Word: commando
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...George, Utah, and when he lost his job there, to Hailey, Idaho. (Nicole declined to comment for this story.) The marriage began to fall apart, and Leyden says he reached a torturous emotional crossroad: he even contemplated striking out to locate remnants of the Order, the near extinct racist commando units smashed by federal authorities more than a decade...
Netanyahu perceives himself as a last-minute rescuer, sent to save a nation hijacked by a false peace process--much like his brother Jonathan, who died leading Israeli commandos sent to rescue Israelis hijacked at Entebbe Airport in 1976. But as an old commando, Netanyahu knows that victory depends on high morale and unified ranks. If he tries to fully impose the right-wing agenda, he will go to battle with only half the country behind him and the other half actively opposed...
...wall. The lanes rejoin on the other side into a huge chamber for the factory. Other chambers that connect to the main one are being dug. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees Delta Force and seal Team-6, studied the Tarhunah layout and concluded that a commando raid would be a suicide mission...
...assassination in January of Hamas' master bombmaker, Yehia Ayyash, in the Gaza Strip. Says the Defense Ministry official: "If we have intelligence about someone in Arafat's zones, we'll give the information to the P.A. And if they won't move, we'll act, but only through commando operations." Those operations would also violate the accords, and Arafat would surely object, but at least Israel would have plausible deniability...
...coughed up almost nothing. International lenders have turned off the spigot until Haiti adopts austerity reforms. Washington has declared the country a "safe and secure environment," which allows the peacekeepers to depart. By the measure of organized assassination, violence has subsided: only 20 killings that the U.N. delicately calls "commando-style executions" have taken place, a huge improvement over the 3,000 or so notched up by the military regime from 1991 to 1994. But Haitians complain that the respite will be temporary because the U.S. and U.N. chose not to disarm the rank and file...