Word: antiterrorist
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...which are off limits for 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 Dire Straight THE MEDITERRANEAN As terror concerns increased with the hostilities in Iraq, the 13-km-wide Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain got a new security system. NATO began quietly escorting allied civilian ships through the Strait to prevent a repeat of the attack...
...Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His suspected assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, was arrested, and two of three alleged masterminds of the Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still on the lam. After questioning members of JSO, officials found the body of Ivan Stambolic, a former Serbian President who disappeared three years ago. Police said drug barons hired Jovanovic, the JSO's deputy commander, to kill Djindjic to prevent government investigations. The JSO was disbanded...
...Although U.S., Israeli and European diplomats - as well as many Palestinians - have welcomed the emergence of a more democratically accountable and antiterrorist leadership around Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), nobody is expecting that he'll be willing to accept less than a settlement based on a modified version of the 1967 borders. Sharon, who fought tooth and nail against the Oslo peace process, has, until now, signaled that he has no intention of offering anything close to that - indeed, Israeli analysts believe Sharon's idea of Palestinian statehood doesn't extend much beyond a modified version...
...psychologist wondered, naturally, whether De Kock deserved forgiveness. He seemed genuinely remorseful. His work with the death squads had a sort of antiterrorist rationale at the time. But so what? Evil always has an explanation. There is no bromide as fatuous as the thought that to understand everything is to forgive everything. Gobodo-Madikizela knows that forgiveness is less a matter of understanding than of a more profound motion of the heart--a transcendence. The importance is not so much that it absolves the one forgiven as that it cleanses the one who forgives...
...Instead of amending the pacifist clause, it has proved easier to ignore it. Just weeks after 9/11, the Diet passed the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law, which authorized the SDF to support international antiterrorist activities overseas. Under that legislation, the Kirishima was sent to the Indian Ocean?an interpretation of antiterrorism that some believe stretches Japan's constitution to its very limit. Says law professor Kitaoka: "Remilitarization is indeed going on, but no one is willing to take on the task of changing the legal framework." In fact, many legal experts claim that a number of the recent military laws...