News - 4 Settembre 2019 Long After the Worst Terrorist Attack in Russia, Beslan is Still Waiting for the Truth There have been two very different stories of what happened during those three days in Beslan. Authorities claim that the storm began after the terrorists set off explosives, and blame the Chechen militants for the high death toll. However, explosives expert Yury Savelyev’s independent investigation in 2006, as well as accounts of eyewitnesses and journalists, show otherwise.
Travel - 5 Maggio 2019 My Encounters with Terrorism while Teaching in Sri Lanka One Saturday a student came to visit me where I was staying…. It was strange that this boy… who seemed the stereotype of an adolescent boy, was the son of essentially, a terrorist. He explained that one day he would grow up and take over his father’s legacy with an innocence that one might talk about taking over his father’s hardware store. He wanted nothing more than to make his father proud.
New York - 12 Dicembre 2017 The Banality of Evil That Squeezes in the Grip of Terrorism New York The freedom where we immerse ourselves daily is increasingly at risk and only a new age of reason, with consequent awareness of the drama we are living and of the difficult choices we have to make to survive the jihadists, can save today's West from the terrorist madness and, perhaps, even a little from himself.
New York - 1 Novembre 2017 New York’s Unbelievable Lack of Preparation to Low-cost Terrorism A question I asked myself even weeks ago, while walking near my office along the Seventh Avenue. I saw a river of people walking across the street, the crazy traffic of the Big Apple, but not one protective barrier aimed at preventing a hypothetical attack. Yet from 2006 to today, there have been 29 such attacks in Europe alone, carried out with this methodology.
U.N. - 17 Agosto 2017 Security Council, the Press Statement on Terrorist Attacks in Barcelona The members of the Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security. They expressed their solidarity with Spain in its fight against terrorism and stressed the need to intensify international efforts to combat terrorism and violent extremism, which may be conducive to terrorism.
New York - 28 Settembre 2016 How I Survived the Chelsea Bomb and Then Got Hurt by My City On Saturday, September 17, at 8:29 pm, I crossed 6th Avenue on 23rd street, and walked unusually slowly towards my apartment building in Chelsea when I saw a flash of light and in a split second I did not feel my feet on the ground... In the ambulance I was asked if I believed in God... When I left the Hospital hours later and tried to go back home, the police wouldn’t let me onto my street and it didn’t matter that my eye would hurt, get infected, get more swollen... So I turned and walked for four hours. Alone, stumbling...
U.N. - 22 Luglio 2016 United Nations Addresses ISIS’s New, Fatal Propaganda In recent months, the world has witnessed rapid growth in the frequency of "lone wolf" terror attacks. As counter-terrorism organizations grapple with halting this trend, recent changes in ISIS propaganda provide insight into why this change in tactics has come to pass
Homepage - 23 Marzo 2016 Belgium’s Deadly Circles of Terror Coordinated bombings in Brussels aided by an underworld where crime and extremism blur together. Officials describe the threat in Belgium as concentric circles: Hundreds of hard-core terrorists intent on striking Europe after express training by the “factory of terrorists” in Syria
English - 24 Marzo 2015 Malaysia Missing Flight: Warfare Technology behind the Hijacking Thesis Malaysia flight 370 has been missing since March 8th, 2014. We interviewed experts who think that it may have been hijacked and that the aircraft and its 239 passengers are hidden in some remote place. The motive: a new electronic warfare gadget.
Gallery - 9 Gennaio 2015 War on Press: UN Correspondents Comment on the Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo La VOCE di New York asked foreign correspondents at the United Nations to comment on the attack on the office of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo Leggi l'articolo in italiano