Word: shootout
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...since July, after escaping from a Philippine maximum-security prison while serving a 10-year jail term for explosives possession. He was also a suspect in the December 2000 bombing of a Manila train station in which 22 people died. Philippine police said al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout. Authorities denied allegations from leftist militants and some politicians that the fugitive was executed while in custody in order to score points with U.S. President George W. Bush in advance of his Oct. 18 visit to the country...
...headed up the redistricting posse—is no Wyatt Earp. But a hardcore gun-control foe like him is likely packing a six-shooter in his belt, making the world wonder whether the redistricting flap could have been solved faster by a good old-fashioned shootout. No such luck: as DeLay entered the state legislature, tumbleweeds rolling in his wake, his “shoot first, ask questions later” approach to state governance might have finally helped matters—if only there had been a target in sight. Still, despite their notable absence at High Noon...
...Mexican authorities fear that incidents like the shootout at Minatitlan may also signal the start of a new wave of violence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. The U.S. believes organized smuggling rings are responsible for a dramatic increase in illegal traffic along the border--and in the unprecedented numbers of migrants dying in their attempts to get in. This year more than 250 migrants have perished along both sides of the border, including at least 100 this summer, when crossings are the most dangerous because of the desert heat. (In Arizona, 50 migrants died in July alone...
...lovely interlude with Charley and the spinster, where the cowboy has to recall gentlemanly codes of conduct (picking up clods of earth that his boots have left on her foyer carpet) and learn again how to make his heart soft for her while keeping it hard for the inevitable shootout in town...
...Sunday, said Hamid, a complete reading of the Koran in honor of the slain men will begin at the mosque in Owja. The last thing the Coalition Forces want is for the memory of these men and their final shootout to become a rallying cry for the resistance. No doubt, they're hoping it will now all be quietly laid to rest...