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Norway’s terrorist: a lone wolf? | Snowblog

Jon Snow asks whether some extreme political views fuelled the violence displayed by Anders Breivik when he killed 93 people in Norway. Jon Snow asks whether some extreme political views fuelled the violence displayed by Anders Breivik when he killed 93 people in Norway.

Jody Myers: Blow, Bling and Bucks: IMF Work Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Drug traffickers, diamond smugglers, and terrorists' financiers around the world have one thing in common: they abuse the financial system to "clean" the proceeds they have obtained from their illegal work, or to transfer funds to achieve their destructive aims.

Short Sharp Science: Do casual words betray terrorists' murderous intent?

Statements from al-Qaeda provide clues to the groups'future behaviour, says Peter Aldhous

Osama Bin Laden Is On Facebook?

Don’t expect any insightful status updates from this profile.  Osama bin Laden likely won’t tell you what cave he’s hanging out in or say that he’s currently filming a video to taunt American media, but he does have his very own Facebook page just like the rest of us.  He shares video clips of

AFGE | UnionBlog

UnionBlog is a publication of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) -- the largest federal employee union representing 600,000 federal and D.C. government employees nationwide.

TSA's New Flight Restrictions: Welcome to the 20th Century | Technomix | Fast Company

flight 253By now you'll know all about the Christmas Flight 253 bomb attempt, and the draconian restrictions in place for in-bound U.S. flights. But do the TSA's emergency regulations make sense, or are they dumbly throwing us back into a pre-transistor era? The Bomb Technology

David Isenberg: Privatization: It's Not Just for State Forces

Instead of having people arguing that PMSC are always more cost-effective than regular military forces or, conversely, are never as effective, we should stipulate that it depends on what your goal is.

David Isenberg: Jack Bauer Beats Blackwater

Who knew that we will needed Jack Bauer, he of the famed Counter Terrorist Unit on the 24 TV show, to fight Blackwater as it prepares to set off a nuclear device? I certainly didn't.

CultureLab: How to catch the 'jihadi bug'

In Talking to the Enemy Scott Atran explains the social dynamics of terrorism: extremists radicalise their friends

Erwann Michel-Kerjan: Ensuring That Our Economies Remain Terror-Proof

The heads of terrorism insurance programs decided to establish -- under the aegis of the OECD High Level Advisory Board -- a permanent international platform on the financial coverage of terrorism risk.

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