(TFC) Terrorism is a complex subject, but the key elements can be distilled and presented in an internet-friendly format. Welcome to the definitive listicle on terrorism. This is the bare bones, so process all of it. Don’t skim this one.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani attends a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Osama Faisal)
It’s not every day that two states with similar societies and international alignments break into an open cold war, but this is what is happening between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Here’s what you need to know.
(MPN) A newly released investigative report from the Institute for Gulf Affairs (IGA) based in Washington, D.C. details what they have referred to as “one of the biggest terrorist threats against the United States homeland.”
Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A new report shows around 400 Saudi and Kuwaiti citizens who were living in the US – most of whom were studying abroad on Saudi government-issued scholarships – later left to join terrorist groups. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
Contrary to Iraqi state propaganda and the statements of those hoping against hope that Iraq might at some point recover from decades of war and chaos, the sectarianism unleashed by George W. Bush and Tony Blair’s war on Iraq in 2003 continues to dictate events in the ravaged nation.
In February of 1963, the Ramadan Revolution brought the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party to power in Iraq for the first time. The next month, the March 8 Revolution in neighbouring Syria brought the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party to power in Damascus.
Scotland Yard named two of the London Bridge attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane, both from Barking in East London.
One year ago, Khuram Shazad Butt was featured in a Channel 4 documentary about British jihadis.
Anti-terrorism chief Mark Rowley said that Butt, who was a British citizen born in Pakistan, had been known to the police and MI5, but there had not been evidence that he had been planning an attack…except perhaps for the video that shows him infolding an ISIS black flag in the middle of a London park.
(MPN) The release of the Pentagon’s 2018 budget request late last month foreshadows a sordid future for both Iraq and Syria, even after Daesh (ISIS) is eliminated as a threat.
Louise Mensch once coveted a high ranking position in Britain’s Conservative party but couldn’t pull it off. Then she tried to get Hillary Clinton elected POTUS and she failed at that too. Then, the self-professed former drug addict has became a professional Russophobe and now she has called for Russia to be punished by Salafist terrorists.
When most people were condemning the ISIS atrocity on London or otherwise engaged in constructive and long overdue debates on how western foreign policy causes terrorism, Mensch decided to insanely blame the attack on Russia.
A woman places flowers at a memorial for the victims of a suicide attack at a concert by Ariana Grande that killed more than 20 people Monday night in central Manchester, Britain, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)
A January 2017 Pew survey showed that Americans rate terrorism as the top priority for the Trump administration and Congress. They put the issue ahead of the economy, education, jobs and health care costs.
After a third ISIS terrorist strike hit the UK in the last three months, Zerohedge noted that “The #Hashtags Aren’t Working.”
Much to liberal left surprise, hashtags have not discouraged ISIS from attacking.
Liberal left hashtags are a pathetic distraction used to avoid addressing the real issues at play with terrorist attacks plaguing not only western Europe and the US but Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt and more…
