Word: lawlessness
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...help to the lynch mobs by providing breathing space for hatred. Despite sufficient evidence of the coming firestorm, the police were kept immobile before and mute during the public assault, mayhem and murder. The guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from all the codes of humanity, chatting as they roam, roaring...
TIME has learned that the FBI is poised to send agents back into Yemen because of intelligence reports that al Qaeda loyalists may try to establish bases in that nation's lawless areas. Yemen, along with Pakistan, is considered top priority by the FBI and the intelligence community as they try to interdict fleeing Bin Laden operatives scrambling to find sanctuary...
...Osama bin Laden set up his terrorist training camps five years ago. It brought money to an area where cooking pots are a major expense. It maintained close ties with local Pashtun tribal leaders. There was relative peace. Now those same villages, scattered over hundreds of square kilometers of lawless and rugged mountains, are providing haven for Al-Qaeda fighters on the run. A commander named Abdul Basir says he caught five wounded Arabs in a place called Seliman Khil three days after they had be routed from their camps. "Al-Qaeda pays a lot of money to the people...
...life-threatening. Imagine trying to negotiate crossing a busy Kabul street, dodging donkey carts, careening buses and Taliban roaring by in their Datsun pickups when your vision is reduced to a narrow, mesh grid. The plus point of a burqa is that it confers invisibility on a woman. In lawless Afghanistan, that's a necessary shield...
...There are legitimiate uses for a military trial - trying terrorists in a military court in a place as lawless as Afganistan is one of them. But whether and under what rules a trial of terroists in the United States should be conducted in secret or in public before a military tribunal is another matter. In a case such as the 1942 trial of the German saboteurs, it would clearly be justified on its merits and the Supreme Court expressly so held. But in other cases, the administration itself may well conclude that the wiser public policy is either a public...