Word: antiterrorist
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...uprising, which has left four Mapuche dead and more than 100 arrested or convicted, has also spawned a political quandary for President Michelle Bachelet. She has resorted to a controversial antiterrorist law - developed during the brutal, 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet - to prosecute Mapuche militants. The measure, used by Pinochet to hound political opponents, allows fewer pretrial rights for defendants, who can be accused by anonymous and masked witnesses. It also imposes longer prison sentences and augments the powers of the police and judicial system - never a comfortable prospect in a country that is still shaking the ironfisted...
...Bosnia's antiterrorist chief Hadzimahmutovic, the idea of a homegrown Islamic threat is a fabrication of Serb politicians. Washington is less certain. The U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2008, released on April 30, says competing intelligence agencies in Bosnia are failing to share information. As a result, the report states, Bosnia is "vulnerable to exploitation as a potential staging ground for terrorist operations in Europe...
Since 2001, the two antiterrorist centers in New Mexico have graduated 37,000 first responders, who have in turn passed on their training to 250,000 of their colleagues back home. The bill to the taxpayers? A relative bargain at $103 million. For its part, Playas owes its continued existence to the war on terrorism. It was built by Phelps Dodge Corp. in the 1970s to house employees of its nearby copper-smelting plant. But in 1999 the smelter closed and the town of 1,500 faced extinction. New Mexico Tech came to the rescue, buying the town...
...publicly acknowledged al-Sudani's death, nor has it been eager to disclose the scale and scope of American antiterrorist operations carried out at roughly the same time. But they were substantial, with a significant naval presence offshore, special-operations forces and missions flown from nearby airfields, all designed to degrade the capacity of local Islamist militants. In early January, says Abdirashid Mohamed Hiddig, a member of the Somalian parliament, the Ethiopians asked him to fly to Kulbio, Somalia. There, he says, U.S. plainclothes personnel and military personnel were sifting prisoners, looking for al-Qaeda. Human Rights Watch, a humanitarian...
Since June, Spanish authorities (in concerted action with French counterparts across the border) have scaled up their antiterrorist operations and moved aggressively against ETA and Batasuna. Earlier this week, Spanish authorities arrested two other Batasuna leaders. Arnaldo Otegi, the group's main spokesperson was jailed on June 8 to serve a 15-month sentence for participating in a tribute to an ETA activist killed in 1978 by a fascist paramilitary group...