Word: intentioned
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...Bishop violated the rules, but as has become painfully obvious in the post 9/11 world, any threat of punishment is useless to someone intent on committing suicide. Bishop flew over restricted airspace, and prompted a military response, but attempts to stop him were futile...
Haji Zahir is one of three local commanders intent on winning the $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden. Accompanying Zahir's fighters on their hunt, I rummaged through what was probably the last of bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan. It was in the Milawa Valley section of Tora Bora, in the shadow of the majestic White Mountains. Just below it lie a series of man-made caves stuffed with arms and weapons, while above it is a ridge with more caves where bin Laden was thought to be hiding...
Another reason for the enrollment surge is that Palestinians now view their struggle less as a liberation conflict and more as war against an implacable enemy intent on their destruction (just as most Israelis are now convinced the Palestinians want to wipe them off the map). "The starting point is not religion," says a cleric. "It is a state of desperation at facing Ariel Sharon and his army...
...allies have long believed that Omar and bin Laden would choose to go down in a blaze of martyrdom. But with the storm gathering around them, both men appeared intent on survival. Perhaps their only way out was a dangerous route through the snowy passes of the White Mountains and into one of the border towns of Pakistan. Once there, they could receive refuge from sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen and be absorbed into the anonymous urban surroundings...
...intricately into story form. DIED. GERHART RIEGNER, 90, the honorary vice president and former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress, remembered for cabling the U.S. Vice Consul in Geneva with the first authoritative warning of the Nazi holocaust; in Geneva. The Aug. 8, 1942 telegram described Hitler's intent to deport and exterminate four million Jews in Eastern Europe, however, at the time, the U.S. was unable to verify Riegner's allegations. RESIGNED. PAT ROBERTSON, 71, as president of the Christian Coalition, a staunchly conservative political group he founded in 1989 a year after his failed U.S. presidential campaign...