Terrorism

A blast at a United Nations office complex in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, killed at least five people and injured more than 20, the emergency service said. The explosion took place today after a truck enter the shielding obstacles at the complex and crashed into the main UN building on Independence Avenue in Abuja’s central business district, Manzo Ezekiel, a narrator for the National Emergency Management Agency, said at the view. Observers at the city’s National Hospital said they saw more...Read Full Story

Jen Rubin What is the point of having an ombudsman if all they are going to do is get defensive and rationalize the nonsense that gets printed by their writers/bloggers? So much for accountability. I won’t bore you with a total re-hashing of the controversy, which I wrote about at length when it happened . I was one of the thousands of people who wrote to the WaPo ombudsman because Rubin’s response to the terrorist attack was part of a larger pattern of out-right hostility towards Muslims...Read Full Story

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The irony of our government’s response to terrorism is that many of the policies we’ve created to deal with terrorism have done...Read Full Story

This is the first chance I’ve had to actually go read some of Anders Breivik’s, aka Andrew Berwick, 1500 page manifesto against Islam, assimilation, multiculturalism and liberalism. Breivik is of course responsible for the terrorist attack in Norway. You can take a look at it here . The reason I went over and read some of it- not the whole thing- is because I heard one of his defense attorney’s throw out the idea that he “must be insane.” That’s always the fall back position. I have no idea...Read Full Story