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...numerous checkpoints, the random searches of infants and grandmothers and the constant scrutiny are more than enough. No matter how much security is in place, there will always be people who will stop at nothing to destroy our liberty. What's next, setting up metal detectors outside every citizen's front door? CHAIM THEIL New York City...
...decade. The killings began on Feb. 27; after 72 hours of complete mayhem, violence continued to flare for almost six weeks. The unofficial death toll now exceeds 2,000, and the vast majority of the dead are Muslims. Women's groups and human-rights organizations like the Citizen's Initiative have published scores of testimonies from eyewitnesses claiming that women were gang-raped. Tens of thousands of Muslims fled their homes to more than 100 refugee camps...
...Legal Territory," you quoted law professor Robert Turner, who stated, "If we err too far on the side of civil liberties, an awful lot of Americans could lose their lives" [WAR ON TERROR, June 24]. But civil liberties are strongly associated with greater safety and security for the average citizen. Just think of countries without them: Afghanistan under the Taliban, Iraq, Chile under Pinochet, Somalia. Then ask yourself how safe you would feel living in those countries. I would not feel very safe living in a country where the government can arrest and detain indefinitely any citizen it chooses without...
...sleep deprivation and modulation of caloric intake among the methods of interrogation used on Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's chief of operations. This is the sort of treatment that one could expect from a 19th century French penal colony, not from the 21st century U.S. Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested on American soil, but when the Federal Government was unable to build a case against him that would have a chance of standing up in court, he was not released but instead was moved to a military base, where he is being denied access to counsel and held...
...DEPORTED. MOHAMMED NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, New Zealand citizen and stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein; after his arrest by FBI and immigration officials. Saffi, in the U.S. on a tourist visa, admitted not having the student visa required for his planned enrollment at a Miami aviation school...