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TERRORISM 3

WORLD
Jul 13, 2013
Al-Qaida-linked group kills Syrian rebel commander
Syrian rebels said Friday they would retaliate for what they described as the assassination of one of their senior commanders by an al-Qaida-affiliated group, threatening to widen a rift between moderate and jihadist opposition forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2013
Accused in Boston terrorist bombing pleads not guilty
The teenager who allegedly helped detonate two bombs at the finish line of this year's Boston Marathon pleads not guilty to terrorism charges.
WORLD
Jun 20, 2013
Surveillance 'foiled more than 50 terrorist attacks' on U.S. soil
The U.S. government's sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior Obama administration officials testified Tuesday.
WORLD
Jun 13, 2013
U.S. quietly sabotages al-Qaida's flashy online magazine
U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaida online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group's followers, according to officials.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2013
Obama in Bush surveillance territory
For four years, President Barack Obama's approach to counterterrorism has been defined by his embrace of paramilitary power — the drones and the commando teams whose ruthless pursuit of al-Qaida helped cripple the terrorist network through a global targeted killing campaign.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 4, 2013
Manning 'harvested' secret papers: prosecution
Opening the court-martial of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, a military prosecutor charged Monday that he "harvested" a massive trove of classified information from secure networks and made it available to America's enemies by dumping it onto the Internet.
WORLD
Jun 3, 2013
In Britain, a debate over freedom of the tweet
After the recent slaying of a British soldier in a suspected Islamist extremist attack, angry social media users took to Twitter and Facebook, with some dispatching racially and religiously charged comments that got them quickly noticed on the busy boulevards of the Internet.
WORLD
May 31, 2013
Boston suspect's slain friend unarmed
A Chechen man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent a week ago during an interview about one of the Boston bombing suspects was unarmed, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
May 26, 2013
U.S. drone program 'tough to dismantle'
The White House is ready to hand U.S. drone operations back to the military from the CIA, but counterterrorism officials are convinced the Pentagon hasn't improved enough yet.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
May 25, 2013
Obama's Gitmo plan still faces huge hurdles
President Barack Obama's renewed effort to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay faces the same steep political climb as in his first term: To make Thursday's announcement work, Congress would have to accept a plan to move some detainees from Cuba to the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 23, 2013
FBI kill man linked to Boston suspects
A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston bombing suspects is shot and killed in an unusual encounter with the FBI inside his apartment in Orlando.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2013
How modern nationalism gave birth to terrorism
If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer almost certainly does not lie in Dagestan, where the brothers lived before moving to the United States, or in the two wars fought in Chechnya in the last 20 years. Instead,...
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2013
Putin's hand in radicalizing a secular rebellion
It was Vladimir Putin's refusal to distinguish legitimate Chechen demands for independence from terrorism that created the jihadist movement in the North Caucasus.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
May 5, 2013
Yakuza links put nation at added nuclear risk
On April 15, two alleged terrorists in Boston killed three people, injured more than 170 others and terrified a nation — for about $100 it cost them to modify pressure cookers into bombs. We should be glad they didn't come to Japan, where they may have been able to explode a ready-made nuclear...
EDITORIALS
May 2, 2013
The Boston bombings
Investigators continue to fill in the blanks, but one large question continues to hang over the terror attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15: Why?
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2013
The paradox of the Boston bombing
Essentially the Boston bombers' stories are not so different from those of America's home-grown 'lone wolves' — typically white and equally disenchanted.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 30, 2013
Pakistan's late Bhutto still leads her party in campaign
The most popular politician in Pakistan's largest party won't be staging any rallies or participating in debates as May's historic national election nears.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2013
Perceptions of brothers don't fit neatly into pre-existing box
Chechen? American? Immigrant? Citizen? Muslim? Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be all of the above, but how Americans attempt to come to grips with the attacks allegedly perpetrated by the brothers has much to do with how Americans identify them.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 29, 2013
Photos of carnage would check war sentiment
Would most Americans remain indifferent to the wars their government wages in far-off lands if their media broadcast videos each day of the shattered bodies?
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 25, 2013
CIA asked that bomber be put on terror watch list
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials say.

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