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Lydia Khalil in Foreign Policy bolsters the realistic idea that no one really knows how a terrorist looks like, and that not even airport scanners can identify the real culprits. However, Khalil gives us the roster of terroristic talents that comprises al-Qaeda’s moving force. It is a rogue’s gallery of organized crime in global proportions. Khalil [...]

According to a recent US government report, ‘people on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them.’ Having your name on the US government’s terrorist watch list is ‘not enough [...]

The government of Sri Lanka has assured that all leaders of the Tamil guerrillas have been killed, but has yet to officially confirm finding the body of the group’s top leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. On the other hand, the pro-Tamil website Tamilnet asserts that Prabhakaran is ‘alive and safe.’ Also yet to be recovered is the body of Pottu [...]

The company BrickArms caused controversy by producing a Lego doll of a terrorist, with heavy weapons and face covered, reports the British newspaper “Telegraph” this Thursday. According to the daily, the doll portraying the leader of terrorist network Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and cost 9.5 pounds (about U.S. $ 34.6). The BrickArms, which [...]