Word: terrorist
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...aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Massachusetts Port Authority fell into chaos as revenue plummeted across the board. Leslie A. Kirwan ’79, then finance director of the MPA, lost no time in responding. She quickly organized four task forces and got the authority back on firm financial footing within nine months, according to MPA aviation finance director Brian R. McMorrow...
...Standish's mayor for the past six years, says most of his constituents want domestic inmates. But accepting detainees from Guantánamo Bay, he says, "is a whole different ball of wax." At community meetings in recent months, King says he has made the point to skeptics that terrorists have long been housed at U.S. prisons, and "you can't recite one terrorist attack by people trying to get out." He says he has received assurances from federal officials that should detainees be brought to Standish, no land near the prison would be seized to expand the facility...
...early-morning hours of Oct. 21, federal authorities arrested 27-year-old Massachusetts resident Tarek Mehanna on charges that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists and planned to carry out a "violent jihad" by killing U.S. politicians, attacking American troops in Iraq and targeting customers at U.S. shopping malls. U.S. attorneys claim that Mehanna worked with two other men on various plans designed to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" U.S. citizens and soldiers from 2001 to 2008. He will be held in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Oct. 30. If he is found guilty, Mehanna faces...
...questioned by the FBI on Dec. 16, 2006, about Daniel J. Maldonado, a Methuen, Mass., resident who was suspected of training at a terrorist camp of al-Qaeda's and plotting to overthrow the Somali government. Maldonado later admitted to training with al-Qaeda and is now serving a 10-year prison sentence...
...Once the refined wheels of military justice begin to turn, there's still a risk they could grind to a halt. Many of Gitmo's detainees are charged with material support for terrorism or terrorist groups, one of the offenses Congress set aside for the commissions, as it did in 2006. But such offenses have not been recognized as war crimes by the Geneva Convention, nor have they been brought before military tribunals before. Administration legal officials have expressed concern that civilian appeals courts would reverse hard-won convictions on grounds that material support offenses should not have been tried...