Questions tagged [terrorism]
Questions about terrorism or related events, directly or indirectly.
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Why are there no "calls for Putin to act with tremendous restraint" in response to a terror attack, but many for Netanyahu?
Re 2024Mar Crocus City Hall attack, Ben Shapiro told Piers Morgan: "I don't see a lot of calls for Putin to act with tremendous restraint". See starting 15:11 in Piers Morgan vs Ben Shapiro |...
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Why is Hamas holding hostage citizens from neutral countries and not promptly releasing them (or at least pledging to do so)?
Hamas captured 11 Thai citizens (Reuters 2023-10-09, The Times of Israel 2023-10-10).
I understand that in the fog of war, Hamas may inadvertently have captured citizens from neutral countries.
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How often have government-issued warnings about imminent terrorist threats been followed by actual attacks?
As per NBC (the prediction ended up being false, zero attacks followed the warning):
U.S. citizens in Moscow have been warned to avoid large gatherings
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Has any Iranian leader accused the USA or Israel of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks after 2017?
In 2010 the sixth President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered 3 points explaining who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks at the United Nations.
Video Here
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How is the October 7th attack classified as terrorism based on casualty statistics, and how does it compare to similar events?
I would like to start with a profound acknowledgment of the tragic loss of life in the October 7th incident, and my deepest respects go to all those who have been affected. I have no intention of ...
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Why does the US view Iran as its principal geopolitical adversary in the Middle East?
The vast majority of Islamist terrorism against the US and Europe is done by Saudi-aligned Salafi jihadist groups. Indeed, this was the case in the worst act of terrorism against the US—indeed, ...
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What is ISIS fighting for?
I can't find anything on the subject that isn't extremely biased in either direction... Can anyone give me a down to earth answer to what ISIS's ideology is, what exactly are they fighting for? They ...
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Do any international treaties prohibit sending weapons to terrorists?
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the ICJ found that Russia had violated the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism by failing to investigate people who had allegedly funded pro-...
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Why is recent international (Europe, N-America, …) Islamist terrorism exclusively perpetrated by Sunnis?
According to the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terrorist attacks with fatalities in Western Europe has recently started to rise for the first time since the 1970s:
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Did Palestinian leaders publicly condemn October 7th atrocities as immoral?
This question asks whether Palestinian politicians have criticized Hamas.
The answers all describe Palestinian leaders/politicians who blame Hamas for the harm they've done to Gaza; but it seems as ...
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Is it legal to justify a terrorist attack against the Iranian people by Iranian opposition group (or Israelis who speak Persian) in the west? [closed]
According to the NBC:
Two explosions killed at least 84 people in southern Iran on Wednesday at a memorial event for a senior Iranian general killed in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, ramping up tensions ...
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Why does the IDF spread out weapon discoveries on blankets? [closed]
Although this is a bit of a military question, it becomes political.
When the Israeli Defense Forces releases evidence of Hamas weaponry discovered in Gaza, it's often shown arranged neatly in the ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
The BBC got quite a bit of criticism for not referring to Hamas as terrorists, and they apparently caved in.
But I see the Voice of America, which is just as tightly if not more so coupled with the US ...
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Do the intersectional feminist organizations concern themselves with the fate of the kidnapped in Gaza?
As in, had any of them demanded the release of the hostages or allowing the Red Cross access to them? Information about them? Since October 7, we know nothing about the fate of the kidnapped.
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Were any humanitarian organisations involved in trying to recover the Israeli pilot, Ron Arad
Arad, an Air Force officer was missing in action since 1986. According to this Wikipedia page there were numerous efforts by the Israeli government to negotiate his release, or information about him, ...
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Has Israel, or anyone else, confirmed the Hamas claim that some hostages have been killed by Israel's bombing attack?
Hamas says 60 hostages killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip since Oct. 7:
Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, said Saturday that 60 Israeli hostages have been killed in Israeli airstrikes ...
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Unusual ways to release hostages
When a terrorist organization takes hostages from a country, there are two "usual" ways that the country can use in order to release them: (1) negotiate a deal with the captors, or (2) try ...
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How coordinated are the different factions in the Gaza Strip?
Watching today a video on Reddit's combat footage of sweaty dudes in civilian clothes mounting some variations of quassam rockets, pointing what looks like Israel's general direction and firing, I ...
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Why doesn't Israel consider the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist group?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood
Why doesn't Israel consider the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist group?
For some reason, Egypt considers it to be a terrorist group, but Israel ...
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Disqualification to hold US office for having "given aid or comfort to the enemies" of the United States
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution reads:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or ...
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Did Hamas or the Islamic Jihad ever took blame for rocket misfires?
The recent Gaza hospital blast has caused significant loss of life.
Estimates range between 471-500 (Gaza HM) and 100-300 (US intelligence) people killed. (AP), and there still an ongoing ...
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If the EU considers a group to be a terrorist group, does that mean every EU member also does?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/26/eu-court-upholds-hamas-terror-listing
The European Union’s top court has ruled that the Palestinian Islamist
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Is there a consensus around the word "terrorism"? [closed]
Following the operation of Hamas in Israel, and Israel's response, there have been in France a lot of discussions about a large party not wanting to use the word "terrorism" to describe ...
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What is the legal status of the CIA involved in attacks by Ukraine spies on Russian territory? [closed]
According to WP article from 23 oct 2023, CIA was involved in Security Service of Ukraine operations including ones that might not be justified depending on definition of "legal military target&...
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Why did Hamas release these two Israeli-American hostages (but not others)?
Reuters (2023-10-20):
Judith Tai Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie, 17, were handed over to Israeli forces at the Gaza Strip border on Friday, becoming the first captives whose release by Hamas ...
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Is there a reason why the U.S. didn't impose the recent financial sanctions on Hamas preemptively before the recent attacks?
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1816
October 18, 2023
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on ten key ...
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Did Iran retaliate against Sweden in any way after the latter designated IRGC as terrorists?
According to Wikipedia, in Europe only one country designates the IRGC as terrorist: Sweden since May 2023. When the US declared the IRGC terrorists in 2019, Iran retaliated symbolically by declaring ...
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Why did Hamas kidnap children? [closed]
According to the NBC news the hamas terrorists intentionally targeted children
to take them hostage.
"kill as many people as possible, seize hostages and quickly move them into the Gaza Strip.&...
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Why do the Canadian Liberals not designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization?
The Conservative Party of Canada (official opposition) has continuously called the Liberals (ruling party) to designate the IRGC (Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps) as a terrorist organization.
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Why is US reluctant to consider Russia a state sponsor of terrorism?
CNN mentions that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a request to US President Joe Biden to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a ...
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Has the UN Terrorist Financing Convention had a material impact?
The UN Terrorist Financing Convention was agreed to in 1999 and has been ratified by 188 nations, yet very little information is available on the material impact it has had on preventing terror ...
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Did Russia publish a detailed report as to who sabotaged the gas and electricity pipelines to Georgia in 2006? Was Georgia convinced?
In January 2006:
Four explosions on Russia's side of the border created the shortages, Georgian and Russian officials said. The first two occurred at roughly the same time, before sunrise, severing ...
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Non-subjective definition of "terrorist", or widely used equivalent term?
Philipp comments:
...We all know that one side's terrorists are another side's freedom fighters...
Suppose big Country X provides arms to little Country y's native "freedom fighters", who do ...
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Are there Jewish religious fundamentalists that subscribe to politics of violence?
There are umpteen examples of religion being used in politics. In our modern times, with secular principles enshrined in most democracies, the influence of religion in governance has greatly reduced. ...
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What is the current internationally accepted way of resisting an external power that invades a country?
As is common in modern history, the last few decades have seen superpowers and great powers invading sovereign countries in the Middle East, Africa, South America and Central Asia under various ...
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Why is US refurbishing Pakistan's F-16s? What impact will it have on US-India relations?
As per this news article and many others, the US has recently (September 2022) approved sustaining Pakistan's F-16 fighter jets.
During the Presidency of Donald Trump, the US-Pakistan cooperation in ...
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Is there a list of which country has how many (UN-designated) terrorists / terrorist entities
Recently, India's statement on Pakistan said:
No other country can boast having 126 UN-designated terrorists and 27 UN-designated terrorist entities
Is this correct?
Is there a list of which ...
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What will be the practical implications if European Parliament designates Russian Federation a state sponsor of terrorism?
Today (as of the time this question is created) there will be a vote in the European Parliament on this. If the designation is supported, then I wonder what the practical implications will be if any.
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How accountable will Russia be if it emerges they have supplied the Surface-to-Air Weaponry that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17?
After today's events, there is a lot of speculation that Flight MH17 was brought down by surface to air weapons.
Witnesses appear to have heard the loud explosions before the flight crashed, and ...
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What's the relation of FDR and Wilson to War on Terror/terrorism in House of Cards? [closed]
In House of Cards, Frank Underwood brings up FDR and Wilson when saying that he wants to declare war on ICO (fictional terrorist group possibly related to ISIS). What's the relation please? I mean, ...
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On which basis does Israel designate NGOs as terrorist organizations?
Recently Israel designated several human rights NGOs as terrorist organizations. The six organizations are alleged to have links to the PFLP:
The Israeli defence ministry said they were linked to the ...
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Who in US Congress with close ties to militias & white power groups suggested the US government had "real culpability" in Oklahoma City Bombing/1995?
In the Hari Sreenivasan interview of "Nicole Hemmer... an author and historian specializing in the history of conservative media in the U.S" in the June 10, 2022 How Laundering a Conspiracy ...
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Tunisia's list of designated terrorist organizations?
According to BBC:
Tunisia has designated the hardline Salafist Ansar al-Sharia movement a "terrorist group"
[...] "Anyone belonging to it must face judicial consequences," he ...
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What is the content of the tweets that Canan Kaftancıoğlu was sentenced for?
There are lots of articles writing about the prosecution of Canan Kaftancıoğlu. For example this, this and this all come right after their wikipedia page when I search her name.
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Why has Germany not seen as many Islamist terror attacks as France, Italy or the UK?
The German intelligence agencies often complain, that they are ill-equipped to deal with terror attacks efficiently because they lack the legal authority to use certain surveillance methods.
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What triggered the current wave of Palestinian terrorism in Israel?
Israel is currently experiencing a wave of Palestinian/Islamic terror which it had not seen "in many years" - with three shooting attacks and one stabbing attack in less than 2 weeks.
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President Trump tweeted that the US will be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. Does he have that power?
President Donald Trump tweeted
"The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a
Terrorist Organization."
Can he do that? Why or why not?
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Designate a country as "State Sponsor of Terrorism"
Now, when petition to "Designate Russia as State Sponsor of Terrorism" has reached the required number of 100,000 signatures, I am trying to figure out for myself, what exactly does this term mean, ...
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Would it save lives in London to arm every individual police officer?
Cressida Dick, the Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, said on the radio this morning that she continued to be opposed to ordinary police officers in London being routinely armed. Britain ...
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What was the (alleged) involvement of the Spanish secret services in the 2017 Barcelona terror attack?
A tweet is taking off on twitter, claiming a connection between the Spanish secret service (CNI) and the 2017 Barcelona attacks:
Spanish former police chief admits that the Spanish secret services (...
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