Word: bomb
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Indeed, the assault only seemed to grow in frenzy, scope and intensity as time passed. Less that two hours after the first reports of firings and explosions, which came at about 10 p.m. local time, it soon became clear that instead of just crude bombs left on bicycles, scooters and cars, this attack used the whole arsenal: grenades, AK-47s, rifles and a car bomb in a taxi that exploded on the highway headed to the city's international airport. And unlike previous attacks, which have hit mainly Indians in popular, crowded markets, this one appeared to have targeted foreigners...
...that Scarface laid out everything a gangsta needed to know: how to handle himself, how to live by a code of making money that may be gotten in illegal ways, but having a kind of morality. He would not kill that man's wife and kids with that bomb, you've got to remember that. He had limits ... You can watch it for fun, to get off on his big guns and 'Say hello to my little friend' ... But you can also use it the way businessmen use self-help books...
...personal. He relied on his boxer's swift, sledgehammer fists and the blade of a knife to terrorize Tel Aviv's shopkeepers, brothel owners and drug dealers into paying protection money. But in the end, what finally got Alperon was that most impersonal of assassin's weapons: the car bomb...
...sunglasses and drove to a Tel Aviv courthouse to boost the spirits of a son who was being indicted for allegedly running an extortion racket. Afterward, Alperon climbed into a white Volkswagen (he wasn't all that flashy a mobster) and drove into a busy thoroughfare, where the bomb, set off by remote control, exploded. The feared don of one of Israel's most powerful crime families was killed instantly, and police say his murder will certainly be avenged, most likely triggering a round of gang warfare. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...enemies, but what he meant was that he had no enemies he feared. Israel is a small country, and it was inevitable that a gangster with ambitions like Alperon would step on his rivals' toes. Once before, they had tried to kill him with a car bomb. Another time, police had caught four Belarusan hit men who were shadowing him. His older brother Nissim, 55, has survived nine assassination attempts...