Melbourne Attack: Cognitive Dissonance in Democracy Does Not Protect Us From ISIS-Inspired Christmas
Why is it that Western democratic governments and their security forces try to downplay the terrorist threat that so imperils our democracies? Is it wishful thinking? Is it an attempt to not over react to the threat? Is it dogma that Sunni Islamic terror only occurs as a group activity and not by the individual or so-called ‘lone wolf?’ Or is it just plain ignorance about terrorism and the challenges that it presents to democratic institutions? Whatever the cause of the appa
ISIS Christmas Attacks: There Are No Safe Places Anymore
The United Kingdom’s new Defense Secretary Galvin Williamson has gone on record and said that Britain and every other country that provided the Islamic State (ISIS) with foreign fighters or terrorists in Iraq and Syria should hunt them down and kill them and that they not be allowed to return home. Not coincidently, British drone strikes in Syria and Iraq have increased dramatically. This comes on the heels of the arrest of two British ISIS supporters, Naa’imur Zakariyah Rah
Beware of An ISIS Family Christmas!
On the war in Syria and Iraq, the US has just announced plans to reduce military support for groups fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) in both countries. ISIS has been largely defeated on the battlefield and lost all its major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, including its de facto capital of Raqqa in October. Earlier this month, the Iraqi border town of Rawa, the last ISIS urban stronghold in the country, was freed, indicating the collapse of the ISIS caliphate. But random atta
North Korea 27 July Victory Day Celebrations May See Further Missile Launches and Nuclear Test as Ch
North Korea 27 July Victory Day Celebrations May See Further Missile Launches and Nuclear Test as China Threatens India and Japan A study by German scholars at the Universities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück of self-radicalized Islamic extremists analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a cellular phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. The messages were exchanged among 12 young men involved in the likely attack on a Sikh temple in Essen in Apr
Britain Braces to Face the ISIS-influenced “Sisters” as Leader Baghdadi Reportedly Killed in an Air
In a worrying development on the terrorism front, an investigative reporter who works for Britain’s Channel 4 Dispatches has found a group of women, dubbed the “sisters,” that support the Islamic State (ISIS), and who may carry out the next terror attacks in the United Kingdom.
An easyJet flight headed to London made an emergency landing in Germany after three men allegedly had a "terrorism-related" conversation. The three men, all British citizens, were released after witnes
ISIS Warns Manchester Suicide Attack First of Many on Crusader Soil: Canada Named
ISIS Warns Manchester Suicide Attack First of Many on Crusader Soil: Canada Named The Islamic State (ISIS) continues to push its Ramadan Offensive and has warned that the Manchester suicide attack that killed 22 people mostly women and children was just the first of many attacks on “crusader soil.” Eight men remain in custody about the Manchester terror attack, four men remain held by authorities for the London Bridge and Borough Market attack that killed 8 and wounded dozens
Britain Battles the ISIS Ramadan Offensive and the US Makes Show of Force in the Western Pacific
In Europe, the battle with Islamic extremism continues to heat up as the United Kingdom appears to be taking the brunt of the Islamic States (ISIS) Ramadan Offensive. Last night, London suffered what appeared to be a series of two attacks. A van ran down up to about 20 people on London Bridge, and then the attackers appeared to disembark from the vehicle to attack people in the nearby Borough Market pubs and Elliot Restaurant, using knives to stab people. Seven people are rep
A Snapshot of Terrorism this Week in Europe
In terms of terrorist attacks and plots in Europe, a survey of the last week would seem illustrative of a continuing and dangerous trend as the Islamic States comes under pressure and pending defeat in Syria and Iraq. But Islamic State and Islamic-inspired terror was not the only culprit in increased European insecurity with terror plots represented by both right and left-wing terror groups, long a feature of Cold War-era terror on the continent. In United Kingdom, security s
EUROPE NEEDS TO BRACE ITSELF FOR THE RETURN OF ITS OWN ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISTS
EUROPE NEEDS TO BRACE ITSELF FOR THE RETURN OF ITS OWN ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISTS Europe needs to brace itself for the return of its Islamic State militants who very shortly will be returning home and leading terrorist cells in their own countries made up of hard core fighters and home-grown Islamic State-inspired terrorists. As reported earlier, Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a statement this week acknowledging the terrorist group’s pending defeat in Iraq a
Not Trudeau, But Important! Questions about Attack in Hamburg, Germany....
German authorities today are incredibly definitive that events that led to the mass evacuation of Hamburg Airport (second largest City in Germany and eight largest in European Union) with some fifty people taken to hospital with burning eyes and respiratory issues was not a terrorist attack. However, it remains that German authorities have said that a pepper spray can has been discovered, and that it appears pepper spray went at some point through the airport’s air conditioni
