Word: weaponeering
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...searching for an assault suspect. About half an hour earlier, a female was assaulted on the bike path along the Charles River on the Boston side, adjacent to the North Harvard Street Bridge. Without saying anything, the suspect struck the victim in the back with a bat-type weapon. The victim described the suspect as a black male in his mid-20s with a medium complexion, dreadlocks, a bushy one inch long beard and mustache, husky build and dark baggy clothing...
...said police officers believe the dorm room where the attack occurred was unlocked. No weapon was used in the assault...
...venue was a dreary hotel conference room in lower Manhattan, preaching to the saved, and not a battleground state, appealing to the undecided. Too bad Al Gore has put his party's most potent weapon in a lockbox. Too bad for Democrats there's a 22nd Amendment that keeps Clinton from running again. In a speech after the debates, Clinton gave a far more lucid rebuttal than Gore--and without the sighing. His job-approval rating surpasses Ronald Reagan's in his final days...
Israel has three of these undercover units, and they are one of the country's most powerful and feared weapons in the low-level warfare in Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods and the Palestinian towns of the West Bank. Moustarabine is Arabic for "those who pretend to be Arabs." The units are a prime weapon in controlling riots, because they infiltrate crowds and pounce on the ringleaders. They're also used for dangerous snatch operations, such as the one in which moustarabine units arrested one of the men who lynched two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah three weeks...
...they pick people every year, cadets, who "have the eyes." And what that means is that they can watch you walk down the street, cross the street, and judging from your gait, if it's weighted to one side even slightly, they can see if you're packing a weapon, a concealed weapon. They can look at your neck, and if they see a pulse rate that disturbs them, they take you to be a suspect. And they use methods which are of questionable constitutionality. I'm fond of saying "I did Russian gangsters in the first movie...