Questions tagged [terrorism]
Act of violence directed against innocent people, intended to fear them and as a kind of a brutal blackmail, make them perform politic actions that are in favor of the terrorists.
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Are there any examples of the Douhet model actually working?
In 1921, Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet published his doctrine of strategic bombing. He argued that directly targeting civilian populations and infrastructure would break the enemy’s morale ...
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"Israel created Hamas" - what's the timeline behind the historical facts of this claim?
A common claim across social media right now is "Israel created Hamas" - I've found it a little bit difficult to get an accurate timeline about Israel's actual involvement in Hamas.
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Can anyone find this DOJ report talking about the CIA's detention and interrogation (or torture) program?
In Ali Soufan's bookThe Black Banners - Declassified: How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11,on page 425a of the Kindle edition, he says:
A July 29,2009, report by the Justice Department's ...
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Do We Know 100% of the Victims of 9/11?
The 9/11 Memorial contains nearly 3,000 names for the victims of 9/11. However, based on a news article on September 7, 2021, there are still 1,106 victims of 9/11 who have not yet been identified.
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Was America behind any 'false flag' bomb attacks in Saigon in the early 1950s?
Graham Greene was a journalist in Vietnam during 1951-1954. His 1955 novel The Quiet American depicts the US as plotting with Trình Minh Thế's Caodaiist faction to bomb a military parade in Saigon, so ...
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Where can I find the original Arabic version of bin Laden's 1996 fatwa?
For a paper in my Arabic class, I would like to cite from bin Laden's 1996 fatwa "إعلان الحرب ضد الأمريكيين الذين يحتلون أرض الحرمين الشريفين"
In English: "Declaration of War Against ...
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Was Anti-Japaneseism a real political ideology?
According to a page on Wikipedia, there was a movement in the Japanese New Left called "Anti-Japaneseism", which claimed that
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Why were bridges and tunnels off Manhattan closed to evacuees on 9/11?
On 9/11/2001, following the second plane crash into South Tower, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey closed all of the bridges and tunnels under their jurisdiction. The MTA Bridges and ...
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Were "The People's Will" referred to as "terrorist" by their contemporaries?
Narodnaya Volya (The People's Will) was the organization responsible for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in in March 1881. Is there any evidence (preferably online sources) which point to the ...
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Did the Bush administration or their successors ever comment on the alleged Taliban warning about 9/11?
I was going through some old news reports and I was shocked to find a BBC report from 2002 that the Afghan Taliban warned the Americans and the UN of an impending attack on US by Al-Qaeda however ...
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What's the relation of FDR and Wilson to War on Terror/terrorism in House of Cards? [closed]
In House of Cards, Frank Underwood brings up FDR and Wilson when saying that he wants to declare war on ICO (fictional terrorist group possibly related to ISIS). What's the relation please? I mean, ...
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Why is the Ku Klux Clan an Christian terrorism organisation? [closed]
the wikipdeia article of the Ku Klux Clan says
Though members of the KKK swore to uphold American values and
Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially
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Was there any terrorism in the Soviet Union?
Did terrorist attacks ever occur within the borders of the USSR?
By this, I do not mean:
terrorist acts committed by the USSR against its own people
terrorists abroad sponsored by the USSR
acts of ...
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Did the date of 9/11 have significance, or was it chosen randomly?
One thing I've been wondering about ever since 9/11 is whether the date was randomly chosen, or if it was chosen specifically for its resemblance to the American emergency hotline 9-1-1 (or something ...
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Why was the World Trade Center selected as a target by Al Qaeda?
In 2001, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda attacked a series of targets inside the United States. The Pentagon was the symbol of America's military strength, and the second planned DC target (...
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