Word: murderable
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...countless times. There?s no way they?re going to let you in. We asked, Why? What?s the issue? They said, Well there are two reasons. One is that they don?t want anything to happen to you. The last thing they need is another ?Daniel Pearl? murder to happen in Pakistan. The other is they?re afraid of what you?re going to talk about. They?re afraid of what you?ll find. We ended up having to bribe an official at the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan who was able to get us into the country...
...into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened to disown her favorite younger boy. The papers called her "Lady Macbeth"; she fled to Pakistan and died alone...
Relations between Russia and Britain remain chilly since the 2006 murder in London of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, but there are signs that China is warming to Brown. He speaks regularly to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has offered to help facilitate dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and is also lobbying the Chinese to put pressure on Sudan to accept the deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur...
...asking the U.N. Security Council for an extension of the mandate of his probe, investigator Daniel Bellemare said recently that evidence pointed to a "criminal network" being responsible for the "politically motivated" killing of Hariri. The network had pre-existed Hariri's murder, Bellemare said, and it continued to exist for some period afterward...
...Hariri's 2005 assassination proved to be a major turning point in Lebanese politics, setting the stage for the current stalemate as the U.S.-backed government and the Syrian-backed opposition are unable to agree on a new President. Following the murder, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Beirut and other cities to demand the withdrawal of the Syrian troops that had been garrisoned in the country for decades, as Damascus acted as the dominant influence in Lebanese politics. Despite the withdrawal of its troops and the creation of the pro-Western government, Syria has continued...