Word: arresters
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...arrest warrant issued for his wife for failing to appear in court for driving without insurance on a suspended license in an unregistered car in 1998 was still valid—and never acted upon—until she finally went to court last month...
...protest of the Prime Minister's reluctance to set a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. (The head offices in key ministries such as health, education and transportation are still empty.) Then, two weeks ago, four Sunni ministers began boycotting al-Maliki's cabinet meetings to protest an arrest warrant issued for a fellow Sunni minister...
...nickname it earned him, "The Sheriff," has stuck.) He was known as a hands-on investigator who would literally picked through wreckage of a downed airliner, or rent a boat to enter Libya to investigate the agents he accused of blowing it up. And in 1996, Bruguiere arranged the arrest and extradition of notorious terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" - author of a number of bombings in Paris in the 1980s - from Sudan, spirited away after he'd been sedated to undergo surgery on a varicose vein on his scrotum...
...Bruguiere's team relied on what were then frequently decried anti-terrorism laws that allowed the arrest, interrogation, and detention of large numbers of suspects for 72 hours prior to charges being filed. Attendant laws also allowed for the more aggressive pursuit of activities such as forging identity papers, illegal fundraising and people smuggling - apparently unrelated to violent activity, yet essential logistical support for terror networks. Bruguiere also developed a now widely used counter-terror strategy: the coup de pied dans le fourmillier (kicking the ant hill) that can both bag plotting radicals, and also destabilize the wider extremist milieu...
...about the global danger presented by the jihadist movement the French were battling. "I long encountered the attitude 'You French guys have to get over your Algeria obsession. It's over; there is no threat'," Bruguiere previously told TIME. "In fact, it was around the time of the Ressam arrest in 1999 that the attitude really changed...