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The Week in Terrorism: March 4-10, 2024

Another week of Islamist attacks in Africa, the Middle East and Asia and, you guessed it, not a single RWE attack – again

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How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People

What do we do with a UN refugee agency that appears to be in cahoots with a jihadi organisation?

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The Week in Terrorism: February 19-25, 2024

More than 70 people killed in terrorist attacks this week, the vast majority at the hands of jihadis: again not one single right wing attack anywhere

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The Terrorism Dog That Didn’t Bite: A Look Back at Violent Extremism in 2023

Predictions of a ‘rise’ in far right terrorism have been making the rounds for several years and been found wanting: is it time to admit that jihadis still rule the terrorism roost?

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The week in terrorism: January 8-14, 2024

Global terrorism trends showed no change in the second week of January with jihadi violence again dominant and no sign of far right attacks

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Jumping on the Bandwagon to Support Hamas May Dilute Support for Other Causes

International causes make strange bedfellows, but the speed with which left-wingers adopted Hamas rhetoric will prove to be counterproductive

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The Hamas attack on Israel: an ‘intelligence failure’ or a failure of intelligence? 

In the alacrity to assign blame for preventing the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, that country’s spies were held responsible, wrongly it turns out.

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Hamas Attack on Israel: Where Did the Intelligence Fail?

Intelligence agencies are expected to never make mistakes: why is this the only profession subject to such an impossible standard?

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Has Israel joined the ‘terrorist state’ list?

If Israel can have a terrorist as its national security minister does this make it a ‘terrorist state’? Hmmm, an interesting question.

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When democracies embrace terrorists

Several leaders of democracies are stooping to include terrorists and violent extremist groups in their administrations: this ain’t good.