Word: weaponeering
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What shook up the intelligence community also roiled the capital and set in motion the now familiar chain of scapegoating and backstabbing that has poisoned the past two presidencies. Having fumbled around in the drawer for months looking for a weapon to use against Bush, the Democrats saw an opening. On top of a moody economy, a messy war, a swelling budget deficit and a deeply polarized electorate, the leak charges came as Bush's poll numbers had sunk to the lowest point in his tenure. Indeed, with the presidential election a little more than a year away, only...
Saddam's underlings appear to have invented weapons programs and fabricated experiments to keep the funding coming. The Mukhabarat captain says the scamming went all the way to the top of the MIC to its director, Huweish, who would appease Saddam with every report, never telling him the truth about failures or production levels and meanwhile siphoning money from projects. "He would tell the President he had invented a new missile for Stealth bombers but hadn't. So Saddam would say, 'Make 20 missiles.' He would make one and put the rest in his pocket," says the captain. Colonel Hussan...
...pages). He spent three years perfecting it, redoing many of the eyeballs, unhappy with the way they were digitally transferred. Picking up the collection with pride, Larson says, "I just like to feel the weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there's not much profit in it for him, despite the fact that, as he says, at $135, it costs about one car payment. "It's just a very cool thing for a cartoonist to have. It's my death book...
Without such opportunities and education, Palestine will not emerge from its current bloody impasse with Israel. Appropriate leadership and expertise will not emerge. The lack of opportunity will also lead to continued self-immolation as a weapon of both terror and despair...
...these minority groups from their homes and compelled them to work without pay on construction projects or as porters for the army. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the Shan Women’s Action Network have revealed that the SPDC uses systematic rape as a weapon of war against insurgent ethnic minority groups. The SPDC continues its dictatorial hold over Burma, denying recognition of the results of the 1990 elections and refusing to hold any elections since...