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Ashton Carter, a counterproliferation expert at Harvard, believes the risk of nuclear proliferation out the back door of a rogue state is increasing. North Korea or Iran could conceivably sell a bomb to a terrorist group, and Osama bin Laden is unlikely to be put off by traditional methods of deterring a nuclear attack. That means plugging the source. Says Derek D. Smith, author of Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: "If you can't deter the terrorist organizations, you'd better be sure to deter whoever is supplying them...
...online, wasn't that unusual. Except that the man in it and three other videos spoke in perfect American English. His name is Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 28, a Californian who converted to Islam as a teen. Gadahn, who first appeared in an al-Qaeda video as a half-masked terrorist identified as "Azzam the American," was charged last week with treason for conspiring against the U.S. Now thought to be in Pakistan, he was added to the FBI's most-wanted list...
Commanders of the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement elected to power in the Palestinian territories earlier this year, are locked in a fierce debate over whether to launch terrorist attacks on U.S. targets in the Middle East. Despite its anti-American rhetoric, Hamas has until now refrained from any known terror strikes against the U.S. - only Israel is in its bomb sights, Hamas says. That position has been reinforced by the argument of more moderate elements in Hamas that if the movement acted in a reasonable manner, the U.S. and Europe would eventually be persuaded to release funds...
Another year, another $300 dropped on books, another advice columnist to pave the way for a semester free of social gaffes and academic woes. Like the fall TV season, Dear Sara is new and addictive, although decidedly lacking in terrorist threats, Dharma Initiative Ranch Composite, and Patrick Dempsey. I’ll try to work on that last one, for the benefit...
Hamas, widely considered to be a terrorist organization, tried to reinvent itself earlier this year as a legitimate political party dedicated to serving the Palestinian people. With promises of “change and reform,” the group won a landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections last January...