Terrorism Archive

  • Pentagon partially blames the Internet for that Christmas underpants bomber

    Pentagon partially blames the Internet for that Christmas underpants bomber

    This is the lede, verbatim, from a story that appeared in The Hill yesterday: "The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day 'within weeks,' a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday." What's the implication, that because someone used the Internet to plan something, something bad, we should get rid of it? Fine by me, believe me.

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  • On Mr. Sizzly Pants, terrorism, and airline safety

    On Mr. Sizzly Pants, terrorism, and airline safety

    I’m safely ensconced in a ski hut in Austria but I’ll be traveling back to the US of A shortly and I look forward to not being able to use electronic items in the last hour of my nine hour flight. After all, that is the magic hour, the hour during which most intercontinental planes [...]

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