The global communities are in awe and are devastated at the reoccurring incident of terrorism in different parts of the world: from the known regions where terrorism is the hallmark to regions where …
Cyber-threat rising, Chertoff says
Homeland security boss speaks to group in Silicon Valley. Cyberspace attacks on the nation's increasingly interlocked computer systems are a growing security threat that could quickly overshadow any …
New Qaeda-linked “jihadi” group in Somalia ?ICG
The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) research center has recently circulated a report that an as yet un-named "new, ruthless independent jihadi network" has arisen in Somalia under the …
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Comparison between 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the London Underground and a double-decker bus on July 7, 2005 , British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw declared that the attacks bore the ?hallmarks of an …
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The new Al Qaeda: local franchises
WASHINGTON – A decade ago Al Qaeda was an entrepreneurial jihadist start-up firm. Today it may have evolved into something bigger, and less tightly controlled: a worldwide franchiser of terrorist …
Europeans ask who next after London blast
After deadly rush-hour bombings in Spain and Britain just over a year apart, Italians and other U.S. allies in Europe are asking themselves: who's next? Spain blames al Qaeda for last year's Madrid …
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Specter surfaces of world of local Qaeda offshoots
The attacks in London yesterday appear to be the work of an Al Qaeda offshoot, and could provide further evidence that the organization responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks is steadily morphing into a …
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London: a new and bloody chapter for al-Qaeda?
An unknown al-Qaeda cell in Europe claimed responsibility for the attacks in London today on the al-Qal’ah - or Fortress - internet site. The Times Diplomatic Editor assesses this claim and the wider …
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Madrassah reform is key to terror war
In recent weeks, some experts have challenged the conventional wisdom about the flagship of Islamic education in Pakistan - madrassahs, those schools where members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban once …
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Militants are blamed for Indonesia bombs
The Indonesian police hunted Monday for the perpetrators of a twin bombing attack that security experts said had been an attempt to re-ignite violence in the religiously mixed region. The attack took …
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