Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with terrorism www.salem-news.com 2010 "Ultra-Orthodox, Israel Police clash in Beit Shemesh; officer wounded …" At first many imagine Muslim extremists in Afghanistan or Somalia. Maybe not a far-fetched guess, but to everybody’s astonishment the Ha'aretz report is about Jewish extremists in Tel Aviv, the heart of Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/jewish-islam-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/jewish-islam-ae.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:22:00 PST Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress - was considered a terrorist by the U.S. and British governments all the way into the 1990's. He is the ultimate victim/survivor of those who use the 'terrorist' label as a tool of war. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/terrorism-realities-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/terrorism-realities-tk.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:41:00 PST Anyone who has followed events outside the U.S. over the last few decades has heard of the death squads. They have been active as extrajudicial killing forces in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and others elsewhere in the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/death_squads_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/death_squads_dj.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:01:00 PST Despite the changes sweeping Libya, violence and bloodshed have not stopped. In shocking revelations, military and security forces stand accused of torturing detainees to death. Rights groups say Libya’s new rulers have not addressed the problem. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/tortured-freedom.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/tortured-freedom.php Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:54:00 PST Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Guantanamo has got to go!” chanted protestors marking the tenth anniversary of the American detention camp. Two years ago President Obama signed an executive order to close the detention centre. Last March, Obama formally created an indefinite detention system at 'Gitmo' for those held prisoner. http://salem-news.com/articles/january212012/gitmo-anniv-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212012/gitmo-anniv-pb.php Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:43:00 PST On January 15, the News & Observer published a reminder of Norh Carolina's involvement in kidnapping, disappearance and torture. A recent opinion piece announced important findings revealed in a report by students in the University of North Carolina School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy clinic. http://salem-news.com/articles/january212012/torture-nc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212012/torture-nc.php Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:50:00 PST The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism. The NDAA authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter. The White House says it will only use its new power carefully and with due process. http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/american-terrorists-pg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/american-terrorists-pg.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:07:00 PST A US military tribunal has ruled that Army Intelligence analyst Private Bradley Manning, suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks, will be court-martialed. Manning is an American hero whose crime is having raised attention over illegal U.S. war crimes, all violations of international law. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132012/bradley-manning.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132012/bradley-manning.php Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:49:00 PST January 11, 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison, an extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo prison could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/gitmo-anniv-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/gitmo-anniv-rs.php Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:49:00 PST Dozens of people are reported to be dead after a blast in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Syrian state TV said at least 25 people died and 46 more were wounded in Friday’s attack which it blamed on a suicide bomber. http://salem-news.com/articles/january062012/yrian-blood-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january062012/yrian-blood-ae.php Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:48:00 PST Thousands gathered in snow-bound streets for the huge funeral procession of leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang. As the hearse passed, I suddenly realized that the real problem of North Korea lies not in its unmonitored nuclear capabilities, but rather in its people and in their ostensible fear of freedom. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/korean-fears-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/korean-fears-ae.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:43:00 PST Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has said Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts are dead and called for mass "popular resistance" against Israeli occupation, in a letter penned from prison. The letter was published on Wednesday, a day after Palestinian and Israeli negotiators held their first face-to-face meeting in more than 15 months in the Jordanian capital. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/barghuti-letter.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/barghuti-letter.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:09:00 PST he council on foreign relations, one of the think tanks seen as a major contributor to the forecasting of the White House foreign policies, has lately published an opinion piece that says “Time to attack Iran”. In the piece the council downplays the fears of many skeptics who envision the perilous consequences of an attack on Iran tantamount to a WWIII scenario, and therefore refuse to subscribe to a preemptive strike of its nuclear facilities. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/iran-attack-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/iran-attack-ae.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:35:00 PST The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for ‘sensitive’ words – and tracking people who use them. Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS’s ‘watch’ list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/us-spies-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/us-spies-ae.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:07:00 PST Terrorism isn’t real. This is a broad generalization but essentially correct. My own estimate, as a “big name” counter-terrorism expert is that 95% of acts we call “terrorism” were done by governments for profit. Were it not for the dissolution of the free press and secret prisons and mental hospitals for whistleblowers, we wouldn’t have terrorism. Which government? You choose. Of late, Israel has the lead but the US and Russia aren’t far behind. Then we have France and Britain. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/terrorism-isnt-real-gd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/terrorism-isnt-real-gd.php Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:28:00 PST While surfing the morning news, Most people would indifferently glance at this headline “Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts” but would fail to grasp the real story behind it. But then, how could they not when the story is presented to them with such a deceiving title to begin with. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/al-qaeda-myth-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/al-qaeda-myth-ae.php Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:33:00 PST If you’re upset that congressional approval of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 can send you away to military prisons and be tortured in America, don’t worry — it could be worse. The US could send you somewhere else. No, really. They could. And they can. Anywhere else, too. Really. http://salem-news.com/articles/december212011/indefinite-detention.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december212011/indefinite-detention.php Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:27:00 PST Strange title I know, but we're in strange times. Terrorism is the use of terror in attacking or controlling a perceived enemy. Terrorism is understood by some people on some levels, but by and large it has been used to describe anyone who refuses to accept oppression, and fights back. Those who the developed nations brand "terrorist" are almost always poor; they generally are getting the hell blasted out of them by U.S. made weapons and they violently resist with whatever they can place their hands on. http://salem-news.com/articles/december212011/terrorism-101.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december212011/terrorism-101.php Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:54:00 PST Thomas Merton said, “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”. Perhaps this time period best defines that statement, and it is likely Egypt's weathered attempt to shed tyranny and secure a future with liberty, is going to be the new definition. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/egypt-gloom-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/egypt-gloom-ae.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:03:00 PST As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law. Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/indefinite-detention-kb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/indefinite-detention-kb.php Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:55:00 PST It seems inevitable that Americans will soon be engaged in a revolutionary war the likes of which has never been imagined, and I say the 99% will win, and the government will lose. Of the people, by the people, for the people... In spite of all the technology and military hardware, the government is vastly outnumbered by the people and if it has to be anarchy, then so be it, because the government is not America, the people who comprise this country are. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/revolution-war-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/revolution-war-tk.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:23:00 PST Over the past few years, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has sledded into Lebanon bearing gifts during the Yuletide season more regularly than Santa Clause. Yet, as happened yesterday, he somehow manages to finish his gift giving and lift off to continue his rounds as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. http://salem-news.com/articles/december102011/yuletide-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december102011/yuletide-lebanon-fl.php Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:13:00 PST The former heads of both the United States of America and Great Britain, George W. Bush and Tony Blair, have been found guilty by a War Crimes Tribunal for their roles in spearheading the war in Iraq. This is a very serious development for the two world leaders who did not attend the proceedings in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/bush-blair-crimes-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/bush-blair-crimes-tk.php Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:04:00 PST It is still one of my most vivid memories ever, as I’m sure it is for many others. … The planes crashing into the towers, the hysteria and the blunders of the mainstream media, the initial silence and ineptness of the white house, and people all over the world glued to their TVs as they watched in amazement the towers of the world trade center collapse like a house of cards on September, 9, 2001. http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/911-victims-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/911-victims-ae.php Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:18:00 PST A public hearing is being held in Corvallis, Oregon this Thursday, November 17th to determine if Genetically Modified sugar beets will be deregulated in Oregon. Meanwhile, the public comment period maybe just a local distraction giving way to full federal deregulation without any representation of organic and conventional crop farmers. http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:56:00 PST I won’t write about Nigeria as a journalist.  I am known in Nigeria as a national security specialist with decades of experience there. I have close personal friends at the highest levels of government and only write these few words out of deep concern. http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/nigeria-destruction-gd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/nigeria-destruction-gd.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:25:00 PST Amid the Afghan government's efforts to convene Loya Jirga or traditional grand assembly, to get national endorsement for inking the possible strategic partnership with the U.S., Taliban militants have intensified attacks to spoil the step. The armed outfit fighting the Afghan government and some 130,000 strong-NATO-led troops with nearly 100,000 of them Americans, in the latest attacks, targeted a logistic company in Herat province. http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/loya-jirga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/loya-jirga.php Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:24:00 PST Dennis Kucinich delivers a chilling revelation; that according to reports, the flag of Al Qaeda is flying over Benghazi, Libya. http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/lubya-al-qaeda-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/lubya-al-qaeda-tk.php Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:16:00 PST Muammar Gaddafi believed Libyans still loved him despite being repeatedly told that Tripoli had been occupied," his former bodyguard had claimed. "He believed the Libyan people still loved him, even after we told him that Tripoli had been occupied," The New York Daily News quoted Mansour Dao, as saying. http://salem-news.com/articles/november022011/gaddafi-libya.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november022011/gaddafi-libya.php Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:16:00 PDT According to news reaching Sri Lanka Guardian, relatives of the LTTE senior activists who were presumed killed in captivity by the security forces are said to be harassed by the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) of the Ministry of Defence. The TID is visiting the relatives of the LTTE men and women surrendered to the army at the end of the war in May 2009. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/lanka-tid.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/lanka-tid.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:45:00 PDT