Word: exactions
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...Explosives are the weapon of choice for the extremely disaffected. Firearms are difficult to buy in China, but dynamite and combustible fertilizer are widely available?despite a government crackdown on the sale of incendiary material. They have found new use as a tool to exact revenge on former lovers, business partners or government officials. State newspapers have urged tense citizens to adopt a Zen-like attitude?even get professional help should they be feeling too stressed. Worried by the increased violence, the government has beefed up the police force. A dragnet has nabbed some bombers. In the northeastern city...
...individual rarely deters fanatics. The sole response to terrorists must be to kill them before they kill us. We must accept acts that in the past would have been found repellent in a democracy. We must find the backbone to take on any nation that teaches hatred and exact a price for that behavior. EDWARD HORN Atlantic Beach...
...politicians in distinguishing between a freedom fighter and a terrorist [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 12]. From my perspective, a freedom fighter, because of his political convictions, battles his superior foe by whatever means he has. A terrorist intentionally kills or seriously harms innocent third parties in the attempt to exact political, religious or military gain. Under my definition, there are former terrorists who are now seemingly respectable world leaders. Whether these people should be brought to justice or warmly embraced, the label of terrorist should be applied to them. No religion in the world should advocate the killing of innocent people...
What we do know is this: the Justice Department has broken up the 1,147 into four categories. The first is made up of those held by the INS for immigration violations; as of Nov. 1 they totaled 185. The second group, for which an exact number remains unknown, comprises those jailed for federal offenses like credit-card fraud. The third, also an unknown quantity, consists of those arrested for state and local crimes, such as parole violations or carrying a concealed weapon. The fourth set is made up of those said to be material witnesses to the attacks...
...What I?ve been told is that if we get solid intelligence on where bin Laden or some top al Qaeda people are - an exact location - and it?s not a situation where a bombing raid would work, then the Marines will be there in an hour or two, probably a surgical-type operation of 100 or so troops. But failing that, the operative word seems to be patience - Kandahar will fall when Kandahar falls, and there seems to be little to gain with a U.S. troop presence if it?s a strictly territorial battle. And much to lose...