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Terrorism: Myths and RealityTerrorism in the Middle East from North Africa to Pakistan: Who are the terrorists? What do their organizations aim for? What are the myths of terrorism? Is the West responding to the terrorist threat or to the West's perceptions of a "Clash of Civilizations"? What are the limits of terrorism in the age of 9/11?
Review: "The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom," by Martin Amis
Amis has been accused of being an Islamophobe. His critics are wrong. He’s not against Islam. He’s against Islamism, a distinction he elucidates throughout the book: “Naturally we respect Muhammad. But we do not respect Muhammad Atta.” Hezbollah and the 1983 Bombing of the U.S. Marines Barracks in Beirut
Hebollah was an obscure organization in 1983. Its bombings of the US Marines barracks and the US Embassin Beirut in 1983 made Hezbollah the world's premier terrorist organization. Imad Mugniyah: Profile of a Hezbollah Terrorist
Imad Mugniyah, the Lebanese Shiite, Hezbollah terrorist assassinated in a car bomb attack in Damascus on Feb. 13, has a long, grim history of violence with one thing in common: visceral hatred for the West, whose nationals were Mugniyah’s principal targets. Bin Laden, Family Man?
Osama bin Laden had four wives and 19 children. Their story presents an oddly contrasting tale of tolerance and magnanimity by the world's premier terrorist. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
The life and aims of the world's most wanted terrorist. Osama: Dead or Alive?
Speculation has been rife since 2005 or so about the health of Osama bin Laden and the leadership of al-Qaeda. Not that his replacement by Ayman al-Zawhiri would be an improvement. Al-Qaeda: Statements and Evolving Ideology
A 2007 report documenting al-Qaeda's various "mission statements" and declarations going back to 1994, with analyses of al-Qaeda's ideology and intended audience. |
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