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Unspeak

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by Steven Poole


  ‘sharpshooters’, 124

  Shehade, Salah, 132

  ‘Shock and Awe’, 160

  Al-Siba’i, Hani, 129

  Siddiqui, Asim, 30

  Sieminski, Gregory, 102

  Six-Day War (1967), 89

  Skinner, Quentin, 204

  ‘sleep management’, 173

  ‘smart weapons’, 115–16

  Smith, Adam, 64

  ‘social responsibility’, 35

  Somalia, 103

  soundbites, 8

  ‘sound science’, 59–62, 64, 68–9, 122

  South Africa, 161

  Soviet Union, 195

  Srebrenica: massacre at (1995), 93, 100

  Stalin, Joseph, 195

  Stern Gang, 138

  Steyn, Lord, 154

  Stokes, Richard, 132

  Stone, Norman, 95

  Straw, Jack: and bogus rhetoric, 36

  and ‘community safety orders’ 35

  and ‘terrorist suspects’, 146–7, 148

  ‘stress’, 170

  ‘stress positions’, 169–70

  ‘struggle’, 219, 223

  ‘sub-criminal behaviour’, 19–20

  suicide bombing, 136–7

  ‘surgical strike’, 107–9

  Suskind, Ron, 40

  ‘sustainable development’, 62

  Sykes, Sir Mark, 200

  Taguba, General Antonio M., 181

  Talabani, President Jalal, 123

  Taliban prisoners, alleged, 178, 179, 181

  Tamil Tigers, 137

  ‘tax burden’, 2

  ‘tax relief, 1, 2, 3

  Taylor, Matthew, 204

  Teddy Drop, Operation, 107

  Telic, Operation, 105

  terrorism, 109, 126–34

  definitions, 127–30

  perpetration by states, 131–2

  and Al Qaeda, 138–9

  and suicide bombing, 136–7

  and ‘war on terror’ see ‘war on terror’

  Terrorism Act (2000), 146–7

  ‘terrorist suspects’, 143–50

  ‘terrorists’, 134–43, 151

  Thatcher, Margaret, 38, 161–2

  ‘theory’, 51–2, 57

  ‘Third Way’, 230

  Thomas, Clarence, 196

  ‘three strikes and you’re out’ legislation, 14–15, 21

  ‘three-way’, 226

  Tokyo: nerve-gas attack on subway (1995), 121

  ‘tolerance’, 29

  Tornberg, Dr David, 188

  torture, 166–75, 178, 185–6, 188–9

  Torture Memos, 166–7

  trade, 206, 208–13

  and democracy, 202–3

  ‘tragedy’, 7, 75–8

  ‘transfer tubes’, 124

  UN (United Nations), 43

  Convention Against Torture, 167–8, 171, 178–9, 181

  Framework Convention on Climate Change, 43, 45

  Genocide Convention see Genocide Convention

  Security Council, 85

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 181

  ‘unlawful combatants’, 179–80

  Unspeak, definition, 3–4

  United States constitution: Establishment Clause, 51

  Uzbekistan, 192

  Vagrancy Act (1824), 20

  Veritas, Operation, 104

  Vietnam War, 102, 108, 109, 110, 114–15, 118

  Vines, Lt. Gen. John R., 142–3

  ‘violent extremism’, 222–3

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 180

  Wagnon, Bill, 56

  Walker, Sir Harold, 88, 152, 154, 156, 198, 199, 200

  ‘war’, 158–9

  War Crimes Act, 176

  ‘war on terror’, 7, 8, 105, 145, 152–62, 177, 190, 202, 219, 223–4, 238

  ‘war on tyranny’, 159

  War on Want, 159

  ‘war on war’, 159

  Washington, George, 193, 194

  water torture, 171

  Waxman, Henry, 212

  weapons, 115–16

  ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD), 119–23

  ‘Wedge Document’ (1999), 51

  Weissglas, Dubi, 87

  Westmoreland, General William: on ‘carping war critics’, 102

  interest in nukes, 102

  on ‘we Caucasians’ 114

  Whittle, Stephen, 8, 30, 47

  Whyte, Jamie, 5

  Williams, Raymond, 33–4

  Wilson, Harold, 159

  Wilson, Woodrow, 194

  Wolfowitz, Paul: ‘bureaucratic reasons’ of, 119

  on ‘enemy combatants’, 187

  as ‘hoped-for liberator’, 200

  irked by ‘occupation’, 201

  not sure about invasion, 232–3

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, 23

  Woodward, Bob, 118

  Working Families Tax Relief Act, 2

  World Islamic Front, 159

  Xego, Mike, 169

  Yoda: as model for John Ashcroft, 123

  Yoo, John C., 167, 168

  Young Americans for Freedom: 214

  Young, Michael: The Rise of Meritocracy, 198

  ‘youth nuisance’, 18

  Yugoslavia, former, 98, 99

  and ‘ethnic cleansing’, 92–4

  al-Zahar, Mahmoud, 83

  Zangwill, Israel, 84

  al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab: and divine sky-writing, 138

  Zhou Enlai, 172

  Zionism, 84

  Zodiac Beauchamp, Operation, 106

 

 

 


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