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Cookies are better than waterboarding
24 wouldn’t be as much fun if Jack Bauer made suspects a nice cup of tea and sat down for a chat with them, but in the real world torture is worse than useless. Interrogation works better if you can...
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The joy of homegrown terrorism
In the USA Homeland Security recently released two reports. One assessed terror threats from left wing groups- environmentalists burning cars, anti-vivisectionists targetting scientists etc.- one from...
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Osama Bin Laden- the only hope America has left!
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Osama bin Laden Needs to Attack America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Jason Jones in Iran Follow
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It takes a very rightwing paper to warn us about very very rightwing terrorists?
The Daily Mail seems like the least likely paper to run a piece acknowledging there are some mad and dangerous racist rightwing bastards out there to complement the mad and dangerous islamic bastards....
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There’s usually someone who can say what I want to say a little bit better
Charles Stross on the Abdelbaset Al Megrahi release and the incomprehensible attitude of some Americans to healthcare reform. No doubt I’ll weigh in on the healthcare thing again, but on Megrahi can I...
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History of the car bomb
Jalopnik have a condensed history of “the workhorse of urban terrorism”. The original essay went on to become Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, which I should pick up some time. Follow
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The other extremists
I subscribe to the RSS feeds of a few reactionary bigots. They’re good to quote when I want to show how stupid some people’s arguments are and their reality-free beliefs can be amusing. Admittedly,...
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Soldier arrested in Germany following discovery of nail bomb in Salford
Terrorism news from a little too close to home. I can’t really see Patricroft from my flat, but it’s this side of the horizon when I look out of my kitchen window. (Please also note “extreme rightwing”...
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Are you Charlie?
I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever read Charlie Hebdo. I always bought a few bandes dessinee magazines, but I had a preference for lushly rendered ligne claire tales full of hard SF and occasional...
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A tale of two terrorists
A teenager in Newcastle is on trial, accused of plotting mass murder at his former college. He had pipe bombs and handguns, and wrote about the death and destruction he planned to wreak. Other reports...
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Daesh
There’s an alternative name for ISIS/ISIL that is just as valid as the one they’d prefer, but they don’t like it being used- Daesh. I’ve known for a while that they hate this name, but I hadn’t seen a...
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Learn some more about Daesh
Daesh publish their own magazine, and a journalist with a very strong stomach read all eleven issues to see what insight they gave into the workings of the terrorists. Apparently, they couldn’t care...
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Frankie Boyle on empty words and bad ideas after the Paris attacks
Frankie Boyle the political commentator uses a lot of the skills that made him a hilarious and shocking comedian to good effect. There are a lot of stabs at hypocrisy, inversions of received wisdom and...
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US white supremacists, but we have our share of home-grown equivalents. In May, federal agents searching the Tampa home of 21-year-old Brandon Russell discovered an array of explosives and bomb...
View ArticleThe internet rise of Britain’s far-right
On my list of possible subjects for a story is the threat of far-right violence and terrorism. I don’t have a specific hook for this story yet, but I am collecting background information for research....
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