by Charles Cameron | Aug 26, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Saudi-sourced jihadism, the FBI, Baader-Meinhof — hey, it’s all about terrosism ] . Will McCants explains [upper panel, below] how the Saudis are and are not promoting terrorism — — while a screen-cap from episode 9...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 28, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — iconoclasm ancient & modern ] . ** Ancient: Eamonn Duffy‘s “prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 1, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron – ISIS video, early Dabiq reference, satirical response ] . . You may recall that almost exactly a year ago, Shiite truck drivers in Anbar province were stopped by ISIS patrols, questioned as to the exact form of Islamic prayer, and executed...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the game of Connect the Dots in play and practice ] . CIA's (now ret’d) Nada Bakos examines the Al Qaida board in the HBO docu, Manhunt. Manhunt, the HBO documentary, does what (not having been there and seen that at the time)...