Word: raids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Extremism and terrorism will be defeated in every corner of the country.' PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, defending the eight-day government raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque. Militants responded with a rash of bombings and suicide attacks...
...first time, perhaps, he has nothing left to lose. Though he has alienated religious groups with his raid on the Red Mosque, most Pakistani moderates support his stand against extremism. Elements within the army or intelligence services that remain sympathetic to the extremists may finally see them as the threat that they are. The risk is that Musharraf's anti-radical stance may widen divisions in the army and intelligence forces, costing the President their support when he needs it most...
Hasina, who heads the Awami League, the more liberal of Bangladesh's two main political parties, was arrested after a two-and-a-half-hour raid on her Dhaka home by dozens of police and security personnel. An official said that Hasina is being jailed for at least a month on an extortion charge relating to her time in power between 1996 and 2001. The caretaker government has also accused Hasina of involvement in the killings of four political rivals during widespread unrest late last year (an accusation Hasina also denies). It was that violence, which pitted Hasina's supporters...
Having secured the release of kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston on July 4th, Hamas officials are now moving discreetly to negotiate freedom for another Gaza hostage - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit, seized in June 2006 in a raid by Palestinian militants who had tunneled under the Israeli security wall around Gaza, is currently being held by kidnappers who include members of Hamas' own military wing, as well another radical group, the Popular Resistance Committees...
Some nights bring success. On one recent raid outside Samarra, U.S. forces arrested 14 suspected insurgents who essentially surrendered when American helicopters thundered out of the night sky. Other nights turn up only cold trails in dusty towns that appear on few maps. "Any of the sleepy villages could be a safe haven or a passage point," says Luong. "The bad guys don't have any true boundaries...