Word: terrorizer
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...Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. The latter have refrained from attacking U.S. targets in the past, but with U.S. intelligence personnel guiding Yasser Arafat?s security forces in a crackdown on Hamas, it?s far from inconceivable that this policy would change. But there are a number of other Islamist terror organizations in the region, such as Egypt?s Islamic Jihad, that have both local grievances with the U.S. and the proven capacity to operate beyond their home ground, as well as sharing the generalized hostility to attempts to persuade Arafat to sign away Palestinian claims on East Jerusalem...
...while the shooting war in the Palestinian territories may or may not be abating, the terror war may only be beginning. The events of the past two weeks have stirred up a hornets' nest of rage, and throughout the Middle East there'll be groups planning to avenge Palestinian casualties in what they perceive as a battle over the fate of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. Israeli leaders have already warned their people to brace for a new wave of terrorist attacks. Washington will probably have to do the same...
American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...
...cigars and drive a massive black car; smoke-pipes protrude from industrial buildings in the background, ominously reminiscent of Auschwitz's human ovens. But Guston pokes fun at these self-absorbed, self-indulgent figures too: "fascinated by the idea of evil," as he puts it, he finally exorcises the terror of the KKK by appropriating their hoods, by making them seem ridiculous, childish-and yes, even likeable...
...American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...