Abu Ghraib & Nick Berg |
Ever since the Abu Ghraib prison pictures were released, I've been struggling to process them. There is something viscerally repellant about them, and to whatever extent some of them represent violati...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:42:00 GMT |
Wake the Heck Up! |
Dr. Laurence Buckman describes what he saw when he arrived on the scene of the bus bombing in the London terrorist attacks:
My first impression was about the amount of blood. The whole of the front ...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:22:00 GMT |
Justifications for Suicide Attacks |
Justifications for Suicide Attacks
Al-Qaeda in Iraq had declared responsibility for 30 percent of the claimed suicide attacks in Iraq as of February 2006. Since October 2006, the Islamic State of Ira...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:21:00 GMT |
A Case Study:The Mythology of Martyrdom in Iraq |
Mohammed M. Hafez -
Jihadists in Iraq confront a challenging communication problem. Their messages must achieve five goals: appeal to potential recruits inside and outside of Iraq; justify to the publ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:12:00 GMT |
Why do they hate us? |
When confronted with acts of stunning atrocity, such as the attacks of September 11th, the Madrid train bombings, the two attacks in Bali, or the synchronized bombings in the London undergroud &n...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:24:00 GMT |
No Way to Fight a War |
One of the reasons the nation is so divided politically is that we can't even agree on the exact nature of the War on Terror. Some people recognize it as a war, others see it as a law enforcement matt...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:24:00 GMT |
The Danger of Conspiracy Theories |
Two weeks after the third anniversary of the Madrid train bombings that killed 161 people, conspiracy theories are circulating in Spain with surprising popularity. A poll shows that roughly 36% percen...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:05:00 GMT |
To people who think America & Israel are evil |
Do you really think that if Israel wanted to wipe the Arabs off the face of the earth, they would still exist by now? Do you think that if America wished to harm them, and to steal their wealth, that ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 17:45:00 GMT |
