Word: terrorist
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...Cheney didn't sugarcoat his attacks on the Obama Administration, saying its counterterrorism policies "will in fact raise the risk to the American people" of another terrorist attack. Cheney claimed that the Bush policies - including holding suspects at Guantánamo Bay and using harsh interrogation techniques to extract information from them - had helped prevent another attack after 9/11...
...Unfortunately for U.S. prosecutors, none of that actually made al-Arian a terrorist - PIJ's North American leader, they insisted - which is why in 2005 a jury in Tampa, Fla., acquitted the former computer-engineering professor on eight charges and deadlocked on nine others. (Al-Arian's defense also maintained that the prosecution's case was based in part on a letter that was seized by the feds at al-Arian's home but had never been sent.) It was one of the Bush Administration's sharpest humiliations and a glaring example of its chronic overreach in post...
...life, Sara Jane Olson was a doting, upper-class soccer mom who drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann Soliah, the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive - was released Tuesday from a California state prison, seven years after pleading guilty to participating in a deadly bank robbery and planting pipe bombs under police cars...
...politics began to shift during her time at the University of California-Santa Barbara and radicalized further following her graduation. After moving to Berkeley in 1972, Soliah befriended Angela Atwood, an aspiring actress who introduced her to members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the domestic terrorist sect best known for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst...
Giansanti, of course, had other subjects: World Cup soccer stars, Formula One racers, African tribesmen. He also took searing photographs of the aftermath of the 1985 terrorist attack at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. His last major project was a series of portraits of people he described as Italy's unsung stars in such fields as law, education and geology. But he will be remembered for two things: the death of a premier and the life of a pope...