Tag: Terrorism

We don’t know very much about the explosions that occurred in New York, but we do know these acts were intentional. We also know they were intended to cause harm. That’s terrorism. It wasn’t revenge or a lover’s quarrel; it was designed to terrorize. Governor Cuomo made a statement saying that the NYC explosion was obviously […]

Suicide attacks are never random, they are a cold calculation’s result that involves several factors. The most important is the capability to spread anxiety and fear among the population, not only those directly injured. Modern democracies have sophisticated weaponry, bomb military targets with drones, launch missiles at impossible distances, yet exhibit some uncertainty against the […]

Our cities and buildings on that Tuesday in September were not the first battlefields of this war, but they are the ones onto which we imbue our grief.

At least five of the Sept. 11 hijackers exploited a glaring hole in visa security to stay in the U.S. beyond their time — allowing them to board the planes and conduct their murderous attack. Fifteen years later, and despite a clear consensus on the need for improvement, that gaping hole remains. “In too many […]

Former Navy SEAL Admiral William McRaven, who commanded the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) when al-Qa’ida leader Usama Bin Ladin was killed by American commandos in 2011, has indirectly weighed in on the Colin Kaepernick National Anthem controversy by way of an August 29, 2016, memorandum to the presidents and athletic directors of the University of […]

Next Sunday, Sept. 11, will mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack known simply as 9/11. It wasn’t just one in a litany of attacks on America and the West, another in a long string of brutal, senseless assaults on innocent people carried out in the name of jihad. It was different — different […]

In March 2014, Dan Mozena, then U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, said that Bangladesh is “a moderate and generally secular and tolerant—though sometimes this is getting stretched at the moment—alternative to violent extremism in a very troubled part of the world.” While Mozena’s statement reflects the general perception that Bangladesh is a success story of a moderate, secular, […]

Authorities arrested an 18-year-old southern Illinois man who they allege had communicated with an unspecified terrorist group about a plan to an attack on at least one area location. Keaun L. Cook, of Godfrey, was arrested Wednesday on preliminary charges of providing material support for terrorism and making a terrorist threat. He was being held […]

State and local law enforcement agencies around the United States are being urged to remain on high alert for potential terrorist activity leading up to the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Department of Homeland Security, in an intelligence notification distributed on Monday and obtained by Fox News, warned law enforcement partners that […]

A suicide car bombing at the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan wounded five people and killed the lone attacker, Chinese state media said. The attack in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek took place at about 9:32 a.m. local time Tuesday, when the attacker rammed the vehicle through the embassy gate, according to China’s state-run Xinhua News […]

The vehicle breached the barricaded checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with the security forces prior to detonating the bomb. Some politicians and journalists are reported to be among the 10 injured.

John Kerry thinks the media ought to tone down it’s coverage of terrorist attacks. He thinks it’d be better if we “didn’t know what was going on.” Yikes.