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...Pakistan had previously claimed that the strike, which killed 18 civilians and provoked anti-U.S. protests, had missed its intended target, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy. Among the operatives believed to have been killed were ABU KHABAB AL-MASRI, left, a top bombmaker who ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Pakistani officials say that the strike also killed ABU UBAYDA AL-MISRI, an al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, and ABDUL RAHMAN AL-MAGHREBI--son-in-law of al-Zawahiri...
...nation's torrid industrialization. A recent World Economic Forum poll of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries revealed that public trust in national governments, the U.N. and multinational companies has dropped significantly over the past two years and is close to the lows recorded after the terrorist attacks of Sept...
...Blanc said. “[But] the series of local elections that have been held over the past 13 months have been somewhat more problematic.”The upcoming election has been complicated by the participation of militant Islamic group Hamas, which has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. and European Union. Hamas is fielding at least 115 candidates for the 132 seats, according to the BBC. Palestinian leaders have claimed that engaging Hamas in the political process is essential to demilitarizing it, but the Israeli government has claimed that Hamas should not be allowed to participate...
...Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was prompted by the release of Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” which portrays Israel’s efforts to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September...
This issue is sufficiently nuanced as to require further clarification. In the 2002 book, Dershowitz considers a scenario in which a democratic government captures a terrorist who "knows or probably knows the location of a number of bombs...set to go off within the next twenty-four hours." Dershowitz wrote that the government could "forgo any use of torture and simply allow the preventable terrorist act to occur." But he acknowledged that such an approach would provoke "a great outcry in any democracy," and that in such a scenario, the United States probably would find a way to facilitate...