Tag: Terrorism

Jimmy Carter: Hamas a ‘Legitimate Political Actor’

Jeryl Bier · August 5, 2014 12:02 pm

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2011, file artist rendering by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri during his military commissions arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba. Nashiri, accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, is pressing his demand for documents detailing his treatment while he was held for several years in secret CIA prisons. His lawyers are asking a U.S. military judge Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, to set a deadline for prosecutors to turn over the documents. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, File)

US judge in Cole bombing case refuses to step down

David Dishneau · August 5, 2014 12:13 am

Israeli forces' flares light up the night sky of Gaza City on Tuesday. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

National Security

When Hamas succeeds, innocent people die in Israel and Gaza

Melanie Sturm · August 2, 2014 10:00 am

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. and its allies have made great strides to stem the flow of money to terrorist organizations. And their enemies have responded by diversifying their portfolios.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Beltway Confidential

As banks crack down, terrorists update their fundraising tactics

Blake Seitz · July 31, 2014 6:40 pm

A 13-year-old cassette tape recently recovered by Sky News reveals former President Bill Clinton admitted during remarks in Australia on Sept. 10, 2001, that he passed on an opportunity to kill terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Bill Clinton on 9/10/01: ‘I could have killed’ Osama bin Laden

Kevin Daley · July 31, 2014 6:30 pm

An Israeli activist waves the Israeli flag in support of Israel's operation in Gaza, during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, in this file photo taken Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

An American living in Israel: Numbers don’t tell the true story about Israel in Gaza

Eliana Rudee · July 31, 2014 4:13 pm

This April 18, 2013 file photo shows an aerial view of the remains of a fertilizer plant and an apartment complex to the left, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas. The government has failed to inspect virtually all of the chemical facilities that it considers to be at high risk for a terror attack, numbering in the thousands, and has underestimated the threat to densely populated cities, congressional investigators say. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Terror threats at chemical plants underestimated

Hope Yen · July 30, 2014 9:06 pm

It is understandable that today many people in many lands just want the fighting between the Israelis and the Palestinians to stop. (AP Photo)

Cease the cease-fires

Thomas Sowell · July 29, 2014 2:29 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly press conference on Friday, July 25th, 2014. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Beltway Confidential

What Qatar didn’t tell Nancy Pelosi about the ‘humanitarian organization’ Hamas

Charles Hoskinson · July 29, 2014 3:07 am

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by militants who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law. (AP Photo)

Seriously? Obama asks Congress to repeal 2002 War in Iraq: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Ben-Gurion Airport uses the most sophisticated aviation security in the world, which protects flights from all threats, including Hamas rocket shrapnel landing outside the airport (the occurrence on Tuesday which triggered the ban). (AP Photo)

America should help Israel destroy Hamas’ terrorist tunnels, infrastructure

Avi Dichter · July 26, 2014 2:04 pm

Kenyan police officers load the body of a female tourist into a police vehicle in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. A Kenya police official says a female tourist has been shot dead in the coastal town of Mombasa, the second foreigner shot in same area this month. (AP Photo)

Gunmen kill female tourist on Kenya coast

Tom Odula · July 24, 2014 6:21 pm