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TERRORISM NEWSLETTER
#1, April 18, 2015.
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
See newsletters on War on (of) Terror and State
Terrorism.
What’s at stake: An
effort to distinguish three closely related, overlapping subjects: TERRORISM,
STATE TERRORISM, US WAR ON (WAR OF) TERRORISM
(such a large subdivision of State Terrorism needs separate treatment). For the poet Nizar Qabbani, “’terrorism’ is
the word used by oppressors to defame a national liberation struggle.” Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon (pp. 6-7).
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Index:
Contents Terrorism Newsletter #1
Howard Zinn,
Three Kinds of Terror Bombing
Zinn, Google
Search
George Monbiot,
Orwell Would Now Be a Terrorist
Dick, Boston Marathon Bomber,
Terrorist or Criminal?
2008 Mumbai
Attacks
Two Books That
Examine “Terrorism” and “Anti-Terrorism”
Melissa Finn, Al Qaeda and Sacrifice
Carrington, Transforming Terror
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Reporting on Terrorism
HOWARD
ZINN, “ON TERROR.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (August 19, 2007).
Three
kinds of terror bombings: deliberate, inevitable, unintentional. Suicide and aerial bombings equivalent. During
the War on Vietnam War and the Wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, the perpetrators
Johnson, Nixon, and Bush justified the mass killing of civilians by saying the
bombings were accidental or inadvertent.
But civilian deaths in aerial bombing are inevitable. Thus: “The terrorism of the suicide bomber
and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent.” --Dick
Google Search Results, Howard Zinn, On Terror, Feb. 17, 2014, first page
1.
Our
War on Terrorism | The Progressive
The
Progressive
By Howard
Zinn, November 2004 Issue. I am calling it "our" war on terrorism because I want to distinguish it from Bush's
war on terrorism, and from Sharon
2.
Quote by Howard Zinn: How can you have a war on terrorism when ...
Goodreads
Howard Zinn — 'How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?'
3.
Howard
Zinn on
The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism ...
Democracy
Now!
Dec
18, 2006
Howard Zinn is one of this country's most celebrated
historians. His classic work "A People's History of ...
4.
Terrorism And War by Howard Zinn - Third World Traveler
The continued expenditure of more than $300 billion for the
military every year has absolutely no effect on the danger of terrorism. If we want real
security, we ...
5.
Howard
Zinn Quotes
It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore,
it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people,
but it's ...
6.
Howard
Zinn on
Obama: "If you want to end terrorism, you have to ...
YouTube
May
14, 2009 - Uploaded by yrrmom
We ought to hold Obama to his promise to be different & bold
& to make change. So far, he hasn't come thru ...
7.
Howard
Zinn's Terrorism and
War, a review » CounterPunch: Tells ...
CounterPunch
Jun 9, 2002 - Terrorism and War, a collection of interviews with Howard Zinn by Anthony Arnove, is an honourable and rare
exception. It is a part of a series ...
8.
Historian Howard Zinn: “Largest Lie” is the “U.S. War on Terrorism ...
Jan 29, 2010 - The
“largest lie,” wrote hisorian Howard
Zinn who died yesterday at age
87, is that “everything the United
States
9.
Howard
Zinn on
War Zinn Education Project
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? ... This second edition of Howard Zinn on War is a collection of 26 short writings
chosen by ...
10. Book Review -- Terrorism and War
Terrorism and War This book contains a series of
interviews with Howard
Zinn conducted between September 2001 and late January 2002. Howard Zinn shows ...
Searches
related to Howard Zinn, On Terror
Orwell Was Hailed a Hero for Fighting in Spain.
Today He'd Be Guilty of Terrorism
George Monbiot, Guardian UK , Reader Supported News, Feb. 11, 2014
Monbiot writes: "If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006. ... They would go down as terrorists."
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George Monbiot, Guardian UK , Reader Supported News, Feb. 11, 2014
Monbiot writes: "If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006. ... They would go down as terrorists."
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BOSTON
MARATHON BOMBING
Yesterday,
April 16, 2013, two bombs exploded……..
WHAT DID
OFFCIALS AND NEWSPAPERS SAY?
WAR OR
CRIME? THE HORRIFIC DIFFERENCE A WORD
MAKES by Dick Bennett
An announcer on The Weather Channel
likened the explosions to 9-11. It is
an appropriate analogy, but with an unexpected meaning.
We allowed our leaders to turn the
destruction of the Trade
Towers
And now two young men murdered two people
and injured several with bombs. How
should that act of violence be labeled? Was it “terrorism” requiring the response of
our trillion dollars anti-terrorism apparatuses? Or a crime requiring the response of the
Boston police? What has happened to our
sense of proportion in disciplined police work?
These young men were not the shock troops
of some state terrorism or some terrorist organization. They were young men who grew up in violence
in the United States and indoctrinated by violence in the United States. Our nation, our violent, militarized nation,
called them “terrorists” and swooped
down upon them as though they were some invading army and shot to death one of
them.
Consider
the consequences of magnifying local crimes into world threats. The number of people killed in mass
shootings in the United
States
But the Bush Administration chose to call
the World Trade Buildings plane attacks by a handful of revengeful Muslims
mainly from Saudi Arabia terrorism
and to launch a global crusade—a real state
terrorism--against everybody even infinitely remotely associated with the
killers and probably as many not. And
since President Obama took office, “more than 350 [drone] strikes in Pakistan , Yemen
and Somalia Afghanistan ,
“U.S.
In this context of paranoid “war against
[by] terrorists,” let us keep our heads.
Let local, national, and international police do their work: find the killer(s) of our marathoners,
charge them, give them a trial by jury, and if found guilty send them to
prison. [As indicated at the beginning,
this was written shortly after the Marathon bombing. The surviving and youngest of the two bombers was apprehended, tried, and
convicted. At this moment—April 18,
2015-- his sentence is pending.]
References
Goodman,
Leonard. “Drone Justice Is Blind.” In
These Times (May 2013) 16.
“Harper’s
Index.” Harper’s Magazine (May 2013) 15.
2008 MUMBAI ATTACKS
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In
partnership with
American Terrorist
COMING APRIL 21, 2015Check local listings
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FRONTLINE
and ProPublica investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley.
(0:31) FRONTLINE and
ProPublica investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley.
FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman
Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration
with ProPublica,
the film -- an updated and expanded version of A Perfect Terrorist -- reveals
how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and
how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish
newspaper.
THE LATEST
The
Mumbai terrorist attacks killed 166 people — including six Americans. Could
they have been prevented?
December 21, 2014, 8:50 pm ET · by James
Glanz of The New York Times, Sebastian Rotella of
ProPublica, and David E. Sanger of The New York Times
Indian
and British intelligence agencies were both spying on the online activities
of one of the alleged plotters, but couldn’t connect the dots.
June 12, 2013, 1:51 pm ET · by
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica
Officials
have credited the program with helping to capture David Coleman Headley, but
a closer examination shows the U.S. only caught up with him after a tip from
British intelligence.
April 4, 2013, 3:38 pm ET · by
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica
A
new study released today helps explain how Lashkar-i-Taiba, one of the
world’s most dangerous militant organizations, is integrated into Pakistani
society.
Sebastian
Rotella examines new information and materials about the Mumbai terror
attacks.
January 24, 2013, 3:54 pm ET · by
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica
Although
David Coleman Headley avoided the death penalty, Judge Harry Leinenweber says
the sentence “will keep him under lock and key for the rest of his natural
life.”
A
federal judge Thursday sentenced a Chicago immigration consultant to 14 years
in prison for his role in supporting the Pakistani terrorist group that
worked with Pakistan’s intelligence service to carry out the 2008 Mumbai
attacks and plot a follow-up strike in Denmark.
An
interactive film that explores the tangled web of relationships that helped
the American behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks move from small-time drug
smuggler to international terrorist and spy.
September 4, 2012, 12:17 pm
ET · by
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica
The
Obama administration’s decision to designate the leadership of Pakistan’s
Lashkar-e-Taiba group as terrorists last week sends a pointed, if largely
symbolic, message to a Pakistani government that remains unable or unwilling
to crack down on the organization.
August 9, 2012, 12:08 pm ET · by
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica
Zabiuddin
Ansari’s statements to Indian police have reinforced evidence of Pakistani
intelligence’s role in a terror plot that killed six Americans at the same
time Pakistan was receiving billions of dollars in U.S. aid.
It’s
the tucked-away target that David Coleman Headley cased for the terrorist
group Lashkar-i-Taiba. Here’s more on the history of Chabad House, what
happened there during the 2008 attack on Mumbai and how the family members of
those killed are moving forward.
David
Coleman Headley isn’t a household name in the United States, but given his
role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai he is now as well known to Indians
as Osama bin Laden is to Americans.
Mumbai
police crime chief Deven Bharti recounts what he learned while investigating
the movements of David Coleman Headley as he scouted targets in Mumbai.
U.S.
officials say David Coleman Headley slipped through the cracks, but ex-wives
and Indian authorities say the government had information about the his
activities before the 2008 siege that killed 166 people.
It
took the 2008 Mumbai attacks for much of the world to recognize
Lashkar-i-Taiba’s threat, but renowned French investigative judge Jean-Louis
Bruguière had for years warned of the Pakistan-based terrorist group’s
evolving international ambitions.
October 20, 2011, 4:14 pm ET · by Azmat
Khan and Sabrina Shankman
After
years of criminality and deception that included scouting targets for the
2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks — a slaughter that left 166 people dead — Pakistani-American
David Coleman Headley was arrested by U.S. authorities in October 2009.
During
five days as the star witness in a federal terrorism trial in Chicago, David
Coleman Headley revealed details of what he described as his links to both
Pakistan’s intelligence service — the ISI — and the terrorist organization
Lashkar-i-Taiba.
David
Coleman Headley, an American who has confessed to helping plan the 2008
terrorist attacks in Mumbai, told a court that he plotted a similar attack
against a Danish newspaper with the support of a Pakistani terror group and
the country’s intelligence agency, the ISI.
RELATED PROGRAMS
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TWO BOOKS EXAMINE “TERRORISM” AND
SUGGEST ALTERNATIVES TO WAR
Al-Qaeda and Sacrifice: Martyrdom, War and Politics
Melissa Finn.
Pluto, 2012.
Publisher’s blurb:
(Mohammad-Mahmoud
Ould Mohamedou, Graduat)
(Wanda
Krause, Assistant Professor and Co)
(Shannon
Bell, Department of Political Sc)
(Rohan Gunaratna,
Professor of Security S)
(Mohammed
M. Hafez, Associate Professor, )
(Professor
Beverley Milton-Edwards, Schoo)
(Christina
Hellmich, University of Readin)
(Richard
Jackson, University
of Otago
(Alex
Houen, author of Terrorism and Mode)
Al-Qaeda
and Sacrifice is a pioneering critical
intervention into the study of terrorism. Challenging the commonly held idea
that ‘suicide-bombings’ are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, Melissa
Finn argues that it is more honest and helpful to examine such violent agency
through the concept of ‘sacrifice’. The book provides a unique look at the way ‘sacrifice’ is used in the Arabic
language and in the writings of Islamists and jihadis.
Finn offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought on its own terms, arguing that it constitutes a political theory which can be usefully compared and related to western political theorists, from Machiavelli and von Clausewitz to Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler. She critically examines the strategy of ‘sacrifice’ in martyrdom operations and ultimately concludes that the heedless certainty of such violence undermines attempts to redress political grievances.
Al-Qaeda and Sacrifice is a unique contribution which goes beyond simplistic or apologetic explanations of terrorism and allows the authentic jihadi voice to speak for itself.
Finn offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought on its own terms, arguing that it constitutes a political theory which can be usefully compared and related to western political theorists, from Machiavelli and von Clausewitz to Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler. She critically examines the strategy of ‘sacrifice’ in martyrdom operations and ultimately concludes that the heedless certainty of such violence undermines attempts to redress political grievances.
Al-Qaeda and Sacrifice is a unique contribution which goes beyond simplistic or apologetic explanations of terrorism and allows the authentic jihadi voice to speak for itself.
About The Author
Melissa Finn is a lecturer in the
Department of Political Science and the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo , Canada Middle East ,
entitled Veiled Constellations: The Veil,
Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society (Spring 2012).
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REVIEWED IN YES! MAGAZINE (Fall 2011) by Valerie
Trueblood.
“TERRORISM”
IN ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
[The best I can do with these few references
from 2012 at this moment is to hope our scholars and students will study our
state newspaper’s reporting of “terrorism” from 9/11 to present--substance enough
for many student papers, MA theses, and a dissertation or four.]
Foreign War on Terror 11-26-12
Fajez,
Rahim. “5 Taliban prisoners OK transfer
to Qatar
Rittel, Claudia
Isabel. “Terror suspect’s trial begins
in Germany
Savage,
Charlie. “Delays sour detainees on plea
deals with U.S.
ADG Staff. “Bin Laden Documents released: They show
terrorist losing touch with allies, keeping aim on U.S.
Abbot,
Sebastian. “Afghan al-Qaida Boss killed
in strike.” ADG 5-30-12
Youssef,
Maamoun. “Successor remembers bin
Laden.” ADG 6-4-12
Myers, Steven
Lee. Schmitt, Eric. “U.S. Labels Haqqani network as terrorists.” ADG 9-8-12
Houser, Jerry
R. (Editorial.) “Libya
ADG Staff. “ Jordan
Domestic War on Terror 10-30-12
Bloomberg
News. “Bomb conspirator’s father sent to
prison.” ADG. 2-12-12
Bloomberg
News. “Yale Law School
Finn, Peter:
The Washington U.S.
Al-Haj. “Army’s rout by al-Qaida stokes Yemenis’s
ire.” ADG. 3-7-12
Peltz,
Jennifer. “Suspect in terror plot pleads
innocent.” ADG. 3-14-12
Rising,
Malin. “ Beaten, quizzed on mosque, says
U.S.
ADG Staff. “Immunity stands in detainee suit.”
ADG. 5-3-12
Tarm,
Michael. “3 aimed to firebomb Chicago
Lavoie,
Denise. “Man admits planning to bomb
Pentagon.” ADG.
7-21-12
Schmidt,
Michael. “Airport program a magnet for
racial profiling.” ADG. 8-12-12
Yost,
Pete. “Terror surveillance query left
unanswered by agency.” ADG.
9-12-12
Forliti,,
Amy. “Jury finds man a terror
recruiter.” ADG. 10-19-12
Leverett,
Beth. (Editorial.) “The world we live in.” ADG. 10-10-12
Days, Tom. Long, Coleen.
“Bangladeshi arrested in plot to detonate bomb outside Fed.” ADG. 10-18-12
Johnson,
Gene. “Airport plotter gets tougher
prison term.” ADG. 10-25-12
Blaney,
Betsy. “Saudi man gets life.” ADG. 11-14-12
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