Word: terrorismã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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President Bush widened the “war on terrorism?? Tuesday, freezing the assets of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a Texas-based Muslim charity he claims is part of the Hamas terrorist financial network...
...bill would prevent the government from issuing visas to students from countries considered sponsors of terrorism??Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria–unless the applicants are deemed to not “pose a threat to the safety or national security of the United States...
...network it depends on for support. Our most elusive enemy is our own short-sightedness and the unrelenting anxiety that causes it—a very human anxiety born from months in the crosshairs of merciless predators. Although soldiers with automatic weapons might make us feel less vulnerable to terrorism??even though we aren’t—what’s the point of defeating one lifestyle of fear while we cultivate another...
President George W. Bush’s recent executive order on the “Detention, Treatment and Trial of Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism?? represents an extremely troubling shift in priorities on the part of the administration. The order, which provides for the trial of non-citizens suspected of terrorism by military tribunal rather than in a court of law before a jury of their peers, strikes at the very foundation of the American legal system. Its ramifications could render illegitimate the coming decade’s most important exercises of justice and would blacken...
...must pursue such agreements with other states because we are assembled for a common good. States are the only actors we can deal with, who can enforce treaties and achieve our aims. Unlike private armies or loose terrorist networks, states—even ones that sponsor terrorism??have interests in self-preservation that run counter to the suicide-bomber ethic. A state can’t slink into a cave for several months, emerging only to carry out some new monstrosity...