Word: ambusher
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...fear that he has lost track of how complicated the political divisions of the medieval Mediterranean really were. Constantinople fell in 1453 not because it failed to collaborate with western Europe but because of centuries of economic decline and lack of military innovation. Hastening this collapse was the brutal ambush of Constantinople by Venetian Crusaders in 1204; ignorant Christian warriors melted ancient Greek statues to sell their bronze by weight, they picked the gems out of precious Orthodox relics. Why would residents of Constantinople ever want to ally with the pillagers of their heritage...
...Char and Ka Ying Yang, one of the Hmong band, on May 19, 2004, that is most dramatic. The film shows what Va Char says are the dead bodies of five young Hmong in the deep jungle. They are the victims, say Va Char and Ka Ying, of an ambush by Lao government troops on the Hmong-an ambush that Va Char says he watched while hiding in the jungle by the side of a path...
...also filmed. "I lost my flip-flop when I was running," the woman says. "I bent down to pick it up, and the bullet went through my basket and hit me." Va Char then films Mao and Chao Lee's mother, weeping. At the site of the alleged ambush, a girl is seen, dead in the bushes, her intestines spilling out through her dress. Forensic pathologist Dr. Nizam Peerwani, Chief Medical Officer of Tarrant County, Texas, and a veteran of U.N. missions to Rwanda and Bosnia, has seen the tape and thinks the girl was disembowelled. Close...
...clan after World War II. With his buddy Totò Riina, the young mobster then served as muscle for ambitious boss Luciano Liggio, who once reportedly said that Provenzano "has the brains of a chicken but shoots like an angel." In 1958 Riina and Provenzano led a fatal ambush on Navarra, riddling his car with 112 bullets, leaving Liggio as the undisputed godfather. An internal Mafia war followed, and Provenzano disappeared into the hills in 1963. Liggio was arrested in 1974 and died in prison 19 years later, leaving Riina as the top boss and Provenzano...
...KILLED. OSAMA KASHMOULA, governor of Nineveh province in northern Iraq; in a roadside grenade ambush; between the cities of Tikrit and Bayji. The former professor of agriculture, appointed governor in April, was the highest-ranking Iraqi official to be killed by insurgents since May. The ambush occurred as Kashmoula was on his way to meet Iraqi President Sheik Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar...