Word: ruthlessness
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...military is stretched thin and taking a pounding. There are about 20,000 troops deployed in a conflict area half the size of Israel, and they-like their beleaguered American counterparts in Iraq-are outmaneuvered by a ruthless and elusive enemy that shelters amid a Muslim population largely hostile to Thai security forces. Two roadside bombings in May alone killed a total of 22 soldiers; their well-drilled killers executed some of the wounded survivors by shooting them in the head or strangling them. Last month, junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin publicly admitted that the fighting in the south...
...only to see the chances he'd created muffed or sent to the 16th row. It wasn't a particularly pretty or productive brand of soccer. So what will happen when Beckham starts kicking the ball to open players and they start missing them? The English press will be ruthless, of course, but Lalas is confident. "He's going to be great and he's going to do things that many of our players can't do," says Lalas, "but I think the world is going to be surprised at the level of play here...
...more than 1,000 members, are prowling the depressed suburbs of southern Auckland. Inspired by violent rap, hip-hop music and L.A. gang culture, they seem destined either to swell the ranks of the more established ethnic or motorcycle gangs, or, perhaps more alarmingly, to create their own equally ruthless organizations. Dubbed the ABC gangs by police, who shorten their two- or three-word names to acronyms, they have been linked to at least eight deaths in the last two years, not to mention numerous serious assaults, car theft, drug dealing, burglary and extortion. Victims have been run over...
...period in 2005, KBZ were responsible for almost 10% of crimes for the Counties Manukau East. One member has committed more than 100 burglaries. Two youth gangs known as Troublesome and the Bud Smoking Thugs are feeder gangs to The Killer Beez. Then there are the charmingly named "Motherf_____ Ruthless C___s," or MRCs. "The MRCs are known to the people in the area as bullies who use standover tactics to get money. They are also big on threatening people, snatching handbags and doing burglaries," says the intelligence report...
WHEN POISONED ex--KGB spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, inset above, lay dying in a London hospital last year, he famously pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian President "barbaric and ruthless." Now British prosecutors have challenged Russia by requesting the extradition of ex--KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi in the murder--a request Russia promptly refused. Lugovoi, who denies any guilt, met with Litvinenko at a London hotel the day his tea was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium...