Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stepping up retaliation following last Sunday's terror bombings, Yasser Arafat ordered PLO security forces todisarm militant Islamic opponentsin Gaza, despite threats that such action couldtrigger a Palestinian civil war. "It's an impossible mission", says TIME Israel reporter Jamil Hamad. "Gaza is overcrowded, the people give terrorists cover, and the PLO police are not qualified to do the job." The mood is so tense, says Hamad, thatPalestinians now complain publiclythat PLO officers are mistreating them and abusing children. One furious Palestinian mother told Hamad today that -- unlike in the days of Israeli control -- many of those arrested are jailed...
...terror-plot trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, jurors were shown dramatic videotapes that, the government maintains, recorded the defendants at work. Prosecutors said one clip showed a co-defendant taking a scouting drive through a major New York City tunnel to explore where to plant a bomb, and another recorded some of the defendants trying to build an explosive. Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of the government informer whose cooperation made the tapes possible...
...Branch Davidian group led by David Koresh, who ultimately posed his most deadly danger to his own followers. The subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity, as if Koresh had somehow become melded with the Tylenol killer. It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them. Or put another way, garden-variety madness had got access to weapons of terror...
...breakfast table in Vancouver, British Columbia. The rifle bullet had come through the window; the sniper was never caught. The question now is whether this attack-rather than Salvi's alleged rampage seven weeks later-represents the cutting edge of antiabortion extremism, and whether the reign of terror can be stopped before more people are injured or killed...
...terror-conspiracy trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 followers, federal prosecutors introduced transcripts of the taped conversations that are at the center of their case. In the transcripts the sheik is quoted as counseling against bombing the U.N. because it might be considered a "center of peace" and targeting instead "the American Army itself...