Sentences with phrase «terror target»

He called this the «simple reality» of living and working in the city, which is the «highest profile terror target» in the country.

«Any attempt to cut NYPD funding for the nation's top terror target will be aggressively fought in court.»

Playing politics with homeland - security funding for the nation's top terror target is wrong, he added.

Her stance aligns against a controversial proposal by President Obama that would adversely affect the ability of the city — the nation's top terror target since 9/11 — to protect itself.

«We're the top terror target in the country and these grants provide critical funding to the NYPD to help keep New Yorkers safe,» said spokesman Seth Stein.

«New York is the number one terror target in the world, and we need to make sure our local law enforcement have the resources they need to protect our communities,» Gillibrand said.

«It makes no sense to take away security dollars from cities all over the country and especially the one that's the number one terror target,» de Blasio said.

Her stance aligns her with city leaders, including Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, against a controversial proposal by President Obama that would adversely affect the ability of the city — the nation's top terror target since 9/11 — to protect itself.

Trump's prioritization is critically needed as religious persecution and terror targeting religious minorities spreads in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa — and especially in Syria and Iraq.

On the theory that Washington, D.C. buses could turn into terror targets if they bore Geller's ad, WMATA decided to ban all advocacy ads, including, specifically, those related to religion.

Still, New York officials have insisted the money remains necessary in order to maintain security in one of the more high - profile terror targets in the country.

Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley, the fourth - ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives, bashed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his threat to deny funding to so - called «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to comply with all Immigration and Customs Enforcement orders — a move the Democratic caucus chairman called «counter-intuitive» given the number of terror targets in the president's hometown.

Then, the Food and Drug Administration only has to ensure the product's safety for patients, not for the general public as potential terror targets.

Not exact matches

A massive terror attack in Paris carried out by militants associated with the Islamic State earlier this month prompted France to ramp up its campaign against the group in Syria and enlist the US's help in identifying ISIS targets on the ground in Syria.

So far, the government has had difficulty proving that citizens from the seven targeted countries pose an elevated terror risk over others.

Critics of the order have noted that the countries it targets seem arbitrary, and do not include countries that have posed serious terror threats in the past such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.

«Clearly if [terror financing] is done via open source platforms it potentially exposes the fundraiser, but if the fundraiser is in Syria and they are targeting donors in Indonesia, how do the Indonesian police access that fundraiser?»

Critics of the order have said that the countries it targets seem arbitrary, since it does not include countries that have posed serious terror threats in the past, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.

But that kind of targeted tracking would not require broad access to records of people unconnected to terror suspects and their known associates, which is hinted at by both Sen. Udall's remarks and the high rate of modifications imposed on Section 215 orders by the FISA court.

And the United States has been none too fastidious in the way it distinguishes between the bad terrorists it targets in its so called Global War on Terror and the «relatively moderate rebels» it arms and supports to help its various geostrategic regime - change projects.

In a dramatic turnaround from his election campaign calls for the 16 - year war to be brought to an end, Trump unveiled a new south Asia strategy designed to prevent a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, target Islamic State and al Qaida and stop mass terror attacks in the USA.

The methods of spreading terror ranged from indiscriminate bombings to targeted campaigns such as the Phoenix program through which more than 30,000 civilians thought to be sympathetic to the enemy were assassinated.

Targeted repression and terror are vital components of the U.S. war against the poor.

The CIA manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, which encouraged the contras to assassinate «government officials and sympathizers,» may have been produced in order to encourage the contras to shift from the phase of warfare conducted through generalized terror into a new phase of targeted terror against civilians who were committed to the revolutionary process.

The United States also encouraged the use of more selective terror in which government leaders, teachers, health workers, land - reform promoters, and others associated with the development of social programs of the government were targeted for assassination.

The despicable terror attack, targeting young concert - goers at the Ariana Grande gig at the Manchester Arena, is the UK's equivalent of the Bataclan... More

He opened the first episode by commenting on recent terror attacks to target the capital and Manchester, saying the nation is «not a country that feels afraid».

«They [Muslim leaders] must move merely beyond condemning the spate of attacks targeting non-Muslims to initiating practical steps to the sympathisers of terror and helping us to build bridges between faiths and communities».

Terrorism / gay agenda is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

Former Ministry of Defence head of counter terror Major General Chip Chapman said Jones» alliance with Hussain and her recruitment role would have made her a «significant» target.

When trying to show why terrorism is the greater evil, Ignatieff lists his limiting conditions in mirror - image form: terror makes violence a first resort, «target [s] unarmed civilians and punish [es] them for their allegiance or ethnicity,» and seeks the death of politics itself.

Organized religion was a primary target of every one of the twentieth century's regimes of terror.

On Friday, at 8:00 am, he will be forcibly put on board a flight and sent to Abuja, Nigeria, where he says he will be targeted by Islamic terror group Boko Haram.

Republican paramilitaries have targeted the Conservative conference in Birmingham for a terror operation, sources in Northern Ireland have said.

Some people have raised issues that our previous terror attacks were perpetrated by people from countries other than those, so the refugees of those countries are being targeted without a valid reason.

Westminster has marked the first anniversary since five people died during a terror attack that targeted parliament.

A big part of the problem with chemical weapons is that nobody wants to admit that something relatively effective against a civilian target can be comparatively so very simple, these are generally terror weapons.

That is why the hammer must be brought down on anyone using these things, it is not because they are militarily particularly effective, it is because if you are targeting the unprepared civilians they are very effective terror weapons for non state level actors and nobody wants the idea that you can get away with that gaining currency.

The cell that carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks sought to target the Euro 2016 soccer championships in France, ISIS terror suspect Mohamed Abrini has told interrogators, according to a source close to the investigation

Terrorism is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has express its commitment to safeguard the nation's airports, refineries and other government properties targeted by terror groups...

Isa Muazu, who has not eaten for 90 days and can no longer stand or see, feared he was going to be targeted by Islamic terror group Boko Haram if he was returned home, but the Home Office ignored concerns around his health and forcibly removed this morning.

The government decided to act after the supreme court ruled last year that a terror suspect accused of targeting British troops had the right to return to Britain from Turkey after being stripped of his British passport, which was awarded in 2000.

Muazu is a Nigerian asylum seeker who fears he will be targeted by Islamic terror group Boka Haram if he returns to his home country.

In a document cited by Joy News, a Malian national suspected of the terror attack in Ivory Coast has reportedly disclosed that Ghana and Togo are likely targets.

An overwhelming majority of New York voters say they are concerned the state will be the target of a terror attack in the near future, a Siena College poll released yesterday showed.

The Service's current operations in the Kaduna axis are targeted at thwarting the new terror cells before they become fully active and deadly.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said today the terror threat the U.S. now faces, with extremist groups like the Islamic State specifically targeting New York City, is more complex than it was just a few years ago.

The April Royal wedding and the general election are among the «obvious and enormous targets» for a terror attack by Osama bin Laden's al - Qaeda network, the head of the Met has warned.