Word: mayhemic
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...Egyptian investigators are looking into possible links between Monday night's mayhem and two other major terrorist attacks on the Sinai Peninsula's Red Sea coast in the past 18 months. Fifteen Egyptians are currently on trial for the October 2004 attack on a hotel in Taba that killed 34 and a blitz last July in Sharm El Sheikh, the Sinai's premier resort, that left at least 64 dead. Egyptian officials believe that the accused operated an Islamic extremist cell in the Sinai, calling itself Tawheed and Jihad and relying on sympathetic local Bedouin for logistical support...
...ones. "There's a race on to get fields into production," says a Western consultant in Kurdistan, too fearful for his safety to be named. "People are very, very optimistic." Because Kurdistan - the region that comprises the three northernmost provinces of Iraq - is seeing little of the deadly mayhem evident around Baghdad, its economy has the potential for sharp growth. But its very success, as sectarian killings are pushing other parts of Iraq toward civil war, could jolt the country's precarious ethnic and political balance by injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area which already has strong...
...been having with people is, "Could you end up worse off?" says Scharf, who worries not just about the absence of police but about the disruption in the lives of criminals and potential criminals themselves, the loss of family, homes, schools and other scaffolding that helped contain the mayhem...
...have a history of springing from rural discontent. The Communist Party rose to power on the strength of its pledge to protect the rights of farmers who joined its fight to overthrow the landlord class. The current crop of Communist leaders is aware that rural unrest could spark political mayhem, especially when cell phones and the Internet can connect citizens with the click of a button. In some cases, such as in Panlong, local officials have resorted to violence to suppress the uprisings, which has only incited more rage. In response to the rising furor, President Hu Jintao announced plans...
Caught off guard by the mayhem and powerless to stop it, U.S. officials could only offer general expressions of optimism. "Obviously it's a blow," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government...