| July 27, 2008 | - During a children's production of “Annie, Jr.” at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, 58-year-old unemployed truck driver Jim J. Adkisson opened fire on a packed sanctuary with a twelve-gauge shotgun. “We were just, 'Oh, my God, that's not part of the play,'” said Amira Parkey, 16, who was playing Miss Hannigan. After killing one man and wounding seven others (one of whom later died from her wounds), Adkisson was tackled by John Bohstedt, who was playing Daddy Warbucks.
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AP
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| July 2, 2008 | - A survey found that Americans feared terrorist attacks less than at any point since September 11, 2001.
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CNN.com
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| June 2, 2008 | - A human-rights organization accused the Bush Administration of operating “floating prisons” by holding suspected terrorists on ships and of continuing its policy of extraordinary rendition, a practice it claimed to have discontinued in 2006.
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Guardian
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| May 21, 2008 | - The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, concerned about the risk of terrorist activity at the upcoming Twin Cities Republican National Convention, was recruiting spies to infiltrate vegan potluck dinners.
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City Pages
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| March 4, 2008 | - The U.S. Navy fired missiles into southern Somalia, targeting what the Pentagon called a “known Al Qaeda
terrorist.”
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New York Times
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| February 27, 2008 | - A man who calls himself “Osama bin London” was convicted of running terrorist training camps in England.
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Washington Post
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| February 17, 2008 | - It was revealed that the U.S. Treasury Department met with Iran last month to discuss terrorist financing, and that the CIA wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a failed counterterrorism plan involving fake companies overseas.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times
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| January 20, 2008 | - Researchers found that foreigners invested $414 billion in American companies in 2007, up 90 percent from 2006. “This is a vote of confidence in the American economy,” said Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt. “Do we want the communists to own the banks, or the terrorists?” asked financial commentator Jim Cramer. “I'll take any of it.”
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New York Times
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| December 11, 2007 | - John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who participated in the interrogation of an Al Qaeda
terrorist suspect who was waterboarded, conceded that waterboarding was torture but asserted that its use “probably saved lives.”
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Washington Post
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| November 8, 2007 | - A London woman, who says she only called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” because “it sounded cool,” was convicted under the UK Terrorism Act for posting poems on the Internet praising Osama bin Laden and for owning terrorist manuals. “You have been in many respects,” said the judge, “a complete enigma to me.”
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BBCnews.com
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| October 24, 2007 | - The Government Accountability Office reported that more than 755,000 names now appear on the U.S. terrorist
watch list.
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Washington Post
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| October 12, 2007 | - Ramzi Yousef, the jailed mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, converted to Christianity.
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New York Daily News
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| September 20, 2007 | - The Senate failed to pass a bill restoring habeas corpus to military detainees but voted to denounce MoveOn.org. Senators Joseph Lieberman and Jon Kyl filed an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill to classify Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
| Source 1:
The Huffington Post via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
The New York Times
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| August 17, 2007 | - Six of the Bali bombers got their jail terms reduced for good behavior.
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news.com.au
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| July 2, 2007 | - Police found a pair of Mercedes-Benz sedans filled with gasoline and nails parked in the center of London, and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the glass doors of Terminal One at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle failed to penetrate the doors, but the driver poured gasoline over himself and the Jeep, and the Jeep blazed. The throng of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the inferno, and the flaming driver staggered out of the Jeep, threw punches, and shouted, “Allah, Allah.” The crowd of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the fireball. Stephen Clarkson, a bystander, pounced on the burning man. “I managed to knock the fellow to the ground,” said Clarkson. “His clothes had partially burned from his body. His hair was on fire. His whole body was on fire.” Police arrested the charred driver and the unscathed passenger. The discovery of a suspicious device on the driver’s person resulted in the evacuation of the hospital where his burns were being treated, and authorities blew up a suspicious car in the hospital parking lot. Detectives blamed an eight-person Al Qaeda cell controlled by someone they called “Mr. Big” and commenced raids. Three suspected collaborators of the would-be suicide bombers, including a 27-year-old woman, were apprehended.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 29, 2007 | -
Scottish jurists cast doubt on the conviction of a Libyan intelligence official jailed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
| Source 1:
KUNA
Source 2:
MSNBC
Source 3:
LA Times
Source 4:
USA Today
Source 5:
Toronto Star
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| June 24, 2007 | - A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
- A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
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NYT
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| June 7, 2007 | - The U.S. military was developing lethal water guns to combat scuba-equipped
terrorists,.
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Wired
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| June 5, 2007 | - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said people stood a greater chance of being hit by lightning than dying at the hands of a terrorist, and that anyone worried about it should “get a life.”
| Source:
WCBSTV.com via Drudge
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| June 4, 2007 | - A group of men in New York City were accused of using GoogleEarth to plot a terrorist attack on underground jet-fuel lines.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| April 30, 2007 | - Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr called on Iraqis to paint “magnificent tableaux” on barrier walls that “depict the ugliness and terrorist nature of the occupier, and the sedition, car bombings, blood and the like he has brought upon Iraqis.”
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NYTimes.com
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| April 16, 2007 | -
Britain banned the phrase “war on terror.”
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Sky News
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| March 15, 2007 | - The Chiquita banana company reached a settlement with the Justice Department over payments that it made to right-wing and left-wing terrorists in Colombia,
| Source:
NYT
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| February 21, 2007 | - It was discovered that Abdul Tawala Ibn Alishtari, an indicted terrorist financier, gave more than $15,000 to the National Republican
Congressional Committee. “We need to be careful,” said the NRCC in a statement, “not to rush to judgment.”
| Source 1:
Talking Points Memo
Source 2:
ABC News
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| February 21, 2007 | - An audit of the Justice Department's statistics on terrorism released by the Inspector General revealed that successful efforts in counterterrorism had been inflated, and the statistics in general were wrong.
| Source:
Washington Post.
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| January 12, 2007 | - On a radio program for federal employees and contractors, a Department of Defense official listed the names of law firms whose lawyers have represented detainees at Guantánamo Bay. “Quite honestly,” he said, “when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms, and I think that is going to have major play in the next few weeks. And we want to watch that play out.”
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Washington Post
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| January 10, 2007 | - Shahwar Matin Siraj, a 24-year-old clerk at an Islamic bookstore in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for discussing phony plans to bomb a subway station with a police informant; Siraj’s father, mother, and sister, all asylum-seekers, were arrested for deportation to their native Pakistan.
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WNBC
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| January 10, 2007 | - In Illinois, Derrick Shareef, a 22-year-old Muslim convert who was arrested last month after trading two stereo speakers to a federal agent for a pistol and four nonfunctioning grenades that he planned to set off at a local mall, pleaded not guilty to attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
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Saulkvalley.com
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| January 1, 2007 | - Concerns about terrorism prompted Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada to take his oath shortly after midnight on New Year's despite the admitted absence of any known threat.
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AP via San Diego Union-Tribune
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| December 5, 2006 | - A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.
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WKMG Local News
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| December 1, 2006 | - The Department of Homeland Security was ranking the terrorist potential of American air travelers.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 28, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney denied that “waterboarding,” a banned interrogation method, was the same thing as giving a terrorist detainee a “dunk in water.” He also said his term as “Vice President for Torture” was over.
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VOA News
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| October 17, 2006 | - President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which suspends the right of habeas corpus for terrorism suspects and grants immunity to CIA interrogators and government officials, such as President Bush, for violations of the War Crimes Act.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| October 17, 2006 | - Scotland Yard and the British Home Office misplaced two “extremely dangerous” terrorism suspects. One escaped from a secure psychiatric unit, and neither can be named for legal reasons.
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Guardian online
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| September 29, 2006 | - Vigilante airline passengers searched the luggage of a university professor they believed to be a terrorist during a layover in Mallorca.
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AP via Seattle Times
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| September 8, 2006 | - In Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he was “very happy to hear” Pakistan was not sponsoring terrorist attacks on his country.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 6, 2006 | - A poll found that New Yorkers were more concerned about terrorist attacks than are people living elsewhere.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 31, 2006 | -
Montana
Senator Conrad Burns said that terrorists “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill by night.”
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AP via Breitbart
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| August 29, 2006 | - Researchers warned that countries with unnaturally high male-to-female population ratios, such as China and India, could foster violence, organized crime, and terrorism.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 23, 2006 | - A poll found that Americans were becoming increasingly effective at distinguishing between the war in Iraq and the war on terror.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 2, 2006 | - In Iraq, President Jalal Talabani vowed to “terminate terrorism” by 2007.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Bombings on trains and in train stations killed 181 people in Mumbai, India, and led India to postpone peace talks with Pakistan. The diamond industry of Mumbai was said to be particularly hard hit by the bombings.
| Source:
Reuters Alertnet
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| July 7, 2006 | - The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security claimed to have foiled a plot by foreign terrorists, in Lebanon, to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York.
| Source:
Washington Post
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