terrorist
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It states that the offence was aggravated under Section 31 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, as amended by the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021, because it had a "terrorist connection".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Two days later, the US designated Brazil's two largest drug cartels as terrorist organizations -- which Flavio has said was a personal request.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Even those too young to have any real-time memory of the terrorist attacks have received the trauma by osmosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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
"Nigeria is not safe -- terrorists, kidnappers, bandits everywhere," said Becky Alegbe, a street vendor in Abuja.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his top defense officials in the wake of the incident, pledging to “act with full force against the terrorists and those who dispatch them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
On the morning the terrorists struck the Twin Towers in New York, I was in the eleventh grade.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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