Nsyght - Last Bookmarks tagged with "terrorism"

Nicholas Kristof, "The Endorsement From Hell (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 25, 2008), on al-Qaeda's "endorsement" of McCain

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:27 GMT

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U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists | News - Security - CNET News

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:27 GMT

I don't get this. What can they do with Twitter that they can't already do with mobile phones and plain-vanilla web access?
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Palin: "I don't know if you'd use the word 'terrorist'" for abortion-clinic bombers

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:27 GMT

Brian Williams interviews McCain and Palin on the NBC Nightly News, Oct. 23, 2008. There's a lot in this interview, but I'm clipping it mainly because of what it shows about the slipperiness of the term "terrorist" in modern-day political speech. A lot of critics have jumped on Palin for saying that she wasn't "sure" if the word "terrorist" would be appropriate for abortion-clinic bombers. To be fair, the quotation has often been taken out of context. She is pretty clear in condemning such bombings, even if she's uncomfortable with labelling them "terrorism." (However, the deeper point is that she seems to have a special category of violent criminal for whom she considers the word "terrorist" to be appropriate, and apparently Bill Ayers is the only person who fits in that category, as far as I can tell.) Presumably Palin associates the idea of "terrorism" with a kind of anti-American ideology, whatever that might mean, and isn't sure whether abortion-clinic bombers truly fall into that group. Just guessing, though. Discovered via joneilortiz's Friendfeed stream.
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Web site tied to al-Qaida backs McCain - Terrorism- msnbc.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:26 GMT

An odd little tidbit.
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Jeff Zeleny, "Bush offers a look into spirituality," Chicago Tribune (Jan. 7, 2002)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:27 GMT

Archived version of a news story cited by Bruce Lincoln in Holy Terrors.
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YouTube - More Americans Killed By Illegal Aliens Than In Iraq

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:19:29 GMT

Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed e...
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Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:06:04 GMT

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Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches - washingtonpost.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:18:20 GMT

I'm not feeling quite as good about traveling with my laptop after reading this.
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Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | Technology | The Guardian

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:18:18 GMT

Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer?
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Paul Courtright, "Studying Religion in an Age of Terror: Internet death threats and scholarship as a moral practice," The Academic Exchange (April/May 2004)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:16 GMT

Paul Courtright's reflections after receiving threats from Hindu groups related to his book, Ganesa, Lord of Obstacles and Beginnings (orig. pub. 1985, rept. Delhi: 2001).
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Richard Cimino, "9/11’s spiritual effect found to be short-lived among American young adults," Religioscope (Aug. 27, 2008)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:13 GMT

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U of Michigan's guidelines for teachers leading discussion on 9-11

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:01 GMT

A lot of this stuff is basically common sense, but some of the practical tips are good. Emphasis on keeping a potentially explosive discussion focused and productive. Applicable to a wide range of controversial current events, not just 9-11. First published soon after 9-11-2001.
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Harry Benson, "Mickey Devine's Wake, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1981" (from VICE magazine)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:05 GMT

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Shankar Vedantam, "How Terrorist Organizations Work Like Clubs," The Washington Post (August 3, 2008)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:04 GMT

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'The girl screamed. I don't remember anything else': Samir Qantar's account of Nahariya (The Guardian)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:41:00 GMT

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Le SCRS a-t-il provoqué Toronto ? Cyberpresse | Actualités

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:50:37 GMT

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Stop S.1959 - call your representatives!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:59:10 GMT

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Leva med terrorismen

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:00:43 GMT

7 februari. Det blev en icke officiell helgdag i Pakistan dagen då Benazir Bhuttos chelum avhölls. Enligt muslimsk tradition avhålls chelum på den fyrtionde dagen efter ett dödsfall.
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TheReligionofPeace.com - Islam: Making a True Difference in the World

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:17:20 GMT

News about "The Religion of Peace"
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Är nazisterna terrorister? | Svensson

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:00:44 GMT

Det anser Per Gudmundson att medlemmar i SMR är i alla fall. Jag är benägen att hålla med honom när det gäller de personer som greps i förra veckan för omfattande innehav av vapen och sprängmedel.
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PETA Kills Animals | PetaKillsAnimals.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:18:40 GMT

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Tancredo for President - Official Campaign Site

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:17:37 GMT

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Hizbullah Fund-Raising Inside America? - Newsweek Mideast Crisis - MSNBC.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:39 GMT

FBI evidence that there is a significant network of Hizbullah fund-raising activities, with potential military capability, in the U.S.
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Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible? | The Register

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:35 GMT

The recently-exposed plot to blow up airliners flying into the US using binary explosives was probably completely impossible, physically.
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The growth of suicide terrorism | Chicago Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

Pape's point, based on some genuine research, is that suicide bombers are produced not by religious fervor but by a sense of oppression, especially foreign occupation of one's territory or that of an ally.
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2 more arrested in a Belgian neo-Nazi terror plot - Europe - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

A disturbing story about the discovery of a potentially very large neo-Nazi terror network with roots within the Belgian military.
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The New Yorker: Fact | Lawrence Wright: Master Plan: For the new theorists of jihad, Al Qaeda is just the beginning.

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:25 GMT

Lawrence Wright on the next steps in the jihadi "script."
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Declassified Key Judgments of NIE "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States," April 2006 (PDF)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:23 GMT

Declassified executive summary of the famous National Intelligence Estimate, saying that the Iraq war has made terrorist attacks in the US and elsewhere more likely.
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Islam on Trial?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:19 GMT

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Prophetic Justice

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:19 GMT

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The UK Terror plot: What's Really Going On?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:19 GMT

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan (2002-04) on what a crock of sh!t the bomb plot arrests were (summer 2006).
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Akbar Ahmen: "Where Have the Gentle Voices of Islam Gone?"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:18 GMT

An editorial from 2004 by an American Muslim critiquing the current state of affairs across the Muslim world. His basic call is for a return to Islamic traditions of scholarship and open-mindedness, which he says have been squelched in contemporary Muslim
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Amish school shootings and the war on terror

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:17 GMT

"Let's put the Amish in charge of Homeland Security" sounds terribly facile to me, and I don't think they'd take the assignment, but the article does offer some serious food for thought.
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The extremist threat to US Muslim communities

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:14 GMT

Muqtedar Khan and John Esposito advocate that US Muslim communities adopt a more aggressive policy in countering extremist tendencies. The article is quite specific and worth a read.
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Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? - New York Times

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:14 GMT

Jeff Stein asks officials: "do you know the difference between Sunni and Shiite?" and finds that most don't. Rather grim.
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Hizbullah bombers not motivated by religion

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:15 GMT

Robert Pape, probably the leading expert on suicide bombings today, concludes after an exhaustive study that religion has very little to do with the bombers' motivations. What unites suicide bombers is opposition to an occupying force, not fundamentalism.
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India security agency thinks Pakistan ISI behind Mumbai blasts

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:15 GMT

India's NSA chief claims to have strong evidence that Pakistan's ISI was involved with the recent explosions in Mumbai.
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RAND Corporation's "Voices of Jihad" Database

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:09 GMT

I haven't looked at this much yet, but I figure it is potentially interesting and useful to many readers of varied ideological inclinations. Enjoy.
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KQED Forum Interview with Louise Richardson (Radcliffe terrorism expert), 9/8/2006

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:08 GMT

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Al-Qaeda coming back, stronger [8]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:07 GMT

CIE director Hayden says: Al-Qaeda has replaced personnel killed in Afghanistan with experienced fighters trained in Iraq and elsewhere, and is now making a comeback with a less centralized organization; in particular, they are winning the war of ideas.
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Al-Qaeda coming back, stronger

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:07 GMT

Benjamin and Aslan on American Islam

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:57 GMT

Exchange between Daniel Benjamin (author of The Next Attack) and Reza Aslan (author of No God but God) on the situation of American Muslims in the context of the GWOT. Focuses on the new book by Paul Barrett, American Islam. This is the fourth piece out o
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Terrorism, Joseph Conrad, and Dostoevsky [P]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:58 GMT

The inimitable James Wood gives his take on the prescient qualities of Conrad and Dostoevsky in their foreshadowing of modern terror. From the Guardian, Feb. 2005. This is the shorter, poppable version.
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Terrorism, Joseph Conrad, and Dostoevsky

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:58 GMT

The inimitable James Wood gives his take on the prescient qualities of Conrad and Dostoevsky in their foreshadowing of modern terror. From the Guardian, Feb. 2005.
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USAF Counterproliferation Center

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:55 GMT

Links from the USAF Air War College to white papers and research documents on terrorism. Includes work by some very widely known and respected researchers, both inside and outside the military, e.g. psychologist Jerrold Post.
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"On the surface, we lead normal lives": Spiegel interviews a German jihadi

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:55 GMT

The German newsweekly Spiegel interviews a jihadi working for the al-Qaeda-affiliated "Global Islamic Media Front" in Germany. Short text, link to video. In German.
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TIME profiles Mahmud Abouhalima, 1993 WTC bomber

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:55 GMT

According to Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God, Abouhalima kept a copy of this profile in his cell, describing it as "fair." Interesting to see how journalistic views of terror have changed since then.
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Orange County mujaheddin?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:55 GMT

Both John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", and Adam Gadahn, now a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, were white kids growing up in California not all that long ago. Julia Rabig looks at their past and the press coverage.
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An al-Qaeda "homegrown": Adam Gadahn

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:55 GMT

The New Yorker profiles "Azzam al-Amriki" (Adam the American), a high-ranking media officer inside al-Qaeda. He's a Jewish convert to Islam from Orange County, CA.
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Will 2007 be "the year of al-Qaeda"? [10]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:48 GMT

A two-part series from the Asia Times based on interviews with al-Qaeda operatives. They have restructured their finances, established secure operating bases in Iraq, upgraded their technological capabilities, and are preparing to open several new fronts.
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