Word: terroriste
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...seven civilian casualties, a later U.N. probe revealed that the number was closer to 92, a number that included the mutilated remains of many women and children. As this sobering report makes clear, the United States still has much work to do in Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have been rising largely under the radar of a western media focused on elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan...
...Well there are various statements one finds in the press and in speeches that project that image of Islam. To be fair the image presented by the enemies of Islam is much the same as that presented by the terrorists. As I see it, the terrorist organizations represent a deformation of Islam in the same way as Nazism is a deformation of German patriotism and Bolshevism is a deformation of the aspiration for social betterment. We have observed such things in our lifetime now, and as with the Germans and the Russians, the Muslims themselves are the first and worst...
...candidates were speaking at a conference organized by ServiceNation, an organization that seeks to expand the role of national service in people’s lives. The timing of the event—exactly seven years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—was strategic as well as symbolic. Those events inspired many Americans to volunteer, whether as members of the armed services, the search and rescue teams at the disaster sites, or just in their own communities. The overwhelming surge of solidarity and self-sacrifice that followed the tragedy was channeled into an outpouring of service...
...recent hurricanes have illustrated, a full three years after “Katrinagate,” FEMA has failed to address the root causes of its problems.FEMA remains under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security: a subordinacy that has placed the goal of protection against terrorist attacks far above that of disaster relief. Monetary backing for FEMA’s national response teams, which constitute its primary line of offense in the event of emergency, has all but evaporated. What’s more, the department has excised the preparedness component of FEMA in order to divert...
...Bros. died, the Dow Jones average fell 504.48 points, to 10,917.51, its lowest close since 2006, while the S&P 500 dropped 58.74, to 1,192.96. The S&P decline worked out to 4.69%, the worst percentage fall since the day markets reopened after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but nowhere near the severity of the crashes...