In case we needed a reminder of domestic, right-wing "Christian" terrorism, a wacko tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney. Texas yesterday. In other news, the Dallas suburbs are awful. Appropriately (or inappropriately), the linked webpage is sponsored by an upcoming...
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Leaving aside all legal considerations, a mission that reflected a rational anti-terrorism policy -- at least in a country not in the grip of continual hysteria -- would have aimed.
This is an easy question for Represenative Peter King, current Chair of the Homeland Security Committee and defender of the Irish Republican Army, to answer: “I understand why people who.
Glenn Greenwald as usual does an excellent job summarizing the Orwellian proceedings surrounding the detention and trial of Ahmed Ghailani. One point that bears particular emphasis is that the government, or more precisely the Obama administration through its Department of Justice, made clear at the...
This is a helpful comparison: Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane's occupants are split into groups and held.
David Axe at War is Boring critiques the latest Navy strategy document for conflating piracy, terrorists and national insurgents. There are no proven links between Somali pirates, based in northern.
Scott Horton interviews Will Bunch about his book Tear Down This Myth. Bunch's most interesting contention is that, on terrorism-related issues such as torture, "collateral damage," and treating terrorism within the confines of the ordinary criminal justice system, Reagan was far to the left of...
This is odd, from page 20 of the QDR:Enhance domestic counter-lED capabilities: To better prepare the Department to support civil authorities seeking to counter potential threats from domestic improvised explosive.
Later this year, state parties will get together to revisit the Statute for the International Criminal Court. Definitely on the agenda is clarifying the crime of aggression, which was left.
(1)If Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by the Iranian government because he was reportedly sympathetic to opponents of it, would that terrorism?(2) If on the other hand he was working an an atomic weapons program for the Iranian government, and was as a consequence quietly...
Kevin Drum likes the idea of not getting hysterical over every terrorist incident, but he's got practical and theoretical objections to an approach that emphasizes the risk from terrorism is.
I think it's a positive sign that the WSJ published this.On a related note, in the last two days fighter jets have been scrambled twice to "accompany" flights on which.