Word: raid
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...known training camp for terrorists in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, as Israel has done. Secretary of State George Shultz has portrayed Israel as a model of effective counterterrorist action. But terrorists are adept at surrounding themselves with innocent civilians, some of whom could be killed in a retaliatory raid. Moreover, the deterrent effect is questionable. Terrorists, including members of Islamic Jihad, the Shi'ite Muslim group thought to be responsible for the hijacking, are often fanatics who place as little value on their own lives as on those of their victims...
...Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused, in turn, bids by West Germany, Poland, Austria and Israel to extradite him. Wagner, the "Human Beast," was a free man when he committed suicide...
MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in the meantime been stepping up its pursuit of Nazis scattered across South America. In 1960, in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Israeli commandos seized Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem to be tried -- and hanged. During the same campaign the Israelis descended on a house in the Vicente Lopez area of the Argentine capital where they were sure they would catch Mengele. They arrived to find that the doctor had vanished...
...Washington's most persistent fears is that a determined terrorist group might succeed in stealing plutonium and bomb components. A congressional subcommittee on energy disclosed in 1982 that the guard force at one of the country's weapons plants failed to respond to a mock raid on a plutonium vault until 16 minutes after the "attackers" had left...
...Christmas present from the Secret Service. Bush listed among his 41 items (worth $8,989) 26 pairs of running shoes (most of which he gave away), a Steuben glass elephant and a leather flight jacket from Navy Secretary John Lehman, presented on the 40th anniversary of a bombing raid in which Bush was shot down at sea near Iwo Jima. In the self-improvement category, Bush received a 29-volume history of Ecuador (in Spanish), presented to him by President Leon Febres Cordero, while Reagan presumably had more fun with his gift of six movies on videocassette...