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These two phrases, he argues, allow the government to expand the definition of terrorism to include groups that were not involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and that may not even have existed when those attacks took place.
Women also suffer disproportionately from a lack of toilets, because basic privacy demands that they relieve themselves only after nightfall, when they are more vulnerable to physical attacks and accidental injuries.
More than $150 million is being spent to help transit systems in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut prevent and respond to terrorist attacks.
It’s too easy for politicians to throw more money at problems like terrorism, when some nations may already spend too much on security measures that merely shift attacks around.
Attacks mounted by jihadi terrorists, however terrifying, do not compare with the threat emanating from Russia.
The months since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have been characterized by intense transatlantic debate.
Deepening Partnerships: The attacks of "9/11" were masterminded by a Saudi who lived in Central Asia, planned by people from the Eastern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean living in Western Europe, and carried out in North America.
It was Henry Kissinger who argued after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of 2001 that tragedy could be turned into opportunity.
At a time of growing international volatility, it is essential that we Europeans defend ourselves from scurrilous attacks and uphold our many collective achievements.
In fact, the only time that Article 5 has ever been invoked was after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US.
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris are a case in point, affecting not only the families and friends of the victims, or even only the people of France.
The attacks came at a time when the world traditionally tries to make sense of the year ahead – to forecast the risks that lie in wait, the opportunities that will arise, and the challenges that will have to be overcome.
Do events like the Paris attacks show that forecasting them is impossible?
Or did the attacks expose precisely the type of risk that long-term projections should identify?
The Roots of Arab AngerNATOLIN – Eleven years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States once again finds itself the target of Islamist fundamentalists’ wrath.
In the weeks since an armed Islamist mob stormed and burned the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing the ambassador and three other Americans, protests have erupted across the Middle East and North Africa, including further attacks on US – as well as British and German – embassies.
Western governments and international media were quick to attribute the attacks to fury over a US-made film that degrades the prophet Mohammed and disparages Islam.
The attacks were largely conducted by a small set of young men who are receptive to the kind of radical, simplistic ideologies that have gained traction in the region, owing to dire political and socioeconomic circumstances.
The Red Brigades, the Weather Underground, the Irish Republican Army, and Italian neo-Fascist terrorists were staging attacks across the US and Europe.
The Syrian civil war has also become one of the most dangerous breeding grounds for Islamist terrorism, as the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Ankara, Beirut, and Paris, and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane above the Sinai Peninsula, have shown.
Following the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a new opportunity to end Syria’s agony has emerged, because all the important players (except ISIS) are now willing to sit down together at the negotiating table.
But the government-controlled media subsequently launched fierce attacks against them, targeting Primakov especially, since he was considered a serious rival to Putin and a legitimate presidential contender.
A safe schools initiative has been established to rebuild the girls’ own school in Chibok and to make the roughly 5,000 schools in northern Nigerian safe from terrorist attacks.
In the short term, Nigeria needs to make its schools safer and more secure from terrorist attacks, and a safe-schools plan is being created by the Nigerian authorities to ensure that girls no longer fear going to school in the country’s six northern states.
In the past four years, the group’s attacks on Nigerians have taken more than 4,000 lives, including 171 teachers massacred in separate incidents in Borno State.
It behaved in ways that would have been unthinkable before – for example, its attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
This past January, China, alongside Russia, vetoed a Security Council resolution that condemned Burma’s human rights record and called on the government to stop attacks on ethnic minorities, release political prisoners, and begin a transition towards national reconciliation and democracy.
The War on Terror Begins AnewBUCHAREST/MADRID – The terrorist attacks across Paris on the night of November 13, which left at least 120 dead, are a tragic reminder of the ubiquity of modern terrorism.
Countries have enacted security legislation and created special intelligence and police units to stop perpetrators and discourage or prevent attacks, and have complemented these efforts by entering into international and regional treaties and bilateral agreements.
As terrorist attacks become increasingly common, an international body to counter them has never been more important.
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