The Counter Terrorist Magazine
on HSN Homeland Security Network
 Recent terrorist incidents have involved militants from Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen, the latter becoming publicly prominent as another battle front for al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It is now acknowledged that Saeed al-Shehri, AQAP’s deputy, was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay and a “graduate” of a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia. |
 Since fi elding the fi rst United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping mission in 1948, the world has witnessed the deployment of about 63 U.N. peacekeeping operations. Since 1989 the U.N.’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) has deployed 18 missions to Africa. |
 The emergence of pirates off the east coast of Africa is a direct consequence of the brutal Somali Civil War in the early 1990s and the collapse of a government. |
 In 1979, then U.S. President Jimmy Carter failed to understand the depth of dissatisfaction and anger against the United States by the Iranian populace when the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown and allowed to receive cancer treatment in New York. Following the United States’ refusal to extradite the shah back to Iran, this anger eventually translated into the November 4, 1979, takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by Iranian students resulting in a hostage situation lasting for the next 444 days. |
 In May of this year, four men were arrested and charged with plotting to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down airplanes with antiaircraft missiles. The men were arrested after planting what they believed to be explosives outside two synagogues |
 Violence in Mexico and on the US border continues to escalate as the Mexican crime cartels fight to improve their position. Mexican law enforcement, military leadership, and government officials have been primary targets. The armed enforcement wings of the cartels have not retreated from law enforcement; they have confronted and engaged. Their tactics are paramilitary in nature and their armament plentiful. Their killings can be indiscriminate or meticulously planned. In addition to these challenges, terrorist factions and citizens from countries that sponsor terror are exploiting this multifaceted conflict. |
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