Unfortunately for those brands that settled on Isis -- an ancient Egyptian goddess -- the name now comes with a distasteful second meaning after the emergence of the terrorist group ISIS, which stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That's driving some brands to drop the name all toget...
Warriors of the Steppe were the first which is why Khorasan (area of NE Persia) is another name for the mis-named “Terrorist” group IS/ “Sarmation” is derived from Sar meaning Prince; the Prince is Satan, the child in the lap of the Black Virgin. The “Golden Horde” of Genghis ...
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Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for two Egyptian church bombings that killed 44 people, mainly Coptic Christians, Reuters reports, citing Amaq news agency, which is affiliated with the terrorist group. The terrorist organization said that an IS-affiliated group was ...
People used to tell me and my daughter that her name was “beautiful.” Now I can no longer listen to any news at all – even NPR, and Isis worries that she will be denied opportunities. If the words we wanted to use for a terrorist group formed ANNA, or EMMA, ...
Western intelligence agencies are concerned about those who travel to Syria and Iraq to fight with ISIS before coming back home. “The battlefields in Iraq and Syria provide foreign fighters with combat experience, weapons and explosives training, and access to terrorist networks that may be planning...
In one case mentioned by Naylor’s book, CNOS infected a terrorist’s computer with “keystroke recognition [software], at other times it would covertly activate a webcam if the computer had one, allowing the task force to positively identify a target.” ...
Do you know the name of the director of the FBI? Probably not. James Comey has been America's top cop for just one year and he hasn't done a major television interview until tonight. We had a lot to cover. We wanted to know whether a terrorist attack is imminent. And how hackers ...
Terrorism in the name of religion is as American as apple-pie. Allow me to follow one cliché with another. “One man’s terrorist is another freedom fighter.” Have you heard the name John Brown? Born in 1800, the devoutly religious Brown worshipped alongside Frederick Douglass and Sojourner...
This includes terrorist groups such as Isis who are using the Internet and social media sites, as a tool for propaganda via websites, sharing information, data mining, fundraising, communication, and recruitment (Conway, 2003). For Weimann (2004), however it means terrorists, using the Internet...