Word: guns
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...Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping diplomatic moment. But to Blair, the reward justified the awkwardness: after years of negotiations with London...
...doesn't mess around, either. On the day after Clarke first made his charge on 60 Minutes that before 9/11 the White House had minimized the terrorism threat, it sent out its biggest gun-the Vice President of the United States-to defend its performance. And where did Bush send Cheney to make the response on the most crucial issue of this presidency? There were many respectable forums available...
Chen said he would not keep a gun in the store to protect himself...
...tough guy. I was in the army,” Chen said. “If I had a gun, those two kids would be gone...
...barrel was lying on the ground and there was a spring on the ground. It looked like it was a toy gun or a pellet gun,” Costello said. “It definitely appeared to be fake...