Word: antiterrorist
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...days to send an agent up into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That problem should be solved this June after Pakistan takes delivery of a fleet of U.S. helicopters and airplanes for border surveillance. Even still, tribesmen remain hostile to the U.S. presence. After the antiterrorist forces raided a seminary in Miramshah, shops closed and mullahs urged tribesmen to kill Americans on sight. So far, nobody has paid heed to the mullahs...
PAKISTAN Joint Operations Government officials said an agreement had been reached to allow U.S. cooperation in antiterrorist operations near the Afghan border. Although the agreement limited U.S. involvement to "advisers" only, some reports said covert military teams had participated in attacks on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. Afghanistan's interim government, meanwhile, released the first of hundreds of Pakistanis arrested last year...
...days to send an agent up into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That problem should be solved this June after Pakistan takes delivery of a fleet of U.S. helicopters and airplanes for border surveillance. Even still, tribesmen remain hostile to the U.S. presence. After the antiterrorist forces raided a seminary in Miramshah, shops closed and mullahs urged tribesmen to kill Americans on sight. So far, nobody has paid heed to the mullahs...
...That meant Bush's right wing would feel betrayed. Early in the week the neoconservative opinion makers William Bennett and William Kristol told Bush to stick to his guns and show Arafat no quarter. Bennett and Kristol seemed to have an ally in Rumsfeld, who took an almost strident antiterrorist line in public all week, even as White House officials spread the word quietly that everyone actually agreed in private. Rumsfeld's remarks may have been just for show, designed to mollify those Bush was about to throw over the side. If so, it worked: Kristol's criticism of Bush...
When she became secretary-general of Amnesty International last August, says Irene Khan, international human-rights groups like the million-strong, 40-year-old organization she had been tapped to head were in danger of becoming complacent. "Sept. 11 and everything that happened after, all the antiterrorist legislation, the rapid rolling back of civil liberties in so many countries," put a swift stop to that, says Khan...