Word: terrorization
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...Padilla's downgrade from deadly menace to overeager errand boy is a tale of legal miscalculation and political overkill - a textbook case, critics say, of the overreaching of the Bush Administration's war on terror. Initially whisked away to the dark hole where "enemy combatants" go to be interrogated and held without charges, he emerged more than three years later as an almost conventional suspect endowed with constitutional rights. Gone were allegations of a dirty bomb and a scheme to annihilate apartment buildings. In their place were charges of conspiring to support terrorism and kill unspecified people overseas...
...added. Rail service was suspended between the Red Line Alewife and Davis T stations for the 30-minute duration of the search, and commuters were shuttled between the two stations by bus. Service was resumed around noon after technicians detonated the backpack, according to Pesaturo. Pesaturo, who said that terror threats were “very rare” in the T, urged all customers to report anything suspicious they see to the nearest MBTA authority. “The T is concerned about all individuals who act in an erratic fashion,” said Pesaturo...
...Delta Farce, Whitney is taking on the war on terror in a trenchant political drama... Oh, who are we kidding? The fart jokes are back, people. This time Larry and his buds, played by fellow Blue Collar alum Bill Engvall and gangly character actor DJ Qualls, are bumbling Army reservists bound for Iraq. "I love what I do and I don't take myself too seriously," says Whitney, 44. "This character is fun. It gives me a chance to take that little bit of me - how I grew up - and magnify it. I could care less about doing a huge...
...million Soviet citizens. Historians still argue why the first months of war proved so disastrous to Soviet forces and how they recovered to strike back. The answer is that not many were all that eager to fight for the Stalin dictatorship, as the Germans invaded. But the horror and terror of Nazism, unleashed on the conquered territories, forced the people to fight back for survival and turned the conflict into the Great Patriotic War, Stalin...
USAGE Woe is GW0T? At a recent debate, Brian Williams asked the eight Democratic presidential candidates to raise their hands if there "is such thing as a global war on terror." Clinton and Obama raised their hands. John Edwards was among those who did not. "This political language has created a frame that is not accurate and that Bush and his gang have used to justify anything they want to do," Edwards tells TIME. The White House, for its part, insists President Bush isn't changing his policy--or his vocabulary...