Terrorist Attack in Spain, ETA Claims Responsibility
Saturday December 30, 2006
The Basque separatist group ETA has claimed responsibility for a car bomb set off in a Madrid airport garage that has injured 19 people.
The bombing ends what was intended to ... Read More
President Bush Says Hussein Execution Is a Step toward A War on Terror Ally
Saturday December 30, 2006
The idea that toppling state sponsors of terrorism, as defined by the U.S. State Department, also topple the violence they inspire was laid to rest with Saddam Hussein's execution tonight. ... Read More
On the Topic of Torture & Terrorism
Wednesday December 27, 2006
A public discussion held since 9/11 on whether torture is a justifiable interrogation tactic continued in 2006, with debate centering around the practice of 'extraordinary rendition,' whereby alien detainees in ... Read More
December 26, 1979: Jihad in Afghanistan Gets its Start
Wednesday December 27, 2006
Twenty seven years ago, in the last days of December, Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan. In response, self-styled mujahadin (holy warriers) took up arms in the name of both their ... Read More
Al Zawahiri Videotape May Offer Clues to October Pakistan Bombing
Friday December 22, 2006
The new videotape released by Al Qaeda's second in command on December 20 may shed more light on a bombing in Chingai in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province on ... Read More
An American Detainee in Iraq: Torture and No Legal Representation
Monday December 18, 2006
How's this for Kafkaesque: Following his helping American officials in Iraq identify an illegal weapons
cache at the Baghdad security firm where he worked, Donald Vance was apprehended, detained for ... Read More
Top 10 Terrorism Blogs on the Web
Friday December 15, 2006
Blogging on terrorism, the war on terror, and related policies has become a global pasttime. And a good thing it is: bloggers can critique, poke holes, poke fun, probe facts ... Read More
First Indictment on Extraordinary Rendition On the Horizon
Tuesday December 12, 2006
A hearing has been scheduled in Italian court on January 9, to determine whether 26 American CIA and 5 Italian officials should be indicted for their alleged part in ... Read More
Human Rights & Terrorism: Revisiting the Basics
Friday December 8, 2006
Human rights are relevant to terrorism as concerns both its victims, and its perpetrators. The concept of human rights was first expressed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ... Read More
Iraq Study Group Reshapes Relationship between Iraq War and War on Terror
Wednesday December 6, 2006
The just-released recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, whether they are taken or not, add momentum to the trend toward considering the Iraq War separately from the "war on terror." ... Read More
A Provocative Position: September 11 Reduced the Threat of Terrorist Attack
Wednesday December 6, 2006
There isn't a very wide debate about terrorism in the United States these days. Public fear, and politicians' needs for consensus and the mass media's circulation of one or ... Read More
Suicide Attacks A Growing Phenomenon
Saturday December 2, 2006
The use of suicide bombers as a routine method of attack by terrorist and insurgent groups is on a global upswing, raising an increasing number of questions among analysts about ... Read More