Word: terroristic
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Arguments like this, however, often fail to distinguish between the religious fanatics who garner headlines with terrorist attacks and the far more numerous Muslims who seek a greater say in their countries' policies. Anti-Islamic attitudes also tend to obscure the import of the fundamentalists' electoral gains. In Jordan's elections last November and now in Algeria, fundamentalist organizations offered the only strong vehicle for voters to register a protest against government policies...
...Palestinian kids, the Isreali army was guns, everywhere you go. To the Jewish kids, it was what everyone serves in. And to the Jews, Yassir Arafat was a terrorist. To the Palestinians, he was president. When he reflects on the camp, Springer is ambivalent. "If they gained anything, it was because they were thrown together as friends. But to me it seemed more important to solve the political situation...how much could the camp do when the cousins of these kids were throwing rocks at each other across the green line...
...seven-member commission conceded that there is "much less" of a terrorist threat to flights within the U.S. than to international ones. Nonetheless, the commission urged that domestic travelers undergo the same tight screening that the Federal Aviation Administration now requires of U.S. airlines on international flights. The panel, headed by former Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin, asked the FAA to station a security manager at major U.S. airports. FAA administrator James Busey, who praised the report, said some of the recommendations, including one for more sensitive metal detection, might go into effect within a "few weeks...
...overseas as travelers switch to the less security-conscious foreign carriers. Richard Lally, vice president for security at the industry's Air Transport Association, said that such rules in the U.S. would have a "disruptive impact on air travel." Yet superscreening may be appropriate when there are specific, credible terrorist threats...
With Colombia's presidential elections scheduled for May 27, the drug cartels have set out on a wild assassination binge. The idea is to influence the outcome, and according to the secret police, the funding comes mainly from drug magnate Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Despite sweeping police operations, the terrorist toll from May 10 to May 17 alone was 503 people murdered and 18 kidnaped, bringing the year's total to more than 5,000 killings and 342 abductions...