Is global terrorism about to worsen?
Many people appear to believe so, in part because of terrorism financier Osama bin Laden’s grab for publicity of late with menacing, back-to-back videotapes.
Unfortunately, their fears are well-founded. The moment is indeed ripe for a potential expansion of terrorist murder and mayhem.

Around the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda officials typically cannot resist invading the consciousness of decent people with reminders of their past misdeeds, along with the fact that they still lurk menacingly in the shadows. This year, though, for the first time in a long while, terrorism financier Osama bin Laden himself apparently has [...]

The most encouraging news of the last week — the results of the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey showing a decline in Muslim support for violence against civilians — failed to grab many prominent headlines. But it contributes to evidence that a substantial number of the largely silent majority of Islamic moderates may have [...]

An official U.S. intelligence report about the “return” of al-Qaeda has sparked considerable worry, echoing the concerns of those who had never stopped paying attention to the rebounding terrorist group.
Nearly six years after Sept. 11, it stands to reason that al-Qaeda would have regrouped and drawn strength from events such as the conflict in Iraq. [...]

As a former resident of London, I personally resent the recent terrorist upheaval there and in other parts of the United Kingdom. Sadly, the alleged perpetrators – largely medical professionals – like others before them, have apparently embraced a narrow, perverted, rampaging interpretation of Islam.
Yet, as absurd as the problem is, it also is very [...]

Stephen Sloan, the author or co-author of Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context, Corporate Aviation Security and other books, is a professor and fellow at the University of Central Florida. He discussed developments in the alleged plot to target New York City’s JFK International Airport with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.