Sentences with phrase «terrorist plots with»

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.

Not exact matches

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

That's what security officials call a terrorist with no real criminal record who is not under surveillance, and who might be part of a larger plot.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

Despite misgivings, the Brody family prepares to step into the spotlight with an exclusive television interview; at the CIA, Carrie and her team close in on an Al Qaeda plot to fund a terrorist attack on the U.S.

When the event is targeted by terrorists, Banning teams with an MI - 6 agent (Charlotte Riley) to foil the plot.

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.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: John McTiernan Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons Plot: McClane is back trying to stop terrorists, only this time he has to play games as a bomb squad with an unwanting friend (Jackson) around NYC.

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

WHAT: When CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack, he's sent into the field for his very first mission.

Director: Shane Black Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Ritchie, Rebecca Hall with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley Plot: While Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) struggles after the battle in New York, the Mandarin launches a terrorist vendetta against the President.

From the fun, «24» - esque «stop the terrorist attack» plot to the film's impressively choreographed stunt sequences, not to mention some damn fine actors (even if some of them are severely underutilised and don't have much to work with), «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» is an enjoyable and likeable jaunt.

A small town in the Pacific Northwest is overrun with zombies, which the locals alternately assume is God's punishment for tolerating gay people or a plot by Islamic terrorists.

Rabin and Peres banter back and forth about the merits of military action against the terrorists, the former trying to get others to understand why he's resistant to use force while the latter plots with quietly intense Machiavellian precision in hopes of changing his mind.

The plot starts with T'Challa assuming the mantle of king, after the death of his father T'Chaka (John Kani) in a terrorist attack at the United Nations (This, as those familiar with this superhero franchise will recall, happened near the start of Captain America: Civil War).

WHAT: Retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is trying to lead a quiet, domestic life with girlfriend Sarah (Mary - Louise Parker) when he learns that he's being framed as a domestic terrorist involved in a ludicrous Cold War plot to sneak a portable WMD into Moscow.

Plot: This spin - off replaces Jack Bauer with war hero Eric Carter who enlists the aid of CTU with preventing one of the largest terrorist attacks on US soil.

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Whereas that movie poked fun at literary aspirations, plot - heavy 2006 sequel «Fay Grim» grappled with a post-9 / 11 world in which the elusive Henry became a wanted terrorist.

I've written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that the terrorist attack on 9/11 was a massive government plot and that that public school reform is a conspiracy among money - grubbing reformers and «oppressed natives» who are afflicted with a «psychosis» that leads them «to improve their own subjugated standing by attempting to join the ranks of those who do the oppressing.»

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

Here's an example of a well - categorized thriller novel that takes place in India, with a female protagonist fighting a terrorist plot (we're using Amazon's categories in this instance, which can slightly differ from BISAC categories):

A terrorist group is plotting against the city of Tokyo and it is up to Falcon, with the help of his friends, to unravel the twisted plans set in place to kill millions of people.

The plot, in case anyone's forgotten, concerns the recruitment of legendary soldier Solid Snake; forced out of retirement to confront a terrorist organisation who have made threats to the US government and are holding the world at ransom with the threat of a nuclear weapon.

It then goes into predictable and generic plot territory with each new chapter starting out like you need to go investigate this then meeting up with a new partner and doing the mission which ends with you finding the terrorist who runs off and leaves a nice boss for you to fight.

Both plots are filled with the normal levels of deception, governmental conspiracy, terrorists, and monsters that have come to define a large portion of this franchise.

Fans of TV's 24 / anything with terrorists will be able to spot the plot a mile off.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

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