Sentences with phrase «terrorist plots»

We need to make sure that law enforcement and national security authorities have all of the tools they need to identify, investigate, and disrupt terrorist plots.

Former NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander in 2013 said that the agency's programs had contributed to safeguarding the U.S. and its allies from 54 terrorist plots.

Intelligence agencies do large - scale data mining with software to uncover and track potential terrorist plots.

I find it ludicrous that Australian tax payers are forced to expend huge resources and time on catching a miniscule number of actual terrorists, putting our entire population under surveillance in the hope of catching a handful of terrorist plots and foiling them; contrast that to the political undermining and then active destruction of our attempts at a rational climate change risk management strategy, simply to win short term political gain.

The in - game video ad features cinematic graphics, a James Bond-esque agent and a series of would - be terrorist plots.

He then stumbles into terrorist plots and he needs to work with his friends and acquaintances to save Tokyo.

Great pride is taken to keep only real users on our site Jack Bauer, Director of Field Ops for the Counter-Terrorist Unit of Los Angeles, races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation

Scientific American spoke with Schaan about al Qaeda's continued attempts to take down airliners traveling to the U.S., the terrorist organization's focus on exploiting cultural norms to reach their targets and the most successful approaches to stopping terrorist plots.

According to the study's author, Norwegian political scientist Thomas Hegghammer, terrorist plots with foreign fighter involvement are nearly twice as deadly as those without.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has said there have been 11 failed terrorist plots against our city since 9/11.

For centuries, our senior police constables have made operational decisions not at the behest of government and the political whims of the day, but based on their professional view of how best to uphold the law and keep the peace, dealing with everything from petty theft to major terrorist plots.

May said that since June 2013, police, security and intelligence agencies had successfully disrupted 13 separate terrorist plots in Britain.

And our intelligence capabilities — unique in Europe — have already saved countless lives in very many terrorist plots that have been thwarted in countries across our continent.

Theresa May warned: «If we delay we face the appalling prospect police operations will go dark, that trails will go cold, that terrorist plots will go undetected.

As NYPD commissioner, Kelly created an anti-terrorism operation that has been credited with stopping more than a dozen terrorist plots or attacks against New York City, while also helping to drive down street crime.

He insisted that an attack was not «inevitable», however and praised the security services for their ongoing efforts to foil terrorist plots.

The investigation of terrorist plots in this country will almost always lead overseas.

Since the beginning of 2007, 57 people have been convicted on terrorist plots.

Sure, if a driver flips you off on the freeway, it's a noble and wise thing to «turn the other cheek» - but if a mass murderer is alive and planning more carnage, it would be an insult to all that is good, right, and just in the world to allow him to plan and execute further terrorist plots.

According to European authorities, Najim Laachraoui is a bombmaker for the Islamic State — and this alleged skill set may have put him at the center of two of Europe's biggest terrorist plots in recent memory.

At a news conference on Tuesday, President Obamadid not rule out a foreign link but suggested that the Tsarnaev brothers appeared to be «self - radicalized» and that local, homegrown terrorist plots were harder to detect and prevent than those originating overseas.

That could range from uncovering terrorist plots to helping sell more products.

• Intelligence operatives with NSA and GCHQ infiltrate online video games such as «World of Warcraft» in an effort to catch and stop terrorist plots.

While US officials say it's integral to national security, citing its use in disrupting a terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway system in 2009, privacy rights advocates worry the law oversteps its bounds and infringes on Americans» Fourth amendment rights.

Would you not call that more of a present danger to this country when the odds one is likely to suffer at the hands of a «terrorist» will be at the next «staged» terrorist plot conveniently foiled by the FBI or Obama's gardner, or face american terrorism at the hands of a barely educated, double - digit vocabulary TSA thug?

Try this thought: If someone suggested building a church 2 blocks away from the site of the Oklahoma City Bombing, would that be considered an insult to those slain and a potential breeding ground for anti-government terrorists plots?

I absolutely guarantee that if our country had not used the techniques it did to learn information that it did through techniques like waterboarding, and if another terrorist attack had occurred like the one on 9 - 11, the same people who are calling for an investigation into waterboarding today would instead be calling for an investigation into why our intelligence community failed to uncover this terrorist plot.

The UK will remain on the highest possible alert following yesterday's thwarted terrorist plot, the home secretary has said.

These events were the 15th attempted terrorist plot on British soil since 2001.

The assemblywoman accused the city of disregarding the advice of the 9/11 Commission, which found several of the hijackers were too easily able to obtain government identifications which they used to perpetrate their terrorist plot.

The CIA, working with counterparts in the Middle East, earlier this week halted the latest al Qaeda terrorist plot to bomb aircraft bound for the U.S..

The further you infiltrate the area, the more the veil of a new terrorist plot wears off.

Jack Ryan, however, is not based on a particular Clancy book, and actually pulls together pieces of various scripts written over the past decade, with the final result centering on Ryan's early days as a financial analyst, when he uncovers a terrorist plot against the U.S. economy.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

But on his quest for a reunion he stumbles upon a terrorist plot that makes him suddenly indispensable.

And a man who possesses the ability to see the future uses his gift to try to out guess the perpetrators of a terrorist plot in Next.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 24, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Act of Valor (R for torture, profanity and graphic violence) Action adventure about an elite team of Navy SEALS who embark on a top secret mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA Agent only to uncover an imminent terrorist plot against America.

With these newfound memories (and the help of a scummy private detective) she must stop a nefarious terrorist plot.

The team, headed by British soldier Michael Stonebridge (Phillip Winchester) and American Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), head to Bangkok to solve a missing - persons case that leads to a much bigger terrorist plot.

The terrorist plot involves setting up an escalating series of events to cause the United States and Russia to head straight into all - out nuclear war, and the bomb is the tool to start the ball rolling.

The 15:17 to Paris is an account of the 2015 Thalys Train attack, in which three Americans foiled a terrorist plot whilst enjoying a sightseeing holiday in Europe.

WHAT: When they're sent to Thailand to rescue the British ambassador's kidnapped daughter, Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) and Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) uncover a much larger terrorist plot orchestrated by the North Korean crime syndicate, Office 39.

The simple fact that «A False Glimmer,» the season finale of Homeland, resolves its major terrorist plot within the first 10 minutes serves to emphasize that this isn't really what the series about.

1998's Metal Gear Solid is a formative game for the stealth genre, following professional commando Solid Snake as he foils a terrorist plot on a remote island in Alaska.

Following the guidance of Commander Harper (Kevin Costner) getting to the bottom of the terrorist plot will take some serious digging.

Few know that the film is actually a loose adaptation of a book by Roderick Thorp from the late 1970s, although the joys of the film lie mostly in the well - developed set - up and characterizations, not to mention great action sequences, rather than the rather straightforward terrorist plot at the heart of the film.

Specifically, the real - life subjects of the incident in question, where three Americans discover a terrorist plot on a train.

Self / Less Film Review by Kam Williams Shades of Face / Off in Brain Transplant Sci - Fi Thriller In the 1997 thriller Face / Off, an FBI agent underwent a face transplant in order to crack a terrorist plot.

Criminal (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Suspense thriller about a recently - deceased CIA agent (Gal Gadot) whose memory and skills are implanted into the brain of a dangerous convict (Kevin Costner) in a desperate attempt to foil a terrorist plot.

Based on spy novel author Tom Clancy's character, a young Jack Ryan helps the CIA uncover a terrorist plot to sabotage the US economy.