Word: antiterrorist
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...That tough antiterrorist line has continued. Since September, as part of the global crackdown on extremist Islamic groups, Malaysian police have arrested some 50 alleged members of the KMM, which they say sought the violent overthrow of the government for the purposes of installing a fundamentalist Islamic administration. Despite the arrests, as the Malaysian official notes, even with new, stringent surveillance of visitors and tightened-up immigration checks, it's nearly impossible to track what he estimates are "several hundred" al-Qaeda-linked businessmen, bankers, traders and tourists - many of them Arab - who pass through or live in the country...
...venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit at the embassy: "It looked like somebody did it so we'd come running out and step on the mine...
...large Muslim community and exemplary race relations, is emerging as a hub for suspected Algerian terror-related activities. Apart from Beghal, Daoudi, Meziane and Benmerzouga, French brothers David and Jerome Courtellier - the latter arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of terrorism - also apparently stayed in Leicester. Raids by antiterrorist police in the town two weeks ago scooped up nine Algerian suspects. Terrorism charges were subsequently dropped against all of them, but five are being investigated for credit-card fraud...
...venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit at the embassy: "It looked like somebody did it so we'd come running out and step on the mine...
...troops clashed for the first time with Taliban soldiers in the south. As British forces secured Bagram airbase for military deployments and humanitarian aid, U.N. and Western diplomats pressed for the formation of a provisional council in Kabul as a prelude to a representative transitional government. BRITAIN Suspects Held Antiterrorist squad detectives made their first arrests in connection with an 18-month-old bombing campaign thought to be the work of dissident Irish republicans. Armed officers detained five people in London and one in Liverpool under the 2000 Terrorism Act. Firearms experts...