Word: assassination
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...back of my Humvee to take her to the 'cash' [Combat Support Hospital]." Speeding down the road, radio calls were put out to indicate that Lozano was approaching the next checkpoint. Sgrena, he says, would have heard the voices from the backseat. "The call sign was 'Assassin 26.' Maybe she thought we were really assassins? She seemed pretty scared." By then Lozano said he realized that Sgrena had just been released after a month in captivity and that the intelligence officers, Carpani and Calipari, had just secured her liberation and were escorting her to the Baghdad airport where an Italian...
Responding to claims that he was engaging in character assassination, Dershowitz stated, “When I quote back his own language to him, that is, in fact, character assassination, but he is the assassin...
...Obama vs. Thompson That is why Barack Obama could well defeat Hillary Clinton for the nomination. It would be the victory Bobby Kennedy was denied by an assassin's bullet. Obama is, like Kennedy, a charismatic freshman Senator, running before his time but - supporters think - uniquely suited to the time. Obama follows Kennedy in being a bold liberal and a skeptic of simple ideological stances, a gifted politician and an antipolitician, a man familiar with the halls of power yet a charismatic critic of them...
Marine scout sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) could nail a gnat a mile away in a high wind. So he's just the guy to help government officials catch a presidential assassin--and then to be blamed for the killing in a high-level double cross. The film, which is basically Rambo with a higher IQ, is best at giving plausible instructions on how to assemble and detonate weapons of movie distraction. Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the action genre. He could be that youngish star...
...reeling off three-point plays on four of their next five possessions to pull ahead for good.Sophomore point guard Drew Housman tied the game and silenced the crowd by nailing a three off a feed from freshman guard Jeremy Lin. After a rare long-distance miss from Big Red assassin Ryan Wittman, Goffredo followed with his seventh—and most crucial—three-pointer of the night, using an up-fake to get Wittman in the air, then stepping to the side to calmly drill the triple and put Harvard up by three.Four straight free throws...