Word: antiterrorist
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...into the surrounding area. To avoid being overwhelmed by narcotic gas like their comrades had been in the October 2002 Moscow theater siege--in which 41 terrorists and 129 hostages died--the rebels quickly smashed the school's windows. After reviewing the situation, an officer from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit told a senior Beslan legal figure that the Moscow theater siege "was a kindergarten compared to this...
...media in India. I. Ramamohan Rao Information Consultant Government of India Ministry of Defense New Delhi Supporting Task Force 88 I was quoted out of context in your article "Police Academy 1" [Nov. 24]. I was not asked by your correspondent to comment on the U.S. government's antiterrorist training provided to the Indonesian police unit Task Force 88. Rather, I was commenting on human-rights issues related to the police's Mobile Brigade. The placement of my quote, however, gives the impression that I was criticizing the training for Task Force 88, which is not the case. The Asia...
...Five more men were locked up and badly beaten. Another example of prison abuse by U.S. forces? No, this do-it-yourself Abu Ghraib was a private jail being run by Idema and two other Americans who, along with several Afghan helpers, appear to have set themselves up as antiterrorist bounty hunters. "They pretended they were fighting terrorism," said Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali, after the three Americans were arrested. "But they were outlaws...
...SURRENDERED. MILORAD LUKOVIC, 39, former paramilitary leader suspected of masterminding the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic; in Belgrade. Lukovic, a onetime backer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic, headed a feared antiterrorist police unit called the Red Berets. After Milosovic's 2000 fall from power, Lukovic initially supported Djindjic's administration, but he was soon removed from his police post...
...neighboring Carinthia of Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. One step left, two steps right. Free at Last U.K. The U.S. released five Britons held as terror suspects for two years at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The five were briefly detained by British antiterrorist police on their arrival back in the U.K., and then released without charge. One of the men, Jamal Udeen, said he had been subjected to beatings and ?psychological torture? in the camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with three U.S. envoys in Jerusalem...