Word: lethally
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...intelligence document obtained by TIME, al-Sheibani heads a network of insurgents created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with the express purpose of committing violence against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Over the past eight months, his group has introduced a new breed of roadside bomb more lethal than any seen before; based on a design from the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hizballah, the weapon employs "shaped" explosive charges that can punch through a battle tank's armor like a fist through the wall. According to the document, the U.S. believes al-Sheibani's team consists...
Washington expects more lethal attacks in the coming months as the guerrillas step up their campaign to derail the referendum on the Iraqi constitution in October and a new national election in December. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad on July 27 to pressure the country's feuding political leaders to agree on a draft constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. The constitutional committee has made limited progress on some thorny issues, such as the role of Islam in a new government, but it's at odds on others. Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south...
...times of terrorism, we need to be alert to the fact that our fear of an unfamiliar terrorist may persist longer than our fear of an equally lethal home-grown one such as a Timothy McVeigh,” she wrote...
...ships, could have been the brittlest of the fleet. But NASA, for all its alleged shortcomings, leaves little to chance in the regular physicals it gives its shuttles, and the fact that these tiny cracks were found in fuel lines makes it all the less likely that larger, lethal cracks could have gone unnoticed. A fuel explosion is also a possibility but again a remote one. When the ship re-enters the atmosphere, there's not much juice left in the main maneuvering rockets or in the spritzy little thrusters arrayed around the spacecraft...
...intervene in the Terri Schiavo case this spring, that was far from the last word it will have on the right to die. Next term the court is scheduled to hear the Bush Administration's challenge to Oregon's law that allows doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill patients. The Federal Government says Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide is a violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given how much ambivalence they expressed...