Word: terrorism
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This, however, is a good-news story--in the sense that the public is largely unaware of the lengths to which the U.S. government has already gone to combat the potential of nuclear terror. The cia and fbi work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies. Though the department has had its funding cut more than 9% over the past four years, it has almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These...
...only intermittent cooperation aside from his confession, and others are not breaking down as hoped. The investigators have long experience successfully grilling Palestinians, but they cannot apply the same harsh psychological and physical methods to Israelis: the law forbids many such techniques except to prevent an imminent act of terror. Meanwhile, the milder pressures--sleep deprivation, no clean clothes, no visits with attorneys--have failed to elicit all the information police are seeking. Investigators, "are still in considerable darkness," says an intelliegence source...
...believed. On Friday morning, ex-general and incumbent President Liamine Zeroual was declared victor, with 61% of the vote and a mandate to bring peace to the country in his five-year term, beginning this week. The news broke the spell of silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into the air. Middle-class women laden with jewelry and dressed in tight-fitting Western...
SCHOOL BUS TERROR...
...terror: If you ask me what is the obstacle to the implementation [of the peace plan], it is terror. Arafat stopped the terrorism by the p.l.o. No Israeli has been killed by them since the end of 1992. Terror is carried out mainly by the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the clear purpose of undermining the peace process. We face a unique kind of terrorism--the suicidal terror mission. There is no deterrent to a person who goes with high explosives in his car or in his bag and explodes himself. We find remnants of his body. Sometimes...