Word: slaughtered
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...Slaughter, an expert in international law, argued that invoking military tribunals was not the right precedent for the current situation...
...Slaughter said that terrorists would better be characterized as criminals than “as unlawful belligerents who violated the laws...
Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law Anne-Marie Slaughter said that “the order flies in the face of the values” of this country and is “not consistent with the Constitution” because many safeguards normally associated with the judicial process would be not be present in military tribunals...
...want to harm civilians. But the Taliban are storing weapons in mosques and using schools as barracks. Do we leave them unmolested? The enemy deliberately murdered American civilians. Now he is counting on American sensitivity to inadvertent civilian casualties to protect him--so he can live to slaughter American civilians again...
...that slaughter that begets necessity. The anthrax attacks give but a hint of the kind of mass murder possible today. A smallpox epidemic could kill tens of millions and effectively destroy American society. As could loose nukes. According to Boris Yeltsin's former national security adviser, Russia cannot account for all its tactical nuclear weapons. Iraq and Iran are working on nuclear weapons of their own. On Sept. 11, it took just 19 conspirators to shock America. It would take just 19 more, each with a suitcase nuke, to destroy America...