The attacks further strained India's slowly recovering relationship with Pakistan. India's then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee declared that India may indulge in military strikes against terror camps in Pakistan to protect its territorial integrity. There were also after-effects on the United States's relationships with both countries,[241] the US-led NATO war in Afghanistan,[242] and on the Global War on Terror.[243] FBI chief Robert Mueller praised the "unprecedented cooperation" between American and Indian intelligence agencies over the Mumbai terror attack probe.[244] However, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said that Indian intelligence agencies did not share any information with Interpol.[245]
Indeed, would-be plotters with a proclivity for expressing their thoughts online in an open-source environment could very well be providing the clues needed to flag a future terrorist strike or expose a dangerous radical. The world has no shortage of social media users, whether they use the familiar platforms or turn to lesser-known social media applications like VKontakte, widely used in eastern Europe and Russia, or the popular mobile app 2go in Africa.
Initially, Sony reacted by shelving the movie. Critics, including President Obama, warned that capitulating in the face of terrorist threats would set a bad precedent. Then the studio reversed itself, releasing the movie in select theaters and online.
While it remains unclear whether the Paris ISIS terrorists employed PS4 to communicate, there are a few options, from sending messages through the PlayStation Network (PSN) online gaming service and voice-chatting to even communicating through a specific game. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed that the NSA and CIA actually embedded themselves in games like World of Warcraft to infiltrate virtual terrorist meet-ups.
The film opens with and CNN security analyst Peter Bergen testifying to a Congressional Committee about the difficulty of understanding how and why American-born Muslims can radicalize. Cleverly structured, the film follows the case of the Bangladeshi Sadequee family, whose son Shifa is arrested and put on trial for "material aid to terrorists", even though no actual terror attack has taken place. The evidence against Shifa points to online conversations he had on jihadi sites about how to make bombs and how to kill Americans, and a shaky video he and friends shot of key sites in Washington, DC that was sent to a known terror group in the UK.
Homegrown alternates between the polar opposite perspectives of Shifa Sadequee's family and the former Deputy Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, Philip Mudd. Shifa's family can't comprehend the idea that Shifa could be capable of anything remotely violent. Mudd, on the other hand, says that from looking at all the online traffic and the people with whom Sadequee is in contact, the danger consists in not arresting him. Shifa was sentenced in 2009 to 17 years in prison, followed by 30 years of probation.
Following inputs of a possible terror strike to disrupt G20 meets in Jammu and Kashmir, security was beefed up in and around military installations along the Jammu-Pathankot national highway on Wednesday and army schools were shut as a precautionary measure.
The contract between Hollywood screenwriters and movie studios is running out, and the Screenwriters Guild of America is threatening to go on strike if there is no progress by Oct. 31. Studio executives are rushing to get movies completed before any walkout. The last time the writers went on strike was 1988, when a 22-week walkout brought work on movie sets to a halt and cost the industry $500 million.
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