Al Jazeera English
| May 9, 2013
Indonesian anti-terror police killed seven men and arrested another 13 after raids and gun battles in west and central Java. Authorities suspect the men of being linked to a plan to bomb Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta as revenge for recent attacks o...
Euronews
| Apr 25, 2013
Vladimir Putin's message to the US after the Boston bombings? "I told you so." In his annual Q&A hotline session, the Russian leader called for greater co-operation against terrorism, but said the Boston attack justified his hardline stance on...
CNN
| Apr 22, 2013
Two men linked to al-Qaeda "elements" in Iran have been charged with plotting a terror attack on a Canada train in the greater Toronto area, according to law enforcement authorities. A US congressman told CNN that the men were targeting a US-...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 22, 2013
Guardian columnist and constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald compares the widespread labeling of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as "terrorists," to the reaction to other recent acts of mass violence such as th...
The Wall Street Journal
| Apr 20, 2013
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the death of his older brother Tamerlan capped a tumultuous five days for Boston, as the world watched the aftermath of the shocking bombing at the Boston marathon unfold. Many stuck on the sidelines were overw...
Russia Today
| Apr 19, 2013
Has the North Caucasus conflict reached the US? The Boston bomb suspects have been identified as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers of Chechen origin. Their family emigrated to the US more than a decade ago and it's not clear whether they ha...
Associated Press
| Apr 19, 2013
After hours of chaos that left a police officer dead and another injured, a Boston Marathon bombing suspect has reportedly been arrested while a second is still at large. Witnesses described hearing explosions and a gun battle in the suburb of Wat...
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YouTube
| Apr 18, 2013
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has released surveillance video of the two suspects it has identified related to Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. Both suspects can be seen wearing backpacks in this video. The timestamp on the bo...
CNN
| Apr 15, 2013
A panicked police officer radios for help to headquarters after the Boston Marathon bombings, reporting: "Definitely devices here! I need officers!" Listen to the rest of the radio chatter here in this CNN audiotape after the blasts as the dispatc...
Associated Press
| Apr 15, 2013
Trauma surgeon Dr. Peter Fagenholz of Masschusetts General Hospital talks of how "upsetting" it was to see so many injured people come in so quickly with bad injuries from the Boston Marathon bombs, including the devastation of "shrapnel" in blood...
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...plan has understanding of cause and recognition. The United States policies and Iraq action simply increase terrorism throughout the world (Rich...
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, often violent, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no legally binding, criminal law definition. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear; are perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants. Some definitions now include acts of unlawful violence and war. The use of similar tactics by criminal organizations for protection rackets or to enforce a code of silence is usually not labeled terrorism, though these same actions may be labeled terrorism when done by a politically motivated group. The writer Heinrich Böll and scholars Raj Desai and Harry Eckstein have suggested that attempts to protect against terrorism may lead to a kind of social oppression.
The word "terrorism" is politically and emotionally charged, and this greatly compounds the difficulty of providing a precise definition. Studies have found over 100 definitions of “terrorism”. The concept of terrorism may be controversial as it is often used by state authorities to delegitimize political or other opponents, and potentially legitimize the state's own use of armed force against opponents.
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