Word: khalid
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...Alias” and “24.” Two weeks ago, President Bush confirmed they are also the stuff of reality. Bush stated what Jack Bauer has long led us to suspect: tough techniques work. Accused terrorists Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al Shibh, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed all spilled valuable information once interrogated with what Bush called “an alternative set of procedures.” That information led to the capture of other wanted men and hinted at details for future plots. It may have saved American lives. Nonetheless, controversy has arisen: given...
...lessons from Zubaydah and his more noteworthy successors--like Ramzi Binalshibh, an erudite killer who provided little information under extreme duress, and the 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (K.S.M.), who, according to senior intelligence officials, was told his children would be hurt if he didn't cooperate--were the long-held lessons of going medieval: whatever jumbled information is swiftly gathered is not worth the high price. To establish what was gathered, Bush, in the East Room, did what has consistently landed him in trouble--take creative liberties with classified information. Specifically, he ran through a simplified progression...
...next day, one junior minister and seven other low-ranking members of the government resigned, including some long-time Blair supporters. The resignation letter of one of them, Khalid Mahmood, summed up their unhappiness with the Prime Minister: "The party and the Labour government's work is more important than any individual. Sadly, I feel that your remaining in office no longer serves the best interests of the party or the country." The ensuing turmoil precipitated furious arguments yesterday between Brown and Blair and fevered efforts by their surrogates to work out a decorous transition - resulting in Blair's announcement...
...transferring name-brand al-Qaeda prisoners recognized as dangerous men - such as alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad - to Guantanamo from secret detention abroad is likely to strengthen the rationale for the offshore facility, and for dispensing justice via military courts. It is also precisely because the Supreme Court has ruled that military tribunals do not offer detainees sufficient legal rights that the President has now urged Congress to pass legislation to address those concerns...
...Qaeda foreshadowed the London plot almost exactly when Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who went on to mastermind the 9/11 attacks, drew up a scheme to bomb 12 planes over the Pacific during a 48-hour period. They nicknamed the plan Bojinka. They intended to have five terrorists take liquid explosives in carry-on bags onto planes and then assemble the bombs onboard. All but one of the planes were to be U.S. bound. On Dec. 11, Yousef ran a dress rehearsal on a Philippine Airlines jet. He carried the explosives onboard in contact-lens-solution bottles...