Topic: Terror - on May 1, 2004 at 7:41:00 PM CEST
Patterns of Global Terrorism
The Year in Review
There were 190 acts of international terrorism in 2003, a slight decrease from the 198 attacks that occurred in 2002, and a drop of 45 percent from the level in 2001 of 346 attacks. The figure in 2003 represents the lowest annual total of international terrorist attacks since 1969.
A total of 307 persons were killed in the attacks of 2003, far fewer than the 725 killed during 2002. A total of 1,593 persons were wounded in the attacks that occurred in 2003, down from 2,013 persons wounded the year before.
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Topic: Terror - on May 1, 2004 at 7:38:00 PM CEST
More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden
The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists told Congress that at the end of last year it had just four full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's wealth while nearly two dozen were working on Cuban embargo violations.
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Topic: Terror - on April 25, 2004 at 11:11:00 PM CEST
EU issues updated list of "terrorist organisations and persons"
The Council of the European Union (the 15 EU governments) decided on 2 April 2004 to update the European Union list of terrorist organisations and persons linked to terrorist activities, which was first adopted in December 2001 in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
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Topic: Terror - on April 24, 2004 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
Saudi bomb: a shift in Al Qaeda tactics
Suspected Al Qaeda militants struck their first major Saudi target Wednesday when a suicide car bomber blew himself up in front of national police security headquarters.
The attack is seen by Saudi analysts as a tactical shift in a growing confrontation here between Islamist militants linked to Al Qaeda and the Saudi government.
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Topic: Terror - on April 8, 2004 at 6:51:00 PM CEST
Globalization vs. Americanization
A friend, well traveled and educated, recently predicted the evils of globalization in very simple terms. "Everyone will be eating at McDonald's, listening to Madonna and shopping at mega-malls,'' he prophesied. "It'll be absolutely awful.''
What I told him then is that globalization is not the same as Americanization, though sometimes it's hard for Americans to make that distinction. The most crucial aspect of globalization is the psychological transformation that's affecting people everywhere.
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Topic: Terror - on April 8, 2004 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
Photos of a motorcycle ride through Chernobyl
I have ridden all my life and over the years I have owned several different bikes. I ended my search for a perfect bike with a big Kawasaki Ninja that boasts a mature 147 horse power, some serious bark, is fast as a bullet and comfortable for a long trips.
I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations is through the so called Chernobyl "dead zone", which is 130kms from my home. Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there and not see any single car or any single soul.
The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes.
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Topic: Terror - on April 7, 2004 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
Chemical attack on London foiled
Key points
• UK intelligence network foils chemical attack on London • Chemical substance, which chokes victims to death, available over internet • Expert says substance shows 'lateral thinking' by terrorists • 17 year-old boy faces separate terrorist charge in UK
Key quote "It is handled very seriously by chemists and microscopists - they are careful not to breathe the vapour. But it is not a typical chemical agent" - Dr Andreas Sella, inorganic chemist, University College London.
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Topic: Terror - on April 3, 2004 at 5:45:00 AM CEST
Zwölf-Kilo-Bombe auf Bahnstrecke Madrid-Toledo
Die spanischen Behörden haben einen Bombenanschlag auf einen Hochgeschwindigkeitszug vereitelt: An der Strecke zwischen Madrid und Sevilla wurde eine Zwölf-Kilo-Bombe entdeckt. Der Sprengstoff ist einem Rundfunkbericht zufolge vom gleichen Typ Dynamit, wie es bei den Anschlägen vor drei Wochen in Madrid verwendet wurde.
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Topic: Terror - on March 16, 2004 at 8:48:00 AM CET
Zahlenmagie und der Anschlag von Madrid
Wer für den mörderischen Anschlag in Madrid verantwortlich gewesen ist, ist zwar noch nicht endgültig sicher. Aber inzwischen "reden (alle) über die Schicksals-Zahlen", meinte jedenfalls kürzlich die Bild-Zeitung. Und präsentierte dazu am 14.3. eine Story, die so knallhart recherchiert und erschütternd geschrieben ist, dass alle derzeit auf dem Markt gehandelten Verschwörungstheorien im Vergleich dazu völlig verblassen.
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Topic: Terror - on February 29, 2004 at 2:15:00 AM CET
Bin Laden als Bushs Wahlkampf-Joker?
Der Terroristenanführer Osama Bin Laden ist schon lange gefasst. Seine Festnahme wird aber verschwiegen, weil US-Präsident Bush die Erfolgsmeldung für den Präsidentschaftswahlkampf als "Joker" nutzen will. Das berichtete zumindest das staatliche Radio im Iran. Von dort wurde auch die Verhaftung Saddam Hussein zuerst gemeldet. Und obwohl es von allen Seiten Dementi hagelt, sorgt die Meldung für Aufsehen: In den vergangenen Tagen hatten sich die Gerüchte, Bin Laden sei bereits eingekreist, verdichtet.
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Topic: Terror - on February 17, 2004 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Grenade closes US-Canada border
One of the main border crossings between Canada and the US was closed when border guards found a hand grenade in a vehicle heading into Canada.
The Peace Arch border crossing between Seattle and Vancouver was shut to all traffic in a major alert.
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Topic: Terror - on February 13, 2004 at 10:01:00 AM CET
Taliban, Al Qaeda Cash in on Afghan Opium
Hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Afghanistan's illicit drug trade end up in the pockets of Islamic militant groups like the Taliban and al Qaeda, the head of the U.N. drug-fighting body said Tuesday. U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa also said there were no signs of the country's rampant opium output abating this year, meaning Afghanistan was in grave danger of becoming a narco-state.
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