Word: antiterrorism
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...Terrorism The government passed tough antiterror legislation in the wake of the Bali bombings, but Megawati appears reluctant to crack down on Islamic extremists for fear of alienating the Muslim vote in this election year...
...commanding view of the German capital. But as chief of Germany's war on terrorism, his sights are often clouded by the country's overly complex network of independent state-run police and intelligence services. Take the morning of March 11, when European governments were scrambling their antiterror forces in the wake of the Madrid train bombings. Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). But only the BND is located in Berlin. The BKA is headquartered 571 km away...
...destruction for destruction!" Days after recording the message, Fakhet and five or six self-styled mujahedin gathered in a circle in the Leganés flat and set off an estimated 20-kg charge of Goma 2 Eco dynamite, atomizing themselves. Officials believe that blast, which also killed an antiterror policeman, eliminated most of the "material authors" of the train bombings who were still at large. But no one in Europe is resting easy. For though the tape may have been Fakhet's final testament, it's hardly the last we'll hear from the terror groups that may have...
...Milan headquarters of the carabinieri, as well as the Milan airport and train station. "It's a leak from inside that little by little can grow," says Milan antiterror prosecutor Elio Ramondini. On Dunstable Road, the heart of the vibrant Pakistani community in Luton, an industrial town 48 km north of London, the perplexities of finding a terrorist needle in the haystack of a long-settled, law-abiding group of immigrants are manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan...
...than nine months - before being released. In a notorious case last fall, an imam from Senegal who lived near Turin with his Italian wife and children was expelled as a "threat to state security" after he made a series of fundamentalist diatribes for the TV cameras. A senior Italian antiterror official admits that increased powers have been abused. "We cannot be indiscriminate, which would be a great victory for the terrorists who are seeking to create a clash of civilizations," he says. That's the argument of civil-rights activists too. "Our concern is that draconian policies are usually counterproductive...