Word: antiterrorist
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Should the U.S. be targeting bin Laden so aggressively? Taking out your enemies is a time-honored practice, notably used by Israel in recent times. A key element in Israel's antiterrorist strategy for years has been to eliminate them. Israelis not only killed Palestinians to avenge attacks like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre but went after operational brains as well. In 1973 an Israeli commando team, which included then-future Prime Minister Ehud Barak--disguised as a woman--wiped out several top Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in a raid in Beirut. The Israelis are still at it. A missile...
...joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French antiterrorist official. "It?s the culmination of a lot of hard, diligent work, and a nice piece of luck...
When Attorney General John Ashcroft proposed new antiterrorist legislation last week, he wanted Congress to approve it within days. At the White House, there was some annoyance that he set the deadline without consulting first. But maybe Ashcroft was right to think he had to act fast, and not only because he needs to crack terrorist networks before they can strike again. He also needs to head off resistance from people across the political spectrum who think the Justice Department already has all the power it needs. The things that Ashcroft wants--expanded power to tap phones, sift through...
...making it up the ladder. And the next generation is expected to do better." They are social conservatives: more than 65% voted for George W. Bush. They are pro-gun control, pro-environment and pro-death penalty. They are proud of their country. And they are viscerally--indeed, theologically--antiterrorist. One of the first clerics to speak at the service at the National Cathedral last week was Imam Muzammil H. Siddiqi: "We see the evil of destruction and the suffering of many of the people before our eyes. With broken and humble hearts and with tears in our eyes...
...apocalypse. After the 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge and the 1993 siege at Waco, suspicion of federal agencies and gun-control initiatives reached paranoid levels. Within days of the bombing, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Federal Government had caused the explosions so that it could justify new antiterrorist legislation. The number of active militia groups quadrupled in the year after Oklahoma City. A TIME cover story on the militia movement just after the bombing estimated that upwards of 12 million Americans "respond to the patriot rhetoric about a sinister, out-of-control federal bureaucracy." The final reckoning was nigh...