Word: antiterrorist
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...view is that the U.K.'s antiterrorist effort is in the wrong century.' RONALD NOBLE, Interpol's secretary-general, pictured at left, on the recent British terror plots. Authorities in London neglected to share information from the investigations of three failed car-bomb attacks, and have not made adequate use of a passport database...
...their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
...have until now been a firm supporter of President Reagan's antiterrorist policy. However, he has done the U.S. and himself a great disservice in condoning arms shipments to Iran. Internationally, he has lost all credibility. Donald Dowey Hilden, West Germany...
...loss of faith in Arroyo herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted to TIME earlier this year that "individual commanders" might be responsible for the killings...
...expect to be as lucky with the denizens of the gulf region. And we certainly wouldn't make our luck by staying the course and hiding behind Bush's fears of Middle East dominoes. We need him to unstrap America's still muscular diplomacy to seed the antiterrorist soil within Iraq, to structure a regional peace among states that cringe from regional war, to blunt the disasters of chaos and defeat--and perhaps even to snatch successes beforehand...