Thinking About Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National Emergency

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xiii
State-Sponsored Terrorism and Its Perpetrators     1
Defining Terrorism-History, Logic, France, and Mark Twain     1
How to Judge State-Sponsored Terror-Where to Stand and What to Do     13
Judicial Proceedings-Letelier-Moffitt     27
Judicial Proceedings-Pinochet, not Kissinger     31
Judicial Proceedings-the French Cases     45
Vichy France-The Background     46
The Crime Against Humanity     48
French Penal Code     51
The Barbie Case-Too Clever by Half     52
Touvier’s Capture     54
Touvier’s Flight, the Charges Against Him, and the Judicial Decisions     54
The Executions at Rillieux-la-Pape     57
Maurice Papon and the Confession of Collaboration     69
Reconciliation, Amnesty, Truth-South Africa, Chile and Elsewhere     74
International Criminal Tribunals-Jurisdiction, Procedure, Fairness, Limits     79
From the Table of Free Voices: Terrorism, Liberty, Security, Profit     90
Group and Individual Terrorism-Non-State Actors     111
Defining Individual and Group Terrorism     111
The Colonial Roots of Terrorism and the Fallacy of Nation-Building     115
Revolutionary Violence, Civil War, and Terrorism     119
Terrorism in Anticolonial Struggles     124
Terrorism During a Civil War     124
Ethnic and Religious Hostility Terror     125
Transnational Terror     125
Ireland     125
Kenya     126
South Africa     127
Algeria     128
Peru     130
Afghanistan     130
The People’s Mojahedin of Iran-Case Study of a Flawed Policy     136
The Fourth Amendment, Privacy, and Social Danger     148
Persons, Houses, Papers, Effects     151
The Warrant Clause     152
Particularly Describing     154
Executive Branch Seeks More Power     156
Judge Richard Posner, Terrorism, and the Constitution     163
Military Commissions, Fairness, and America’s Image     190
Conclusion     193
Index     203