Word: antiterrorist
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...Minister Angel Acebes said the arrest by French police of three men suspected of belonging to the Basque terrorist group ETA had destroyed the "logistical nucleus of ETA in France." The two Spaniards, José Candido Sagarzazu and Juan Miguel Illarramendi, and Frenchman Claude Recart were captured when French antiterrorist officers raided their house in Cahors. Police also discovered 448 kg of explosives and a number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation...
...Germany last November and surfaced in late April in Saudi Arabia, where authorities decided to expel him. But U.S. officials, French sources say, persuaded the Saudis to send him home via Paris--where police could detain him. "The Germans couldn't or wouldn't charge Ganczarski," says a French antiterrorist official. "The Americans wanted him out of commission and his terrorist links fully explored." German officials knew that the suicide bomber responsible for the April 11, 2002, explosion at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia--which killed 21 people--called Ganczarski shortly before launching his attack. They also knew that...
...There are a lot of dissatisfied people in the world who don't like the power and influence of the U.S., and they are motivated by factors other than just religious fanaticism. As long as they are ignored, the war will go on. I'm afraid the cost of antiterrorist security measures will exceed what the Western economies are capable of paying. GERID H. WAGNER Aachen, Germany...
...which are off limits to U.S. troops. In early March, American soldiers chased suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters across the border and met resistance from the Pakistani Frontier Corps. After one Pakistani militiaman was shot dead, the U.S. troops were ordered back to Afghanistan, according to an Islamabad antiterrorist official. --By Tim McGirk
...southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt for the tourists, 18 of whom are German nationals, after Interior Minister Otto Schily visited Algiers. Fears grew that the travelers, the first of whom went missing in mid-February, were kidnapped by Islamic extremists. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Saints They Ain't Italian police...