Word: assassin
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...East, was shot dead on a busy street in Moscow. Valentin Tsvetkov, 54, who was also a Russian Deputy, was gunned down during the morning rush hour, in front of dozens of witnesses, including his wife. Police suspected a contract killing and said they had a description of the assassin. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to investigate. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a crowded McDonald's in Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river...
...Intelligence operatives from Kandahar and the capital Kabul spent two weeks dredging over Rehman's past, scouring it for any hints as to who might have ordered or arranged the hit. An Afghan intelligence report, filed last week and examined by TIME identifies Rehman as Abdul Razaq, a Taliban assassin believed responsible for the murders of three opponents to the fundamentalist movement in Quetta in Pakistan in the mid-1990s. A veteran of the Kunduz and Takhar fronts during the Taliban's civil war with the United Front, Rehman was captured last year by the forces of northern warlord General...
...writ of habeas corpus to Judge Mukasey, and that day he appointed a co-counsel to help Newman handle the workload: Andrew Patel, 50, a genial veteran with a hearty laugh who is no stranger to controversial clients. In 1997 he defended El Sayyid Nosair, a convicted assassin suspected of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing from prison. Together Newman and Patel spent a week beefing up her original petition. The new version cited a litany of constitutional violations, from the right to a speedy trial to the right to counsel to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits soldiers...
...Kill Bill's plot?the fruit of a late-night chat Tarantino and Thurman had while shooting Pulp Fiction in 1993?is intentionally standard revenge-film fare: a recently retired master assassin, The Bride (played by Thurman) is gunned down on her wedding day by Bill (David Carradine of the 1970s American TV series Kung Fu), her onetime boss and lover. She wakes up from a coma four years later and resolves to wreak vengeance by hunting down the killers in Bill's posse?a multinational Charlie's Angels-style trio called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, played by Daryl...
JACK (THE ASSASSIN) TATUM Another Pony poster boy, the former Oakland Raider was known for his crushing hits while on the team in the 1970s, including one that paralyzed a player in an exhibition game