Word: treasonous
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...Khan's allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The startling revelation that he may also...
...examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller’s career as a filmmaker...
During that struggle, Soyinka’s colleague, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who advocated the autonomy of the Ogoni people and fair distribution of the nation’s wealth, was arrested on false charges of treason and murder and hanged with eight of his companions...
...free and mercilessly make fun of anti-abortion activists safe in the knowledge that their views are totally irrelevant to the political process. Other countries with better weather, where Congress is more lively than “Crossfire.” It is not any more an act of treason to change your citizenship than it is to get a divorce, and if your current country is misguided enough to get its sense of how Iraq is going from Fox News then maybe you should think about kicking it to the curb...
...sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country's participation in the U.S.-led coalition. A Surprise Victory ZIMBABWE Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he felt "relieved" and "vindicated" after the High Court in Harare acquitted him of treason. Tsvangirai maintained that the charges against him - of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe ahead of disputed 2002 elections, which Mugabe won - were politically motivated. He faces a second treason trial next month on charges relating to his call last year for Mugabe's ouster. Closing in on a Killer...