Senate passes Iraq funding bill with withdrawal timeline
Thursday March 29, 2007
The U.S. Senate narrowly passed a bill this morning that provides $122 billion to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, while stipulating the withdrawal of combat soldiers within a ... Read More
U.S. Consumers Getting Snagged in Efforts Against Terrorist Financing Networks
Wednesday March 28, 2007
OFAC Lists Designed to Halt Flows of Terrorist Funds Are Flagging U.S. Consumers
Credit bureaus, health insurers, potential employers, car dealerships and landlords have been checking applicants' names against ... Read More
Banana Company Pleads Guilty to Terrorist Funding
Sunday March 25, 2007
Terrorists Were Paid Off to Keep Banana Workers Safe
Chiquita Brands International has pled guilty to terrorist financing. From 1997 to 2004 the fruit importer's Colombian subsidiary ... Read More
What Do Britney Spears and Osama bin Laden Have in Common?
Thursday March 22, 2007
Cultural Icons: Britney and bin Laden
.…They're both popular celebrities in some pockets of the world. I stopped short at the following anecdote, which I found in a recent book ... Read More
Four Years Later: Looking Back at the Iraq-9/11 Myth
Monday March 19, 2007
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) visited the Green Zone in 2005
One of the first of many powerful passages in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book about the protected area that has housed the Coalition ... Read More
We May Be Able to Predict Attacks (by States or Terrorists) Based on How Leaders Speak in Public
Thursday March 15, 2007
President Bush: Low Integrative Complexity Score
Before and After 9/11
Understanding how an enemy's political leaders communicate is an important part of winning wars. The current game of cat-and-mouse being ... Read More
What do the Muslim Brotherhood Want, and How (Constitutionally) Do They Want It?
Monday March 12, 2007
Islamism--the idea that Islam can function as a political system--exists on a spectrum, which can be a bit difficult to see from afar. There are radical jihadist groups who ... Read More
Terrorism Analyses from Around About.com
Friday March 9, 2007
Terrorism related news has become so ubiquitous that there's almost no news area it leaves untouched. To wit: in one way or another terrorism issues are an important topic ... Read More
2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Richardson and Republican Brownback Opine on Iraq, Terrorism
Tuesday March 6, 2007
Senator Bill Richardson
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently called Democratic Senator Bill Richardson (D-NM) the 2008 presidential candidate "most likely to rise," in no small part because "he's a ... Read More
The Global Incident Map: Terrorism Information Awareness for the Rest of Us
Sunday March 4, 2007
Technology Promises to Map the World of Terrorism
Also of Interest: Controversial Counterterrorism Technologies
Remember Total Information Awareness? TIA (which was also called Terrorism Information Awarenss), sponsored by the Defense ... Read More
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Al Qaeda? How About, Talk with Them
Thursday March 1, 2007
Why Not Negotiate with bin Laden?
U.S. Vice President Cheney wants Pakistan to put a stop to Al Qaeda's reawakening in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Senate ... Read More