O Unabomber foi preso há vinte e oito anos

  

Theodore John Kaczynski (Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 1942), also known as the "Unabomber", is an American anarchist, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematical prodigy, he abandoned a promising academic career in 1969, then between 1978 and 1995 killed three people, and injured 23 others, in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this campaign he issued a wide-ranging social critique opposing industrialization and modern technology, and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism.

Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois. While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy, excelling academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree. He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.

As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.

Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future (the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's costliest investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the FBI used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber. The FBI (as well as Attorney General Janet Reno) pushed for the publication of Kaczynski's "Manifesto", which led to his sister-in-law, and then his brother, recognizing Kaczynski's style of writing and beliefs from the manifesto, and tipping off the FBI. Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as Kaczynski did not believe he was insane. When it became clear that his pending trial would entail national television exposure for Kaczynski, the court entered a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He has been designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI. Some anarcho-primitivist authors, such as John Zerzan and John Moore, have come to his defense, while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas.

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Agentes do FBI prenderam Kaczynski a 3 de abril de 1996, na sua cabana, onde foi encontrado num um estado desleixado. Uma busca na sua cabana revelou um esconderijo de componentes de bombas, 40 mil páginas escritas à mão que incluíam experiências de fabrico de bombas, descrições dos crimes do Unabomber e uma bomba preparada, pronta para ser enviada pelo correio. Eles também encontraram o que parecia ser o manuscrito datilografado original de Sociedade Industrial e Seu Futuro. Até este ponto, o Unabomber tinha sido o alvo da investigação mais cara na história do FBI.

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O Unabomber foi detido há 27 anos

  

Theodore John Kaczynski (Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 1942), also known as the "Unabomber", is an American anarchist, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematical prodigy, he abandoned a promising academic career in 1969, then between 1978 and 1995 killed three people, and injured 23 others, in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this campaign he issued a wide-ranging social critique opposing industrialization and modern technology, and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism.

Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois. While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy, excelling academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree. He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.

As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.

Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future (the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's costliest investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the FBI used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber. The FBI (as well as Attorney General Janet Reno) pushed for the publication of Kaczynski's "Manifesto", which led to his sister-in-law, and then his brother, recognizing Kaczynski's style of writing and beliefs from the manifesto, and tipping off the FBI. Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as Kaczynski did not believe he was insane. When it became clear that his pending trial would entail national television exposure for Kaczynski, the court entered a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He has been designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI. Some anarcho-primitivist authors, such as John Zerzan and John Moore, have come to his defense, while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas.

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Agentes do FBI prenderam Kaczynski a 3 de abril de 1996, na sua cabana, onde foi encontrado num um estado desleixado. Uma busca na sua cabana revelou um esconderijo de componentes de bombas, 40 mil páginas escritas à mão que incluíam experiências de fabrico de bombas, descrições dos crimes do Unabomber e uma bomba preparada, pronta para ser enviada pelo correio. Eles também encontraram o que parecia ser o manuscrito datilografado original de Sociedade Industrial e Seu Futuro. Até este ponto, o Unabomber tinha sido o alvo da investigação mais cara na história do FBI.

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O Unabomber foi detido há 26 anos

  

Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the "Unabomber", is an American anarchist, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematical prodigy, he abandoned a promising academic career in 1969, then between 1978 and 1995 killed three people, and injured 23 others, in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this campaign he issued a wide-ranging social critique opposing industrialization and modern technology, and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism.

Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois. While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy, excelling academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree. He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.

As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.

Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future (the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's costliest investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the FBI used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber. The FBI (as well as Attorney General Janet Reno) pushed for the publication of Kaczynski's "Manifesto", which led to his sister-in-law, and then his brother, recognizing Kaczynski's style of writing and beliefs from the manifesto, and tipping off the FBI. Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as Kaczynski did not believe he was insane. When it became clear that his pending trial would entail national television exposure for Kaczynski, the court entered a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He has been designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI. Some anarcho-primitivist authors, such as John Zerzan and John Moore, have come to his defense, while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas.

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Agentes do FBI prenderam Kaczynski a 3 de abril de 1996, na sua cabana, onde foi encontrado num um estado desleixado. Uma busca na sua cabana revelou um esconderijo de componentes de bombas, 40 mil páginas escritas à mão que incluíam experiências de fabrico de bombas, descrições dos crimes do Unabomber e uma bomba preparada, pronta para ser enviada pelo correio. Eles também encontraram o que parecia ser o manuscrito datilografado original de Sociedade Industrial e Seu Futuro. Até este ponto, o Unabomber tinha sido o alvo da investigação mais cara na história do FBI.

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O Unabomber foi capturado há 25 anos

  

Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the "Unabomber", is an American anarchist, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematical prodigy, he abandoned a promising academic career in 1969, then between 1978 and 1995 killed three people, and injured 23 others, in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this campaign he issued a wide-ranging social critique opposing industrialization and modern technology, and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism.

Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois. While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy, excelling academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree. He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.

As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.

Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future (the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's costliest investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the FBI used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber. The FBI (as well as Attorney General Janet Reno) pushed for the publication of Kaczynski's "Manifesto", which led to his sister-in-law, and then his brother, recognizing Kaczynski's style of writing and beliefs from the manifesto, and tipping off the FBI. Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as Kaczynski did not believe he was insane. When it became clear that his pending trial would entail national television exposure for Kaczynski, the court entered a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He has been designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI. Some anarcho-primitivist authors, such as John Zerzan and John Moore, have come to his defense, while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas.

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Agentes do FBI prenderam Kaczynski a 3 de abril de 1996, na sua cabana, onde foi encontrado num um estado desleixado. Uma busca na sua cabana revelou um esconderijo de componentes de bombas, 40 mil páginas escritas à mão que incluíam experiências de fabrico de bombas, descrições dos crimes do Unabomber e uma bomba preparada, pronta para ser enviada pelo correio. Eles também encontraram o que parecia ser o manuscrito datilografado original de Sociedade Industrial e Seu Futuro. Até este ponto, o Unabomber tinha sido o alvo da investigação mais cara na história do FBI.

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Benazir Bhutto foi assassinada há dez anos

Benazir Bhutto (Karachi, 21 de junho de 1953 - Rawalpindi, 27 de dezembro de 2007) foi uma política paquistanesa, duas vezes primeira-ministra de seu país, tornando-se a primeira mulher a ocupar um cargo de chefe de governo de um estado muçulmano moderno. 

Biografia

Benazir Bhutto foi educada em Harvard e em Oxford, no Reino Unido, onde estudou Ciências Políticas e Filosofia. Filha do primeiro-ministro Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1971-1977), voltou ao Paquistão em 1977, quando o general Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq liderou um golpe de Estado e depôs o seu pai, executado em 1979. Benazir assumiu, ao lado da mãe, a liderança do Partido Popular do Paquistão (PPP).

Exílio

Bhutto foi presa e depois libertada, em 1984, seguiu para o exílio no Reino Unido, onde permaneceu até o fim da lei marcial no Paquistão e a legalização dos partidos políticos, ocorridos em 1986. Em 10 de abril desse ano, Benazir regressou do exílio em Londres para liderar o PPP

Em 1 de dezembro de 1988 o seu partido venceu as eleições parlamentares e ela tornou-se a primeira primeira-ministra de um estado muçulmano. Dois anos depois, em 6 de agosto, o presidente paquistanês Ghulam Ishaq Khan destituiu-a do cargo, alegando abuso de poder, nepotismo e corrupção. O seu partido foi derrotado nas eleições e ela passou a fazer oposição no parlamento.

Em 19 de outubro de 1993, tornou-se primeira-ministra pela segunda vez. Mas, em 5 de novembro de 1996, foi novamente destituída do cargo, desta vez pelo presidente Farooq Leghari, sob acusações de corrupção e improbidade administrativa, e pela morte extrajudicial de detidos. Em 1999, após a tomada do poder por militares liderados pelo presidente Pervez Musharraf, Bhutto auto-exilou-se em Londres e Dubai, escapando a processos que corriam na justiça paquistanesa por corrupção. A justiça paquistanesa julgou-a culpada das acusações de desvio de dinheiro e lavagem de dinheiro em 2004. Também teve problemas com a justiça na Suíça, por suspeita de ter recebido subornos no valor de 11,7 milhões de dólares das empresas suíças Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) e Cotecna Inspection SA, participantes de concorrências públicas para contratos de inspeção de mercadorias nas alfândegas paquistanesas.

Amnistia

Em 5 de outubro de 2007, Musharraf concedeu-lhe uma amnistia, abrindo caminho para um acordo com a líder do PPP.

Após oito anos de auto-exílio, Benazir Bhutto voltou ao Paquistão. Desembarcou em Karachi em 18 de outubro de 2007, sendo recebida por mais de cem mil pessoas. Ao desfilar com seus correlegionários pela capital paquistanesa, duas explosões ocorreram em meio à multidão, perto dos carros da sua comitiva, matando ao menos 140 pessoas e ferindo mais de 200. A ex-primeira ministra, entretanto, não foi atingida.

Bhutto chegou a ser mantida em prisão domiciliar temporariamente numa casa na cidade de Lahore, ficando impedida de liderar uma marcha contra o estado de emergência decretado por Musharraf em 3 de novembro. Foi libertada seis dias depois, em 9 de novembro.

Desde o seu retorno ao Paquistão, Benazir Bhutto pediu a renúncia do general Pervez Musharraf da presidência do Paquistão, mesmo este sugerindo à líder oposicionista o cargo de primeira-ministra.

O assassinato

Benazir Bhutto foi morta no dia 27 de dezembro de 2007, durante um atentado suicida em Rawalpindi, cidade próxima de Islamabad, quando retornava de um comício no Parque Liaquat (Liaquat Bagh). O parque é assim chamado em homenagem ao primeiro-ministro paquistanês Liaquat Ali Khan, também assassinado no local, em 1951.

O ataque ocorreu enquanto o carro da ex-primeira-ministra circulava, seguido por simpatizantes, e Benazir acenava para a multidão, pelo teto de abrir do veículo. Bhutto foi alvejada no pescoço e no peito, possivelmente por um  bombista-suicida que, em seguida, se explodiu próximo do veículo, provocando a morte de cerca de 20 pessoas. Um dirigente da Al-Qaeda no Afeganistão reivindicou a responsabilidade pelo ato.

O Unabomber faz hoje 70 anos

Theodore John Kaczynski (Chicago, 22 de maio de 1942), mais conhecido como Unabomber, é um matemático norte-americano, escritor e ativista político, condenado a prisão perpétua na sequência de uma série de atentados à bomba.

Kaczynski nasceu em Chicago, Illinois, onde, como uma criança prodígio intelectual, se destacou academicamente desde tenra idade. Kaczynski foi aceite na Universidade de Harvard, com a idade de 16 anos, onde obteve uma licenciatura, e mais tarde obteve um Doutoramento em Matemática, pela Universidade de Michigan. Ele tornou-se professor assistente na Universidade da Califórnia, em Berkeley, aos 25 anos, mas renunciou ao cargo dois anos depois.

Em 1971, mudou-se para uma cabana isolada, sem eletricidade ou água corrente, em Lincoln, Montana, onde viveu como um eremita, ao aprender técnicas de sobrevivência, numa tentativa de se tornar auto-suficiente. Ele decidiu iniciar uma campanha de envio de bombas por correio, vindo depois a assistir ao desaparecimento dos espaços naturais em torno de sua casa serem destruídos pelo desenvolvimento e ocupação humanas.

De 1978 a 1995, Kaczynski enviou 16 bombas a diversos alvos, incluindo famosos cientistas, universidades e companhias aéreas, matando três pessoas e ferindo 23. Kaczynski enviou uma carta ao The New York Times em 24 de abril de 1995 e prometeu "a desistir de terrorismo" se o Times ou o Washington Post publicasse seu manifesto. Na sua Sociedade Industrial e o seu Futuro (também chamado de "Manifesto Unabomber"), ele argumentou que seus atentados foram extremos, mas necessários para atrair a atenção para a erosão da liberdade humana exigido pelas tecnologias modernas que exigem organização em larga escala.

Antes da identidade de Kaczynski ser conhecida, o FBI usou o título "UNABOM" para se referir ao seu caso, o que resultou que os media o chamassem de Unabomber. Apesar dos esforços do FBI, ele não foi preso como resultado desta investigação. Em vez disso, a sua cunhada e o seu irmão reconheceram o estilo de Kaczynski de escrever no manifesto e avisaram o FBI. Advogados de Kaczynski foram nomeados pelo tribunal, mas eles acabaram demitidos porque queriam alegar insanidade para evitar a pena de morte, apesar de que Kaczynski não acreditava que era louco. Quando se tornou claro que seu julgamento pendente implicaria a exposição na televisão nacional para Kaczynski, o tribunal entrou em um acordo de confissão, sob a qual ele se declarou culpado e foi sentenciado à prisão perpétua sem possibilidade de liberdade condicional. Theodore Kaczynski foi designado um "terrorista doméstico" pelo FBI. Alguns autores anarquistas, como John Zerzan e John Moore, vieram em sua defesa, mantendo algumas reservas sobre suas ações e idéias.

Seus alvos eram maioritariamente cientistas informáticos, geneticistas e outros tecnocratas famosos, também referidos, por entre aqueles que partilham a linha política do Unabomber, como sendo os "arquitetos da Nova Ordem Mundial".

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