Against ideological governments obsessed by terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic and a culture numbed by violent anti-terrorist tales like "24" and Zero Dark Thirty, such complicated and technical initiatives on behalf of individuals who have been given the tag, implicitly if not explicitly, of "terrorist" stand little chance of getting attention.
Nevertheless, their in-your-face defiance of the Islamist terrorists stands out.
"This is the antithesis of everything the terrorists stand for," she said.
In an interview with The Observer, the 82-year-old said that the terrorists stand in opposition to everything she and her husband believed in.
"In the streets of Paris the world's seen once again what terrorists stand for: they have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering.
No more than George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld would insist upon were they to face charges, say, of fabricating pretexts for war.Ronald MarksTorontoSIR – Faith in the American legal system has eroded to such an extent that not even the president can trust that justice will be served should terrorists stand trial in American courts.
A bill to make the federal government the insurer of last resort for terrorist acts stands a chance.
In this future only Vermont, vilified as the land of terrorist hippies, stands free of Wal-Mart's domination.
Britain's current assessment of the threat of a terrorist attack stands at severe, its second-highest level, meaning that an attack is seen as "highly likely," according to the MI5 Web site.
After this week's disclosures of witness tampering, the trial has been adjourned to March 20th, but the self-confessed al-Qaeda terrorist now stands a good chance of escaping execution.Although he has admitted conspiring to fly planes into American buildings, Mr Moussaoui, a 37-year-old French citizen of Moroccan origin, has always denied any prior knowledge of the September 11th attacks.
