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...perpetrators of the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports that left 19 people dead and 112 injured. All signs pointed to Abu Nidal, the shadowy leader of a renegade Palestinian group currently based in Libya (see following story), as the man who masterminded the slaughter. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi taunted the U.S. and Israel, declaring that a retaliatory strike against his country, which openly supports and encourages Nidal and his accomplices, would set off a "tit for tat" cycle of violence. Libyans, warned Gaddafi, would harass Americans "in their own streets" and spread bloodshed throughout...
...killer has become known, were an adulterous wife and her lover. On Aug. 21, 1968, they were shot to death as they lay in the front seat of a car parked in the countryside. In the back seat, the woman's six-year-old son slept undisturbed through the slaughter. The victim's husband was convicted of the murders and sent to prison. The man was innocent, as became clear six years later, when the Monster struck again, killing another couple in similar fashion. Ballistic tests showed that the murder of the second couple was committed with the same...
...sinking." Nowhere was the violence more barbaric than on the island of Borneo, where Lloyd Parry chases down news of tribal fighting between the Dayaks, one of the island's indigenous tribes, and the Madurese, transplants from Java. Penetrating the jungle, he doesn't find fighting so much as slaughter, and worse. The Dayaks, rumored to possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire Madurese villages, dismembering their victims and eating them. In the town of Sambas, he finds Dayaks cooking human thighs over a fire. One man offers him a chunk of human meat?"gray...
...fact, as Lucas has said many times, he laid out the story for the entire saga in the early 70s, when another American military engagement was turning sour. Thus Palpatine was more Nixon than Bush, and the slaughter of the innocents in the Jedi Temple is an echo of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
...mission in Rwanda, there is respect for uniformed soldiers in the field. He recalls when militias would turn away when ordered to do so by the UN blue berets, proving that UN peacekeepers were helpful in Rwanda. Therefore, simply having soldiers in the Sudan would significantly slow the slaughter and help see the implementation of the signed ceasefires through...