Category: Terrorism
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Fears growing for British hostage
From the BBC: An Islamist website claiming to be linked to the group holding Ken Bigley and two Americans says one of the Americans has been killed. The website carries a nine-minute video purporting to show the man being beheaded. Earlier, Tony Blair said Britain would not give in to the hostage takers. The Reuters…
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We still don’t get it: Mark Steyn
He is at it again. Reading the latest article I have one question to ask that seems to stand out in his line of reasoning. Well actually I have a few questions. Overall, this latest article is about Islam, and Islamo-fascism. He believes that the war on terror is in essence, not a war on…
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Sept. 11 and Beslan: a battle for civilization
Victor Erofeyev sounds alot like John Waters in the Irish Times last week, and Mark Steyn in the Spectator last Thursday. Where does Basayev end and Al Qaeda begin? A separatist and a fundamentalist are two very different things. The first demands political separation; the second declares holy war against us. But the separatist Basayev…
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There is no such thing as a war on terrorism: Javier Marías
Javier Marías is the author of “Dark Back of Time.”, and makes an interesting argument right at the end of the piece, I am inclined to agree with him. Here in Spain, we don’t feel as if we are at war because we aren’t. And neither are the inhabitants of the United States, however vociferously…
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Pakistan is a nuclear time bomb: Graham Allison
Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 have I been as frightened by a single news story as I was by the revelation late last year that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program, had been selling nuclear technology and services on the black market. The story began to break last…
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French hostages plead for lives
Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have urged their government to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools to save their lives. In a new video shown on Arabic TV station al-Jazeera, the men also called on French people to protest against the law, due to come into force this week. If this…
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Being clear about present dangers
Philip Bobbitt wrote a very good criticism of the current system of terror warnings a couple of weeks back. Have a read.
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Top Russian Official: Plane Terror Likely
A top Russian official acknowledged on Thursday what many citizens already suspected – that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that “Russia now has a Sept. 11” :
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Held at gunpoint in Nablus: Orla Guerin
Irish hack Orla Guerin writes about her recent experience with being held by IDF forces. …But before we found him, Israeli troops found us, forcing us at gunpoint into a disused room on the upper storey – first the cameraman, then the producer, then me. There we saw Rana, trapped in a chair in the…
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New video shows CIA man 'beheaded'
Yet another video, it may or may not be a hoax. And it may or may not be a CIA man. Will have to wait and see how this one plays out.