Word: terrorist
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...build a small nuclear weapon. The U.S. Department of Energy, sensitive to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, last July halted U.S. sales of the gas and moved quickly to explain the losses and assure the public that the missing tritium had not ended up in the hands of a terrorist state...
...proposed "Third Amendment" threatens the very existence of these organizations. If passed, the bill would vest in police officers the power to "seize the property" of any organization that has ever "directly or indirectly" received funding from "a terrorist organization, or a corporation which is designed to act, or acts, for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...
...supported the cause of international terrorism ranks right up there with calling the Pope Catholic. Except in this case, the asserter was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi himself. To hear the Libyan leader tell it, in an interview with the Egyptian weekly al- Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism." That is a no-no. Avowed the newly...
...unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that is otherwise lawful, it forbids nothing at all. It is like a law that says, "No drinking in places where drinking is not allowed...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster...