Word: killinger
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A Different Sort of Empire Re "The World of China Inc." [Dec. 7]: The Chinese are able to secure resources from other lands by using their financial clout - this is far preferable to the traditionally European and eventually American tactic of sending in troops and killing civilians as we have...
The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam finally ended this year after Sri Lanka's army closed in on the separatist group's last stronghold, killing Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. At least 7,000 Tamil civilians died in the...
As TIME's Alex Perry wrote in July 2009, over the past few years, young Nigerian Muslim activists, most of them educated and from the middle class, have aggressively embraced a stricter version of Islam, rejecting anything Western and Christian. In the middle of 2009, the government cracked down hard...
Aceh did exist, of course, but with 166,000 dead or missing it had borne the brunt of the Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by a 9.15-magnitude earthquake off the Indonesian coast on Dec. 26, 2004. It was a truly international catastrophe: the tsunami struck 13 countries, killing 226,000...
Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, reached out to Awlaki a year ago. Although Awlaki denies encouraging Hasan to kill, the cleric praised the major on his website as a "hero" after the shootings, and exhorted other Muslims in the U.S. military to follow his example. (See...