Sentences with phrase «used on terror»

Pelosi has been under fire this week for conflicting statements she made on whether or not she was briefed by the CIA about so - called «enhanced interrogation techniques,» such as waterboarding, being used on terror suspects.

But her history as base chief at a black - site prison in Thailand in 2002, where techniques such as waterboarding were used on terror suspects, came under scrutiny during the confirmation process.

A former defence minister has backed Number 10's handling of a report in the US into the CIA's torture techniques used on terror suspects after 9/11, after Downing Street officials were forced to admit Britain did ask for parts of it to be edited out.

Not exact matches

«By making it known that they are using these technologies they are fundamentally undermining confidence among civilian populaces that our technologically - superior governments can effectively manage threats posed by this terrorist group,» Michael S. Smith, the founder of security firm Kronos Advisory who has advised Congress on terror - related issues, told Business Insider via email.

«The warning will probably suffice in dissuading the Assad regime from conducting another mass terror, mass casualty attack on civilians using chemical weapons,» Hof wrote on Tuesday.

ISIS» online statements instructing followers on how to use encryption and protect themselves online, which also followed the terror attacks on Paris in November, serve a dual purpose.

Subsidizing both sides of the «war on terror» oddly all in places that have oil is an awesome use of capital.

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts on Reddit defended cryptocurrencies by saying that even plain cash can be used for funding terror activities and for buying drugs.

The so - called FISA courts are a secret court system set up after the Sept. 11 attacks and used to obtain warrants to spy on terror or espionage suspects.

When President George W. Bush, while speaking about the war on terror, used the «C - word» in its common usage as a «grand enterprise,» the medieval Crusades finally reached stardom.

And how about the news made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, when she was asked about the elimination of the phrase war on terror: «The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself,» Clinton said....

I was startled as I watched excerpts from the TRC hearings and other interviews when white South African policemen and security agents described specific tactics of terror and torture that they'd used on black South Africans.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because of the use of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Oh by the way «war on terror» is a term unwisely used to make soldiers out of what was a criminal act with 9/11.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

Before, I used to be uncommonly terrified with thunder, and to be struck with terror when I saw a thunderstorm rising; but now, on the contrary, it rejoices me.»

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

To think an angle spoke to only 1 man on G - d's behalf throughout some 5 - 8K yrs of human civilization and only spoke to this 1 man (who couldn't prove this) and told him to conquer the world using terror and killing is crazy.

I rarely feel that it would be of much use to anyone for me to write my own, infinitesimal terror out on this page.

«In the UK, we do not use the phrase «war on terror» because we can't win by military means alone,» Mr Benn said.

The election was postponed two weeks ago after security agencies raised alarm of possible use of the election period to unleash terror on a part of the state.

There also are no examples of someone being on the terror watch list and buying guns that were later used in a shooting.

Also under the War on Terror, there is an Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists that can be issued.

That is why the hammer must be brought down on anyone using these things, it is not because they are militarily particularly effective, it is because if you are targeting the unprepared civilians they are very effective terror weapons for non state level actors and nobody wants the idea that you can get away with that gaining currency.

The issue becomes contentious due to the criteria used to put people on a terror watch list, or declare them to have mental health problems.

When arguing, for example, that «there is a struggle between those who play with the Italian future evoking terror and betting on defeat, and those who think, we have a thousand of limits but let's try to change things» (Renzi 2014), Renzi effectively uses a typical scapegoating strategy.

«The practical thing that we can do right now, if we are willing, to take on the corporate gun lobby is close what some people call the «terror gap,»» she said of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's ability to obtain an assault - style rifle used to carry out Sunday's mass killing.

That involves using budget measures to control aspects of how the city runs, putting state police in the city to ensure Cuomo's involvement in the event of a terror attack, and slapping state monitors on city facilities.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, David Anderson QC, the government's independent reviewer of terror legislation, said the «real issue» was that people were communicating not over the telephone, but over the internet, using service providers based in the United States.

In 1999 Rivera was offered executive clemency, along with 15 of his FALN colleagues, by President Clinton in preparation for Hillary Clinton's US Senate run, but he refused the offer because it was conditioned on renouncing the use of terror.

A 2005 film would focus on the fact that V, who - like Dredd, his opposite - is never seen without his mask, was a terrorist and used it to chime with the «war on terror» narrative of the day.

Notably, in 2010, the ACLU testified against «the use of terror watch lists to screen gun purchases,» writing that the «deeply flawed» terror watch list process led the group to conclude, «Given these problems, we do not believe that anyone should be deprived of the right to purchase a gun, or the right to fly, or any other benefit of membership in civil society based solely on placement on a terror watch list.»

The mayor on Monday looked over a counter terror training exercise and also repudiated — using perhaps his sharpest words yet — what he calls the counterproductive divisiveness of Republican presidential candidates.

This used to be Lord Carlile, who was arguably even more hawkish on terror legislation than the governments he was meant to be scrutinising.

Rivera refused, because the offer was conditioned on his renouncing the use of terror.

The Army said in Friday that its troops prosecuting the war on terror have arrested five Boko Haram terrorists who specialize in planting IEDS (explosives) on route used by troops for patrols while five women and a child were rescued in the North East.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next CIA director said Wednesday the spy agency learned «tough lessons» from its use of harsh detention and interrogation tactics on terror suspects after 9/11.

Tony Blair has defended the Government's decision to use unprecedented measures in the war on terror.

Officials do not believe Qatada will be able to participate in a terror plot while on bail, but observers have pointed out he will be able to spread his messages using the internet.

According to Adeogun, the emphasis of the Terrorism (Prevention) Act was not on the weapon used but on any act that could instill terror in the mind of citizens or the state, regardless of the kind of weapon deployed by the terrorist.

4.20 pm: Craig Murray, the former ambassador who resigned after he complained about Britain condoning the use of torture in Uzbekistan, has just finished speaking in the debate on human rights and terror.

He was however quick to add that if the sub-region was experiencing greater integration, «I don't think we would be having discussions on terror cells or trying to use satellites to locate these people... we are just late.»

«Such reports dwell on the desperate attempts by terrorists to use Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) or suicide bombs to sustain their scare tactics and continue to spread terror in the minds of the people.

The move comes after years of work by a small group of psychologists who exposed the APA's role in legitimizing the U.S. government's use of torture in the war on terror.

But when I used it in my middle school class a few years ago I knew something was up by the complete shocked silence and looks of terror on the kid's faces.

A couple who met on a dating website have gone on trial accused of plotting a terror attack using a homemade bomb.

Consider that even the climactic set - piece involves a monorail system Bruce's father built as a way to ease the financial burden of the city's desperate classes being used by a surrogate father intent on wielding terror as a weapon of mass destruction.