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A New Moment of Opportunity for al Qaeda?
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Major world powers have remained lnactive as the Syrian regime continues its quasi-genocidal repression, offering Al Qaeda an opportunity to re-introduce its discredited philosophy.The post A New Moment of Opportunity for al Qaeda? appeared first on...
Mali: MOJWA Threatens the Lives of Hostages and French President over Military Intervention
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The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) via its speaker Oumar Ould Hamaha has threatened the lives of hostages and French President [fr] because of the planned military intervention in Northern Mali that the UN security council...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Al Qaeda
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Eleven years after its defining attack, Al Qaeda is a defeated organization, yet in two ways the legacy of Al Qaeda constitutes a tangible threat for the international peace and stability.
Terror, coercion and foreign policy
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More than ten years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, counterterrorism practitioners, academics and policymakers are still struggling to understand what motivates men who have spent their formative and early adult years in Western urba...
How privilege-blindness stops us understanding the roots of terrorism | Priyamvada Gopal
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From Cameron's 'Indian dance' remark to the discussion of Breivik's motives, the invisibility of whiteness distorts debateAn independent inquiry has established that Anders Behring Breivik, the clean-cut white supremacist who methodically murder...
Attack on the Sikh Temple: Terrorism in our community!
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I have written numerous times on this blog that the radical right is a growing security threat in the Western world. I have warned that the waste of resources to go after a tiny few "jihadists" is costing us security and has resulted in lost lives an...
Why won’t the IOC mark the Munich massacre?
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You would expect a tragedy at a past Olympics would have been officially commemorated on its anniversary by the International Olympic Committee… Disgracefully, it was left to Boris Johnson and the Tories to give a “makeshift”...
NGOs are hidden arms of international terrorism. Are you joking?
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Why are haunted by the fear Western fall with Islam as the main force infiltrating in our society to destroy it to the point that the EU is scoping for legislation on stopping terrorist infiltration in our beloved and unharmful charities? Today the...
Sofia view: the Burgas attack
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A bus full of Israeli tourists was blown up yesterday at the airport of Burgas, a Bulgarian town on the Black Sea coast. From what we know, the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber carrying aRead more…...
Terrorist attack in Bulgaria could be escalation of 'dirty war'
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EU leaders express shock at the suspected terrorist attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, which resulted in the death of at least seven people and another 30 being injured...
Israeli tourist bus attacked in Bulgaria
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At least seven people were killed in an attack against Israeli youth on a tour bus in Burgus Airport in Bulgaria. Reports claim the attack was most likely carried out by a suicide bomber, who was either next to the bus or who got on the bus.
Conspiracy Theory Article Brings Out 911 Cartoon
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• Say do you know where Merah was on September 11, 2001?• Uh… no• Hah! Neither do I! Suspicious, no?!Soren Seelow's article on conspiracy theories surrounding Mohamed Merah allows a Le Monde cartoonist to make another 911 joke.
Countering Terrorism
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The fight against terrorism is high on NATO’s agenda. Both the Strategic Concept¹ and the Lisbon Summit Declaration² make clear that terrorism poses a real and serious threat to the security and safety of the Alliance and its members.
The Danish Minister of Justice aims to strengthen the fight against terrorism in Europe
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The Danish Minister of Justice, Morten Bødskov, chairs the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting and he has chosen to put the fight against terrorism on the top of the agenda. READ MORE...
French Terror Ring Dismantled, Members Sound Like Sympathizers of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
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A terrorist ring has been dismantled in France, writes Elise Vincent in Le Monde, with its members now on trial and risking 10 years behind bars; and needless to say, their members all belong to the far right and are the ideological counterparts of t...
18-Month-Old Girl: Face of Terror?
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OK America, you’ve had your fun with your TSA airport follies for far too long now. Where to begin? You’ve repeatedly humiliated a major Southwest Asia movie star when he has visited, just because of his last name. You’ve had your &...
Underwear Bomb Informant Worked for Saudi Intel–Not CIA, FBI, or MI6
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Underwear bomber number 2 (still unnamed) isn't the only one with his shorts in a twist over the latest attempt to bring terror to the sky over the Atlantic. The CIA, FBI, and MI6 are all scrambling to explain (or unexplain) their accounts of who did...
Breivik trial: Norway's troubled example to the world | Editorial
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Yesterday's remarkable court proceedings were the start of a long and harrowing - but necessary – phase for NorwayIn a variety of ways Norway offers a model of the kind of country that many would like Britain to emulate. On the left, there is envy...
Islamists slaughter Nigerian Christians on Christmas day
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“There was a car filled with dead bodies. Apparently it was a family coming to worship” - witness Timothy Onyekwere, quoted in today’s Guardian. At least 35 Nigerian Christians deliberately blown to bits as they worshipped (or...
“Third World War” of Terrorists
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By Robert Nakarada Lately in Europe a mutual terroristic threat has been growing from the side of Western and Musli...
Germany’s “mysterious murder series” and the “new far right terrorism.”
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Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany's interior minister, is an Islamophobic boob himself, is now "discovering" some kind of "new terrorism" in his own country. The obvious murders of Turkish businessmen and threats from a Nazi group to ca...
Duitsland: “mysterieuze moorden” en de “nieuwe extreem-rechts terrorisme. “
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Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, minister van Binnenlandse Zaken van Duitsland, is een islamofoob boob zelf, is nu 'ontdekken' van een soort van 'nieuwe terrorisme "in zijn eigen land. De voor de hand liggende moorden op Turkse zakenlieden en bedreigin...
After 9/11 – The Bottom Line
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While soap opera on the WTC square is over again it might be time to make a cool assessment – what is the bottom line behind correct statements, condolences and sentimental sob stories. It is understandable that sc human interest aspect gets the ma...
The Twin Towers’ late fallout
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Ten years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, MEPs and Member States are still at odds over lessons to be learnt. And more news from Strasbourg. EuroparlTV video comes here.
US Ambassador: 9/11 is 'time for world to come together'
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The Next Witch Hunt? In defense of Paul Krugman
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New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, and professor at Princeton University, Paul Krugman, has opened up a new can of worms by challenging the mainstream narratives around 9/11. In his blog entitled, The Years of Shame, h...
late 9/11 post. Where Erkan was on 9/11?
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First of all, my most sincere condolences… It was on the midnight of 10 September 2001, right at the very end of my first month in US, I had written to a TA friend of mine who would later come to US and start her own PhD: “Dear Almıla, life...
Obama's 911 Comment Published in Le Figaro With Pride
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TRIBUNE - Le président des États-Unis Barack Obama a choisi Le Figaro pour commenter l'après-11 Septembre. Dix ans après les attentats suicides contre la première puissance mondiale, il renouvelle son soutien aux nations et aux peuples en qu...
9-11 and the fear of it in the Netherlands
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The real job of the Dutch General Intelligence Service and Security (AIVD) is to effect social control of Muslims by labeling politically active Muslims that want social change as "radicalized" and therefore "a threat to the Netherlands." At the same...
9-11 en de angst van het in Nederland
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De echte taak van de Nederlandse Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst Dienst (AIVD) is de sociale controle van de moslims effect door middel van etikettering politiek actieve moslims die maatschappelijke verandering wil als 'geradicaliseerde' e...
The Skies Shed Tears During Paris Commemoration of 911 Attacks
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During the tenth anniversary commemoration of the 9-11 attacks in Trocadéro square in Paris across from the Eiffel Tower (the second largest 911 commemoration in the world next to those in Manhattan itself, according to the organizers in The French...
Still Looking for "Another" September 11th?
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Obfuscaters have selective memories. Always looking for something to compete with the obvious yearning of the aggrieved or abused, come the "lamentations" of the disinvolved and confused thought-mafia. Just as it was with the left after 9-11, the t...
Media Hype: September 11th
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Before hurricane Irene went over New York City, the storm had been downgraded to a tropical storm. The American news networks were by then too invested in the storyline of Manhattan being flooded to report the downgrade. Instead, the reporters were i...
Personal Memories of September 11, 2001, in Paris
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Since commemorations of 9-11 are taking place all over the world, I thought we should search the archives of No Pasarán for the personal memories of two of the blog's bloggers. Erik and Bill's posts will help explain why they started to blog:Septemb...
Wes Riddle's "9-11 We Remember"
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Wesley Riddle has created a musical tribute to commemorate the attacks of 9-11 (merci à Carine).This 9-11 video montage is a tribute of those who sacrificed and continue to sacrifice today for our freedom and a remembrance of the tragic events an...
Special Press Review of 9/11: Beyond the mass media
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At first, I was very skeptical about writing anything on the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11th. But for several weeks now, I have seen the progressive emergence of articles on the matter from top journalists, International Relations...
Wear my ACLU tee-shirt tomorrow, September 11, 2011!
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I will wear my ACLU shirt on the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. This is a statement against the abuses that the 9-11 excuse have brought. The September 11th attacks mark not just a horrible attack, but the real onslaught against our freedom, l...
Castigating Bush and the Neo-Cons, Former French Foreign Minister Says that the War on Terror Should Have Been Carried Out "With Discretion"
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Gaïdz Minassian and Nicolas Weill have an interview in Le Monde of Hubert Védrine, the French foreign minister in 2001 who, needless to say, enjoys the benefit of hindsight.In the interview, Védrine says that the fight against the terrorists...
Le Monde's 911 Commemorations
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Needless to say, Le Monde joins in the 911 commemorations, which include the obligatory reference to the decline of the American empire since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Cartoonwise, we have the publication of a graphic novel with various art...
Launch of Anti Radicalisation Network
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On Sunday the 11 of September, 10 years will have past since the horrible attacks in New York. The day will of course be commemorated all around the world. The day brings back a lot of memories and I imagine we all still remember what we were doing t...
Letter to Dutch Embassy: Appropriate observance of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks
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Letter to Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch Ambassador to the US, sent to Dutch Embassy in Washington, pointing out the appropriate observances of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Brief aan de ambassadeur Renee Jones-Bos, Neder...
"9/11 – A Duty to Remember, but What?" by Bradley Evans and Simon Critchley
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The violence witnessed ten years ago was spectacularly horrifying. Mass death quite literally broadcast “live”. Many images of that fateful day still linger. We still recoil at the moment the second...
Where does the Norway shooting leave Europe’s conservatives?
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Last week’s far right terrorist attack in Norway has prompted a lot of questions in European capitals, and many of the hardest questions are being asked inside the party headquarters of Europe’s center-right. Many of Europe's conservative parties...
Pakistan, Bin Laden and EU trade policy
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Pakistan looks set to snag a European Union perk it has long coveted: admission to the bloc’s GSP+ trade programme. But the death last week of Osama bin Laden in a compound just up the road from Islamabad may cast …Continue reading: "Pakistan...
Ben Laden est mort, et maintenant ?
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Après l’annonce dimanche soir de la mort d’Oussama Ben Laden, un sentiment de soulagement, voir de joie, s’est propagé à travers les sociétés occidentales. C’est en effet un homme réellement dangereux qui est mort. Cepen...
Fight against terrorism
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2011-05-02 Early this morning I received the news that Osama Bin Laden was killed in an American military operation last night. It would have been preferred to see Osama Bin Laden before a court but the operation had another ending. Bin Laden’s...
Bin Laden's demise occurred long before his death
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The news that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was killed last night by US forces has been widely welcomed, including by EU politicians, as a hammer blow to terrorism and a victory for democracy. Perhaps it is neither. Some have long...
Sky News and BBC say Obama (not Osama) is dead
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These come hours after a Fox News affiliate in California claimed “Obama Bin Laden” had been killed. Tory MP Louise Bagshawe and blogger Harry Cole have also fallen victim to this spoonerism. There’s something about the Murdoch medi...
Osama Bin Laden killed in Pakistan: young Europeans react
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From corners of the Balkans and Europe to Americans and Pakistanis on the European continent, why the news of the US killing of the Saudi Arabian al-Qaida leader on 2 May, who took charge of the 9/11 attacks of 2001, hasn’t ruffled the most obvious...
Sarkozy: "France salutes the tenacity of the United States which had been searching for Osama Bin Laden for 10 years"
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Among the first to react to Osama Bin Laden's death, as related in Le Monde, were George W Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy: France "salutes the tenacity of the United States" after the death of bin Laden, a "major event in the global fight against terrorism...
Bin Laden Reported Dead
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From Al Jazeera: "US president Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly in which he is expected to announce the death of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. [...] "Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said that A...
Three new EDPS reports
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Opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) Opinion on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council...
EDPS on the EU’s counter-terrorism policy
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The EDPS adopted an opinion yesterday on the Commission’s Communication of 20 July 2010 entitled “The EU Counter-Terrorism Policy: main achievements and future challenges. This opinion aims at “contributing to more fundamental polic...
If I wanted to bomb an airliner…
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…I wouldn’t do it if the airliner were leaving from the UK. Let me explain. I’ve recently taken return flights from the UK to Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt (to go diving in Dahab), and my parents have flown to and from Morocco, returning...
Airport security: amazing and out of character, CIF common sense!!
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“Michael O’ Leary’s appearance on BBC’s This Morning epitomised just how reluctant the industry is is when it comes to acknowledging the risks, even in the face of irrefutable evidence. “These [bombs] haven’t b...
Explosion in Taksim Square. 32 wounded…
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Intentional or not, earlier explosion saved lives. Taksim Square is always a crowded place in most of the hours of the day. Sunday early morning hours were probably the least crowded time. Most of Turkish media quickly blamed PKK and a group inside t...
Norwich Council Terror Threat
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The egregious numbnuts who populate Norwich City Council have launched a anti-terror investigation into an unnamed pub.Using the Regulatory Investigatory Powers Act - designed to prevent us from chaps with bomb-belts they have been spying on the pub.
The First Anti-Terrorism OSCE Conference Took Place In The Capital Of Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan advocates the promotion of interaction between various international bodies within the issues of struggle against modern threats and challenges. This was covered during the expert anti-terrorism OSCE Conference in Astana. READ MORE...
