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...Charles Intriago, publisher of Money Laundering Alert and a former federal prosecutor, argues that just as the Bush Administration has threatened to go to war not just on terrorists but on the nations that sponsor them, the U.S. may need to go after countries that permit their banks to safeguard money for terrorists. Given the centrality of the U.S. financial system in the world economy, no nation could easily survive being told that it could not clear its transactions in American banks. "We can eliminate them from our financial map," says Intriago. "It's the ultimate bloodless weapon, as lethal...
...terrorism, West told the audience that victims of “institutional forms of terrorism” such as slavery have been suffering long before Sept. 11. He warned that “the first casualty of war is always veritas,” and that America should safeguard against “anti-Arab racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Muslim” sentiments...
...reason not to make their job as difficult as we possibly can. In 1991, Congress passed a wide-ranging law--named for its principal sponsors, Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar--to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation. Nunn-Lugar and other programs spend $872 million a year to safeguard the former Soviet Union's weapons of mass destruction. Washington has had some spectacular successes in this field; in 1994, more than 1,300 lbs. of fissile material were airlifted from Kazakhstan to the U.S. But critics contend that Nunn-Lugar is underfunded. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting...
...grips of civil war since 1991, the Edgar family never felt particularly threatened because they were reassured that Freetown was “as safe as can be” because its security was reinforced by a prominent United Nations presence and a concentrated domestic military effort to safeguard the symbolic center of Sierra Leone’s political life. The evening news often recounted rebel attacks and the Edgar family opposed the rebels because, though they fought against a lackadaisical government, they routinely killed innocent civilians. As Edgar observes wryly, however, “often the time you think...
...That task: To "lead, oversee and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard our country against terrorism, and respond to any attacks that may come," the President announced Thursday night. Ridge will coordinate the efforts of some 40 federal agencies and departments, working alongside a new deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, and controlling a budget estimated at $11 billion...