Articles tagged with: terror
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Friday, 30 Sep, 2011
Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language
Fred Halliday
IB Tauris 2010
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers, members of a fringe militant Islamist group, Al-Qaeda, launched the most significant attack on the United States since the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941.The eminent scholar of international relations and the Middle East, Fred Halliday, writing shortly after the attacks described this experience as “two...
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Wednesday, 27 Jul, 2011
In the aftermath of the bombing outside the offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and several other government buildings on Friday, followed by the methodical shooting of dozens more on the Norwegian island of Utoya, victims and observers remain stunned by the scale of the attack.
In the immediate aftermath, while Oslo operated in a “state of chaos” according to CNN International, accusations flew, suspicions, suspects and theories piled up. The Wall Street Journal quic...
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Thursday, 31 Mar, 2011
Speaking to CNN's State of the Union in February of last year, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that while “a nuclear-armed country obviously poses a potent...
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