Word: terrorisms
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...image we all remember from the London terror bombings last July 7 is a grainy snapshot. The picture, captured on a mobile phone camera, shows people escaping from a subway train. In the foreground, a man is holding a cloth over his nose and mouth so he can breathe more easily in the smoky subway.The photograph, one of the best examples to date of a phenomenon many call citizen journalism, reflects the democratization of information. The collision of media and technology has given us powerful, inexpensive tools to create digital content, ranging from blogs to podcasts to videos and more...
...Carney is no left-wing bomb thrower; he is a pragmatic moderate. Before the war began, he specialized in studying Saddam's ties to regional terrorist groups. "There were no links to 9/11," he told me. "But there were plenty of other contacts with terror groups. I always thought that was a better argument for the war than weapons of mass destruction." Carney's politics pretty accurately reflect the views of most Iraq combat veterans running as Democrats. They are not so much antiwar as anti-Bush, furious about the lack of preparation for the war, the insufficient troop levels...
...delivered by Gerrardo Cajamarca, a former Coke employee in Colombia who now works for the Colombian food and beverages workers union Sinal Trainal. Cajamarca charged that Coke-funded paramilitaries had assassinated eight Colomobian unionizers. Through Romero, Cajamarca said, “this is an effort to sew fear, sew terror in the hearts of these workers who are trying to form a union.” He also stressed the importance of student support and action. “We believe that the students in fact are the key part of the conscience of our people...
...Mahmud said. “These militias run the city by instilling terror in Nabulsis themselves. They smuggle arms, kidnap people, and threaten their lives. They have nothing to do with the Israelis...well, not directly, if you know what I mean...
...While the White House has touted its growing strategic partnership with India on this trip, it is still very much wedded to Pakistan. The country remains on the front line of terror. The situation is so bad that Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have gotten into a tiff over who needs to do more to stop terror along their 1,470-mile, largely lawless frontier. Karzai said Musharraf should do more to contain the lawless tribal regions in the country?s north, while Musharraf has called for mining the border. Little wonder, then, the security situation in Islamabad...