Word: antiterror
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...Skeptics point out that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterror moves to coincide with high-level meetings with American officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had just returned from the U.N. in New York City; Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington; and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who earlier had questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he is setting up hearings aimed at terrorist funding. A Shelby aide says the hearings will have "the Executive Branch telling the committee what they've done with the Patriot Act," the post--9/11 law that expanded the government's antiterror capabilities. The aide says the hearings' focus will include the CIA and the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen--and what they're doing to stanch the flow of terrorists' funds. --By Timothy J. Burger and Matthew Cooper
...Qaeda is novel and particularly dangerous. They're confident lengthy detention without the chance to pass messages through lawyers can break up terror cells and prompt confessions. "We're getting a great deal of useful information," says Colonel Barry Johnson, spokesman for U.S. forces at Camp Delta. Antiterror officials in other countries say they're also glad of the gleanings from interrogations there. Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, head of France's counterterrorism and counterespionage service dst, told Time that "our American colleagues are telling us important things that they are hearing from suspects on Guantánamo," which...
...presence of terror cells in Cambodia and Thailand confirms what many in the intelligence community have long suspected: that JI and al-Qaeda have fanned out from their traditional bases, taking root in countries with lax border controls and little enthusiasm for antiterror campaigns. Terrorists "are like water flowing down a mountain, always taking the path of least resistance," says Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia terrorism expert. A regional intelligence official told TIME the existence of cells in Cambodia and Thailand demonstrates that the war on terror is far from won. "After the crackdowns in Malaysia and Singapore, they...
...alleged assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, a deputy commander of the Red Berets whose fingerprints were found in the room from which the shots were fired, felt confident enough to accept an invitation to the Interior Ministry. Checking his weapons at the door, he and four other commanders failed to notice antiterror police ringing the building. When he arrived on the second floor, he recognized his captors and gave up without a fight. According to investigators, battle-hardened paramilitaries and criminals known for their silence under duress - one of the charged was known simply as the Mute - began to talk. The inducement...