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...NIGERIA Tit for Tat Nigerian soldiers gunned down at least 130 people, including women and children, before President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered them to stop. The killings were to avenge the hacking to death of 19 soldiers sent into Makurdi, capital of the central state of Benue, to keep warring Tiv and Jukun tribes apart...
Such tit-for-tat arguments seem prevalent today. As the U.S. struggles with the question of how to combat terrorism at home and abroad, it has run into the sensitive task of defining terrorism and separating a “just military response” from terrorism. Only this kind of distinction enables the U.S. to justify the killing of hundreds in Afghanistan while decrying any attacks on American citizens...
...Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June. The tribal talk was a depressing illustration of why Northern Ireland's peace process now seems to be sinking back into mutual recrimination and tit-for-tat violence...
...Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
...tat blame game over the stalled Northern Ireland peace process, the Ardoyne incident couldn't have come at a better time for the Sinn Fein. The most recent collapse of the institutions of Northern Ireland's self-government were widely blamed on the refusal of the IRA to begin decommissioning its weapons, and the recent capture by Colombian authorities of three alleged IRA men accused of training that country's leftist guerrillas had done little to improve the image of the Republican cause. The Ardoyne standoff, however, is a reminder of the communal hatreds that helped spawn today...