Sentences with phrase «target terrorist suspects»

The president has also been criticized — even by some liberals — for his use of drones to target terrorist suspects abroad, some of whom have been U.S. citizens.

Not exact matches

While once focused on written and oral communications, the N.S.A. now considers facial images, fingerprints and other identifiers just as important to its mission of tracking suspected terrorists and other intelligence targets, the documents show.

5 Miles from target that Army paratroopers delivering the game ball to Kennewick (Wash.) High landed, alighting on a different gridiron and prompting fans there to suspect a terrorist attack.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty, said: «There's no problem with the targeted investigation of terrorist suspects, including where it requires linking apparently anonymous communications to a particular person.

A terrorist attack in nearby Springfield eclipses these big decisions: the suspect bears the last name Aziz, too, and Maya and her parents become targets of local anti-Muslim rage.

America's worst fears are realized when a hospital is the target of a suspected terrorist bombing.

Police say terrorist suspect planned to target art collective A prominent Berlin art collective was among a series of targets drawn up by a German army officer arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, reports Tagesspiegel (German language article, via ArtNet News).

Plus: Police say terrorist suspect planned to target art collective Alex Katz painting stolen from Munich gallery and Dan Byers appointed director of Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.