The Threat of Domestic Terrorism
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-05-04/threat-domestic-terrorism
FDNY members in Times Square investigating a suspicious van on January 1, 2010
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Investigators continue gathering evidence from Saturday's failed car bomb in Times Square: Counter terrorism experts weigh in on the incident and domestic terrorism trends.
Guests
Bruce Hoffman
senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center,
professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, author of "American Jihad: Why al Qaeda is Winning", The National Interest", May/June 2010,
and a book "Inside Terrorism.", 2006
David Cole
professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and author of "The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable". Previous books include "Less Safe, Less Free," and "Terrorism and the Constitution."
Samuel Rascoff
professor of law, New York University School of Law,
director, intelligence analysis unit at the New York City Police Department
Anne Kornblut
reporter, "The Washington Post."
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I can't believe how our authorities (police, gov't, etc) aways have to release all the information of the case and to me it sounds like bragging. This gives the next group a leg or to up on how to commitee the crime....the public doesn't need to know all that....let it come out at the trial. Shut up about the details etc!!!! then your guest said we are in an open society and thats the price we pay.....nuts to that its not smart and it can come out at the trial.
I'm always wondering why the issue of our policies of indulgance toward the Israeli occupation of Palestinians and their territories isn't discussed in relation to terrorism.
As far as I know, we are still at war. The war continues on the afpak border and in Iraq. Let's not forget about the drones that have killed many innocents. Here in the US we have no idea about life in that region. The reasons for war seem far too abstract. Furthermore, we have no sense of what life is like in that region.
Seems like the times square incident is more an act of war than an act of 'terror'.
This is less about religion and more about politics.
Hello:
I was listening to this morning program about terrorism and I heard an email from a listener that mentioned Hammas as a terrorist organization. I am an American citizen with Palestinian roots and while I strongly disapprove of Hammas's Ideology, I take and issue with calling a terrorist organization.Hammas has never attacked any American interest. Who does Hammas terrorize? Israel? Israel is a military entity with a flag and it is occupying Palestinian land. If anyone should be called a terrorist, it is Israel that has been strangling Gaza for 3 years and waged a genocidal war against a trapped population. If you research history since 1973 , you will see that Israel is the country that has waged the most wars or attacks against its neighbor under the pretense of security.
I don't know when my fellow American citizens would realize that it is the actions of our government that give ammunition to the terrorists who attack us.
This car bomber sounds more like the guy who flew a plane into the IRS building than an international terrorist. I heard in the news that his home was forclosed on last year. He had financial problems similar to the guy who flew the plane into the building. It's no excuse, but he doesn't sound like the car bombers of the middle east.
A caller was indignant that the authorities had released information on how Faisal Shahzad had been found such as the VIN number on the vehicle's engine. No one on your panel, Diane, pointed out that anyone who has seen a couple of episodes of any police show on TV is well-aware that VIN numbers are found on various parts of automobiles including the engine. Indeed, TV shows, movies, and crime/spy novels routinely provide much information and ideas that would-be terrorists can use. In a free society this is always going to be the case.