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Whither Afghan ‘peace’

War seems to be the fate of Afghanistan: peace may not be in the cards.

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October 8, 2002: Al Qaeda attack in Kuwait

Two AQ terrorists attacked unarmed US Marines engaged in exercises on Kuwait’s Failaka Island in 2002, killing one and wounding one.

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September 20, 2008: Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan

40 people were killed and another 250 injured when a truck bomb struck the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.

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Is the violent extremist issue bigger than a shoebox?

Assumptions that the violent extremist threat from individuals associated with RWE and other terrorist ideologies may be overstated.

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Why governments cannot dictate to spies

Borealis weighs in on a report that the Trump Administration told DHS and its spies not to report on Russia and right-wing extremism.

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September 12, 1986: Bombing at Paris shopping mall

A little know Arab terrorist group engaged in a series of bombings against commercial establishments in Paris in 1985-86 to push for freeing prisoners.

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September 7, 1995: Car bomb explodes near Jewish school in Lyon, France

On this day in 1995, Algeria’s GIA terrorist group exploded a car bomb outside a Jewish school in Lyon, France, injuring 14

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September 1, 2004: The Beslan hostage crisis

On this day in 2002, Chechen terrorists took over a school in Beslan, North Ossetia. Almost 200 children were dead.

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August 18, 2017: Knifeman targets women in Turku knife terror attack

On this day in 2017, two were killed and six wounded by a Moroccan Islamist terrorist in the southwest Finnish city of Turku.

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August 4, 1998: Attacks in Colombia

On this day in 1998, Colombia’s FARC and ELN terrorist groups attacked military and police in half the country’s provinces killing at least 76.