The US and Pakistan remain allies in the international fight against terrorism but relations have been worsening. The US is accusing Pakistan of failing to rein in Taleban and al-Qaeda militants that take refuge in its border region and, as Barbara Plett reports, there is growing anger among Pakistanis towards the US.
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The Latvian National Security Council has included Russia in a list of major security threats to the Baltic state. As the RIA Novosti news agency reports, the agency places Russia’s threat alongside terrorism, drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
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The consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran are obvious. Its leaders are theologically motivated and believe Israel should be wiped off the map. It is the chief global sponsor of terrorism through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Middle East experts believe a nuclear-armed Iran would soon be followed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and [...]

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Relations between Australia’s Muslim community and the rest of the population are near to exploding. As they face increasing suspicion and hostility from the rest of the nation, young Australian Muslims are being made to feel like foreigners in their own country. Is Australia’s response to terrorism to blame?

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South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan resumed peace talks May 20 amid reminders of how vulnerable the two nations are to terrorism. Bombings in Jaipur (IANS) allegedly by Bangladeshi extremists and heightened tension (CSM) with Pakistan across the long-disputed border in Kashmir has New Delhi on edge. The U.S. State Department’s 2007 report on [...]

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Evidence of Venezuela’s support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves.
THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan government. Whether [...]

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History dictates that protecting and maintaining a nation’s industrial base is critical to its national security and to winning wars. This is why taking out an enemy’s manufacturing infrastructure, as America did to Germany and Japan during World war II, is the first step in rendering it defenseless.
Yet today in America, despite the menace of [...]

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It’s true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead. American anxiety springs from something much deeper, a sense that large and disruptive forces are coursing through the world. [...]

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The summer of 2007 was marked by threats and warnings of an imminent terrorist attack against the United States. In addition to the well-publicized warnings from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a National Intelligence Estimate that al Qaeda was gaining strength, a former Israeli counterterrorism official warned that al Qaeda was planning a simultaneous [...]

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The refusal to “call a spade a spade” sets a dangerous precedent in our fight against Islamists and their quest for Jihad. FSM Contributing Editor Jeffrey Imm reminds us that Jihad is not a joke, and that failing to heed the danger it poses undermines our ability to defeat the enemy.
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A Saudi billionaire has found a way to squelch information regarding his involvement in financing Jihad. FSM Contributing Editor Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman has details on this alarming trend that, if allowed to continue, will seriously hamper the West’s ability to investigate and halt such funding.
One of these roadblocks is a Saudi billionaire, Khalid bin Mahfouz, [...]

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Seven years ago, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors. Two years later, to the day, a pair of suicide bombers killed 202 tourists and Indonesians in Bali. Neither attack would have the fateful consequences of September 11. But, in their own way, [...]

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Terrorists may be mad, but they are not stupid. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan reveals shocking details of how a murdering, admitted threat to Norway’s national security lives off the largesse of taxpayers while claiming to be victimized. It’s a good gig if you can get it.
Mullah Krekar is designated as an [...]

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More details are emerging in the case of the three Islamists who were recently arrested for planning a bomb attack in Germany. Investigators believe that a 15-year-old boy smuggled the detonators from Istanbul to Germany — inside the soles of a pair of shoes. By Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark more…

Foiled Bomb Plot: Terror Suspect [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — While there has been progress in protecting nuclear materials in Russia, the threat of terrorists stealing a nuclear device remains high in many parts of the world, a private study concluded Wednesday.
“Terrorists are actively seeking nuclear weapons and materials to make them,” said the report by Harvard University’s Managing the Atom project.
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In the third Terrorism Index, more than 100 of America’s most respected foreign-policy experts see a world that is growing more dangerous, a national security strategy in disrepair, and a war in Iraq that is alarmingly off course.
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In 2004, bin Laden objected to our logical conclusion that he instead hated the West simply for its freedom. He posed this rhetorical question: “Contrary to what Bush says and claims — that we hate freedom — let him tell us then, ‘Why did we not attack Sweden?’”
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Who’d have thought that an organization funneling millions of dollars to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations through Palestinian universities is based in…Dublin, Ohio?! FSM Contributing Editor Patrick Poole blows the lid off of this operation.
The Dublin, Ohio-based not-for-profit organization, Arab Student Aid International (ASAI), has funneled millions of dollars over the [...]

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The Continent is a front line in the war on terror, whether its people know it or not.
To return from the United States to Europe is to travel from a country that thinks it is on the front line of the struggle against jihadist terrorism but is not, to a continent that is on the [...]

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Yesterday’s anniversary of the worst single terrorist atrocity ever to be visited on this country in terms of casualty numbers simply passed without comment.
There were no official ceremonies, no services, no minute’s silence. It went unremarked, as if it had never happened.
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After six years, two wars, and dozens of senior al Qaeda figures arrested, Osama bin Laden and his chief associate Ayman al-Zawahiri remain at large. In this week’s List, FP runs down some of the other most dangerous senior al Qaeda leaders who are still on the loose.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Possible whereabouts: Iraq. Last October and [...]

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