Tag: Terrorism

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2009-07-17 Two high explosive bombs rocked two luxury hotels of Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott in central Jakarta Friday morning, killing at least 9 people and wounding more than 50.
2009-05-21 Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Cheney sharply criticized President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism policy and defended harsh interrogation methods that Obama has labeled torture.
2009-01-14 "Israel is practicing state terror, because it is using violence on a massive scale against Palestinian civilians for political purposes."
-- Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University who served in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s, interview with Amy Goodman
2008-12-31 "Extremist terrorism must not be allowed to undermine our racial and religious harmony. Singaporeans understand that terrorism is a threat to all of us."
-- Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, New Year Day's Message
December 31, 2008
2008-12-14 In Israel, Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, was barred from entering the country after the Foreign Ministry charged him with "legitimizing Hamas terrorism" and "drawing shameful comparisons to the Holocaust."
2008-11-27 In India, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center. The following day, Babar and his associates killed Rabbi Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka. The phone call he made was not long. Babar opened with a comment that made little sense to most people: “You call [Israel’s] army staff to visit Kashmir. Who are they to come to J &K [Jammu and Kashmir]? This is a matter between us and Hindus, the Hindu government. Why does Israel come here?”
2008-11-13 "Terrorism and criminality are the enemies of every religion and every civilization. They would not have appeared except for the absence of the principle of tolerance."
-- King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia,
The United Nations, New York City
2008-11 In Peshawar, Pakistan, American citizen and USAID worker Stefan Vance who was killed.
2008-10-29 "At approximately 10 o'clock this morning the UNDP compound in Hargeysa, Somaliland, was hit by an explosion, caused by a vehicle which forced entry into the compound.
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There are known casualties as well as deaths, but the numbers are currently being verified. Medical evacuation of the injured is ongoing.
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The UN is aware of reports of other explosions in the Hargeysa area as well as in Puntland. These have not involved UN premises."
-- A statement from the UN Humanitarian Resident Coordinator for Somalia
2008-10-28 In Sudan, four of the nine kidnapped Chinese workers in Sudan (2008-10-18) had been killed.
Four others were rescued and one was still missing
-- According to Chinese Foreign Ministry












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