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Major terrorist attacks since 9/11 Sean Clarke details the most serious terror attacks around the world since September 11 2001 Thursday July 7, 2005 Guardian Unlimited March 2002, Israel .. October 12 2002, Bali, Indonesia .. October 23 2002, Moscow .. May 16 2003, Casablanca, Morocco .. May 12 2003, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .. November 20 2003, Istanbul, Turkey .. March 11 2004, Madrid .. September 1 - 3 2004, Beslan, Russia .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523552,00.html The Guardian list is incomplete, missing (for example) the bombing of the UN in Iraq. One should ask, too, exactly what constitutes terrorism, because the Administration often uses creative accounting: U.S. Campaign Produces Few Convictions on Terrorism Charges Statistics Often Count Lesser Crimes By Dan Eggen and Julie Tate Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, June 12, 2005; Page A01 First of two parts .. Flanked by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Bush said that "federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of those charged have been convicted." .. An analysis of the Justice Department's own list of terrorism prosecutions by The Washington Post shows that 39 people -- not 200, as officials have implied -- were convicted of crimes related to terrorism or national security .. Among all the people charged as a result of terrorism probes in the three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The Post found no demonstrated connection to terrorism or terrorist groups for 180 of them. Just one in nine individuals on the list had an alleged connection to the al Qaeda terrorist network and only 14 people convicted of terrorism-related crimes -- including Faris and convicted Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui -- have clear links to the group. Many more cases involve Colombian drug cartels, supporters of the Palestinian cause, Rwandan war criminals or others with no apparent ties to al Qaeda or its leader, Osama bin Laden .. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100381.html Thousands of hate crimes are committed annually by groups of the sort that spawned Tim McVeigh FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threat .. AMY GOODMAN: Looking at the piece that you did in The Washington Post, "Behind the Lone Terrorist, a Pack Mentality," you talk about every once in a while, a follower of these movements bursts violently into our world with deadly consequences. McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Buford Furrow, Jr., Paul Hill, to name just a few, all convicted murderers, identified as lone extremists, the most difficult terrorists to stop, because they act independently from any organization. Or do they? You write, “Tim McVeigh seemed able to find a militia meeting wherever he went. He was linked to militia groups in Arizona and Michigan, white supremacist groups in Oklahoma and Missouri, and at gun shows he sold copies of The Turner Diaries, the racist novel written by the founder of a neo-Nazi organization. No one finds such groups by accident.” You talk about Eric Rudolph who planted the bombs at the Atlanta Olympics, two abortion clinics, gay nightclub, grew up in the Christian Identity Movement, which identifies whites as God’s chosen people and encourages the faithful to follow the Biblical example of Phineas, by becoming instruments of God’s vengeance. Aryan Nations, formerly of Hayden Lake, Idaho, was the center of Christian Identity thought. Not incidentally, Buford Furrow worked there as a security guard before going on a shooting rampage at a Jewish day care center in Southern California. And you talk about Paul Hill, wrote of the need to take Phineas actions to prevent abortions and was so well known that the news media used to -- used him to speak in support of Michael Griffin's killing of abortion doctor, David Gunn, that Hill later shot an abortion provider himself should have surprised no one. Give us the landscape of these groups. They're well known. MIKE GERMAN: Sure, they're well known. And they're very well organized, and they're very smart. They understand criminal conspiracy laws. They understand the First Amendment. And they take advantage of those in training their operatives to go out and do these activities. And the point I was trying to make is -- is that we can’t look at these as isolated instances. It would be as if we were investigating the mafia and looking at every mafia hitman as a lone assassin and not looking at the underlying organization that was producing these murders, you know. And these people are careful, the leadership are careful about separating themselves from the actual criminal conspiracy, you know. But they do set the motive. They set the method that's used, and I believe that makes them part of the conspiracy. Now, I’m not saying necessarily you can make a criminal case against them, but all I’m saying is if we're -- if our number one priority is to prevent acts of terrorism, we have to pay attention to these needle factories, because that's what they're producing is these lone extremist terrorists. And it's not just random violence that occurs once in a while, it's an organized pattern of activity .. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/145217Posted: May 1, 2003 Prosecutors in Pierce County, Washington, have charged four white supremacists in connection with the brutal beating and murder of a homeless man in Tacoma. Scotty James Butters, 20, Kurtis William Monschke, 19, David Nikos Pillatos, 19, and Tristian Lynn Frye, 22, are charged with first-degree aggravated murder in the March 23, 2003 killing of Randall Mark Townsend, 42, a homeless man. According to prosecutors, the four assailants, all members of a white supremacist gang, attacked Townsend with baseball bats, a boulder, and their fists and boots during the assault. Pillatos is alleged to have hit the victim in the face with a baseball bat and a large rock, while Butters, Monschke and Frye allegedly punched, stomped and kicked him repeatedly. Townsend died on April 12 of injuries he sustained in the assault. Prosecutors said the assailants were hunting for African-American drug addicts as part of a gang initiation rite when they encountered Townsend under the East 26 Street Bridge. The court documents allege that Frye wanted to earn red laces for her boots, a reward given to skinheads who physically assault enemy "parasites" and cause them to bleed .. http://www.adl.org/learn/news/tacoma_Murder.aspUpdated June 14, 2005, 12:20 p.m. ET Preacher accused of civil rights murders greets white supremacists as trial opens .. Edgar Ray Killen, a sawmill operator confined to a wheelchair by a March logging accident, shook hands with a Georgia Klansman as he was helped from a car in front of the Neshoba County courthouse. He acknowledged another man wearing an Aryan Nation pin. The warm greeting in full view of about 30 reporters and a dozen camera crews appeared to be a signal of defiance by Killen. Since his arrest in January, he has maintained his innocence but said those who carried out the murders did nothing wrong .. http://www.courttv.com/trials/killen/061305_ctv.html Friday, Jan. 14, 2005 White Supremacists, After Plotting to Kill Judge, Lose Attorney Fee Dispute By Deborah Nathan, Esq. Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter A white-supremacist group can be held liable for attorney fees in a trademark infringement case because of harassing and criminal litigation conduct, including plotting to kill the trial judge, according to a federal appeals court ruling that stretched fee-shifting under the Lanham Act beyond the law's traditional infringement provisions .. Hale went so far as to solicit the murder of Judge Lefkow and attempt to influence her by force. He was arrested by federal agents in January 2003 and was convicted on the charges last spring. United States v. Hale, No. 03 CR 0011 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 26, 2004) .. http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/bt/int/20050114/20050114tetama.htmlMarch 1, 2005 -- The husband and mother of a federal judge who was targeted for assassination by World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) chieftain Matthew Hale were murdered inside her Chicago home, two years after white supremacists publicized her home address and photos of her family on the internet. U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow came home from work and discovered the bodies of her husband, Chicago attorney Michael F. Lefkow, 64, and her mother, 89-year-old Donna Grace Humphrey, around 6 p.m. Monday. The victims reportedly had been murdered execution-style, each shot in the back of the head with a .22-caliber firearm .. http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=11Do check out the photo at the link! |
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