Story Archives of 'terrorism'

Zacarias Moussaoui will forever be known as the first person to stand trial in the US for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The media has called him a “monster” and “extremist.” Now, a new book by a New Hampshire author looks at the Moussaoui case from a different angle, not apologizing for his actions but looking deeper at the outside factors that may have made him who he was. She explores his culture growing up in France, his upbringing and life experiences as a North African immigrant, and the news events going on in Algeria, Bosnia and Chechnya at the time that may have drawn him toward an act of terrorism.

Guest

• Katherine C. Donahue, professor of Anthropology at Plymouth State University and author of “Slave of Allah: Zacarias Moussaoui vs. the U.S.”

When President Bush declared a "War on Terror" after the September 11th attacks, some critics said that such a war would be too nebulous to ever reach a real conclusion. Now a new documentary presented by Ted Koppel looks at the long term nature of this multi-front conflict, and how the U.S. military is gearing up for a war that could last for generations. We'll talk with Ted Koppel about his report and ask how victory can be achieved in this unique battle.

The documentary is called Koppel on Discovery: Our Children's Children's War. You can read more about it here.

The words “terrorist” and “terrorism” have become ubiquitous to our daily news diet, and its hard to remember sometimes that it hasn’t always been this way. The frequency of terrorist activity has been on the rise lately, but the face of terrorism is also changing. The who and the why are different now than just a few decades ago. And the very definition of terrorism can change, depending on perspective. We'll talk about the evolution and sociology of terrorism with Professor Mike Smith of St. Anselm College.

The essence of women -- their motivations, their disguises, and their status is the foundation of a New Hampshire Theater Project production in Portsmouth. We'll talk with director Genevieve Aichele who brought the unusual concept to the stage, and with actor Lisa Richardson who brings several accents and characters to life.

TONIGHT'S SONG: "Canyon Girl" by the Fruit Bats. It's off their album, "Spelled in Bones"

Four years after nine-eleven, we talk about the strategies to prevent another attack. When you can’t protect against everything, how much security is enough? Where do we draw the line between being protected and being paranoid? Jon Greenberg hosts. His guests are Don Bliss, Director of the National Infrastructure Institute's Center for Infrastructure Expertise and former New Hampshire State Fire Marshal, David Kotz, Executive Director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College, and Tom Trout, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UNH whose teaching focuses on foreign and national security issues.

Our issue Tuesday series continues with a look at conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations with North Korea and Israel as well as homeland security and how they might play out in this year?s elections. Combine the issues of foreign policy together with security and it outweighs every other issue, even the economy, almost two to one. We'll take a listen to what the candidates for President are saying and not saying about this issue and how events and relations overseas might effect this year's elections. Laura's guests are Peter Josephson, Assistant Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College; William Martel, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and Andy Smith, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire and director of the UNH Survey Center.