how is germany combatting international terrorism?
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By providing intelligence about impending attacks on Iraq (2003) to the Iraqis in order to help them fight against the US.  Wait a second, that wouldn't really be helpful, now would it?\n\nActually, they are cooperating by arresting suspects in Germany and trying them in court on terrorism charges.  They also continue to produce schnitzel and wurst in large quanitites in hopes that the terrorists will eat a lot and be too sleepy to do bad things.
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europe is having problems with terrorists blowing themselves up and everyone else on public transits. there might not be any terrorist groups but there could still be people there wanting to be terrorists.
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Does Germany have jurisdiction over the U.S.?  If the 12 high-ranking officials did break the law, make the case, please.\n\nAnyway, here is what I know.  9/11 occured meaning that the face of the enemy is different from the 20th century and before.  These enemies are different in that they don't fight for a nation-state.  So, it is harder to determine what their rights are.  Have these official made mistakes concerning Gitmo?  Yes but the prisoners have such a Rolls-Royce lifestyle compared to the troops in Iraq that it look like they haven't been tortured.  It is, I believe, hard to determine what is torture but what do I care.  Look, we need to BALANCE between human rights (since the U.S. is a big executer) and capturing the terrorists before they strike not just the U.S. but other countries as well.  Now, coming back to this question.  I don't think that these officials should be prosecuted because they are trying to protect mankind.  I could be wrong somewhere.
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Absolutely none at all, not that small problems like that have stopped them trying to assassinate foreign leaders,  de-stabalize small countries economies, cause wars, fund wars, fund terrorist groups just because they exist in a country where the government are friendly with anyone they dont like.\n\nThen they wonder why they are the No1 terrorist target on the planet. What worries me more is that President Bliar follows him like a lapdog all the time.
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What is Canada's role in the international fight against terrorism?
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i don't know. personally I have always been against it and have believed from the beginning that this has been handled the wrong way. i'm no politician, but i don't see how you can handle terrorism by waging war on a country that now we are saying we are liberating. what kind of hipocrits are we? look what we did to their country and families. Do you think those individuals were responsible for a maniacs choices? They had no more control over the situation then you and I  and the men in charge of it is in hiding and the countymen are still suffering as are our boys and girls.
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Germany would be the one.
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Because it's a very effective way for weak groups to challenge much more powerful enemies. Terrorism has probably existed for as long as there's been conflict...it's just one tactic that is effective in certain circumstances.
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1. puts terrorists in greater danger than ever before forcing them to be very, very careful about what they do\n2. no more Taliban\n3. kills (bad) people\n4. greater rights for women in Afghanistan\n5. keeps terrorist-sponsoring states (such as Iran, Lybia and Syria) in check.
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The attack on Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism, other than being the best recruitment advert Al Qaeda could have had.  Theoretically the attack was because of WMDs (the Iraqi's really know how to hide things don't they ??), and then it became regime change (or were these just a smokescreen for oil ??) - Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism.  Now that the west have inflamed problems between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, the chances of terrorist activity is far more likely.\nIf we want to reduce terrorism, I believe we need to stop wading in and waging war with the middle east in alphabetical order, and build constructive links instead.\nFirst step, we need to work with the UN in areas with problems - rather than just listening to Israel.
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Firstly Germany shores up its borders and moves into a massive reconstruction programme, this fuels its economy for the next 10 years of so called peace.  \n\nThe Brits are doing well as they do not have the massive burden of war debts that were built up and there Empire is still going strong 10 years later as it was not dismantled at the end of the war. \n\nThe war in the pacific decimated the American population, although they one the war, the loss of life on the American side was increased 3 fold as it was held conventionally and the Japanese decided not to surrender as there was not immediate threat to the civilian population.  This loss of life, coupled with the lack of a cold war with the Soviet Union makes the USA go back to its position of isolation and it never takes a major play in world politics.   \n\nThe Soviet Union stumbles along, but as it does not have the land's it gained at the end of the second world war the money to fuel its economy was never present so after 10 years it is already crumbling at the seams. \n\n1955. \n\nEngland\n\nBritain is worried about the growing political power of the Third Reich, it controls large swathes of Europe and it has developed a bomb that is reputed to be so powerful that it can destroy cities.  Britain steals the technology from the Third Reich and develops a bomb of its own as a deterrent.   \n\nGermany.\n\nWith the development of a nuclear bomb Germany looks to expansion once again, it has its eye on the Soviet Union, and is looking for an excuse to invade.   The rest of the world looks on as both Soviet Russia and Fascist Germany - now the Third Reich which encompasses Germany, Italy, France, ect are despised and the thought of them destroying each other is approved by most over nations. \n\nUSA. \n\nThe USA is now a major economic power its integrations of Japan as its 51st state has worked, and it has also integrated Mexico and Korea as its 52nd and 53rd states respectively.  It is worried again about the situation in Europe, but due to its policy it does not have a large spending on military and is more of an economic force than a militaristic one. \n\nSoviet Union.\n\nThis country was on the brink of collapse, but as always the threat to its identity by the fascist forces of the Third Reich have had an up swelling of pride and the army is growing at an exponential rate.  It is worried about the nuclear bomb but can not get its hands on the information of how to create one. \n\n1960.  \n\nGermany attacks the Soviet Union in the summer, the war was going well, but winter is setting in and once again the sever Soviet winter is acting as the saviour for the country, Germany is threaten to use nuclear and biological warfare against the Soviet Union, and the threat of this forces the Soviet Union to act first, and in an unprecedented act, in the absence of nuclear technology, carpet bombs large parts of the Third Reich with chemical and biological agents.  Germany responds and Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad are destroyed by nuclear weapons.  The Soviet Union collapse, however the damage inflicted upon the Third Reich is also insurmountable and this regime also collapses.  Both the United Kingdom and the USA step in and take control America's money is funding the British military and an agreement is set up that the remaining inhabitable parts of these two once great powers of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union will be split up between the two remaining powers.  \n\nThe United Kingdom is now in control of Europe and Africa with interests in South America and the Far East but most of the new world is controlled bythe Americans.  Due to the long standing friendship between the two powers, a lasting peace is at long last known to the world.
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well first at all i would like to tell those who did choose the Germans just like the hijackers were chosen over so many who did not wanted to harm America that they just choose another country which is not sympathetic to USA . \n\nfor those who do not know this , Germany is plagued by people who do not like USA and believe to be superior to Americans . they believe that Americans are really ignorant people and just like some of u they also think that they are by far more educated than the large majority of Americans .\n\nthere is also another problem which many of you ignore which is that alquaeda and other Islamic groups had found Germany very supportive in their cause and is very well know by everybody but Americans that September 11 was probably planned in Germany or that it is highly linked to the planning .\n\nso having explained all of this it is obvious that i choose Mexicans over Germans not only because i know that most Germans do not like Americans just like it was shown in their last elections but because the actual relation between Mexicans and Americans is of friendship and of business .
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The Middle East IS overrun with terrorists. Where have you been? Europe seems to be stocking up on white flags. all out war is a definite possibility. That's why we should do everything possible to stop them now. If we don't, they will only get stronger & the war, when (not if) it comes will be bloodier.
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Are you asking because of the EU situation?  I believe it runs deeper than that, as far as policies are concerned, not just terrorism
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It´s a factor certainly. The only way to win the war on terror is to completely reverse its foreign policy. Of course that maniac has decided invasion is a better idea.
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The answer about the FBI is good.  There are also Federal Marshals, DEA, and other agencies which act in crimes crossing state lines too.\n\nAnd the "state lines" portion is critical.  America is a Federation of Sovereign States.  Each state is subordinate to the Federal government, but is allowed to, usually, make its own laws inside the state and trade agreements with other states in the Federation.\n\nAs such, each police force is different in their training, "rules of engagement", procedures, and authority.  With a country as large and diverse as the USA, this has worked well. The differences in the needs to police coastal cities verses areas in "fly over country" alone make a single police force unwieldy and cumbersome.\n\nJapan, South Korea, and Germany are relatively small, relatively homogeneous (though Germany is increasingly diverse) nations with long histories of central government control.  A central police force makes sense for them.  It does not make as much sense for an independently minded, large country such as the USA.\n\nAs for making up enemies or the "need" to have an enemy, the enemies we are fighting are the same ones defined by the Clinton Administration.  Was he making up enemies to cause “bloodlust” too?  Ohio thought they had no jihadists either, but caught several last month.
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they still have conscription in germany, they certainly have enough to help out the US bases here when our guys are gone and send them out to other places as well... here's a link with more info: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10563\n\nEDIT:  i actually talked with my neighbor who is a german national (we're currently stationed in germany) - evidently you can choose to be in the military or you can be a social worker of some kind (hospital, elderly homes, etc). SHE called the german army a bunch of wimps who would hand over their guns rather than fight (which many of them did in desert storm).  she doesn't see her own military as effective in fighting a war.  i would guess she has a better grasp on that concept than anyone from the outside looking in would (especially considering she is a US army wife, i'm sure she has paid better attention to the german military than most)