Topic: terror deterrence

January 6, 2014
9:55 pm

This June 26, 1997, file booking photo provided by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, shows Colleen R. LaRose, also known as 'Jihad Jane.' (AP/Tom Green County Jail, File)

‘Jihad Jane’ sentenced to 10 years for terror plot

Pennsylvania woman claims she planned to kill Swedish artist while under a jihad-induced trance

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

August 10, 2013
2:46 am

Police stop cars at a checkpoint near the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, in August (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

After terror threat, US to reopen 18 diplomatic missions

Embassy in Yemen to remain closed

January 20, 2013
7:10 pm

A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Shin Bet, police foil Israeli Bedouin terror plots

Four men arrested, including an IDF soldier; suspects confess planning to plant bombs, fire rockets at major Israeli cities

By Adiv Sterman

April 3, 2012
8:18 am

Students run by a bomb shelter in an elementary school in the coastal city of Ashkelon (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Defense officials: 300 dead in event of coordinated missile attack on Israel

From the web Haaretz: Ministers hear reports that a three-week combined barrage from Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah would leave hundreds dead and injured

March 23, 2012
7:53 pm

Hundreds gather in Toulouse to pay their respects to the victims of Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus)

Europe wakes up to danger of Islamist terror

Europol chief: ‘We have a different kind of jihadist threat emerging and it’s getting stronger’

February 14, 2012
1:45 pm

Indian officials examine a car belonging to the Israeli embassy, after Monday's attack wounded one person. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

More than mere revenge

Iran and Hezbollah, the alleged architects of the terror plots in Georgia, India and Thailand, may be seeking to achieve a new balance of power

By Mitch Ginsburg