Word: hijacking
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...more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat--al-Qaeda. I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11's tragedy to hijack our security policy. Until now, I have resisted speaking out in public. I've been silent long enough...
Moussaoui, 37, a French Moroccan who was detained about a month before the 9/11 attacks, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with al-Qaeda to hijack planes, but denies direct involvement in the 9/11 plot, claiming that he was preparing for a future attack instead. If he is not executed, he faces life imprisonment. Prosecutors were counting on the witnesses barred by Brinkema to explain to jurors how airport security could have been increased had Moussaoui come clean with FBI agents who interrogated him before 9/11...
...George W. Bush stood before paintings of Revolutionary War Minutemen Thursday and touted the success of international cooperation in the war on terror. In his speech to the National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian...
...terrified. After a year-and-a-half at Harvard, I’ve just about had it with Quad residents’ constant complaints about their quality-of-life. With their newfound prominence high atop major campus organizations secure, Quadlings are now in an ideal position to hijack advocacy agendas, focusing on issues that privilege the 20 percent of Harvardians who live within spitting distance of Somerville...
...because planning a Presidential campaign must, out of necessity, start several years in advance. We do, however, object to his abuse of the legislature and blatant defiance of the will of his constituents. To use his personal time to prepare for his political future is one thing, but to hijack his state’s legislature and convert it into a national showcase of his political agenda is quite another. The issues that Romney continues to needlessly push—reinstating capital punishment and, most prominently, banning same-sex marriage—have already been sufficiently debated, and the electorate?...