Word: antiterrorist
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...bulletproof vests. His alleged victim, Oake, was a practicing Baptist who had occasionally served as a protection officer to Prime Minister Tony Blair. The popular 40-year-old was honored across Britain as the first domestic casualty in the U.K.'s fight against Islamic terrorism. His murder in an antiterrorist raid shocked Britain, where the killing of policemen outside Northern Ireland has been rare. There had been British victims of incidents abroad, as well as sporadic arrests and scares at home, but as a former police chief superintendent, Douglas Sharp, says, "We may intellectually know the risks, but until something...
...arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms of people investigators never heard of. These names, which have neither faces nor backgrounds, number in the hundreds now." Just how the suspects came to be apprehended last week has not been revealed. But information from French antiterrorist investigators confirms that most if not all of them are Algerians, and suggests that core members of their group are so-called Chechen Islamists, an international mix of al-Qaeda operatives (including many North Africans) trained in Afghanistan as well as in camps set up in the Caucasus before the Sept...
...would change Islamic hatred of America. The answer is no; they would only intensify it. I agree with President Bush that terrorism must be eliminated, but not by going to war in Iraq. The U.S. and its allies must work in unison to improve security by setting up special antiterrorist task forces and infiltrating terrorist cells. This would be true leadership, and every peace-loving citizen of each supporting country would be in full agreement. PAUL J. MURPHY Grimsby...
...sympathy is not an inexhaustible reserve; post-strike polls showed most people were opposed to another walkout. - By Aparisim Ghosh. With reporting by Amanda Bower and Hugh Porter/London CHECHNYA A Guerrilla's Last Stand They slipped into Chechnya last week, a group of Russian commandos from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit, the same ?lite troops that stormed the Moscow theater last month. Their number is not known, but their mission is: to kill Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla "emir" who approved and probably thought up the Chechen hostage-taking operation. Basayev's recent statements seem to be challenging Moscow to come...
...proposed law would ban reports that compromise counterterrorist efforts or support opposition to antiterrorist action. Descriptions of devices used during government raids would also become illegal. Though many of the provisions are just restatements of existing law, the bill’s passage by a margin of more than two to one is worrying. This is another weakly-resisted step towards the curtailment of the Russian press, a long-term trend that has recently gained vitality with 15-hour television blackouts, raids on newspapers on orders of dubious legality from the Russian Press Ministry. Russian authorities, infamous for selective enforcement...