Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal agents] come to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they are gonna be wearing bulletproof vests... Head shots, head shots...
...first-ever U.N. war crimes tribunal convened today with its first defendant: Dusan Tadic, the only suspect in custody of 22Bosnian Serbs charged with crimes against humanity. Sitting behind bulletproof glass in a courtroom in The Hague, Tadic pleaded innocent to charges that included murder and rape -- the first time rape has ever been tried as a war crime. The chief suspect not in custody: Radovan Karadzic, theBosnian Serb leaderwho is being investigated for genocide. The tribunal is the first international prosecution of violations of the Geneva Convention since the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals set up by the victorious World...
...finding the killers, unlikely as that is. "It could be anybody," says a U.S. intelligence official in Washington. The only certainty is that the Americans made very easy targets. Unlike U.S.-owned vehicles in other trouble spots around the globe, the van did not have armor plating or bulletproof glass, it appeared to follow the same route every morning, and the driver was not trained in ambush-escape techniques. "These folks didn't need to die like this," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official who now heads a security consulting firm. "This was avoidable...
John C. Salvi III, the student hairdresser who was charged in the Dec. 30 shootings at two Massachusetts abortion clinics, pleaded innocent to state charges of two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with intent to murder. Wearing a bulletproof vest, the unshaven Salvi appeared in the heavily guarded courtroom in Norfolk County, Va. to enter his plea...
...Products of Huntsville, Alabama, burst onto the national scene with the announcement of a new product line: two novel types of exploding bullets, both designed to kill on impact with thousands of razor-sharp fragments. One type, the company's chief executive claimed, was specially built to pierce police bulletproof vests. Following a public uproar, Signature said it would hold off producing the vest-piercing bullet as a "responsible" gesture. That left many industry experts wondering whether the super "Rhino" ammunition was ever meant to shatter anything more than the firm's obscurity...