Word: slaughtered
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...YouTube blogs, video posts and a daily video record of the war, kept by a soldier whose buddies see their sergeant blown up by an IED and go a little crazy. In a long scene that shocks and sickens, they break into an Iraqi home, rape a girl and slaughter her family. An antiwar splatter movie, Redacted ain't subtle. What De Palma is going for, and achieves, is a mix of edgy ennui and hysteria that could be close to the daily lot of soldiers in Iraq...
Making my second trip to Wien Stadium to cover football, I expected much of the same from the Big Apple and its lovable losers as I witnessed during my first visit—a rout. Two years ago, I questioned why the Ivy League had not instituted a slaughter rule to put teams like Columbia out of their misery, to save them the embarrassment of games like the Crimson’s victory in 2005. Coming into Saturday’s matchup, plain numbers favored a repeat of 2005. Harvard entered the game undefeated in the league?...
...team of lawyers will occupy one side of the courtroom, presenting their evidence to a three-judge panel that will decide the case. On the other side will sit the defendant, Ahmad Muhammed Harun, Sudan's former Interior Minister, whom Moreno-Ocampo has charged with orchestrating the slaughter in Darfur. "The prosecution of Harun will break the system that is responsible for these crimes. It will force a change in behavior," says Moreno-Ocampo. As he imagines the possibilities, a smile crosses his face. "I would love to be in court with Harun. I have a great case...
...appointment with the hangman. At the gallows, there was extra security to thwart any rescue attempt, a senior Iraqi official tells Time. After all, Hashem was no ordinary criminal. Saddam Hussein's last Defense Minister had been condemned to death by an Iraqi court for his role in the slaughter of thousands of Kurds. Like his former boss before him, Hashem was held in Camp Cropper, a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Baghdad, and would have to be flown to his execution by U.S. military helicopter. The Iraqi government planned to hang Hashem...
...Still, as we reassess the war on terrorism, as we should, let's never lose sight of the fact that it was al-Qaeda that started it all by switching course and deciding to slaughter civilians in Manhattan and Bali...