Word: disarmed
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...Ahmedinajad been a totalitarian tyrant, like Saddam, he would not have needed to play the nuclear card to disarm his domestic rivals: he'd simply have tossed someone like Rafsanjani in jail, or sent him to the gallows. As an elected leader hemmed in by the checks and balances of the parliament and the ayatollahs, Ahmedinijad needs to play politics in order to survive...
Thirty-three months and 2,155 American military deaths ago, a somber President Bush addressed the nation in prime time from the Oval Office and announced that the nation's military had begun ?to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger? from "an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder." On Sunday night, Bush made his first Oval Office address to the nation since then, and was in the extraordinary position of admitting that the war is difficult, while arguing that we?re not losing. He went...
...center of town, we pass a poster of a huge fist smashing down on a startled soldier. An American? I ask. ?You can think like that,? replies our guide. Later, chief minder Choe Jong Hun lectures us on Washington's treacherous attempts to get North Korea to disarm unilaterally through the six-party nuclear talks (the latest round last week produced no results). ?After that the U.S. is going to invade our country,? says Choe. ?Such talks are not necessary...
...Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who consider themselves leaders of militias like the Salah ed-Din Brigades, although most are much less powerful than Abu Samhadana. The Palestinian Authority's 30,000 police and soldiers in the Gaza Strip say they lack the capacity to disarm such groups. In an open show of their frustration, 50 police officers fired guns in the air and interrupted a meeting of the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City last week to plead for more firepower. Some Palestinians fear that Gaza is descending into violent anarchy. "It's a Mafia situation," says Saeb...
...brazen even for the weak-willed Palestinian Authority. Last week, the Authority declared it would prevent armed groups from carrying weapons and, over the weekend, some of its policemen even tried to disarm a carload of Hamas men. A gunfight broke out that spread until it killed three people. Hamas leaders threaten civil war unless the Palestinian Authority backs off. Civil war is unlikely, as is the prospect of Hamas disarming before January elections, as the U.S. urges and Israel insists. The new model for Hamas is the Lebanese group Hizballah, which maintains a large militia while also sitting...