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...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 trial or due process, as in the case of Jose Padilla. BRUCE ZUIDEMA Robbinsville...
...terrorism?" "I'm not in the business of picking on orphans or widows," said Sylvester. "If the organizations are reputable they need to clean themselves out." Bosnia, of course, is not the only place to have seen a shift toward preemptive justice and the use of "secret evidence" to detain terror suspects since Sept. 11. But NATO peacekeepers hold unusually sweeping powers in the Balkans, and the consequences of alienating Muslims are worrying. Anela Kobilica, wife of one of the six Algerians deported to Guantanamo Bay, paused on a dusty road in the town of Zenica. "This...
...long can you detain a U.S. citizen...
...been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would be the ideal time. But Castro's timing was now off. A nervous Carter immediately sent somebody to detain Castro for the minute it would take to hustle Lewis out of the room; if the New York Times ran a story about Carter with Castro, the ex-president's relationship with the Bush administration would be terminated. (Dan Quayle, in Caracas representing the first Bush administration at Perez' inauguration...
BRITAIN No Smoking Gun The case against the first person to be accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to collapse when a British judge found insufficient evidence to detain Lotfi Raissi on charges of terrorism. The Algerian-born pilot walked free on $14,200 bail after lawyers said the FBI had failed to supply direct evidence that he had trained the Sept. 11 hijackers. Raissi, who spent five months behind bars, still faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of making false statements when applying for a pilot's license...