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Benghazi Investigation Still Very Much Ongoing
Newscom Benghazi is back in the headlines with a vengeance as investigations continue on several congressional fronts: Representative Darrell Issa (R–CA) subpoenaed the State Department to deliver more...
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U.S. Embassy in Beirut Still a Security Risk
Lebanese protesters, shout slogans against the US (NABIL MOUNZER/EPA/Newscom) A new report by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, indicates...
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Phone Records and the NSA: Legal and Keeping America Safe
Guardian/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/EPA/Newscom A couple weeks ago, Edward Snowden exposed a NSA counterterrorism program that collects the phone records of millions of U.S. citizens. As Mr. Snowden...
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Benghazi: Military Commanders Face Questioning
The laundry room at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo: MCT/Newscom) On Wednesday at 9 a.m., Members of Congress will once more try to pry answers from U.S. military leaders regarding the...
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Hezbollah: European Union Keeps Its Head in the Sand
MAZEN MAHDI/EPA/Newscom On June 19, a meeting of European Union countries failed to agree on a United Kingdom–sponsored proposal to list the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization....
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GUEST POST: Unconventional Warfare: The Forgotten Threats
On April 15, our nation was the victim of a terrorist attack at one of our most celebrated sporting events, the Boston Marathon. Citizens from across America were affected, including Nicole Gross, a...
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Embassy Closings Reflect Benghazi Failure
Newscom The closing of 21 U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East grows out of the September 11, 2012, Benghazi attack in at least two ways: The failure of the Obama Administration to retaliate in...
View ArticleQ&A on Benghazi Criminal Charges
Heritage’s Charlotte Florance sat down with us to answer questions about the criminal charges filed in the terrorist attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Q. Who are the criminal charges filed...
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U.S. Embassies Remain Closed: 5 Heritage Must-Reads on Counterterrorism
Newscom Twenty U.S. embassies and consulates remain closed throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia this week. The State Department says that “current information suggests that al-Qaida and...
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Fighting New Terror Threats Requires Defining Them
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom The way the U.S. President talks about terrorism matters. As chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Michael McCaul (R–TX),...
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Kenya Attack: Al-Shabaab Seeks Retribution in Nairobi
Kenyan security forces taking a position inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi. (Photo: NICHOLE SOBECKI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) A high-end Mall in the Westlands...
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Q&A on Kenya Terrorist Attack and Al-Shabaab
Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: George Mulala/Polaris/Newscom) Who is al-Shabaab? Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group operating in the Horn of Africa. The group emerged in 2006 as...
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Pakistan and Kenya Terrorist Attacks: Is There a Link?
Rana Sajid Hussain/Sipa USA/Newscom Within 24 hours over the weekend, two major terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists occurred in different parts of the world. In Kenya, military forces are still...
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Pakistan Terrorist Attack Bears Hallmarks of al-Qaeda
Rana Sajid Hussain/Sipa USA/Newscom The dual suicide bombing of a Sunday morning church service in Peshawar, Pakistan, over the weekend is not typical of the kinds of attacks the Pakistani minority...
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Kenya Mall Attack Reminiscent of 2008 Mumbai Attacks
Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: George Mulala/Polaris/Newscom) Last month’s terrorist attacks at a shopping mall in Kenya brought back memories of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed nearly...
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“60 Minutes” Returns Spotlight to Benghazi
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. (Newscom) With Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment on Benghazi, CBS renewed interest in a calamity that the Obama Administration had hoped would be long forgotten....
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Wolf Urges Select Committee on Benghazi
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) (Newscom) Congressman Frank Wolf (R–VA) last week on the floor of the House redoubled his efforts to create a congressional select committee to investigate Benghazi. More than a...
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Benghazi Eyewitnesses to Testify on Capitol Hill
The laundry room at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo: MCT/Newscom) Three more eyewitnesses to the Benghazi terrorist attack on September 11, 2012, will finally have the opportunity to...
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Benghazi: Can Survivors Answer the Growing List of Questions?
(L to R) Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, Utah National Guard of the U.S. Army, Eric Nordstrom, Regional Security Officer of the U.S. Department of State, Charlene R. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for...
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Trending Terrorism in Asia
Newscom A recent survey of indicators compiled and presented by The Heritage Foundation found that Asian countries comprise three out of the top four countries with the most domestic terrorist attacks....
View ArticleBenghazi: Let Eyewitnesses Tell the Whole Story
As Congress laboriously extracts eyewitness accounts of the Benghazi terrorist attack, unexplained aspects of the tragedy are becoming clearer. Important case in point: the reports of an “order to...
View ArticleHow Privately Owned Warships Are Combating Piracy and Terrorism
In his new book, Private Anti-Piracy Navies, award-winning author John-Clark Levin explains how private security companies are combating and preventing piracy and maritime terrorism by protecting...
View ArticleThreats to America in 2014
Americans will die on American soil in large numbers. So predicted the Hart-Rudman Commission seven months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. No commissioner felt good about it getting it right....
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Al-Qaeda Seeks American Recruits in Syria
Massimo Pizzotti Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Al-Qaeda forces in Syria are actively seeking recruits from Americans who have traveled there to fight or to assist opposition forces, according to...
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Bachmann on Benghazi: Symbol of Obama Administration’s Incompetence
Credit: Douglas Graham/Roll Call Photos/Newscom A new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Benghazi terrorist attack drew a fresh critique from members of Congress, who said President...
View ArticleExclusive Interview: Bachmann Says Obama Was AWOL During Benghazi
Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN), one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack, told The Foundry that she was misled in the aftermath of...
View ArticleWhy Did the Benghazi Story Change?
The truth about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, is finally coming out. An explosive intelligence report made public this week revealed that officials knew it was a terrorist attack that killed...
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House Comprehensive Benghazi Report Faults Lack of Planning and Military...
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations this week released a comprehensive interim report on the military response—or lack thereof—to the...
View ArticleTerrorist Attack Shows Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure
Just after midnight on April 16, 2013, someone slipped into underground tunnels and cut the phone lines running to the PG&E Metcalf power substation near San Jose, California. Then two snipers...
View Article“Terrorism Is Real, Definable, and Bad”
“[W]e are not as safe as we should be,” Christopher Harmon notes in chapter one of his new book, A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Harmon focused on his two reasons for writing the...
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