Word: wrathful
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...Guard's armor, concluding, for example, that all but two dozen of their 800 tanks had been destroyed or abandoned. But a central mystery of the war remains: What happened to the people, the thousands of Republican Guard soldiers arrayed outside Baghdad who were subjected to the full wrath of the most powerful military on earth...
...infiltrated the dissident cells, he rounded up 78 dissidents and independent journalists, including Payá's captains. In his May Day speech last week, Castro branded them "mercenaries on the payroll of Bush's Hitler-like government," which he claims is poised to invade Cuba. To demonstrate his new wrath, Castro's government last month executed three Cuban men who tried to hijack a ferry to Miami. Many human rights experts fear Castro may now have succeeded in neutralizing Payá. The U.N., which in a stunning display of bad timing re-elected Cuba to its human rights commission last...
...report earned him the wrath of civil rights leaders who accused him of racism and of holding African-Americans responsible for their own problems. Those accusations would dog him through his first senate race in 1976, when he defeated veteran Republican Senator James L. Buckley. He was re-elected three times...
...Whether motivated by fear of their leader, fear of the wrath of his victims, fear of the invaders or simply by patriotic sentiment, many thousands of Iraqis have taken up arms against overwhelming odds despite the coalition's exhaustive efforts to facilitate their surrender. That underscores the depth of the challenge that may lie ahead in pacifying Iraq. Many Iraqi forces are no longer in conventional military formation, but have adopted guerrilla tactics to face a more powerful enemy. Tuesday's sandstorm attack on the 7th Cavalry, for example, was carried out by members of the Fedayeen Saddam, a youth...
Saddam has made a different calculation. He believes that in the event of war, fear of his wrath and uncertainty over his demise will press his men into one last battle. Crossing the heavily mined no-man's-land near the Kurdish town of Chamchamal in recent weeks, two Iraqi deserters have brought tales of a buildup. They say Saddam is pushing heavy armor and ammunition forward. A Kurdish security official, among the first to interrogate the men, says, "They don't want to, but Baghdad is ordering these units to fight...