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News Articles: terrorism

President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement that Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. President Donald Trump makes a statement announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. President Biden announces on Monday that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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  • Politics

How 3 presidents announced the deaths of terrorist leaders and what it says about them

The way Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden announced the deaths of terrorist chiefs revealed much about their own leadership.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Ayman al-Zawahiri is seen in a still from an August 2006 video shown on Al Jazeera.

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  • National Security

Does the killing of al-Zawahiri make Americans safer? It's complicated

The State Department warns of potential anti-American violence following the U.S. killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Experts say his loss hurts the group, but doesn't erase the threat.

August 03, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Demonstrators protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Independence Square in front of the Parliament Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 24, 2022. Lithuania's parliament has since declared Russia a perpetrator of terrorism and genocide.

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  • Europe

Lithuania designates Russia as a terrorist country, a global first

The resolution, which passed unanimously, comes a day after Lithuania's foreign minister publicly urged a regime change in Russia.

May 10, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Charlie Cytron-Walker, rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, center, makes a statement to the media after a service at White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022.

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  • National

White House says Texas synagogue gunman raised no red flags

Akram was not believed to be included in the Terrorist Screening Database, a listing of known or suspected terrorists maintained by the FBI.

January 19, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
An American flag at ground zero on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

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  • Law

The World Has Changed Since 9/11, And So Has America's Fight Against Terrorism

In 2001, as the nation mourned those killed on 9/11, the government tried to find its footing to prevent more terrorist attacks. In the 20 years since, the nature of those threats has evolved.

September 10, 2021
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Richard and Lori Guadagno around 2001.

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  • Family

Her Brother Died On Flight 93. She Still Sees Him Surfacing In Small Ways

Richard Guadagno died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on 9/11. His memory is scattered through his sister Lori's house in items that continue a conversation between the siblings 20 years later.

September 07, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Detrow and
  • Tim Lambert
Sydney Robison, center, looks on during a vigil for U.S. Marines Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover Sunday in Salt Lake City. Hoover was among the 13 U.S. troops killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport.

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  • Analysis

Here's How Presidents Have Responded To Terrorism

Presidents' reactions have consistently combined outrage with promises of revenge. The language is remarkably similar. But there has been far less consistency in the delivery of actual retaliation.

August 31, 2021
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By:
  • Ron Elving
In 2008, people hold portraits of a former member of Italy's disbanded Red Brigades group Marina Petrella as they take part in a rally in Paris against her extradition to Italy. Petrella is one of seven individuals whose arrest in France was announced Wednesday.

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  • Europe

French Police Arrest Extremist Red Brigades Members Sought By Italy

The members of the violent radical-left Italian terrorist group active in the 1970s and 1980s were arrested Wednesday after years of living under de facto French asylum.

April 28, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
<em>Wall Street Journal</em> newspaper reporter Daniel Pearl was killed by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. A video of his interrogation and death was sent to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and posted on the Internet.

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  • Asia

Pakistan Court Orders Release Of Man Accused Of Killing 'Wall Street Journal' Reporter

Journalist Daniel Pearl's beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2002. The murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was overturned last year.

January 28, 2021
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
GPB News NPR

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  • Race

What Does It Mean To Call The Capitol Rioters 'Terrorists'?

Some say it's the precise word to describe the actions of the pro-Trump extremists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But others warn its use will do more harm than good.

January 15, 2021
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By:
  • Shereen Marisol Meraji
Capitol

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  • News

Georgia Officials, Organizations React to Insurrection At U.S. Capitol

Georgia officials and organizations have issued mixed reactions, from a strong condemnation by the Governor to silence in some cases, to Wednesday's siege of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump extremists.

January 06, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah Rose
Russell Travers, who was the acting director of National Counterterrorism Center, is shown in an appearance before a Senate committee in 2018. Travers, who was ousted from his position in March of this year, says in an interview with NPR that the center is not being given the resources needed to perform its mission of monitoring and analyzing terrorist threats worldwide.

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  • National Security

Ex-Counterterrorism Chief: Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Attacks

Russ Travers was ousted from the National Counterterrorism Center in March. In his first broadcast interview since then, he warns that the U.S. risks becoming less prepared for a terror attack.

July 21, 2020
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By:
  • Greg Myre
From left: Luke Austin Lane, Jacob Kaderli and Michael Helterbrand are accused of plotting "to overthrow the government and murder a Bartow County couple," according to police in Floyd County, Ga.

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  • Race

Amid 3 North Georgia Arrests, The State Of White Supremacy In The U.S.

Last week, federal agents arrested seven suspected members of the white supremacist group “The Base.” Among the suspects, three men from North Georgia —...

January 24, 2020
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jake Troyer

Officials Recognize Controversial History with New Landmark

On Tuesday, members of the Dekalb County Commission unanimously passed a measure to build a memorial to recognize victims of lynching and racial...

January 24, 2019
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By:
  • Morgan Carter and
  • Sophia Saliby
 Black Lives Matter protesters sit on Peachtree Street during a protest in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in response to the police shooting deaths of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Okla. and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C.

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  • Politics

ACLU Says New Georgia Terrorism Law Is Broader Than The Patriot Act

Since its passage in the wake of 9/11, the Patriot Act has become a symbol to civil liberties activists for any law which invades personal freedoms in...

July 11, 2017
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  • Max Moran
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