Word: terroriste
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Nevertheless, the McCain campaign was unable to escape the charge that it was playing the race card. An Associated Press analysis called the campaign's invocations of the once violent 1960s radical Ayers "racially tinged" because they evoked the word terrorist. McCain was also accused of playing on race for running an ad that highlighted Obama's relationship with Franklin Raines, a former executive at Fannie Mae who is black. Says Davis: "I never saw anybody play the race card but the Obama campaign...
...army troops in the campaign, but the narcos have lashed out with insurrection-style violence against a harrowing number of law-enforcement officials, from beat cops to top cops like Millan, as well as prosecutors and judges. The cartels, whose homicidal repertoire includes an orgy of beheadings, upped the terrorist ante in September when they allegedly threw grenades into a crowded plaza in Michoacán, killing eight people. (See pictures from Mexico's drug wars...
SARKOZY and BUSH share terrorist fist...
...August, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made the unusual move of revisiting a previously decided case challenging the Bush Administration's practice of extraordinary rendition, in which U.S. authorities hand certain terrorist suspects to outside countries for interrogation. On Dec. 9, the court will hear oral arguments in the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen whom U.S. authorities seized at New York's J.F.K. airport in September 2002 and then sent to Syria, where Arar claims he was tortured before being released without charge. Previously, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...
...meantime, the newly headless group will likely only grow weaker. "More and more, the structure of ETA is eroding," says Sánchez-Cuenca. "It's not clear anymore who is making the decisions." Thus there is cautious hope that Europe's last anachronistic terrorist grouping, which has more than 800 deaths to answer for over the last forty years, may finally be heading towards the obsolescence of Northern Ireland's IRA, Germany's Red Army Faction and Italy's Red Brigades. But such hopes have been cruelly dashed before...