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...that isn't an ironclad policy - and it may be changing quickly. If the path from Bhutto's murder leads to the al-Qaeda camp, it could well indicate political assassination, once an exception to the rules, has now become a must-do in the jihadist playbook. Islamist radicals have been accused in the past of plotting to kill Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf because of his alliance with the U.S. and its war on terror. Those purported attempts produced near-misses at best. Similarly, Taliban extremists have tried and failed to assassinate Western-backed President Hamid Karzai in neighboring Afghanistan...
Elizalde's murder is not an isolated incident. Singers have not just been chanting about the bloody drug violence ravaging their country; they have also been among its most prominent victims. At least 13 musicians have been killed - gunned down, burned or suffocated to death - since June 2006. The violence gained international attention earlier this month when three entertainers were killed in a week: a male singer was kidnapped, throttled and dumped on a road; a trumpeter was found with a bag on his head; and a female singer was shot dead in her hospital bed. (She was being treated...
...basement of a tall building in the affluent and vaguely bohemian Weigongcun district of China's capital. The killing at X-Club, of course, is done with the eyes, in a winking game that in other countries is confined to pre-teens. Killer, also known as Mafia and Murder, has existed in the United States for decades, but a fast-changing China has incubated an amped-up form of the game popular in dozens of hi-tech bars across China's Eastern seaboard - X-Club, alone, claims 3,000 regular members...
...only a matter of time before this torrent of expletives, issuing from the mouths of female as much as male players, is directed towards me, I deem it judicious to make my exit; and leave well before the bar closes - at 8 a.m. on a Sunday. Another week, another murder spree, and then it's time to return to planning for making a killing at the office...
...decision, hedged his decision by saying it is not his job to determine Volz's ultimate guilt or innocence, but rather to study the case on a technical and legal basis to determine whether the prosecutor proved without a reasonable doubt that he had "physically participated in the murder...