America regards the Kurds as the most effective opponents of Isis, but Turkey regards them as terrorists – which has led to President Erdogan accusing Washington, in its refusal to declare a Syrian Kurdish group a terrorist organisation, of turning the region "into a sea of blood".
For the law-enforcement community, particularly the parts focussed on locating terrorists, metadata has led to breakthroughs.
Having ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden as well as scores of drone strikes that took out other terrorists, Mr. Obama has led Mr. Romney on his handling of international affairs in many polls.
That has made it more difficult for Jordan's intelligence services to track these terrorists, and has led to a different kind of militant who seeks to kill innocents across the border in Jordan.
The rapid collapse of distinctions between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist organizations has led to a threat convergence the likes of which we have not seen before and are only beginning to understand.
The channelling of funds from poaching to terrorist groups has led the US intelligence community to begin tracking often heavily-armed poachers.
The unprecedented controversy surrounding Seth Rogen and James Franco's The Interview, which was today withdrawn from release amid terrorist threats, has led to questions over Hollywood's accountability to cultural sensitivity and politics.
The prospect of unrest and terrorist violence has led to ruthless crackdowns, including a raid last December when Chinese paramilitary forces killed 28 suspected militants in an operation that involved flushing the suspects out of a cave with flamethrowers.
The Worst Date Ever, the true story of the last six years of Jane Bussmann's life, is part romcom, part celebrity satire and part excoriating account of the failure to apprehend Joseph Kony, the Ugandan terrorist who has led his army of child soldiers on a 20-year campaign of hostage-taking, exploitation and murder in east Africa.
The foiled plot did not appear to be related to the possible terrorist threat that has led to the closing of embassies here and elsewhere.
