Your Turn: Facebook Terrorist
We're interested in your take on the photos of the attempted Times Square bomber.
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CSI Connecticut
If I immerse myself in the whodunnit, I don't have to worry as much about if they had done it.
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"The Black Widow" (and other Pop Allusions)
If what is evident in this photo of the 17-year-old Russian suicide bomber and her 30-year-old husband, who was killed last December, is how this young Russian women become brainwashed and victimized by the older male militant, the NYT pegs the most obvious reason this picture is buzzing around...
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Taking on the Government All the Rage these Days
The three state militia bust on Monday can't help but raise comparisons -- as well as questions about overlap -- with the Tea Party.
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The Russian Subway Bombing: Phoning it In
The Moscow subway bombing: What happens when a cell phone-equipped public in a suppressed State have the opportunity to do some citizen journalism.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Some More)
Why another cover (this, from the New York Times Magazine, about the domestic terrorist threat of Islamic terrorism -- especially the same week when Terrorist and Pro-(unborn)Life activist Scott Roeder is convicted of killing an abortion doctor?
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Brandon and Shafiq’s Excellent Adventure
As the story goes, Brandon Neely -- a former Gitmo guard suffering from guilt and regret -- happened to look up some former prisoners on Facebook; apologies and well wishes were exchanged; and now, world peace! (And, a BBC special.)
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Obama the Double Agent?
And what, I wonder, was going on in the mind of this illustrator, and, especially, the editors of the Times Opinion section, not to notice, let alone, head off even the possible association of Obama to the evil doers?
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Stripped Naked By Al-Qaeda (and I Haven’t Even Been to the Airport)
Memo to al-Qaeda: The plan actually worked! Abdulmutallab didn't even need to detonate his explosive to literally scare the pants off the non-Muslim world with all these photos of near-naked airline passengers.
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Autumn Leaves
The collection of pictures circulating of failed Detroit airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a school trip to London in '03 is making it nearly impossible for the right-wing to hype his danger.
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The Near Explosion in Abdulmutallab's Underwear. An ABC Exclusive.
Thanks to ABC for cobbling together the cash to bring us an exclusive look at foiled shoe bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear. I haven't been so excited since I saw that photo inside Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's laundry dryer.
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Abdulmutallab — in Muslim Prayer Cap — "Looking More the Part"
While all photos of Abdulmutallab so far look distinctly secular, SITE has released the first image of him -- a screen grab from a militant Islamic website -- wearing a Muslim prayer cap.
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Airport Security Increased After Terrorism Attempt
As you can imagine, news sites have been filled with photos illustrating heightened airline security since the failed attack on an international flight over Detroit on Christmas Day. This ironic Getty shot symbolizes the scope of the problem.
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Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist
By tying in Fort Hood, Phil Wolf's birther billboard constructed at his Colorado auto lot takes the "Obama as a closet Muslim" (or "Obama as secret Jihadist") scare tactic to a whole new and much sicker level.
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British Army Accused of Sexual Abuse of Detainees in Iraq
I sympathise with arguments to say that only through release of such images can the world know the full extent of what happened, but I also doubt what we can actually and accurately “know” from photographs that we wouldn’t otherwise learn through full disclosure and description of events. ......
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New York to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Bring in On
With Khalid Shaikh Mohammed coming to New York for trial, the huge front page photo actually reads two-ways, the city ready to stare him down.
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100% of Your Weekly Dose of Terrorism Panic
What is especially warped about the new TIME Hasan raccoon cover is how the "psycho x-ray" effect turns what is otherwise a tragically complex story into a one-frame horror movie.
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Killing Ourselves
If Nidal Hasan lost his mind (as opposed to "crossing over to the enemy") just preceding the killing spree at Ft. Hood, this photo offers some context for it.
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