Sentence examples for hardened terrorist from inspiring English sources

Judge Amon said she did not believe that Mr. Nafis was a hardened terrorist and accepted his remorse as genuine.

"He's not a hardened terrorist, and is someone who, given slightly different circumstances, would not get involved at all".

The prevailing view among Australian law enforcement and intelligence officials is that Mr. Hicks is more of a lost soul than a hardened terrorist.

The plea bargain reflects the unfolding realities of the Lindh case, which had more to do with the criminal conduct of a foolish young man than the actions of a hardened terrorist.

But that analysis ignores the rather salient point that the IRA is a hardened terrorist organisation that has carried out some of the worst acts of civilian terror this side of the Balkans.

"The hardened terrorist is mercilessly 'squeezed,' it is said, for information through the use of the old, more physically brutal and violent forms of duress [redacted]," states the cable, which did not criticize the use of torture.

Boumediene v. Bush is not a license to allow hardened terrorists to go free.

You describe the lawful questioning of hardened terrorists as "sickening behavior".

And Western spooks fear that, like Afghanistan after the Soviet defeat, Iraq too will start exporting hardened terrorists.

See articleAmerica criticised Afghanistan's decision to release 65 prisoners from the high-security Bagram prison, alleging that some of them were hardened terrorists.

Bush administration officials and military leaders have often justified the extraordinary conditions under which detainees are held at Guantánamo by insisting that the detainees are hardened terrorists.