Word: soiled
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...contrary to the early assumption that the bombers had hidden explosives in their rucksacks and left them to explode, or were unwitting mules for bombs their bosses had secretly armed, the weight of evidence suggests the attackers deliberately immolated themselves in the first-ever suicide bombings on British soil. What remains murky is just how much help the homegrown killers received from like-minded jihadists scattered around the world. "We need to establish a number of things," said Peter Clarke, head of the antiterrorist branch of Scotland Yard. "Who actually committed the attack? Who supported them? Who financed them...
...regarded as having killed all mankind." The spirit of that verse forbids aggressive warfare, but the clause beginning with except is readily deployed by militant Muslims as a loophole. If you want murder and villainy in the land, they say, look no further than U.S. bootprints in Arab soil...
...world oil prices creep past $60 a barrel, China has stepped up its search for proven reserves?witness state-controlled oil giant CNOOC's effort to acquire California-based Unocal over protests from U.S. politicians. On home soil, Beijing now battles its own people. More than 10,000 investors, mostly peasants, secured rights to drill for oil in Shaanxi over the past decade, only to see their holdings nationalized. The drillers characterize the government's strategy as "confiscate now, compensate later," and those who have been paid insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested...
...billion restructuring plan, which included new capital and loan concessions, to rescue the operation. Among the park's problems have been cultural faux pas that have turned off its European audience. When Euro Disney opened, for example, restaurants wouldn't serve wine, an affront even to the French soil it was built...
...both sides of the border finally seems to be moving beyond a half-century of confrontation. Today, Indians and Pakistanis meet as friends in business, on movie screens and on the cricket pitch. And in contrast to the murderous outrage that used to follow suspected Islamic attacks on Indian soil, there were no reports of reprisals against Muslims in India last week...