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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
ACLU Sues TSA and JetBlue over Arabic T-Shirt
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union are suing a TSA official and JetBlue Airlines after the two parties refused to let a passenger, Raed Jarrar, board and airplane at John F. Kennedy International Airport wearing an Arabic-scripted T-shirt.
Jarrar, who was born in Iraq and emigrated to the […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Dressed to Kill: Veiled Suicide Bombers
In Meet the New Face of Terror, for the Washington Post, Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank explore the growing role of female suicide bombers in global jihad. The authors note a significant tactical benefit that the jihadists gain in endorsing female suicide bombers — something that was previously considered taboo: "Women are less likely to […]