TAG: terrorism
Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist
"Rossmiller succeeds by exploiting a fundamental flaw in al Qaeda's famously decentralized organization. The absence of a strict hierarchy makes it pretty easy for a cunning person to mix among the terrorists."
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Why Did We Feel Oddly Liberated Thinking That the Terrorists Had Struck Again?
"Why did we feel oddly liberated thinking that the terrorists had struck again, finally?"
As grouped by their dominant design elements.
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"Stratfor specializes in providing situational awareness, focused insight and actionable intelligence in the areas of geopolitics, security and public policy to help our clients prepare for uncertainties and take action for maximizing results."
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"It's no accident that the rise of blogging coincides with the rise of government surveillance online. The people are watching too."
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"The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that."
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A False Sense of Insecurity [PDF]
How does the risk of terrorism measure up against everyday dangers?
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Tiny Ohio town freaked out by Mario prank
Some teenagers made giant power-up icons out of boxes and the town thought they had been attacked by terroritsts . . .
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"It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico."
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"Frightening as this idea may be -- that the qualities of distributed social organization so widely championed among tech industry observers are currently being employed to kill innocent people -- it's not even the most terrifying insight to be found"
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NYTimes: "A backpack! Has a more ordinary, more benign, more ubiquitous accouterment of modern life ever taken on such a sudden connotation of darkness?"
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"What we're witnessing is viral contagion - the beginnings of what some hope will spawn an epidemic of suicide attacks."
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SPIEGEL Interview with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg
Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds."
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Madrid: Terrorism, the Internet and Democracy
Keeping the internet free and open is important to democracy
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Village Voice article recccomending that Kerry pull out the big guns and make a commercial asking why we haven't got Osama 3 years later
Terrorism Pocket Guide from Rand Corp.
What You Should Do to Prepare for and Respond to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks
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