One of the most groundbreaking bills authored to date in the Divest Terror movement has quietly made its way through the Louisiana state legislature and was signed into law this week.
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco and the State Legislature - which took this step at the initiative of Rep. Pete Schneider (R-Slidell) - are to be strongly commended, both for the contribution they are making to mitigate these funds' exposure to what the Securities and Exchange Commission calls 'global security risk' and, we hope, to denying state sponsors of terror the wherewithal they could use to harm Americans.
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Unfortunately for Mayor Guiliani and Senator Edwards, the funds that have recently embarrassed them over Sudan are also invested in one or more of the other state-sponsors of terror.
Bush said he believes Abbas is "firmly committed to the defeat of terror" and the advancement of institutions needed to create a viable Palestinian state.
The reality is that Saddam would have had to have been removed at some point, and the decrepit state he held together by terror was bound to blow apart.
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Like many other attempts to find traces of Raoul Wallenberg, this one failed to lead to a breakthrough, but I hope that the information that was gathered helped Memorial's effort to draw a complete picture of the scope and structure of Soviet state terror.
In December, the U.S. State Department moved to blacklist the rebel group as a foreign terror organization linked to al Qaeda in Iraq.
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All Lieberman said was that the Netanyahu government will not accept a Palestinian terror state.
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With Europe under an unprecedented terror alert, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert, warning of potential terrorist attacks.
This sort of proof-by-assertion is all too familiar to those who used to confront the unwillingness of some in the U.S. intelligence community to recognize that the Soviet Union was a state sponsor of terror and a serial violator of arms control agreements.
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The Clinton Administration tried and failed with its Agreed Framework of 1994, and the Bush Administration tried and failed in its second term with Condoleezza Rice's ploy to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terror.
The Journal's op.ed. pages feature an extraordinary essay by Sarah Steelman, the State Treasurer of Missouri, which calls national and international attention to the newest instrument for defeating state-sponsors of terrorism: Terror-free investing.
Because President Bush and his team have aggressively taken the war to the terrorists and their supporters, eliminating them by the thousands, uprooting their networks and showing state sponsors of terror that they risk continuing their sponsorship at their peril.
The second article, which appeared on the front page of the paper's "Money and Investing" section, details Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman's spearheading of terror-free investing initiatives in her own state and around the country.
The U.S. State Department labeled al-Nusra Front a foreign terror organization linked to al Qaeda in Iraq back in December.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Europe today defending US conduct in the war on terror.
Shapiro has been leading the effort to divest Pennsylvania's pension funds from companies doing business with state sponsors of terror.
In reality, the stock price reflects nothing more than the state of the current market value, as influenced by public mood swings between irrational exuberance and craven terror.
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