Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven U.S. citizens and subsequently detained four of them on suspicion of complicity in the attack on the Palestinian laborers. The four detainees were later identified as active members of the ultra-nationalist Kach movement, led by Meir Kahane, founder of the U.S.-based Jewish Defense League. In another raid, Israeli police arrested three fundamentalist Jews who reportedly confessed to involvement in an abortive attempt last January to blow up Jerusalem's two most important Islamic shrines, the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Days later, the police uncovered a major arms cache near Jerusalem, including...
Reporters raid Camp Lejeune...
...Marines were still thinking like Marines, not like terrorists." Critics of the newspaper's ersatz raid said it was inappropriate because Lejeune is merely a training facility with no strategic value to an enemy. It was not necessary for the entire base to be totally sealed...
...round of violence began when Iraqi aircraft launched sudden missile and rocket attacks on seven Iranian towns, killing, according to Iran, more than 100 people. Iraq then sent its aircraft on a bombing raid over Iran's $3.5 billion petrochemical complex at Bandar-Khomeini, on the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, and later claimed to have scored "successful and effective hits...
...that favor existing management is another defense. In Delaware, certain defensive tactics, like issuing rights or options to buy shares of a company, can be approved by directors alone, without a vote by shareholders. Gulf reincorporated in Delaware from Pennsylvania, thus shielding itself at least for now against a raid by Mesa Petroleum's T. Boone Pickens Jr. Many experts question the legality of shark repellents. Dissident shareholders challenge them, charging that they amount to changing the rules in the middle of the game...