A truck plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers, killing 9 and injuring 50. This is the new pattern of low-tech terror attacks: knives or vehicles, weapons found easily by almost anyone: A man was arrested on suspicion of being … Continue reading →
The scene was an opening in an art gallery. The perpetrator, according to some initial reports (this is a breaking story), was a police officer with a message: According to Sky News, the attacker shouted: “We made an oath to … Continue reading →
…may have brought down an EgyptAir plane last May: TTraces of explosives have been found on the bodies from the EgyptAir crash in May ”” suggesting that the plane was bombed out of the sky by terrorists, according to several … Continue reading →
Just great: A German intelligence officer has reportedly been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency’s headquarters in Cologne… The BfV said the man “behaved inconspicuously” prior to his arrest. He had, since April, been engaged in … Continue reading →
I’m not sure how much of this book I believe. But it certainly sounds like an interesting read: The world has heard almost nothing from KSM in the 15 years since the 9/11 attacks, but Mitchell has spent thousands of … Continue reading →
Richard Landes is a brilliant writer (and a friend of mine), and I urge you to look at this post of his offering some definitions in the cognitive war fought by the press and the left in convincing the West … Continue reading →
When I was in college, I took a year-long survey course in art history. We began with a deep dive into Greek and Roman art, and then lingered long and hard on the cathedrals of Europe, particularly the Gothic variety. … Continue reading →
It’s such a familiar story. After acts of terrorism (or even non-terrorist mass shootings) we hear one of two refrains: he (or she, but it’s almost always a “he”) was a quiet and regular guy and no one saw it … Continue reading →
In all the furor over the New York bombings and the capture of the suspect-at-large, let’s not forget the Minnesota mall stabbings: The man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall before an off-duty police officer fatally shot him … Continue reading →
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a man suspected in connection with the recent New York and New Jersey bombings, has been captured after a shootout with police in New Jersey: The FBI had earlier released a wanted poster for the 28-year-old Rahami, … Continue reading →
This story could be turned into a movie. It already seems like a movie in terms of the distance, and the timing of the rescue: A sharpshooter killed a top ISIS executioner and three other jihadists with a single bullet … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is an updated version of an earlier post.] On 9/11’s 10th anniversary I wrote a post that contained this observation: For those of us who were grownups when 9/11 happened, it’s also been transmuted””not to something that was … Continue reading →