Anti-terrorism Legislation | The Americas Post

Canada: Politicians tougher on terrorism, spooks dissent.

Canada’s former top spy has slammed the government’s fourth attempt to revive two fiercely debated parts of the Anti-terrorism Act, saying he “never thought” they should have been enacted in the first place.
The provisions would give police extraordinary powers of preventive arrest and could force people to show up at secret hearings to testify about [...]

2010 Apr 24 | Posted in Anti-terrorism Legislation, JUSTICE, News, Security Issues, TERRORISM | Read More »

Spanish Judge accused Venezuela of helping “ETA” and “FARC”

A spanish judge said today that there was evidence of Venezuela “cooperating” with an alliance betweeen the the militant Basque terrorist group ETA and the colombian narcoterrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Speaking in Hanover, Germany, the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos had requested an “explanation” from [...]