Word: terroriste
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...refugees in foreign lands. The vast majority are stuck in limbo in neighboring Syria and Jordan, not allowed to work, unwilling to go home and denied visas to go anywhere else. U.S. and Iraqi officials say some of those refugees have begun returning home, spurred by the reduction in terrorist attacks and sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad. But that amounts to a small trickle compared with the numbers still seeking a way out. Though 66,000 Iraqis have applied for asylum, just 14,000 of them have been granted refugee status by the U.N. and have had their files sent...
That's one reason the Jan. 22 sentencing?in a traditional U.S. courtroom?of Brooklyn, N.Y., native Jose Padilla to more than 17 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy has attracted attention. Soon after Padilla's arrest in 2002, he was designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
...Wednesday. It was the biggest gathering of radical Palestinian factions since the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord in 1993, with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command attending along with the Lebanese Hizballah organization - an all-star cast of organizations branded as terrorist...
...billion - to meet the looming recession than Clinton, Obama or John Edwards did. Worse, the Democrats seemed willing to play on the Republican side of the field, proposing short-term fixes and tax rebates rather than a more comprehensive, thematic solution to the problem. Think about it: the terrorist threat to national security, the relative decline of the American middle class, the sudden flimsiness of the international economic structure - to say nothing of the potential destruction of the planet - all are influenced by the fact that, as Clinton often says, "we borrow money from the Chinese to buy oil from...
...would be entertaining and, as a by-product of the subject matter, perhaps be a catharsis," Abrams says. "We wanted to let people live through their wildest fears but be in a safe place, where the enemy is the size of a skyscraper instead of some stateless, unseen cowardly terrorist...