Word: slaughtered
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...Friday. In the aftermath of last week’s calamitous bombing of a train in Madrid, an estimated 12 million people throughout Spain came together to cry out against the violence of terrorism. Thursday’s attacks were a grievous horror; 200 killed, 1,400 wounded. Slaughter of this magnitude causes emotion of inexpressible depth—made all the more upsetting because only now have investigators learned who was responsible and what their motive was. What happened in Madrid was so atrocious as to seem inhuman, and yet the world is faced with the difficult realization that...
...campaign against Shiites would certainly challenge much of what is currently known about bin Laden's network. For example, U.S. and European intelligence agencies have long maintained that some of the movement's operatives are working out of Iran, a Shiite state with little tolerance for those who would slaughter their brethren - as Iran's proxy war with the Taliban demonstrated. U.S. officials have also speculated that Bin Laden's network may be receiving logistic assistance from the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. And just last month, it was reported that Iran had played host to al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and just...
...provided low or no-cost spay/neuter services for 6,046 cats and dogs. PETA also launched international campaigns against animal abuse at KFC, Iams and PETCO, worked with the state of Virginia and many municipalities to develop humane wildlife-management strategies and lobbied Congress to enforce the federal Humane Slaughter Act and to honor its commitment to encourage alternatives to animal experiments. These substantive actions illustrate PETA’s dedication to furthering the causes that its publicity campaigns propound...
...repeatedly used shock tactics in an attempt to further its cause, summed up by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk as “total animal liberation.” Last year, its activists began a campaign entitled “Holocaust On Your Plate,” likening the slaughter of stockyard animals to the genocide undertaken by Nazi Germany. On the PETA-controlled website dedicated to that campaign, www.masskilling.com, images from concentration camps are juxtaposed with images from the stockyards...
Moravcsik declined to comment, and Slaughter could not be reached by The Crimson...