Word: hunts
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...Israeli officials insist, then their targets must have been the houses, schools, mosques, universities, refugee centers, and hospitals that have been decimated in the past week. If not, then Israel had already decided that the entire infrastructure of this already impoverished city was dispensable collateral damage in its hunt for a few Hamas militants. Major newspapers carried the story of five daughters of the Balousha family, who were killed while hiding in a mosque that Israel bombed alongside one of its other targets: the Jabalya refugee center. Ha’aretz writer Amira Hass reported that, despite military intelligence, Israel...
...universally believe that their leaders used them as pawns during that time. People belonging to most of Kenya's 42 ethnicities have horror stories from the chaos that followed. There was the rape victim who identified her attacker to police and was simply told to hire a gang and hunt the man down. A shopkeeper in Naivasha fled his home and later saw his attackers wearing the shoes he left behind. People starved to death in Nairobi slums because their businesses were destroyed. None of the killers of the 1,200 who died have been taken to court...
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...turn didn't have the cold hard cash to pay their employees. "The reason you don't see [construction] cranes flying all over the province and building like they did when the Berlin Wall came down is because they don't have any cash," says Major Tim Hunt, the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment's liaison to the provincial government. "They literally don't have a bill to hand this guy and say, 'You're paid.' So if you can't pay anybody, you can't do any work." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...
...some government bureaus is almost Monty Python-esque. In Diyala, the governorate's billion-dollar budget (the amount is cumulative because the budget has not been executed over three fiscal years) was being administered by a single accountant who had "a pencil, an eraser and a huge ledger," says Hunt...