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‘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