Word: triggered
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...last week, he listened calmly as presiding Judge Tan Senarong adjourned the trial to allow more evidence to be collected. Interviewed after the trial, the judge said the person responsible for the shooting was actually another member of the group, Som Doeun, and that Nhim Sophea merely touched the trigger accidentally in a bid to prevent the slaughter. Whatever happened that night in October, few expect the prosecutors to find additional witnesses to bolster the case against Hun Sen's nephew. Says Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the nongovernmental legal-aid organization Cambodian Defenders Project: "I don't think...
...megaton ego--almost as much as U.S. charges that he ran a nuclear bazaar--persuaded Musharraf to force him into retirement. But Pakistani investigators remain leery of squeezing the national hero too tightly. Khan is a public icon, his hawkish face known to every schoolchild. Arresting him could trigger dangerous protest among Islamist extremists and senior military officers who feel Musharraf has already gone too far in appeasing the White House. Khan's travel has been restricted, and even inside Pakistan, he is always accompanied by two military officers. He rarely leaves his Islamabad mansion except to venture...
According to Davis, the Bugbear virus may trigger a variety of side effects, ranging from benign to harmful. Some versions of the virus steal sensitive data like passwords and credit card numbers from the infected machine...
...that without good intelligence from the U.S. and other nations or the right to conduct spot inspections, they cannot verify a country's claims of compliance. Libya, they say, is proof that arms-control systems need to be strengthened. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, says the episode should trigger soul searching in countries building nuclear technology and urges a ban on uranium enrichment, except under international supervision...
...biggest complaint," he says. "But we are not cold-blooded killers. We are not going to kill innocent civilians. That's just a part of who we are." He thinks back to the grenade attack. "A couple of us saw some guys running away and thought about pulling the trigger. But when you see a guy running through a crowd, do you spray the crowd to get the guy? If in a situation like that you can control your impulse for revenge, then that means you are fighting for something larger...