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Within a week of the attacks, President George W. Bush declared a “war on terrorism.”
It has not been proved that the attacks in London, Madrid, or Bali in the years since the September 11 plot, or the attack on America’s warship the USS Cole in 2000, reflected the existence of a “center” that coordinated the operations or gave orders to carry them out.
But to implicate Iraq, which had nothing to do with al-Qaeda or the September 11 attacks, was a huge mistake, one that has strengthened Islamic extremists and has probably helped them recruit terrorists.
The German blogger Richard Gutjahr, for example, became the object of conspiracy theories and the target of intense harassment after being present at two terrorist attacks within two weeks of each other.
Moreover, they are prone to being kidnapped by criminal gangs, trained to steal or pickpocket, or, worse, placed at the mercy of terrorists for use in attacks.
Yet India continues to face many challenges: nearly 300 million people living in poverty, the spreading Naxalite insurgency, the danger of terrorist attacks ala Mumbai, and sprawling urban slums.
Meanwhile, international sanctions are unlikely to dissuade Iran’s government from pursuing nuclear weapons, while a preventive strike by Israel – which would not sit idly by when Iranian nuclear forces become operational – or by the US, would encourage terrorist attacks against their populations.
But unless something terrible happens – such as a series of spectacular terrorist attacks – sanity will prevail on both sides of the Atlantic.
The assault reflected the military’s growing frustration with the extremists who have staged scores of attacks in the last four years.
But federalism is not the reason why Sunni supremacists and Islamists launch deadly attacks.
But some of the Shias whom he attacks with words and bullets have thousands under arms, and think that he should be offered only bullets.
China’s rise, the Balkan wars, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global financial crisis of 2008, the “Arab Spring,” and the Syrian civil war all belie Fukuyama’s vision of the inevitable triumph of liberal democracy.
In his tweets, he rants about the media, attacks independent judges, targets individuals and companies, and belittles international organizations.
His desperation mounting, Saleh has ordered deadly attacks on protesters, evidently believing that his considerable skill at political manipulation would see him through.
Most recently, the Saudis threatened to sell off its US financial assets should Congress enact a proposed law exposing its leadership to lawsuits for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration launched an ambitious new policy to encourage a democratic transformation of the Middle East.
The withdrawal of Assad’s forces from the Kurdish-inhabited northeast, along Turkey’s border, has created a political vacuum, which is being filled by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish group allied with Assad’s regime, and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a separatist group that has been conducting terrorist attacks against Turkey since 1984.
Additional weapons – including anti-tank guided missiles, mortars, and sniper rifles – would enable the opposition to launch effective attacks from a distance, and challenge the pro-Assad forces’ air supremacy.
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Its catalogue of crimes includes: stealing the 2002 elections that enabled Mugabe to hold on to power; torturing and murdering supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change; transformation of a fertile, prosperous country once considered Africa's breadbasket into a place where half the population barely survives on foreign food handouts; and, as exemplified by its attacks on The Daily News , the suppression of critical voices.
While these attacks did garner the world’s attention, most people do not realize that, in the past five years alone, 33,000 people have died in terrorism-related violence in Africa.
But it also took away the one-way-bet character of speculative attacks on vulnerable currencies, and thus removed the fundamental driver of instability.
Our forces do not sponsor attacks against the Turkish state.
Significantly, in contrast to its increasingly vituperative attacks on the Dalai Lama, China has not denounced (or derecognized) its Karmapa, although his flight to India signaled its failure to retain the loyalty of a supposed puppet.
Moreover, the Moroccan state has made an extraordinary effort to prevent the departure of new recruits to Iraq and Syria, and to avert terrorist attacks at home.
Moreover, there remains a serious risk of terrorist attacks at home, especially as attacks by “lone wolves” – like the killing of 38 tourists in Tunisia in June, or the attempted attack in August on a Paris-bound Thalys train – become more prevalent.
That is why Morocco has been engaged in a multifaceted strategy to stop terrorists before they carry out attacks.
Unlike in previous cases of attacks on civilians by Bashir’s regime, this time we don’t need to wait for fragmentary reports from the ground to piece together what happened.
A successful outcome, demonstrating that countries can work together for the good of the planet, would send a powerful message of hope to the world – and to the people of Paris, who remain unbowed after the recent terrorist attacks.
Even more damning for the populists’ argument is that individuals who were born and raised in the EU, not immigrants, have been largely responsible for recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
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