Word: attackers
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...passel of counterprotesters, VFW types in trucker caps, spoke reverently about "Pastor Mayo" and the movement he started. Mayo didn't show up for the demonstration because he - shrewdly - didn't want to be seen as endorsing the idea that his opposition to illegal immigration is necessarily an attack on Hispanics in general...
...Somalia Pirates Seize U.S. Vessel In the first such attack involving U.S. citizens in as many as 200 years, Somali pirates seized the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean on the early morning of April 8. According to reports, the pirates were overpowered by the Alabama's 20 U.S. crew members but managed to take captain Richard Phillips hostage, inciting a standoff with rescue ships deployed to the scene. In the latest surge of attacks in the region, Somali pirates have hijacked six ships in five days, after seizing 15 in March and more than 130 last year...
...bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year-old had licenses for both of the handguns used in the attack...
...legislation is intended to make that line clearer. Presented in a committee of the lower house of parliament by the Catalan party Convergence and Union on March 10, the bill is designed, according to spokesman Josep Sánchez y Llibre, "to protect citizens against those acts that attack their dignity or invade their privacy." It won the committee's unanimous support, a critical step toward becoming...
...possibility of one side or the other achieving a "breakout capacity," meaning that it could quickly and quietly beef up its arsenal until it became capable of launching a devastating "first strike." First-strike capability is dangerous because it is not "crisis stable": it could encourage a preemptive nuclear attack during a tense standoff. (See pictures of a world-class nuclear bunker in West Virginia...