Word: terrorism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Iraq, Ober means. But, Moore argues, bad for Americans as well. As he sees it, 9/11 was a tragedy for America, a career move for Bush. The attacks allowed the President to push through Congress restrictive laws that would have been defeated in any climate but the ?war on terror? chill. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? shows some tragicomic effects of the Patriot Act: a man quizzed by the FBI for casually mentioning at his health club that he thought Bush was an ?asshole?; a benign peace group in Fresno, Cal., infiltrated by an undercover police agent...
...President Clinton signed a top-secret order, approved by the congressional intelligence committees, that authorized the CIA to begin covert operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counter-terrorism center ... had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign...
...million tickets, or 76% of their target, for €136 million. (An additional 3.5 million tickets go on sale next month.) They're expecting a full house, even though there will likely be 20% fewer Americans than in previous Games, thanks to the plunging value of the dollar and terror fears. "Considering these Games are taking place under the worst possible global psychology," says a senior organizing official, "these are blockbuster sales." As for Greeks themselves, in a recent poll 97% said they welcome the Olympics, despite all the difficulties. In the village of Marathon, Martha Sirakou, 43, a housewife...
...beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was for once untainted by terror...
Harvard Alumni Association Executive Director John P. Reardon Jr. ’60 also said that appropriate officials will coordinate any security measures in response to the terror threat...