Word: counterterrorism
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...Chris Wallace asked Clinton last weekend if he had done enough to get bin Laden. Clinton eventually said no, but not before he leveled two charges at the Bush White House - one legit, one not. First, he said the Bush team demoted his counterterror czar Richard Clarke. That's technically right, but even the Kean-Hamilton commission noted Clarke continued to function at the same level of authority inside the White House as before. (Many Democrats just refuse to believe this...
...nationwide arrests of 56 radicals accused of plotting strikes against political leaders, government buildings, tourist sites and foreign-owned properties. "It's the very moderate, reformist, Western-oriented nature of states like Morocco that make them the worst enemies of bin Laden and his followers," says a senior French counterterror official. Ironically, however, pensioners living in Morocco said they feel safer from terror and ordinary crime than at home. The seeming omnipresence of uniformed police may explain why. "I've never felt more secure," assures Conticello. What do the average Moroccans think of this influx from Europe? Most seem...
...Nicolas Sarkozy, French Interior Minister, also suggested the establishment, at an E.U. level, of counterterror expert teams ready to help member states when needed. These would be similar to the "rapid reaction teams"at the disposal of the E.U. under its solidarity agreement, which aid member states in preventing illegal immigration...
...Iraq. French intelligence officials say around 55 Islamist radicals - including some who were recruiting fighters for Iraq - have been arrested in France during the first five months of the year, versus 76 for all of 2004. Do more arrests mean Europe is more or less safe? A French counterterror official says recruitment in Europe of fighters for Iraq has "gone from a trickle to become quite significant." But that additional activity has left clandestine networks more vulnerable to detection by police. "The public understandably gets scared seeing more Islamist extremists arrested in their midst," he remarks. "But those who should...
...innocents and 12 bombers. Moroccan political analyst Mohammed Darif sees GICM as "part of al-Qaeda," but says its role in both Madrid and Casablanca "was to provide the people who would carry out attacks; the people higher up who planned the attacks were not Moroccans." A French counterterrorism official agrees that GICM's "members - if not the organization itself - were at the heart of the Spanish strikes." And the group may have connections elsewhere in Europe. Last week French police arrested 13 people, and by week's end they were still holding six of them, including an Afghanistan-hardened...