Word: discredit
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...have hired a lawyer, but Slobodan Milosevic is acting as his own defense attorney in court. In an aggressive cross-examination that sought to discredit the prosecution's first witness, he questioned Kosovo Albanian political leader for almost four hours, twice as long as prosecutors. Bakali testified Monday about the "apartheid state" Serb leaders imposed on Kosovo's ethnic Albanians after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power. He also testified that during his meetings with the former president, he informed Milosevic that Serb forces were committing crimes against ethnic Albanians, particularly the 1998 massacre of the Jashari family. Mahmut Bakali...
...HAITI Whose Plot Foiled? Police blamed veterans for a failed bid to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A former colonel and an ex-soldier were arrested, while two dozen other suspects were still at large. But the opposition claimed the coup attempt was a government setup designed to discredit Aristide's opponents...
...calls to smash capitalism, the angry young men with their faces covered in bandanas - have taken on a whole new meaning in the wake of a terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit the movement. Clare Short, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development, told the Times: "Their demands turned out to be very similar to those of bin Laden's network...
...message that Washington plans to challenge Bin Laden in real time for the hearts and minds of the Arab world. The U.S. might have been helped in this respect by bin Laden's bizarre rant against the United Nations. The terrorist leader may have been trying to discredit the international body in anticipation of any progress in international efforts to broker a new Israeli-Palestinian peace breakthrough (which would undermine one of his key propaganda devices). But two days later, his Taliban hosts were on TV demanding urgent humanitarian assistance - from the United Nations...
...world. Well, perhaps the anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era were mostly drawn from the comfortable middle classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs and the free love. That doesn’t even begin to discredit their message that the U.S. war in Vietnam was an unjust and ill-conceived adventure that killed thousands of defenseless peasants and ravaged a country. Thirty years after the Vietnam War, history has vindicated them. Don’t ask an old peacenik. Ask Robert McNamara, one of the architects...