Terrorism

But there are good terrorists and bad terrorists

Thu, 14/04/2016 - 20:30
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Thu, 14/04/2016

BURAK BEKDİL, hurriyetdailynews
In his speeches to Turkish audiences but addressing world leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan often says that “there should be no good terrorists and bad terrorists” and that “terrorists are terrorists.” He’s right. But he is not realistic at all if he is seriously expecting the entire world to agree on his own definition of who is a terrorist and who is not.

Germany Warns Of ISIS Infiltration, Recruitment Of Refugees

Thu, 14/04/2016 - 08:02
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Thu, 14/04/2016

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Stefan Aust, Michael Behrendt, Manuel Bewarder and Claus Christian Malzahn*

Top German security officials say criminals and violent Islamists are using the asylum crisis to recruit refugees. They especially target minors traveling alone.

BERLIN — Germany's top domestic security official is warning that ISIS is actively recruiting among the new waves of refugees arriving in the country.

Africa and the Jihadist Threat

Thu, 14/04/2016 - 07:50
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Thu, 14/04/2016


Project Syndicate, Olusegun Obasanjo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Wolfgang Ishinger
ADDIS ABABA – The list of places in Europe and Africa that have suffered from jihadist terrorism is rapidly growing: the seaside town of Grand-Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire, nightspots in Paris, and transport hubs in Brussels, to name just a few.

Time for Common Sense About ISIS

Tue, 12/04/2016 - 08:55
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Tue, 12/04/2016

Image: Wikimedia Commons/Stratfor. Public Domain.

By Michael J. Ard

A former intelligence officer shares twelve points about a manageable danger.
Politicians and terrorism experts have a vested interest in focusing on the worst-case scenarios about terrorism and putting the direst spin possible on recent events. With the near irrelevance of core Al Qaeda, Islamic State (ISIS) is the latest fixation.

What does "nuclear terrorism" really mean?

Mon, 11/04/2016 - 08:24
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Mon, 11/04/2016

Explain this
Elisabeth Eaves
There are few scarier pairs of words: “nuclear,” evoking the great 20th century fear of atomic annihilation, and “terrorism,” the bogeyman of the 21st. Put them together and you’ve got a frightening specter. Since European authorities revealed that the group behind the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks was also spying on a senior nuclear official in Belgium, many news sources have reported that the threat of “nuclear terrorism” is upon us.

ISIS under Pressure on Multiple Fronts

Tue, 05/04/2016 - 08:23
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Tue, 05/04/2016

Kob, cc Flickr Karl-Ludwig Poggemann, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Geopolitical Monitor
The eastern borders of the Islamic State (ISIS) statelet are shrinking as the Iraqi army makes its push toward the city whose fall started the current crisis: Mosul.The village of al-Nasr, located along the Tigris River south of Mosul, fell to Iraqi troops after days of fierce fighting earlier this week. The success shows that Iraqi security forces are making progress in their push towards the large northern city.

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