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Nancy Yammout: Talking to terrorists in Lebanese prisons

What do we do once we try and incarcerate terrorists? Phil Gurski talks to Nancy Yammout, a Lebanese woman who goes into prisons to see how she can make a difference.

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Rescue Me – Crime Prevention

Rescue me, founded in 2011, is a non-profit organization established by two sisters as a means of crime prevention and countering violent extremism.

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Al Khobar Towers bombings in Saudi Arabia (June 25, 1996)

The US has always blamed a terrorist group called Saudi Hizballah for the 1995 Al Khobar Towers attack but it could very well have been Al Qaeda.

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31 students killed and 70 injured in the Ma’alot massacre (May 15, 1974)

On this day in 1974, three PFLP terrorists took over 100 students hostage at a school in Ma’alot and killed 31 when security forces attempted a rescue.

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April 12, 2008 | Bombing of mosque in Shiraz, Iran

An Iranian monarchist group was behind a bombing at a mosque in Shiraz in 2008 that killed 12 and wounded 200

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March 24, 2018 | Five policemen injured in IED blast in India

On this day in 2018, five District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawans were injured in an IED blast, suspected to be carried out by Naxals, in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district.

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February 5, 1994 | Shelling of market in Sarajevo

Terrorism and war are often seen as different but this does not mean that the former cannot occur during the latter. War has been part of the human condition since…well, since forever I would think. Remember that iconic scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where a bunch of half-ape/half-humans are sitting around minding their own […]

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Today in Terrorism: November 21, 2012 – Tel Aviv bus bombing

The 2012 Tel Aviv bus bombing was a mass-injury terror attack carried out on a crowded passenger bus driving in the center of Tel Aviv’s business district.

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Today in Terrorism: 12 November

In 2015, 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by ISIS in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

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Today in Terrorism: 23 October 1983 bombing of Marine barracks

US Marines in Beirut suffer catastrophic bombing in October 1983