Sentences with phrase «american in a terrorist attack»

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Still, the question remains whether the Obama administration scrubbed the talking points and used the video red herring in order to cover up the fact that they failed to prevent a planned terrorist attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of September 11.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed Americans and others are being held by Islamic militants after what he calls a «terrorist attack» occurred at a natural gas facility in Algeria.

Clinton recalled shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with Chaffetz — who relentlessly pursued investigations into her use of a private email server as secretary of state and the circumstances surrounding a terrorist attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya — as she left Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington.

Many Americans are obviously interested in the trial, as the bombing was one of the worst terrorists attacks in US history.

Always a big supporter of our armed services, Bay put his heart on his sleeve in making this powerful look at the brave security team that defended the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, after terrorist attacks in 2012.

The effect of terrorist attacks in 2001, overcapacity, followed later by a high oil price and the global financial crisis, all helped to push many big American carriers into financial difficulty.

Louis Navellier, known for his stock selection prowess, is betting on two firearms companies that have been swept up in a nationwide buying frenzy sparked by Americans concerned about President Barack Obama «s intentions regarding gun control and their safety following terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris late last year.

His response to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino in late 2015 — an attack carried out by a man and wife, the former of whom was an American citizen — was to call for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

Four Americans, including our Ambassador, were killed in a terrorist attack on American soil (consulate) and there are several unanswered questions that CNN lacks the integrity and courage to ask!

You attacked us,» in effect making Hamze the embodiment of the Islamic terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.

Point is that muslim terrorists attacked American people in the name of God.

We can't see that all those controversial policies developed by the Bush and Blair administrations were not really put forward in good faith as efforts to protect American and British citizens from repeated terrorist attacks.

No responsible American is blaming desperate Syrian refugees for the terrorist attacks in Paris, but there is a legitimate concern that members of ISIS, who have repeatedly declared their intent to harm America, will try to mingle amongst them, to secure a presence here.

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, he has solidified political support from three important constituencies: neoconservative intellectuals, American Jews (including members of the influential pro-Israel lobby) and fundamentalist Christians, constituencies that find common ground in their vigorous support for Israel.

But recent research by the libertarian Cato Institute found that «the chance of an American being murdered in a terrorist attack caused by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion per year.»

In response to the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, 27 American governors have announced that they are closing their states to refugees attempting to relocate from SyriIn response to the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, 27 American governors have announced that they are closing their states to refugees attempting to relocate from Syriin Paris last week, 27 American governors have announced that they are closing their states to refugees attempting to relocate from Syria.

Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

Besides that, there are no Christian nations right now that are responsible for killing 3,000 Americans, 200 Spaniards, 50 people in London and nearly 20,000 plus other DEADLY terrorist attacks made for their allah since 9/11 alone.

The death toll from terrorist attacks in Uganda now stands at 74, including one American student who was working with Invisible Children.

But the understandable anxiety of American Jews over the future of Israel — especially when they hear of rocket attacks by terrorists against villages in northern Israel (and of Israel's massive retaliation)-- should not lead American Jews to think that unceasing pressure against the president, the Congress and public opinion in this country represents the best means of ensuring Israel's future security.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

But 15 years after the worst terrorist attacks in American history, we are still having to defend the existence of a facility and a process when not a single verdict has been reached in those attacks.

Places of worship including Muslim mosques, Hindu temples and Sikh gurdwaras became instant targets for patriotic terrorists seeking to lash out at innocent Americans like the Sikh victims of the terrorist attack in Wisconsin.

Absent a major terrorist attack in the United States, or a spate of smaller domestic attacks, or escalating weekly American military casualties, my suspicion is that in the 2016 election, voters will weigh foreign policy based on their feelings about the economy.

Anger at the 270 people killed in Britain's worst ever terrorist attack has led senior American politicians to openly place pressure on Edinburgh to keep Megrahi behind bars until the end of his life.

This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what's considered American soil.)

Slaughter said no immigrant from any of those countries has ever killed an American in a U.S. terrorist attack.

And he criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy, saying he and Clinton are acting like «sheep» when the terrorists are intent on killing Americans and other westerners, like the victims of the recent truck attack in Nice.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lashed out at Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, saying during a press conference about Tuesday's deadly attack in New York City that the president's morning tweets «play [ed] into the hands of the terrorists» by dividing Americans.

He pledged to not speak about the issue himself, in hopes of ascertaining «if this exercise would help New Yorkers and Americans remember that the terrorists didn't care who we were when they attacked us and we should think a lot about the fact that in many ways, we were all victims.»

«This is a person now that has affiliated with radical organizations like Perdana Global, and now they want to build a mosque in the shadow of the worst terrorist attack in American history at a time when they say — if you take them at their word — that they're coming at this to heal divisions and instead they're opening up wounds particularly for the families of the victims of 9/11.»

«Given the significance of this hallowed land, please join me and a growing chorus of organizations like the Anti-Defamation League in our call for maximum transparency on the plans to build a Cordoba Mosque at the sight of the worst terrorist attack in American history.»

Terrorists have grown increasingly inventive with their use of drones — and NYPD officials fear they could start using them to execute attacks in the Big Apple and other American...

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement today on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks: «As New Yorkers and Americans, we stand united in remembering the lives lost 16 years ago today.

Wyndham's expertise in this area led the American Psychological Association in late July to invite her to serve on its Task Force on Human Rights established after an April 2015 report asserted that the association had worked with U.S. government officials on its terrorism prisoner interrogation and torture program set up during the George W. Bush administration following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

While this system has worked pretty well in the U.S. so far, some worry that a Bhopal - scale tragedy, whether due to an accident or terrorist attack, could still occur on American soil.

Editor's Note (9/11/17): Scientific American is re-posting the following article, originally published September 6, 2011, in light of the 16th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

More than half of Americans (59 percent) said they consider this the lowest point in U.S. history that they can remember — a figure spanning every generation, including those who lived through World War II and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Editor's note (11/16/15): Following the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 and the ensuing debate about counterterrorism efforts and encrypted communications, Scientific American is republishing the following article.

The study, published this week in mBio ®, an open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, highlights the advances in genomic sequencing that now enable precise tracking of bacterial strains used in biological warfare and terrorist attacks around the world.

The cell's new leader, Karrar, pushes Darwyn aside as plans progress for the nuclear attack on Los Angeles; Farik teaches a lesson about the terrorist way of doing business to an American philanthropist at a school in Yemen.

Synopsis: On Aug. 21, 2015, the world watches in stunned silence as the media reports a thwarted terrorist attack on a train that's bound for Paris — an attempt prevented by three young Americans traveling together through Europe.

This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the immediate wake of the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001.

Now he has one more true story coming to theaters just in time for awards season chronicling one of the most devastating terrorist attacks on American soil in the past decade.

Based on a true story, three Americans (Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos) on holiday in Europe are forced to use their past military training when a terrorist attacks passengers on a train.

Jamie Foxx stars in this rather unadventurous thriller as the head of a crack FBI forensic unit who travel to Saudi after a terrorist attack on an American civilian compound has left hundreds dead.

Sure, soon after there was a nuclear device detonating in a major American city in Clear & Present Danger and Arnie as a vengeful fireman killing those responsible for the death of his family in a terrorist attack in the unfortunately named Collateral Damage.

The plot involves a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley)-- a mysterious figure who makes videos like Al - Qaeda, wears ornate silk robes, and speaks in an American accent with heavy enunciation — and a think tank run by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a man with a chip on shoulder against Stark, that's creating super-soldiers who can increase their internal body temperature on a whim (Illogically, they can be killed by fire, except, of course, when the story calls for their immunity to it)-- sometimes with explosive results.