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...mandate, both the Likud and Begin were far removed from the activities and the ideology of the Irgun. A-Zahhar, in contrast, was elected in large part because of his recent promotion of terrorism; Hamas, which is recognized by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization, is not only responsible for hundreds of deaths, including those of Americans, in the past, but is also still armed and still promoting terrorism...
...Iranian administration would spell an end to these favorable deals at the profit of U.S. oil interests. Failing support from Beijing or Moscow, the current state of affairs requires the U.S. to undermine the Tehran regime on its own. The ties between the elites in Iran and fundamentalist terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda are undeniable, and in contrast with the Iraqi case, their pursuit of nuclear technology for military purposes becomes clearer every day. Having witnessed Tehran’s ambiguity and deceptive response to IAEA demands, it is clear that naïve hope for regime change cannot guide...
...requests through Department of Homeland Security, a change he resisted. "I was an infighter," he told the committee. He was frustrated with what he saw as a lack of focus on the threat posed by natural disasters, saying that FEMA had become a "stepchild in the department." If a terrorist had blown up the levees, he told the senators, he believed the DHS response would have been more aggressive. But after he testified, two officials at DHS suggested that Brown had only himself to blame, since his refusal to provide reports to Chertoff and others at DHS delayed the response...
...exactly, counts as a terrorist? If you're Russian President Vladimir Putin, the definition might just depend on how close or far the "terror" is from Moscow. A court in the Nizhniy Novgorod regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...
...Maskhadov, you see, is officially a terrorist in the eyes of the Kremlin. Hamas, however, isn't. Putin said so at his Kremlin press-conference on Thursday, where he extended an invitation - eagerly accepted - to Hamas's leaders to Moscow for an official visit...