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	British Police Probe Ex-Spy's Poisoning, Police Probe London Poisoning of Ex-Russian Spy Who May Have Been ...
		He began specializing in terrorism and organized crime in 1991, and was transferred to the FSB's most secretive department on criminal organizations in 1997.
		Kremlin critics claim poisoning _ which is extremely hard to prove _ is a common Soviet-era practice that seems to have reappeared since Putin, an ex-KGB officer, became president.
		In one of the most notable Cold War assassinations, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed in 1978 with a poison dart concealed in an umbrella.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/20/ap/world/mainD8LGG2080.shtml (1013 words)

	War on Terrorism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition, the notion of declaring war on an abstract concept is troubling to some (in the same vein as the war to end all wars, war on drugs, war on poverty, and the war on crime).
		The War on Terrorism differs from WWI and WWII in that it does not appear to be a war between nation states, but is to all visible appearances, something akin to a world-wide civil war with non-nation actors simultaneously waging war on their own governments and on foreign governments as well.
		Critics maintain that "terrorist threats" have been exaggerated; that terrorism has been exploited for other purposes; that it has resulted in human rights abuses; that it has decreased the personal freedom of US citizens; and that it has served as a pretext for restricting access to government information.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10248 (2950 words)

	War on Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "War on Terrorism" is the name given by the Bush administration to the efforts launched in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. by al-Qaeda.
		Critics argue that terrorism is being exploited for other purposes; that it has resulted in human rights abuses; that it has decreased the personal freedom of US (and other) citizens; and that it has served as a pretext for restricting access to government information.
		The War on Terra, an Uncyclopedia spoof of the "War on Terrorism"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_on_Terrorism (6980 words)

	Criticisms of the War on Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Critics point to incidents such as the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the alleged use of chemical weapons against residents of Fallujah [1], and the use of military force to disperse anti-American demonstrations in Iraq [2][3].
		Critics also claim that a strategy of tension was employed prior to the Iraq War, which is now being repeated against countries described as the "axis of evil", such as Iran.
		A major criticism levelled at this is that it does not fulfil one of the requirements of a just war, and that in waging a war pre-emptively, the United States has undermined international law and the authority of the United Nations, particularly the United Nations Security Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criticisms_of_War_on_Terrorism (3627 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Draft dodger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Al Gore was accused of draft-dodging for serving as a war correspondent, rather than as a soldier, during the Vietnam War.
		During the Vietnam War, not all eligible young men were drafted; many who had a high lottery number simply took no action, knowing that they were unlikely to ever be drafted.
		Canadas official position was as a non-participant in the Vietnam War, but the war had an important impact on the country and Canada and Canadians had an impact on the conflict itself.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Draft_dodger (2634 words)

	Wikinfo \| War on terrorism
		The War on terrorism or War on terror is a global effort by some United Nations countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to neutralize international groups it deems as "terrorist" (primarily radical Islamist terrorist groups, including al-Qaida).
		The phrase "war on terrorism" was first widely used by the Western press to refer to the efforts by the British colonial government to end a spate of Jewish terrorist attacks in the British Mandate of Palestine in the late 1940s.
		Many pre-existing disputes were re-cast in terms of the War on terrorism, including Plan Colombia and the Colombian civil war; the United States' diplomatic and military disputes with Iraq, Iran, and North Korea; the war between Russia and Chechnya; and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=War_on_Terror (6731 words)

	IRMI - The ISO Terrorism Exclusions: Background and Analysis
		Finally, additional provisions regarding terrorism that involves the use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons were added to the exclusions, in light of the anthrax incidents that had followed on the events of September 11 and growing fears that known terrorist groups might have or be seeking access to nuclear weapons.
		The ISO terrorism exclusions for both commercial property and general liability policies were filed in their final amended form in late December 2001, and state regulatory approval began almost immediately, to implement the exclusions' use as quickly after January 1, 2002, as possible.
		For property policies, the endorsement is entitled "Exclusion of War, Military Action and Terrorism." The endorsement for use with CGL policies is entitled "War or Terrorism Exclusion." Both endorsements combine a terrorism exclusion with the standard war and military action exclusion already found in commercial property causes of loss forms.
	www.irmi.com /insights/articles/woodward006.asp (3208 words)

	Criticisms of war on terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Critics point to incidents such as the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, the alleged use of chemical weapons against residents of Fallujah [4], and the use of military force to disperse anti-American demonstrations in Iraq [5][6].
		Critics also maintain that a strategy of tension was employed prior to the Iraq War, which is now being repeated against countries described as the "axis of evil", such as Iran.
		A major criticism levelled at this is that, according to war opponents, it does not fulfil one of the requirements of a just war as stated in and that in waging a war pre-emptively, the United States has undermined international law and the authority of the United Nations, particularly the United Nations Security Council.
	wani.bbsnavi.net /wc/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_War_on_Terrorism (4098 words)

	Public Diplomacy and the War on Terrorism - Council on Foreign Relations
		Because terrorism is now considered the transcendent threat to America's national security, it is overwhelmingly in the national interest that the United States formulate and manage its foreign policies in such a way that, in its war on terrorism, it receives the indispensable cooperation of foreign nations.
		Criticisms of trade policies, agricultural subsidies, environmental policies, and unilateralist behavior are all a part of the mix.
		Faced with the multi-front war that is terrorism, the president and the secretary of state have shown their understanding that changes are required in the public-diplomacy assets they inherited.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=4762 (6405 words)

	The real war rages on
		Some Muslims were labeled as “Islamists” for their views that the “war on terror” is, in fact, a war on Islam.
		With the stroke of a pen, the authors of the 9/11 report appear to have not redefined the War on Terrorism, converting it into a War on Islamist terrorism alone it was so from day one.
		Just as terrorism was not fully defined, Islamic ideology is also left vague until the next phase of the war when everything related to Islam will be declared as evil and banned.
	www.ilaam.net /War/RealWarWagesOn.html (1579 words)

	THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND THE RULE OF LAW
		THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND THE RULE OF LAW, by political scientist Richard Pious of Barnard College, offers an analysis of the war on terror conducted by the Bush administration from the viewpoint of the constitutional issues involved, especially with respect to due process requirements.
		Reflecting on the war on terror in terms of due process, Pious does not accept a trade-off model whereby either terrorism is fought ineffectively and due process is preserved or terrorism is fought effectively while some due-process rights are inevitably sacrificed.
		It is, after all, as easy to oppose some of the excesses of the current war on terror as it is to make bold and readily unconvincing statements about the virtues of any and all tactics used against the terrorist threat.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/pious1006.htm (1089 words)

	David Rivkin
		During the Cold War, we also did not engage in an all-out existentialist conflict with the entire "communist world." Rather, our major strategic opponent was the Soviet Union, supported by a number of rather unwilling Central and East European allies; for a number of years, communist-run Vietnam was another major adversary.
		Most European writers evidence a profound distaste for war and a failure to appreciate the fact that, in a world where tyrants, rogue regimes and terrorist organizations are hell-bent on destroying the Western civilization and are willing to inflict horrendous levels of destruction on civilian populations, military force remains an indispensable instrument of statecraft.
		Intellectual merits aside, the practical implications of the European approach to the war on terrorism are quite troubling.
	www.inthenationalinterest.com /Articles/Vol1Issue14/Vol1Issue14Rivkin.html (1392 words)

	Victor Davis Hanson on War on National Review Online
		That Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal were in Baghdad before the war, and al Qaeda afterward, is the expected calculus of the Hussein regime and its noxious fumes.
		Usually the initial attacks that have prompted past American wars were relatively mild, while the subsequent reaction was costly — in the manner that Fort Sumter paled in comparison with Shiloh, or Tonkin was not Hue, or Pearl Harbor was nothing like Iwo Jima.
		Critics of the near-flawless military campaign of three weeks were stymied when none of their bleak scenarios came to pass: thousands killed; millions of refugees; governments toppled; terrorist attacks in the United States; mass starvation; and hundreds of U.N. camps.
	www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson200310100842.asp (1023 words)

	Judge Vindicates Gitmo Criticisms - by Jim Lobe
		The long-awaited decision [.pdf] by veteran judge Joyce Hens Green deals a new setback to the George W. Bush administration's claims of broad executive authority to conduct its global "war on terrorism" and will almost certainly be appealed to a higher court.
		"It would be far easier for the government to prosecute the war on terrorism if it could imprison all suspected 'enemy combatants' at Guantanamo Bay without having to acknowledge and respect any constitutional rights of detainees," she wrote.
		She indicated further that the government's definition of "enemy combatant" and its use against detainees, some of whom may be eligible for prisoner of war (POW) status under the Geneva Convention, was itself too vague and too broad.
	www.antiwar.com /lobe/?articleid=4675 (1108 words)

	Victories in a unique war
		It wasn't Osama bin Laden, but the U.S.-led war on terrorism produced six significant arrests in the past week, providing the first glimmer of hope that the inner workings of his al-Qaida terrorist group may be uncovered and, eventually, dismantled.
		Indeed, one of the criticisms of the war on terrorism has been the lack of information on bin Laden.
		It may well be that for some the only evidence of success in the war on terrorism will be producing bin Laden.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2002/09/17/edit17.htm (816 words)

	March 4, 2002, Transcript of Alan Keyes is Making Sense
		Serious questions underlie this exchange about congressional responsibilities, congressional oversight, the legitimacy of raising questions about the war effort in the pursuit of fulfillment of congressional responsibilities juxtaposed with the possibility of political abuse in which questions and criticisms are raised out of partisan motivation and for political gain.
		That means they expected responsible people in the Congress to play a role in the course of the development of our war efforts in order to guarantee that the people would both be consulted and would maintain over time their support and understanding for the war effort.
		I think Lyndon Johnson's mistake was that he had it too easy in the first stages of his war, didn't have the requirement to stand there and be clear and explain both the moral and other underpinnings of the war.
	www.renewamerica.us /show/transcripts/02_03_04akims.htm (6918 words)

	In 2004 presidential campaign, war may hover \| csmonitor.com
		Certainly, the war has receded from the campaign trail, as candidates and the public increasingly turn their attention to domestic issues.
		To some extent, Democrats agree, the Iraq war will remain an issue in the campaign, simply because the president is likely to make it - along with the larger war on terror - a centerpiece of his reelection effort.
		Still, some of Dean's criticisms of the war - such as the lack of discovery of any weapons of mass destruction - may continue to resonate with certain voters, and could prove problematic for prowar candidates down the line.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0430/p01s01-uspo.html (1104 words)

	Terror Myth
		We have used fl ops to destabilize regions of the world, we have conducted or supported coups (even of democratically elected leaders), we have conducted espionage and counter espionage and of course we have continually conducted counter terrorism.
		We did not avoid terror, the alert was the cause of terror.
		This alone demonstrates that the motive for the "war on terrorism" is not the number of victims nor their identities.
	www.tvnewslies.org /html/terror_myth.html (2185 words)

	Assessing the War on Terrorism
		With British Muslims hatching plots to blow up airplanes with liquid explosives and our all-out war on terrorism nearing its fifth anniversary, it's a good time to check in with Steven Emerson.
		A: I think that there's still a problem with the institutional leadership of the Muslim community that is tethered to an agenda that is not moderate.
		These groups continue to portray the war on terrorism as a war against Islam, which can cause incitement.
	www.classbrain.com /artread/publish/printer_assessing_war_on_terrorism.shtml (910 words)

	ZNet \|Africa \| Africa and the War on Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Civilians are the targets of modern wars, and the US applies the principle in its own policies: the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki targeted civilians, and most of the million Vietnamese killed in the USâs war against that country were civilians as well.
		The war on terrorism is not a separate or new war but a continuation of American foreign policy.
		But what is different with the war on terrorism is that whereas before, activists were silenced as activists, in todayâs world they will be silenced as terrorists or as sympathizers of terrorism.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=2726 (3487 words)

	Selling the War
		So their plan to move the “War on Terror” to Afghanistan and Iraq has been, in that regard, successful.
		After 9/11, this administration took a different posture, which is to shift from a law enforcement strategy to a war on terror because the threat was so great.
		Well, it means that the old plan, which was to try to control the region by virtue of deals with obviously corrupt regimes, including some of the most corrupt kings and princes and whatever, well, the old plan was shattered on 9/11.
	www.independentvoting.org /news/SellingtheWar.html (1917 words)

	Senate banking panel hears criticisms of war on terror - The Boston Globe
		Clarke, who served as Bush's counterterrorism coordinator until last January, said that while significant progress has been made since the Sept. 11 attacks in pursuing terrorist financing, the government reorganizing that accompanied the creation of the Homeland Security Department had been a setback for the campaign.
		"Reorganizing in the middle of the war on terrorism was perhaps not the brightest thing to do," he told the panel.
		On the idea of sanctioning uncooperative countries, Senator Paul Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, said that sanctions available in the war on drugs had been "rendered sort of useless" because presidents tended to cite national interests in waiving punishments for most countries.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/10/23/senate_banking_panel_hears_criticisms_of_war_on_terror (389 words)

	War on Iraq
		And 911 started the World War on Terrorism, a new kind of war in the Third Millenium, the World War IV, a different kind of war and a never ending one, as shown in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
		but what is not right is to use the war on terrorism to advance the personal agenda, and, most specially, not to use it to create and American Empire, making people to live our way and control their assets.
		And, of course, it is not right to use a long War on Terrorism to take away many rights of the American Citizens with the excuse of War...
	www.biblia.com /911/war.htm (1463 words)

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