in terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans
in terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans
Sex, violence, and terrorism. These topics are probably not discussed much in college classes, but they should be. These are the topics we often deal with in the news business.
2011 has begun with a bang. January saw Sudan split in two; February, great upheaval in the Middle East; March, a tri-fold disaster in Japan. April, a...
In a nation of 180 million people, only two million Pakistanis pay taxes. This may at first glance seem a tragic consequence of poverty, but bear in mind that roughly 30 percent of Pakistanis live in poverty, not 99 percent.
On this coming September 11 it will be ten years since the greatest terrorist attack on American soil. Among the 2,753 people killed in the attack on ...
While shooting, Tapa was his sole crew, shooting, directing, recording sound; his actors are all non-professionals, appearing in a film for the first time. Tapa has said that he was committed to showing ordinary daily life in Kashmir.
"Three prisoners have been waterboarded but not at Guantanamo and not by the Department of Defense. They were waterboarded with the authority of President Bush and the approval of the Department of Justice."
Bin Laden's demise is a serious blow to al-Qaeda but not the end of al-Qaeda, because its ideology endures.
Is Pakistan an unambiguous and unambivalent friend of America? No. But that does not mean it should be turned into an enemy.
As House Republicans continue to press for new and expanded war authority, the White House has issued a rare threat to veto any legislation that would needlessly expand the war on terror.
I hope that Pakistanis who are understandably offended by U.S. violation of Pakistan's sovereignty will keep in mind that individual Americans don't represent, nor are we necessarily well represented by, the American government.
While Congressional Republicans argue publicly they're not seeking to expand the War on Terror beyond its current parameters, they're quietly making clear elsewhere that they intend to do just that.
We can no longer afford to confuse supporting the State of Israel with supporting the policies of the leaders who control the Israeli government at a particular time.
How can any politician pretend to be serious about protecting the nation from terrorism while voting to allow known terrorists to buy guns?
The reluctance of bearded Taliban to carry out their own suicide attacks goes contrary to the "desperation" argument presented by Pakistan's religious right.
In the famous ticking time bomb hypothetical, it is moral to torture one person in order to save the lives of thousands, that the right to life trumps the right to physical integrity and security. This is a false construct.
The choice of al-Adel, and the unclear status of Ayman al-Zawahiri, offer some insights into the current state of the organization and the challenges it faces in a post-bin Laden world. Here are the key takeaways.
What the Patriot Act did was legitimize a violation of Americans' long-cherished privacy rights. Its passage has snowballed into a massive assault on our constitutional freedoms.
The toll was 44 killed, 58 wounded. The means were unprecedented. In the end, suicide bomber Andrew Kehoe was that American cliché: the kind of man you'd never expect to go criminally berserk.
The greatest threat to America's safety and security over the past five years has not been from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, dug into Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's been from Yemen-based offshoot al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
At some point we have to stop treading lightly around Muslims as a default position and truly do what we now only claim to do: treat them the same as everybody else. No better and certainly no worse.