Word: slaine
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...chance to surrender. "I am returning very disappointed," said Hussain. "We offered him a lot, but he wasn't ready to agree to our terms." A day later, Ghazi was killed at the Red Mosque, not far from the very place where his father, the mosque's founder, was slain by unknown assailants in 1998. Minutes after the pre-dawn announcement that the talks had failed, explosions and gunfire thundered through the capital as Pakistani special forces launched Operation Silence, intended to be the military's final charge in the eight-day standoff between the government and radical students...
...General John Logan proclaimed the first Memorial Day for the dead on both sides: "We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders." That's the reason we have a Memorial Day: to honor those who died in uniform in an appropriate way, not with hasty escalations or withdrawals but in simple gratitude for their sacrifice...
...death penalty against one of two men accused in the gruesome 1993 murders of seven restaurant workers outside Chicago, a decision that amounted to a major defeat for the area's top prosecutor. What is perhaps more surprising was how some of the very families whose loved ones were slain considered the sentence a victory...
...fact that he had to be buried in a secret location underscored the importance of Mullah Dadullah to the Afghan insurgency. Afghan authorities announced Monday that the Taliban's top military commander, slain in a weekend operation led by U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan, had been laid to rest in secret lest his burial site become a rallying point for resistance. They, together with NATO officials, hailed his death as a critical blow to a spiraling Taliban insurgency, and it will certainly be a welcome victory for a coalition that has been losing support as a result of the mounting...
...soldiers and civilians who had been killed in the war in Iraq. The vigil was one in a series of campus events staged by student groups to mark the fourth anniversary of the war’s beginning. At the vigil, students read statements written by friends of slain American soldiers, followed by a short silence from the audience, which numbered more than 50. Earlier, members of the Harvard College Democrats and other students spent six hours reading a list of the dead. The list included the names of 3,200 Iraqis and 3,200 American soldiers obtained from...