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...said that the MBTA—which services 1.1 million riders each day, according to its website—has been conducting anti-terror training since...
...kill or stop bin Laden for the first eight months in office - that is, the eight months before the 9/11 atttacks. The Bush White House has always been hugely sensitive about this charge because, well, there is some truth to it. The new administration came into office and put terror about third or fourth down on its list of big worries, behind Russia, the ABM treaty, and sorting out that unexpected spy plane problem with the Chinese. (Many Republicans just refuse to believe this...
...buildings, tourist sites and foreign-owned properties. "It's the very moderate, reformist, Western-oriented nature of states like Morocco that make them the worst enemies of bin Laden and his followers," says a senior French counterterror official. Ironically, however, pensioners living in Morocco said they feel safer from terror and ordinary crime than at home. The seeming omnipresence of uniformed police may explain why. "I've never felt more secure," assures Conticello. What do the average Moroccans think of this influx from Europe? Most seem to view it as positive. But will that last? One consequence...
...none. President Musharraf was, and still is, a military dictator. “Our dictator,” to be sure, but a dictator nonetheless.When Musharraf took the podium, it was to deliver a relatively uncontroversial speech supporting President Bush’s “war on terror,” while lamenting the diplomatic difficulties of Pakistan’s border disputes with India. Somehow the good general forgot to talk about honor killings, Pakistan’s development and sale of nuclear weapons, or his country’s terrorist attacks on India. Four years later, another...
...path of democracy." But Nazarbayev seems more interested in the prestige value of his meeting. "We're now a key ally of the United States in Central Asia," said Nazarbayev in 2004, when Bush sent him a letter of gratitude for "Kazakhstan's continued assistance in the war on terror." Kazakhstan's abundant oil, political stability, and a foreign policy friendly to the West outweigh its human-rights and democratic shortcomings, and will ensure that Nazarbayev's visit to the U.S. is largely a friendly...