terrorist
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In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Joseph Fransen, the study’s chief author, told the Commission that he took inspiration from the federal government’s 9/11 after-action report, which dissected mistakes leading up to the terrorist attack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Since World War I, the stock exchange has also been shuttered because of extreme weather, the 1977 New York City blackout and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Under Tanzanian law, offences such as recruiting for, facilitating, harbouring or supporting terrorists or terrorist groups carry severe penalties.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Flock CEO Garrett Langley has accused some opponents of being "terrorists," stoking the fire.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Entebbe a decade ago where he said: "I learned from my brother that you need two things to defeat the terrorists: clarity and courage."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
On Thursday, his name appeared on Russia's online register of "terrorists and extremists" -- a blacklist maintained by Russia's Rosfinmonitoring financial watchdog.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The changes were designed to toughen punishments for terrorists and enhance deterrence against extremism, some officials have said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
On the other hand, the seventeen Americans killed by terrorists in 1985 were among the 28 million of us who traveled abroad that year—that’s one chance in 1.6 million of becoming a victim.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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President Obama's Speech to the Nation about Terrorism
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