'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

Some thoughts on Megrahi and Lockerbie

There is currently a huge amount of over-heated rhetoric on the airwaves and in the blogosphere, in reaction to the Scottish court's decision to release convicted Libyan mass-bomber Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi...

Another Scary Terror Report

The new annual State Department Report on Terrorism is out. It's primarily the same as last year's report. You were expecting changes maybe? Here are the lead paragraphs from last...

The Devil Made Us Do It

The Devil, like the Lord, works in mysterious ways. ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) - A woman accused of taking more than $73,000 from the Arlington church where she was an administrative...

"National Security Mom" - Gina Bennett

For too long, Americans have been intimidated by TV "experts" who tell them why being "tough" is the only way to defeat terrorism. Gina M. Bennett begs to differ in...

Goal of the Mumbai attacks: Sparking India-Pakistan war?

The perpetrators of the recent wave of anti-civilian (i.e. terror) attacks in Mumbai were evidently well organized and well prepared for their mission. It was almost certainly planned as a...

Mr. Obama, tear down this war!

Mr. Obama, tear down this war! You have promised change and the "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) is the worst legacy of the Bush administration. You should denounce it. Unfortunately,...

US Diplomats and Boumediene Case

I too am encouraged by the US Supreme Court's Boumediene v. Bush ruling that detainees held at Gunatanamo Bay are entitled to Habeas Corpus protection -- the right to challenge...

Yet more evidence of GWOT failure

Patrick Lang: "The Best Defense..."

On 9/11, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia featured a talk by Colonel Patrick Lang - who returned here by reputation as a voice of reason, experience, "independence,"...

Good questions about Blair's claimed terror plot

Craig Murray is the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who lost his job over his refusal to go along with Blair/Bush plan to hide Uzbekistan's ghastly torture record. He writes...

Al-Qaeda regroups in Pakistan/Afghanistan...

The revelations Thursday about the British and Pakistani intel services having uncovered and "taken down" a plot to blow many western airliners up over the highseas came as Bill and...

Grief in India, and a prayer

The travels continue. (Today I'm in The Hague; two days of some promising-looking interviews here; Sunday, I leave for Uganda....) Anyway, I failed to write anything here about the horrendous...

Terrorist incidents in Iraq

I mainly want to bookmark here, for future reference, the US government's own count of the number of terrorist incidents in Iraq in calendar 2005, as released last week by...

Police work making a difference in London

Back last Sunday, I wrote that the best response to terrorism is based primarily on solid, international investigative and police work, not on militarism. The British government has been showing...

Terrorism, and responses to it

So much killing, so much hatred... The BBC is reporting that at least 88 people were killed in the multiple bombings in Sharm al-Shaikh, Egypt, yesterday, and at least 22...