Month July 2007

Why terrorism doesn’t work

Security expert Bruce Schneier links to an MIT report saying that most terrorism does not achieve the stated goals of the terrorist group because the attacks are often on civilian targets, not military ones. Such attacks are counter-productive because the…

Pakistan standoff demostrates faulty security assumptions

Pakistan police are locked in a standoff with students holed up inside a mosque in Islamabad.  The students are demanding “Taliban-style” sharia law.  Says Reuters, “The clashes began when about 150 students attacked a security picket at a Pakistani government…

Bogus and ineffective terror alerts

MSNBC just ran a piece saying how the recent attacks in the UK mean a higher chance of attacks here. They then trotted out a “terrorism expert” who provided no hard facts on this except to attempt to scare viewers…