Word: mistakenness
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...wrapped my shot hand with my shirt so as not to leave a blood trail for the rebels. I ran away in a zigzag, I hid behind a log and then when help came, I emerged slowly, so as not to unnecessarily startle the government soldiers who could have mistaken me for a rebel. The course saved our lives...
...they said, had not yet been retrieved from under the rubble. I calculated that the number of dead was less than 200 - probably around 100. But irrespective of the numbers, the reality staring us in the face was a whole village razed to the ground only because it was mistaken for an Osama bin Laden training camp or a Taliban ammunition depot. Khrum's location in the Torghar, where the Afghan mujahedeen had established several bases while fighting the Soviet occupation, brought about its misfortune. Villagers claimed these camps were no longer operational but obviously the Americans think otherwise - hence...
...bioterrorism scares. An SUV cab on its way to a Capitol Hill party was stopped because it bore an unfamiliar logo. Georgetown was nearly shut down Thursday night when the Hash House Harriers, a running club which marks each mile covered with a pile of white flour, was mistaken for anthrax-spewing members of Al Qaeda. Yet at former Majority leader Mike Mansfield's burial at Arlington Cemetery last week, with half the Senate in attendance, only those who entered on the Fort Myer side got the dog-sniffing and mirror under the chassis treatment. Everyone who entered...
...China's Mao Zedong once vowed, "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports." This served as a guiding strategy for the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, when millions of innocents were tortured. It was a mistaken principle then and remains...
...workers struggle to identify the debris; most of it has been pulverized to powder. Pieces of leather are often mistaken for skin because here both have turned gray. When a fire fighter's body is found, "there is dead silence," says fireman Jeff Silver, 34. "All the machinery is cut off, and everybody takes their helmets off while a body bag is brought over and brothers from his station come and carry him away...