Word: blown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nepal's Maoist guerrillas have graduated from poorly armed historical anomalies to the ranks of Asia's most-threatening insurgent movements, that notion died last week as reports of atrocities mounted?at least 34 police officers killed in an attack in remote Sitalpati in the midwest, five bus passengers blown apart by a bomb for defying a general strike call and a bomb blast that injured one man in the capital, Kathmandu. "This is now a serious threat to the existence of the state," says Prakash C. Lohani, a former Foreign Minister. "It is clear that the survival...
...wrote in these pages, (Opinion, “Women Don’t Do This,” Sept. 20, 2001)“Women don’t form terrorist groups and attack civilian populations.” So far this year, two Palestinian women have blown themselves up in terrorist attacks, killing and wounding both Israelis and Palestinians...
...dawn, Raviv brushes the outpost's floor to remove cigarette butts, spent machine-gun cartridges and the dirt that has blown in through the rifle slits. Not far away, Najjar will be raking out his tent after another night. In Rafah they sweep up the intifadeh's filth and wait for more grime to fall on them...
...partnership is more suited to today's silver screen. Pelletier divorced his wife and last year moved in with Sale. And though they decline to discuss their romantic relationship, fans have caught flashes of it. After Sale bobbled at the recent Canadian championships, Pelletier had a full-blown tantrum that left Sale in tears. He later told the press he owed her an apology...
Italian authorities were incensed when news of the arrests leaked out and put a freeze on information related to the case. The Rome-based daily La Repubblica quoted an angry Italian intelligence source: "This affair is damn serious, and some big mouths have blown it. Now we have seven Moroccans who are barely talking, and the big fish are still at large." By the end of the week, an Interior Ministry official confirmed that a total of nine Moroccan immigrants had been taken into custody on suspicion of being part of the Rome-based terrorist cell. But at least...