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...issue in which independents most side with Democrats is the war in Iraq, where consistently more than 60 percent of those polled thought the U.S. would not be able to stabilize the region, the war wasn't worth fighting, and that the anti-terrorism campaign could have success without a victorious outcome in Iraq...
Bakker said that he viewed HDAG's work on divestment since January as less "anti-University" and more informative, but he added that the CCSR's response could call for HDAG to institute a new method of pushing for divestment...
...Bruguiere's team relied on what were then frequently decried anti-terrorism laws that allowed the arrest, interrogation, and detention of large numbers of suspects for 72 hours prior to charges being filed. Attendant laws also allowed for the more aggressive pursuit of activities such as forging identity papers, illegal fundraising and people smuggling - apparently unrelated to violent activity, yet essential logistical support for terror networks. Bruguiere also developed a now widely used counter-terror strategy: the coup de pied dans le fourmillier (kicking the ant hill) that can both bag plotting radicals, and also destabilize the wider extremist milieu...
...Opponents and defense lawyers have long decried those laws, and Bruguiere's frequent use of them brazen infringement of civil liberties. Those complaints seem almost petty in a post-9/11 world. "The U.S., U.K., and other nations now all have anti-terrorism laws that go far beyond ours," notes independent terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "Bruguiere's use of them also looks very responsible given what we've seen elsewhere - Guantanamo just for starters...
...reminders of the animosity. Sukhbaatar Square, the center of Ulaanbaatar, commemorates the general who led the Mongolian independence against the Chinese. Children use the term “Chinese” as a taunt, synonymous with sneak and cheater, and I’ve come across numerous cases of anti-Chinese graffiti. I found this image hard to reconcile with the people that I met, who have been nothing but friendly. There’s a certain purity that I greatly respect; random strangers will try to help me, rather than exploit my ignorance...