Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...village, bodies still lay in the streets leading into the town. Wailing women milled about in grief and despair. A freshly painted sign on a wall read, in Arabic, THE REVENGE OF THE I.D.F. (for Israel Defense Forces). According to the Israelis, 34 guerrillas had been killed in the raid. + Villagers claimed that only half a dozen of the victims had carried guns...
...raid appeared to have ended Zrariyah's role as a staging point for guerrillas heading into Israeli-occupied territory to the south. Admitted an Amal militiaman: "We shouldn't have been caught in this way. With so many people in their hands, the Israelis were bound to gather intelligence about our supply routes...
...finally be easing a bit. Nearly ten months after the Indian army stormed the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, the central shrine of the 15 million Sikhs, India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced the release of eight prominent Sikh leaders taken into custody at the time of the raid, in which 600 were killed on both sides. Those freed included Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, president of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. Longowal is a moderate who opposes secession of Punjab from India. Talks between representatives of the Akali Dal and Gandhi's government appear likely; the issue...
...known drug trafficker." DEA agents say he was suspected of illegal arms dealing, but they do not believe he was in the narcotics trade. Moreover, the federales, who had recently been making a deliberate effort to cooperate with U.S. investigators, did not tell the DEA of the Bravo raid beforehand. Nor were Michoacan state police notified of the raid in their jurisdiction until after the shooting started; when the local officers arrived at the scene, the federal police even prevented them from entering the ranch grounds...
...Monday, March 4, on CBS News, Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz said: Every spring at Harvard, there is an event, which has become a substitute for the traditional panty raid, where the Third World Community and the Black communities say this is "Stick it to the Jew's week. They bring a PLO speaker or they bring some other opponent of Jewish values and they conduct an event in which they have very little interest except that it really riles up the Jewish community. And we never see the reverse...