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By Bernie Lopez After the Boston Bombing Affair, there is a need to do some deep reflection on what is really happening to our world today, and on the real causes of terrorism. Reflex reactions are not helping any. Catching culprits is half a solution. The Boston bombing caused widespread fear, panic, and anger among Americans nationwide. There was a frenzy in the media and Read More …
“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.” EMIL ZATOPEK By Alex P. Vidal Many of us saw the actual video on the internet when the two blasts occurred near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon (117th edition) on Monday (Tuesday morning in the Philippines), and it was evident the real targets Read More …
By Mike Frialde The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Eight men charged with terrorism-related offenses in Malaysian courts in connection with the violence in Sabah are neither Filipinos nor followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani said yesterday. He said one of the men had even assumed the identity of one of the fighters of the sultanate killed by Malaysian forces Read More …
Source: The Daily Tribune The United States yesterday issued a security alert for Metro Manila, warning its citizens they could be the target of an unspecified attack. The US Embassy in Manila released a statement calling for US citizens to exercise extreme caution and consider canceling American gatherings in the capital. “The US Embassy advises American citizens in the Philippines that a threat against American Read More …
By PIERRE THOMAS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, DANA HUGHES and KEVIN DOLAK ABC NEWS A U.S. intelligence bulletin warned today that the violent outrage aimed at U.S. embassies spawned by a movie mocking the Prophet Mohammed could be spread to America by extremist groups eager to “exploit anger.” The Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said “the risk of violence Read More …
Crowd may exceed 9M-estimate; Tagle outlines moral ‘Daang Matuwid’ BY GERARD NAVAL MALAYA MILLIONS of devotees yesterday took the Black Nazarene from the Luneta Grandstand to the Minor Basilica in Quiapo on the occasion of its feast day, unfazed by a warning from President Aquino on Sunday that terrorists might disrupt the annual procession. Chief Insp. Randy Maluyo, commander of the Manila Police District Luneta Read More …
By Delon Porcalla The Philippine Star President Aquino is joined by (from left) AFP chief Lt. Gen. Jessie Dellosa, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, National Security Adviser Cesar Garcia, Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa, Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and PNP chief Nicanor Bartolome during a media briefing at Malacañang on the terrorist threat during today’s celebration of the Nazarene feast. MANILA, Philippines Read More …
by Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill an American-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, including the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. Anwar al-Awlaki was Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star Many Filipinos are under the mistaken notion that the September 11, 2001 attack — now popularly called 9/11 — on New York City’s Twin Towers is more of a US problem and hardly affects us. They couldn’t be more wrong. Unlike Spain, the UK and other subsequent targets of Al Qaeda, the terror Read More …
By Erick San Juan At the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (A Graduate School of Nanyang Technological University) in Singapore recently, Associate professor Ahmed S. Hashim of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research lectured on “Terrorism as an Instrument of Culture Warfare: the Meaning of Anders Breivik”. Hashim said that the terrorist attack of July 23,2011 launched by a lone right-wing extremist Read More …