Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.
With due respect, one has to bear in mind that while framing the American Constitution our forefathers may not have ever imagined the threat and scope of global terrorism, which has become a reality.
The government is currently weighing two measures that would broaden the scope of existing terrorism laws -- a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups who say they could be used as a pretext to arrest political opponents.
The Guardian article says the London riots, the arrest of a security guard at the Olympic site and arrests before the visit of the Pope last year have raised US anxieties while the restriction of the scope of anti-terrorism stop-and-search powers was also claimed to have caused concerns.
Over the last 19 months, the sheer spate and scope of crisis, from terrorism to Tyco, has forced firms to reevaluate the state of their crisis preparedness.
As deadly bombings come home to America, the FBI has been intensifying the scope of its anti-terrorism campaigns overseas.
In doing so, Mr. Bush reached back to the language of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as he broadened the scope of his war on terrorism to include countries that not only harbor terrorists, but also sponsor terrorism and are trying to develop weapons of mass destruction that threaten American security.
The reason for concern lies in a recent dramatic expansion of the scope of "material support for terrorism" statutes.
DOMESTICALLY: At ceremonies six months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush expanded the scope of the war on terrorism, saying that the U.S. would provide military aid to "governments everywhere" that were fighting terror.
Although there is no evidence that the aborted U.S. move against the Hezbollah leader had any connection to this week's bombing in Oklahoma City, the episode demonstrated the global scope of the war against terrorism.
