palin, specialists, Terrorism, transnational
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Ludicrous Expectations
Some of Bob Woodward’s criticism in his upcoming fourth volume on the Bush presidency: “He had not rooted out terror wherever it existed. He had not achieved world peace.”
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Tagged Bob Woodward, Book, Bush, George W. Bush, Terrorism, The War Within
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Drug War Progress But Not
Counterterrorism Blog For the first time in 25 years there are no clearly identifiable drug kingpins running the cocaine trade from Colombia. The FARC and AUC are both seriously degraded. Yet, production has not diminished, and, according to Colombian and … Continue reading
To the Heart of the Matter
Norm Geras, as he often does, cuts away the extraneous aspects of how and why terrorism exists, as well as how the media distorts out thinking about it, and our response.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged extremism, Media, MI-5, Norm Geras, Terrorism, The Guardian
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A Paranoid on Paranoia-Last updated 1:06 CST
After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. You could? The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but … Continue reading
(Relatively) Measuring Success
This is the most recent of a series of posts on Registan.net where I explore some of the fundamentals of conflict within the tribal areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. At the end of this post is a link to the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged AAF, Afghanistan, COIN, conflict, fundamentals, metrics, propaganda, Success, Taliban, Terrorism, war
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“This is what I wish, to be martyred”
From Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s statements to the U.S. military court today: The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Br'er Rabbit, briar patch, death penalty, Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, martyr, military tribunal, Terrorism
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A Retreating Periphery
(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda’s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of “Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.” But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Europe, geostrategy, Hindus, India, Iraq, Jammu, Jhelum River, Kashmir, Middle East, Muslim, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, propaganda, religion, Terrorism, Tigris River, United States, war
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More Like This Please
I was pleasantly surprised, and mildly irritated, to see that Condi Rice basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward while she was in Baghdad recently (via: Instapundit): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Tagged Condi Rice, GWOT, Iran, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, rhetoric, Terrorism, terrorist cowards, war
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Chavez Threatens Colombia Because He Finances Terrorism
McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America. Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed. Chavez reacted by sending … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Hugo Chavez
Tagged Colombia, ecuador, FARC, Hugo Chavez, Terrorism, uranium, Venezuela
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Breaking Terrorism Markets
Douglas Farah notes that with the Al Qaeda leadership now dead or in flight from Iraq, we might be on the verge of a replication the experience of the Andean drug wars of the 1980s. In that situation, the death … Continue reading
Anti-FARC March in D.C.
John Lilyea has the goods: So I decided to add my voice to the millions worldwide from here in DC. I was really surprised that an ad hoc organization put together such a large demonstration in such a short period … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, MichaelW's Page
Tagged Colombia, D.C., drug trafficking, FARC, John Lilyea, march, socialism, Terrorism, Venezuela
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A Witness in Mauritania
Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged al Qaeda, attack, crime, embassy, Israel, Mauritania, Nouakchott, Terrorism, video, youtube, zionist
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Mukasey on Waterboarding (UPDATED)
Attorney General Michael Mukasey sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the interrogation technique known as waterboarding. Mukasey remarked that it is not an authorized interrogation technique, and that it “is not, and may not be, used in … Continue reading
No Mas FARC
Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez’s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caracas, Colombia, dictatorship, FARC, Hugo Chavez, international, Latin America, Maracaibo, narcoterrorism, solidarity, Terrorism, Venezuela
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Al Qaeda Casualties
Here’s an interesting figure from 2007 operations in Iraq: “Military operations against al Qaeda in Iraq resulted in the capture of 8,800 militants, while 2,400 were killed.”
Al Qaeda in Thailand?
The Thai government may be divided over whether AQ is funding Islamic militants in the south.
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Tagged al Qaeda, funding, islam, militants, Terrorism, Thailand
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Terrorists by Any Name
JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez’s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as “insurgents,” rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, FARC, Hugo Chavez, Media, narco-terrorism, Reuters, Terrorism, Venezuela
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Say It Aint So
Via hotair President Bush on Friday used a “pocket veto” to reject a sweeping defense bill because he dislikes a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era… The sponsor of … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Keith's Page
Tagged Defense Spending, Democrats, hotair, Iraq, Lautenberg, President Bush, Saddam Hussein, Terrorism
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The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson
A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson‘s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Interviews, Lee's Page
Tagged alan, alan augustson, alternative, alternative energy, augustson, biodiesel, China, Chinese, defense, Democrats, elucidates, Environment, environmental, exploration, facile, fuels, gasoline, global, gm foods, green, green party, greens, instructive, international, military, national security, peak oil, prc, Republicans, security, Terrorism, warming
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