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Talking to the Basque terrorist group eta has long been anathema to Spanish governments. But Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems prepared to bite the bullet this time. The Spanish Congress last week passed a resolution giving the government authority to negotiate with eta - if it lays down its arms. Batasuna, the banned political party close to eta, welcomed the move. "We think it's a step in the right direction," says Arnaldo Otegi, Batasuna's spokesman. The opposition Popular Party (PP) and victims' groups are livid, accusing Zapatero of providing eta with what...
...million in seed money for a Combating Terrorism Center at the academy. The center was up and running by February 2003, under the leadership of Colonel Russell Howard, a former special-forces commander who discovered that cadets have a special gift for unconventional warfare. "They learn how to be terrorists themselves," he says. "The creative terrorist is about the same age as these cadets." He put his students up against lieutenant colonel-- grade officers, and the cadets "kicked their asses in thinking about terrorist threats." Beyer worked with counterterrorism agents leading a cell of cadet "terrorists" who drew up plans...
...worth of heresy against Army doctrine into a 50-min. class. He presses cadets to enunciate a meaningful difference between insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and West Point icon and Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis and dense moral ground...
...role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies; with illegal entry into the U.S.; by immigration officials; in Washington. A former CIA operative trained by the U.S. military, he has admitted his role in other terrorist bombings in Havana, and his widely publicized presence in the U.S. over the past two months has led to criticism that the U.S. has a double standard for terrorism suspects. Though the Bush Administration has said it would not extradite anyone to Cuba or its allies, the charge may indicate...
...Cannes, always a politically charged arena, the critics naturally read metaphors into the plot, especially the part involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command...