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...movement won a shock victory over Fatah, the party which had, in effect, ruled the Palestinian people for a generation. Before the election, much of the coverage by the western media, the BBC included, had focused on the issue of Hamas standing in the election at all. Branded a terrorist organisation by Israel, America, and much of Europe, Hamas had carried out dozens of suicide attacks inside Israel, killing hundreds of civilians...
...jihadi group. Sreeradha Datta, of the Institute of Defense and Security Analysis in New Delhi, sees the influence of Harkat ul Jihad ul Islami, which is based in Bangladesh and has ties to ULFA, or some other jihadi organization operating within India. "This is part of the larger terrorist problem which has gripped India recently," Datta says. "They [ULFA] belong to Assam. They don't want to antagonize the Assamese...
...banking run that immediately followed, the British government transferred authority over an Icelandic subsidiary in the UK, and then sold it to the Dutch firm ING. Because Landsbanki had over 300,000 British depositors through its Icebank subsidiary, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government used anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK, including property of the Icelandic Central Bank. Just a few days later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling added fuel to the fire when he said on BBC Radio that the Icelandic Finance minister had told him that the Icelandic government...
...rather than military considerations dictated the timing of the raid, since the Republicans could be expected to benefit from any renewed concerns over terrorism. "This is all related to the elections in the U.S. The timing is so close," contends Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst. "Bringing out the 'terrorist threat,' magnifying it, projecting it as a monster that needs to be dealt with on the spot ... serves nobody but John McCain." A parting shot from the Administration of President George W. Bush, or the beginning of a new military policy in the region? Syria - and the rest...
...Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans...