Tag: terrorism
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June 08, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who waged a terror campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike.
What great news to hear upon awakening. . . .
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August 01, 2006 05:06 AM EDT --
This image, a collection of photographs of those killed (except of 92 victims) during the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001, is one of over 1200 exhibits presented during the sentencing . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
American Forces Press Service reports Taliban extremists attacked Afghan and coalition security forces with machine-gun fire from inside a hospital, which the terrorists were using for cover:
Despite . . .
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December 11, 2006 09:30 AM EST --
Eric Rudolph, the cowardly terrorist who set off a bomb that killed one person and wounded more than 100 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, is complaining about prison conditions:
"It is a closed-off . . .
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June 10, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
James Lileks pushes back against the looney left blame America first crowd suffering from terminal Bush Derangement Syndrome:
You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was . . .
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August 10, 2006 06:49 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports the U.S. government has raised the threat warning to red, the highest level, for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a terror plot in London: . . .
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July 17, 2006 03:30 PM EDT --
Agence France Presse reports Hezbollah rejects a ceasefire with Israel.
Abdullah Kasir, a member of Hezbollah's central committee, told AFP:
We will never leave, even if Lebanon is reduced to scorched . . .
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April 18, 2006 02:07 PM EDT --
Frontpage has an interview with Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network. The interview focuses on the light recently realeased documents shed on the connection between Saddam's . . .
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December 19, 2006 09:16 PM EST --
Reuters reports a documentary says French special forces could have killed Osama bin Laden on two different occasions.
The documentary "Bin Laden, the failings of a manhunt," says French special . . .
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April 23, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
The London Times reports that President Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world's most wanted terrorists, Imad Mugniyeh.
Mugniyeh is reported to have . . .
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April 27, 2006 05:28 PM EDT --
Four and one-half years after the twin towers were reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble, construction of the Freedom Tower has begun .
It's official even if, as the New York Times reports, construction . . .
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June 03, 2006 06:54 AM EDT --
Reuters reports British anti-terrorist police are hunting for a "dirty" chemical bomb:
More than 250 officers, some wearing chemical, biological and radiological protection suits, shot one man . . .
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June 10, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
The U.S. government warned Friday of possible terrorist threats to Americans in China.
The notice, posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and transmitted by e-mail to American citizens, . . .
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July 11, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
The Associated Press reports seven explosions hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing as many as 100 people:
Doors and windows were blown off the train cars, and . . .
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April 22, 2006 05:37 PM EDT --
The Associated Press reports the European Union's antiterrorism coordinator says investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have . . .
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April 30, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
The BBC reports Iraq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north:
Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing . . .
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June 15, 2006 05:47 PM EDT --
Senate rejects call for U.S. troop pullout from Iraq by a 93-6 vote.
The six Democratic Senators voting no - a vote for withdrawal:
Barbara Boxer of California
Robert Byrd of West Virginia
Russ Feingold . . .
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July 10, 2006 04:47 PM EDT --
Shamil Basayev, Russia's most wanted terrorist, has been killed by a truck bomb which exploded in his convoy:
Federal Security Service head Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin that Basayev . . .
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July 13, 2006 05:27 PM EDT --
MSNBC reports the United States vetoed an Arab-backed UN resolution that demanded Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza.
The United States was alone in voting against the resolution. Ten of the 15 Security . . .
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July 26, 2006 11:38 AM EDT --
International leaders failed to agree on the terms of a cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah and called for talks on a United Nations-mandated force to help the Lebanese army restore peace in south . . .
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