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  1. The Right Coast

    Paris attacks: female suicide bomber Hasna Aitboulahcen liked wearing cowboy hats but joined an Islamic State terror cell – Telegraph

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The police tried to talk to Aitboulahcen, asking her: "Where's your boyfriend?" "He's not my boyfriend!" she screamed in reply. Seconds later, she detonated a suicide vest, killing herself and…

  2. The Right Coast

    Paris massacre ringleader used migrant crisis to get into France, PM says | Fox News

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The suspected mastermind of last week's Paris massacre, and some of the other attackers, had exploited the Syrian refugee crisis to slip into France unnoticed, Prime Minister Manuel Valls revealed…

  3. The D&O Diary

    Paris, After the Attacks

    By Kevin LaCroix

    My European sojourn continued this week with a trip to Paris. I arrived in Paris on Monday morning, just days after the Friday night terrorist attacks. I had been unsure…

  4. The Right Coast

    France Leads From the Front Against Terror – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    All of this means that Mr. Hollande has been right to declare war on Islamic State and order French bombing raids on its capital in eastern Syria. France is still…

  5. The Trade Practitioner

    UK Issues Terrorist Asset-Freezing Act 2010 (TAFA) Report

    By Trade Practitioner

    Under the TAFA, the UK Treasury must produce a quarterly report (the “Report”) for Parliament on the functioning of the UK’s asset-freezing regime. The Report comments on the UK implementation…

  6. The Right Coast

    The Paris attackers hit the city s young, progressive core | Fusion

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The attackers, whomever they may be and whatever their motives, went after the heart of progressive Paris. They did not attack the more touristy Champs-Elysées or Notre Dame, or the…

  7. The Right Coast

    Can ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate the Syrian Refugee Program? – The Atlantic

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Steven Camarota, the director of research at the right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies, said the key difference between Syria and most other sites of recent humanitarian crises is the heavy…

  8. The Right Coast

    No Political Upside for Obama, Democrats From Paris Attacks

    By Thomas A. Smith

    I say it repeatedly: Events matter. And for President Barack Obama, the terror attacks in Paris present a no-win political situation, at least until other, compelling news changes the subject.That…

  9. The Right Coast

    In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame – The New York Times

    By Thomas A. Smith

    It traces its origins both to the terrorist training grounds of Osama bin Laden s Afghanistan and to America s invasion of Iraq in 2003, and it achieved its resurgence…

  10. The Right Coast

    Paris and the Press Put Obama on the Defensive

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Be­cause of his own poorly chosen words and be­cause Amer­ic­ans feel in­creas­ingly vul­ner­able after Par­is, this is a battle that the pres­id­ent is un­likely to win. He was on much…