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Entries in terrorism (74)

Monday
Mar022009

Ann Coulter: President Obama is "a real Democrat when it comes to socialism" 

Talk Radio News Service, Victoria Jones, interviews Ann Coulter at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Coulter talks about President Obama's new Iraq war strategy saying that President Obama "seems to be following Bush policy on terrorism." Coulter also talks about how the government has to do something with the banks and that forcing banks to give loans not based on normal business practices is what's putting the economy in a financial crisis. (04:45)
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Wednesday
Oct152008

NSA eavesdropping on personal calls of Americans

Jay Tamboli speaks with James Bamford about his new book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. Bamford talks about the NSA's monitoring of communications and the lack of oversight of the NSA, the largest intelligence agency in the world. (9:24)
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Friday
Oct032008

Bush assistant wants better dialogue

Former Assistant to President Bush on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Townsend says that communication between the government and citizens must me modified. (1:05)
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Tuesday
Sep232008

Bush at the UN: Nations Must Continually Confront Terror

George Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the importance of confronting terrorism: "We must work closely to keep terrorist attacks from happening in the first place," the president said, "we must actively challenge the conditions of tyranny and despair that allow terror and extremists to thrive"


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Thursday
Sep182008

Al-Qaida may try to influence election

Specialist in Terrorism and National Security Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division John Rollins mentions that the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen might have been an attempt to influence the election.
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Thursday
Sep182008

History shows heightened risk

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) explains how terrorists have a history of striking at times of governmental transitions (0:31).
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Wednesday
Sep102008

President Bush meets with Iraqi President Talabani 

President Bush meets with President Talabani of Iraq in the Oval Office. Mr. Bush describes their conversation about elections laws, the Strategic Framework Agreement, and troop reductions. President Talabani thanks the US for liberating their country saying that there is very little terrorism activity left, and now it is time for reconstruction. He also spoke of better relationships with Arab neighbors. (4:57)
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Tuesday
Sep092008

DC Police Chief describes firearms attack on a motorcade

In a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, DC Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier describes how firearms can be used to target a motorcade's security detail, stopping the motorcade and rendering the dignitary's vehicle vulnerable to explosives. The hearing was called to discuss H.R. 6691, the Second Amendment Enforcement Act. (0:39)
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Tuesday
Sep092008

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Launches Symposium Supporting Victims of Terrorism

Today Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, held a press conference to mark the opening of the Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism. He called the Symposium "a historic moment", as it is the first time the UN has called together member states, civil society and victims of terror to discuss "practical and concrete solutions" for victims and their families. He remarked that it is "long overdue" that the UN is focusing on the needs of victims.

Also speaking were four representatives of victims of terrorism: former president of CNN International Mr. Chris Cramer, Mr. Ashraf Al-Khaled, NGO Liaison Officer Ms. Laura Dolci-Kanaan, and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.

Mr. Cramer was held hostage for just over a day at the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980; he emphasised the need for "sensitivity" in the media toward the suffering of terror victims, and the need for "guidelines" on what behaviour is appropriate in pursuing a story.

Mr. Al-Khaled, who lost twenty seven friends to terrorism when his wedding ceremony was bombed in November 2005, described terrorism as a "disease", but one that could be defeated if the world provided a "united front".

Ms. Dolci-Kanaan's husband was among the UN staff members who were killed in the 2003 terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad. She spoke of the need for terror victims to have "solidarity with fellow human beings." She went on to remark that victims of terror have had their rights to life, freedom, health, truth and justice violated, ans asked for the international community to give these rights back to those who have suffered.

Ms. Betancourt, a noted Colombian politician, was held hostage in the Colombian jungle for six years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) terrorist group. She stated that "we need to show the world that we are better than terrorism."
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Wednesday
Aug202008

Giuliani: Lack of disclosure shows Obama’s inexperience

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks on a conference call to discuss recent allegations that an advisor of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is rumored to sponsor terrorism. Giuliani attacks Obama for not disclosing this information to the public, citing his inexperience as a leader (18:08).
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Tuesday
Jul222008

Thornberry says we cannot kill every terrorist

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) says that after September 11th he realized that the U.S. would not be able to capture and kill every terrorist, but rather that we stood the risk of creating more terrorists than we removed from the battlefield. He also says that while there was an ideological component to our opposition to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, since then our "us versus them" perception has greatly receded, to our detriment. (:57)
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Wednesday
Jul162008

U.S. practicing second hand justice

Colonel Will Gunn, retired legal council for the Department of Defense office of military commissions, says the use of coercive testimony is still allowed as long as it was obtained before 2005, this is a fundamental shift in the U.S. system of justice. Gunn said that the United States’ actions amount to second hand justice. (1:10)
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Wednesday
Jul162008

Nuclear defense system is "incomplete" says Lieberman

Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) says the current system of defensive nuclear architecture is "incomplete". He says that the "layered security net" has dangerous holes and gaps that could allow terrorists in. (0:45)
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Tuesday
Jul152008

Edwards: International poverty a security threat

Former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) says that the next president must understand that international poverty is a national security interest, saying that terrorism grows from unsatisfactory economic conditions. (0:47)
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Tuesday
Jul152008

Waxman: Closing Guantanamo will strengthen nation’s security

Matthew Waxman, an associate professor of law at Colombia Law School, says that despite any challenges, Guantanamo should be closed. Waxman explains that detention policy is not about eliminating risk, but about balancing and managing competing risks, including risks to U.S. values and legal system. He also says that by effectively completing closing down the detainee camp, the U.S. will simultaneously strengthen both its security and its adherence to core democratic principles. (0:39)
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Tuesday
Jul152008

Wasted potential: Obama on what we "could have" accomplished

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama discusses the ways America could have acted following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 during his speech on foreign policy and national security. (2:01)
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Thursday
Jun192008

Rogue states pose a very grave problem says Congressman Royce

At a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, Congressman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) is skeptical of achieving international regulation of genetic and human modifications. He says that such technologies in the hands of immoral states pose a grave threat. (0:43)
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Wednesday
Jun182008

Rice: “Safer than we were on September 11, in general, but we are not yet safe”

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks about the fight against terrorism. She claims that “it is an unfair fight,” and that though Americans may feel safer since the September 11 attacks, they are not yet safe and need to work to stay safer. (1:28)

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Wednesday
Jun182008

Former FBI interrogator: Even the Nazis knew how to interrogate

Joe Navarro, a former FBI interrogator, says that the United States must not model its interrogation style after the Gestapo since even the Nazis knew that techniques like sleep deprivation do no yield results from informants. (0:44)
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Wednesday
Jun182008

Former FBI interrogator: Americans’ response to terrorism hysterical

Joe Navarro, a former FBI interrogator, says that Americans’ response to terrorism is hysterical when compared to the reactions of the British and Israelis and that one must remember the chance of being hurt by terrorism is statistically insignificant. (1:05)
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