Terrorism

Friday 29th of March 2024

Terrorism America's debate over how to uproot Islamist terrorism is as much about defeating political enemies at home as it is about coping with ground realities in the Middle East. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 21, 2015 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism In the CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] study of 893 terrorist incidents on US soil between January 1994 and May 2020,  only 22 of the 3,086 deaths due to terrorism were caused by left-wing groups. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Terrorism The more fear you make, the more loot you take.  Lex Luther, Superman's arch enemy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism Terror is the given of the place. … Body dumps are seen in El Salvador as a kind of visitors' must-do, difficult but worth the detour. “Of course you have seen El Playón,” an aide to President Alvaro Magaña said to me one day, and proceeded to discuss the site geologically, as evidence of the country's geothermal resources. Joan Didion, Salvador © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism They are heavily armed with M16 rifles, pistols, butcher knives, and often all three, and they take obvious pleasure in causing pain: beating people; breaking anything  breakable; stealing; torching cars and homes;  destroying food, water tanks, and solar panels; and shooting in the air — and sometimes not in the air. They have a standard formula that has been repeated in village after village: “You have twenty-four hours to leave. If you don’t, we’ll be back to kill all of you.” David Shulman, New York Review of Books, December 21, 2023, describing the 593 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian farmers and shepards in the West Bank in the first half of 2023 alone, which are ignored by police and Israeli army occupiers © 2023 Kwiple.com
Terrorism Two-thirds of its [America's] terrorist incidents last year were carried out by homegrown extremists from the far-right. That rose to 90 per cent in the first five months of this year. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 10, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com