Terrorism
Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad
Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad
This reflection is generated by a major speech just given by John O. Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor. He declares the “war on terrorism” is over and redefines it as…
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Mystery of the Arctic Sea: ship feared seized by pirates in European waters
Mystery of the Arctic Sea: ship feared seized by pirates in European waters
While their Kalashnikov-armed modern peers are running riot off the Horn of Africa, pirates have been absent from the coasts of Europe for hundreds of years. Now, however, coastguards are…
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Dead or alive? Confusion over Taliban chief
Dead or alive? Confusion over Taliban chief
Pakistan's Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three intelligence officials said today. The Pakistani officials said Baitullah Mehsud, who led a campaign…
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Baitullah: Dead or alive, his battle rages
Baitullah: Dead or alive, his battle rages
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and United States officials are scrambling to verify reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in a US Predator…
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A bid to buy Thai Muslim hearts and minds
A bid to buy Thai Muslim hearts and minds
YALA and NARATHIWAT - Thailand's government has initiated a program to build on what it considers to be success with its "surge" tactics in the country's insurgency plagued southernmost regions.…
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Terrorism: A Kinder, Gentler Taliban?
Terrorism: A Kinder, Gentler Taliban?
Special thanks to Ms. Donna Miles of the US Department of Defense for providing the information contained in this report to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police. Although…
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Indonesia: The Hotel Bombings
Indonesia: The Hotel Bombings
Jakarta/Brussels, 24 July 2009: On 17 July 2009, suicide bombers attacked two hotels in the heart of a Jakarta business district, killing nine and injuring more than 50, the first…
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Contexts of terror in Indonesia
Contexts of terror in Indonesia
Jim Castle is a friend of mine. I have known him since we were graduate students in Indonesia in the late 1960s. While I labored in academe he went on…
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