Word: commits
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...eight known groups, all were political, without religious overtones. In 1980, a year after Islamic radicals overthrew the Shah of Iran, overtly religious terrorist groups made their appearance. Of the 48 international groups active in 1992, almost a quarter were religiously motivated. Shi'ite groups, though they commit less than 10% of the attacks worldwide, account for 30% of all the killings...
...recruits are in the cult's grip, they encounter a darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...
Burnett insists he would never commit violence but refuses to condemn those who do. As for a conspiracy, he claims that if there is one, he knows nothing about it. Burnett says he and several magazine staff members were called last year before a federal grand jury in Portland that was investigating Shannon's involvement in a series of arsons. When the indictment was handed up, only Shannon was charged in attacks at nine clinics in Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho. Prosecutors and federal agents are still pressuring her to implicate others. "There is no question that the government thinks...
...ORLEANS AUTHORITIES TELL THIS story. On Saturday, March 4, at 1:50 a.m., police officer Antoinette Frank, 23, entered a Vietnamese restaurant in eastern New Orleans to commit robbery and murder. She put a bullet into the head of the security guard-her sometime police partner Ronald Williams, who was off-duty. She then executed the son and daughter of the restaurant's immigrant owners; the girl was kneeling in prayer when she died. Frank fled with an accomplice in a battered Toyota. She returned later in a patrol car, ostensibly in response to emergency calls on her police radio...
...ORLEANS AUTHORITIES TELL THIS story. On Saturday, March 4, at 1:50 a.m., police officer Antoinette Frank, 23, entered a Vietnamese restaurant in eastern New Orleans to commit robbery and murder. She put a bullet into the head of the security guard-her sometime police partner Ronald Williams, who was off-duty. She then executed the son and daughter of the restaurant's immigrant owners; the girl was kneeling in prayer when she died. Frank fled with an accomplice in a battered Toyota. She returned later in a patrol car, ostensibly in response to emergency calls on her police radio...