Word: ambushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amal Kansi was convicted of killing two CIA employees in a 1993 attack outside the agency?s Langley, Virginia headquarters. The Americans killed in today?s ambush were employees of Union Texas Petroleum, which accounts for about 40 percent of Pakistan?s crude oil production...
...could remarry within the church. Meanwhile, FBI lab analysis showed that the high-speed blood-spatter patterns on the boots Scher wore at Gunsmoke could have been left only after a huge amount of force was used at close range. Prosecutor Robert Campolongo called the killing an "ambush...
...Israeli government is mystified as to how the invasion was discovered. One possibility is that Hizballah or Amal fighters spotted the commandos early on and quickly set up the ambush. But survivors say the assault seemed well planned, lending weight to the theory that the top-secret mission had been compromised, perhaps by a Lebanese collaborator used by Israel in the operation...
JERUSALEM: Reeling from Thursday's triple suicide bombing that left four Israelis dead, and an Hizbollah ambush in Lebanon that took the lives of 11 Israeli crack troops, Israel appears ready to make good on its threats to invade Palestinian-ruled territory to root out Islamic militants...
...pulled the cruiser off the road near Dennis Pond in Brunswick, Vt. The cruiser was spotted by a farmer, who alerted police. As several officers approached the car at around 6 p.m., one of their police dogs sensed something up in the hills, and the dog's handler yelled, "Ambush! Hit the dirt!" Just then Drega began firing, wounding a New Hampshire state trooper in the thigh. The area was so isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper. Finally...