Word: triggered
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...probably wouldn't stop the extremists. He has seen signs that the old regime's loyalists are joining forces with Islamists who have the money and leaders to take on the U.S. In exchange, militants who belonged to the ousted Baath ruling party can provide safe houses, weaponry and trigger pullers. "They've got to grab on to something," says Kimmitt, and if the trend continues, it may mean the "couple of hundred" fighters would be bolstered by many, many more...
...football-playing moron (Ryan Hurst); and, best of all, Garth Pancake (J.K. Simmons), a militant liberal, serenely overconfident of his skill with powder and fuses and, alas, afflicted by irritable-bowel syndrome, which kicks in at inopportune moments. Oh, almost forgot to mention this--most of them have hair-trigger tempers, which do not aid them in the swift completion of their appointed nefariousness...
...this season has been, at least there were games. Next year there may not be. The players' contract with the owners expires on Sept. 15, and the two sides are nowhere close to an agreement. "The league has been preparing to trigger a lockout for many years now," says Ted Saskin, senior director at the NHL Players' Association. The owners are looking for wage cuts (according to the Levitt study, NHL players take 75% of league revenue, compared with 58% in the NBA), although they don't seem eager to cut the jobs of all those goons by eliminating fighting...
...lines: Why didn't you deploy the armed Predator drones in Afghanistan? The technology, which might have provided the clearest shot at Osama bin Laden before 9/11, was available early in 2001. But the CIA and the Pentagon squabbled about which agency would be in charge of pulling the trigger. The dispute wasn't resolved until after 9/11. Were you aware of this dispute, Mr. President? Why weren't you able to resolve...
...Jakarta, are described as the work of "al-Qaeda," the name describes a broad franchise of terrorist jihad against the U.S. and its allies adopted by scores of local Islamist groups. Western intelligence agencies don't believe the men on the run in western Pakistan are actually pulling the trigger on attacks such as the Madrid bombings. Instead, bin Laden and his deputies set broad objectives in their "State of the Union" type addresses periodically released to Arab broadcast media, and those objectives can be pursued by discrete terror cells who may never have direct contact with al-Qaeda...