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| Sleep Well Tonight: UN Working to Define Terrorism |
| 2005-07-23 |
| U.N. diplomats have revised their blueprint for reforming the world body to include a definition of terrorism, indicating nations are moving toward consensus on a contentious global issue. That's great, a "consensus" solves everything. World leaders are to consider the plan at their summit in September and, if approved, the definition could break the impasse over a comprehensive treaty against terrorism. The United States strongly supports such a treaty, which has been stalled for years over the question of what constitutes a terrorist. The debate has focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the argument that one nation's terrorists are another's freedom fighters. Jean Ping, president of the U.N. General Assembly avoided the topic of terrorism in a reform plan he drew up in early June, calling on governments to do more to alleviate poverty and ensure human rights. More at link |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #8 I don't know what everybody is so happy about. By the time all the bickering and compromising is over the definition of a terrorist will be so narrow that nobody will ever be convicted of the crime. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-07-23 23:40 |
| #7 U.N. diplomats have revised their blueprint for reforming the world body to include a definition of terrorism,.. Wow, imagine that! Adopting a definition of terrorism is going to make the UN better! Whoop tee phuquing doo! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-23 20:44 |
| #6 Frank---LMAO! Speaking of which...coming into town today I passed a septic tank vacuum pumper truck. It had in big block letters, "Turdinator III)." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-07-23 19:55 |
| #5 So who's heading up the committe, the Norks or the Mad Mullahs? |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-07-23 18:35 |
| #4 less maintenance |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-23 17:21 |
| #3 if the UN bldg. were replaced with a septic tank would anybody notice the difference? |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-07-23 16:42 |
| #2 I would define it as everything the UN and their dictators do. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-23 16:38 |
| #1 Plan terrorism to be defined as any and all things that the US does. It will not be defined in a way that even comes close to what every everyone in the real world understand it to be. It will be good for some good lunches and 5 hotel stays for UN functionaries however. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-07-23 15:19 |