Word: terrorized
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...civilian death toll can be routinely dismissed as an unfortunate by-product of war, an even more uncomfortable aspect for the U.S. of the Lancet study is the conclusion that the majority of the violent deaths had been caused not by terror attacks, but by U.S. air strikes. The use of air power in urban areas has become a routine part of the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq, and such attacks are typically reported as "air strikes against rebel positions." But civilian casualties are pretty much inevitable when air power is used in cities, despite the best intentions and technological capabilities...
...terror and the intense Israeli-Palestinian conflict have revitalized Middle Eastern studies, leaving many department chairs scrambling to find junior and senior professors to fill the gaps of a once-ignored field of study...
...good offices of Barghouti, and those who share his standing among the hard men of the West Bank and Gaza, remain essential to Abbas's own ability to restart peace talks with Israel. Negotiations are a non-starter unless Abbas can rein in terror attacks - and to do that, he requires the consent of the militant rank and file committed to the intifada, since it's unlikely that he has the political standing even among Palestinian security personnel to prevail in a violent confrontation with the militias. Abbas's preferred method has been to negotiate cease-fire agreements with Hamas...
...normal ups and downs of life in Westminster. He is genuinely popular as a remarkable man who overcame blindness and poverty to reach the top of British politics. But many critics also accuse him of a deep authoritarian streak. He has introduced indefinite detention without trial for foreign terror suspects; he wants everyone to carry an identity card containing biometric identifiers; he tried to cut access to jury trials and wants to tell jurors the details of some defendants' past convictions...
...damage is done, but the Bush administration can counteract the fallout somewhat by voluntarily releasing the Red Cross report in its entirety to the public. At this junction, however slight, any compromise with international opinion is bound to do America, and the War on Terror, a whole lot of good...