Posts Tagged: Abigail R. Esman
Some Muslim Nations Are Forging a Real Peace With Israel
The welcoming of a foreign leader on September 7 by local dignitaries in The Hague was a customary political gesture. Benjamin Netanyahu, on a two-day...
Raids and Arrests Show That 9/11’s Lessons Are Global
They are known as "the 102 minutes that changed America." Fifteen years later, it is increasingly clear that the 102 minutes of the September 11 attacks...
With Terror Threat Growing, Europe Changes Course
Sixteen years ago, when Dutch commentator Paul Scheffer published his "Multicultural Drama" declaring that multiculturalism in the Netherlands had failed, the response was swift and...
How Trains Are a Prime Target for Terrorists
On July 18, a young man stormed through a train outside of Wurzburg, Germany. Crying "Allahu Akbar," (God is great) he brandished an axe high...
Why Is Virginia a Haven for Would-Be Jihadists?
What is it about Virginia? Already this year, six men from the "Cavalier State" have been arrested on terror-related charges -- two of them in July alone....
Arrests Show Jihadists Infiltrating Europe Posed as Syrian Refugees
When Europe agreed to open its borders to Syrian refugees in response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our age, officials assured the...
Belgian Terror Arrests Underscore the Growing Threat to Europe and America
Last Wednesday, just two years and a day after the deadly terrorist attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and barely more than two months...
Erdogan Critic Unfazed by Threats of Prosecution, Death
For 17 days this month, Dutch columnist Ebru Umar was held against her will in Turkey, and legally barred from leaving the country. Her alleged crime: insulting...
Dutch Intelligence: Competition Could Fuel Jihadi Plots
The Netherlands' Intelligence Service (AIVD) is predicting a "large scale, spectacular attack in Europe or the US." And, they say, it could happen very soon. AIVD's report on 2015,...
How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgium
These are the numbers, the hard facts: Twenty months. Three terrorist attacks. One hundred seventy dead. And almost all the killers grew up in, or...
Europe’s Young ISIS Recruits: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
For weeks, Farid Bouamran, a Dutch-Moroccan immigrant who has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years, watched as his son Achraf became increasingly radicalized, tuning in to...
The Terror Threat to Europe Is America’s, Too
Some weeks after the attacks of 9/11, a Dutch journalist spoke at a panel discussion in Amsterdam, describing his experience of the events. Faced with...
Brussels Bombing Suspect Tied to Paris Plotter
Having identified the three men responsible for Tuesday's bombings at Brussels' Zaventem airport, police are now said to be closing in on the one surviving suspect,...
Despite Capture of Europe’s Most-Wanted Terrorist, the News Is Not Good
It took just over four months, but Belgian police on Friday tracked down an unexpected lead and captured Europe's most wanted terrorist: Saleh Abdeslam, the mastermind of...
