terrorism incidents

The Nigerian government, in response to attacks on schools that have left many children dead, has made the decision to shut down 85 schools in the northern portion of the country. This decision affects 120,000 students...

CBS Face the Nation had an interesting segment this Sunday, in anticipation of the new hearings this week when several State Department employees who were on the ground in Libya will finally testify. This is very interesting because the State Department had pointedly distanced itself from the...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/23/us/ricin-suspect-released/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Should have had him assassinated by drone and called it "case closed". Or send him to Gitmo, who cares about evidence or his case. There would even be no case.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/tainted-letter-intercepted/?hpt=hp_t3 "An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN. Senate...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/report-saudi-man-boston-suspect-article-1.1318272 his facebook https://www.facebook.com/abdulrahman.a.alsulaimi Rep Ted Poe jumped the gun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8J6uWMEf_Q

I'm mostly wanting to open up the subject, and haven't really formed a strong opinion yet. Will it create a rash of largely unnecessary legislation? Will it tilt the country one way or the other in the political spectrum, depending on the culprit? I'm just interested in what the possibilities...

The US State Department admitted today that there were no protests outside the US counsulate in Benghazi, instead the attack that killed US Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans was a coordinated terrorist attack. hJf6Q_jPrJk According to a senior State Departmment spokesman...

What goes around, comes around. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-us-ambassador-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Argentina nabs Iranian-Hizballah cell, aborts third Habad attack DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 28, 2012, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00) Tags: http://debka.com/article/21689/ World War against the Jews? What war?

Didn't see a thread on it yet. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/11/official-fbi-dea-disrupt-terror-plot-in-u-s-involving-iran/?hpt=hp_t1 Interesting stuff. Apparently there was a planned attack against the Saudi Ambassador in America (which is why I posted here, and not in the other forum )...

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/26-11-isi-helped-let-carry-out-mumbai-attacks-says-headley-107805 That would make Pakistan a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Inconvenient.

There is an absolutely wonderful 5 part series about the Rajneeshees in the Oregonian. I highly recommend it, its a fascinating read: http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/ In the spirit of recent threads such as thee quran burning or the double standard threads, I thought I'd play devil's...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/13/belarus-bomb-two-men-arrested

As I'm sure everyone knows, the Director of National Intelligence came off rather badly in an on air interview with Diane Sawyer. He looked befuddled and out of the loop when asked about that day's arrest in London of terror subjects. The department first explained away the episode by claiming...

I listen to NPR's The World daily on the way home from work. Yesterday, they had a segment on a situation I'd not heard of before. There is an Islamic sect called the Ahmadi. They are in all ways Muslim except for one, they don't think Mohammed was the last prophet. They think this guy...

A Quebec group is claiming responsibility for a blast that occurred at a military recruitment centre in Trois-Rivieres early this morning. A group that calls itself "Resistance...

A pair of armed to the teeth individuals drove up to MacDill Air Force Base, Florida with out authorization and "military-style uniforms and gear and several 'rifle-type' weapons". The sniffer-bot couldn't find anything that went boom, so there weren't any bombs. This is Central Command. It...

I'm not sure where to start. I'm watching the UK general election count, with a particular interest in what is happening here in Northern Ireland. The count in Derry/Londonderry was held up for a couple of hours by a 'suspect car' outside the count centre there. Army bomb experts dealt...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587132,00.html stupid bitch. the guy could have killed hundreds of innocent people. she thinks his actions are heroic? no. on the contrary, they were cowardly.

I saw a clip on CNN today of Rudy Guliani saying something like, "We should look to see the good stuff Bush did...He recognized there was a war on terror. We didn't have any domestic attacks under Bush, but have under Obama." The comment was bizarre in two respects: 1) More than anyone else...

Policeman hurt in car bomb blast in Randalstown: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8447829.stm With the power-sharing being so fragile I do hope it doesn't contribute to it breaking down again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091227/ts_nm/us_security_airline_incident what the hoo haa is going on? i hope this was just a nut going batty..otherwise we have a terrorist conspiracy.

Yikes! From the AP: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_airliner_disturbance ROMULUS, Mich. – A Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al-Qaida tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane Friday as it was preparing to land in Detroit, but travelers who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like...

How did a guy get ANY kind of incendiaries past security? Does Europe give a damn? What's up? Or has the war on terrorism become a US only problem?

News services reporting. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16587785/

India Blames Pakistan for July Train Bombings By VOA News 30 September 2006

Don't know if you've been following the news about the bombs in Turkey http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5291736.stm (I apologise for the fact that British injuries are apparently more important then other nationalities) but there's just been another one reported...

Whats going on guys?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4709491.stm

Glorifying terror to be outlawed It looks like Blair has lost his warm-and-fuzzies toward radical clerics preaching jihad. Good for him.