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World Trade Center
World Trade Center former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Prior to its destruction, the World Trade Center had been the world's... Read more |
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Terrorist Use as a Biological Weapon Anthrax
Anthrax, Terrorist Use as a Biological Weapon ¦ BRIAN HOYLE During the past two decades, the potential use of biological weapons by terrorist groups has received a great deal of attention, particularly in the United States. The existence of an anthrax bioweapon development... Read more |
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War on Terrorism 2001-
WAR ON TERRORISM Terrorist acts and the threat of terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act and codified at 18 U.S.C. section 2339B, makes it a... Read more |
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm trade and processing point. Oil... Read more |
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Minoru Yamasaki
Minoru Yamasaki , 1912-86, American architect, b. Seattle. Yamasaki worked for prominent architectural firms in New York City from 1937 until 1949, when he formed his own company. In 1951 he designed the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Air Terminal, an impressive concrete groin-vault construction. In... Read more |
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Tom Ridge
Tom Ridge (Thomas Joseph Ridge), 1945-, U.S. politician and government official, first secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security (2003-5), b. Munhall, Pa. A graduate of Harvard (1967) and the Dickinson School of Law (1972) who served (1968-70) in the infantry in Vietnam, Ridge worked in private... Read more |
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Brooks Brothers
BROOKS BROTHERS American clothier Established:in New York as Brooks Clothing Company by Henry Sands Brooks, 1818; renamed Brooks Brothers, 1854. Company History:First American firm to market such staples as the button-down collar shirt and polo coat; has also sold... Read more |
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Thomas Joseph Ridge
Thomas Joseph Ridge Tom Ridge (born 1946) was appointed by President George W. Bush in October 2001 to serve as assistant to the president for the hastily assembled Office of Homeland Security following the terrorist bombings of New York City's World Trade Center and other targets in September... Read more |
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the Pentagon
the Pentagon building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a vast five-sided building designed by Los Angeles architect G. Edwin Bergstrom. It consists of five concentric pentagons connected to each other... Read more |
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Barabbas
Barabbas In the New Testament, convicted criminal or terrorist who was in prison at the time of Jesus Christ's trial before Pontius Pilate. In accordance with a Passover custom, Pilate offered... |
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Guildford Four
Guildford Four Three men and a woman of Irish extraction convicted in an English court of terrorist bombings in Guildford and Woolwich, s England, in 1975. The life sentences were quashed on appeal in 1989. See also Birmingham Six |
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Birmingham Six
Birmingham Six Six Irishmen convicted by an English court in 1974 of carrying out terrorist bombings in two public houses in Birmingham, England. Their life sentences were quashed in 1991. The Court of Appeal ruled that... |
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Iran-Contra Affair
...American hostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian terrorists. The actions of the administration first became...administration officials and private citizens were convicted of crimes, but all convicted U.S. officials and those awaiting trial were... |
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Gandhi, Indira
...criticism, she became increasingly authoritarian, and in 1975 was convicted of electoral fraud. In response, she gaoled many of her opponents...Sikh extremists in Amritsar that provoked her assassination by Sikh terrorists. |
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Unabomber
Unabomber the media nickname for a terrorist who carried out a series of bomb attacks in the US between 1978 and 1995 as part...of university and bomber, was coined. Theodore Kaczynski was finally tried and convicted in 1998. |
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criminal
criminal • noun a convicted criminal synonyms: lawbreaker, offender, villain, delinquent...thief, burglar, robber, armed robber, gunman, gangster, terrorist; informal crook, con, jailbird, hood, yardbird, perp; Law... |
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IRA terrorist laughs after being convicted of soldier's murder
...soldiers during 20 years of terrorist activity in South Armagh...the Irish Republic, was convicted of murdering Lance-Bombardier...for 490 years for a list of terrorist crimes, including making...terms of the peace accord, terrorists ... |
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Five JeM terrorists convicted in POTA case.
Five JeM terrorists convicted in POTA case New Delhi, January...e-Mohammed (JeM), were today convicted by a Delhi court for waging war against...the court said. The court also convicted them under various sections of Indian... |
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Five JeM terrorists convicted for waging war against India.
Five JeM terrorists convicted for waging war against India New Delhi, January, 03 2011 (PTI) -- A Delhi court today convicted five Jaish-e-Muhammed terrorists, including two brothers, for waging war against the... |
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FOCUS ON: 12/21-12/27 Terrorists convicted; Mexico massacre; civilian slain;...
...Carlos the Jackal" was convicted by a French court Wednesday...Cold War's most sensational terrorist attacks, was unable to refute...Nichols guilty Terry Nichols was convicted Tuesday in a Denver courtroom...equal to McVeigh, who was convicted in June of 11 ... |
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Anarchists stage arson attacks, protest rally after terrorists convicted
...conviction this week of terrorists from Greece's deadly...group November 17 were convicted Monday following a...elusive and feared terrorist cell, November 17...gunman and four other terrorists to multiple life prison...city following the ... |
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ADL Urges U.S. To Ensure Convicted Terrorist And Murderer Of U.S. Citizen Be...
...Government to ensure that the terrorist convicted of murdering Leon Klinghoffer...carrying out the sentences of the terrorists convicted of hijacking the Achille Lauro...mastermind, Abu Abbas, were convicted in absentia and remain at... |
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Italian court reduces sentences for 2 terrorists convicted in killing...
...members of Italy's Red Brigades terrorist group convicted in the 1999 killing of a government...authorities.The women were convicted in the fatal shooting of Massimo...labor unions.Banelli was also convicted in the 2002 killing of another... |
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Red Brigades Terrorists Convicted in Rome
...Dateline: ROMEA judge on Friday convicted and sentenced to life in prison...members of the Red Brigades terrorist group for the 1999 killing...officials said. A fourth was convicted and sentenced to nine years...unions. In March, a judge convicted two women ... |
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BIG DEAL TERRORISTS CONVICTED SANS TERROR LAW
...the Makati Regional Trial Court were convicted without the benefit of an antiterrorism...government's determination to bring terrorists to justice and enhance the country...even more decisive victories against terrorists. Every soldier or policeman assigned... |
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TERRORISTS CONVICTED.(News)
ATHENS, Greece -- A Greek anti-terrorism court today convicted 15 members of the November 17 terrorist cell, including its leader and chief hit man, for their roles in a nearly 30-year killing spree that claimed U.S. and British diplomats, among others. |
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