Word: raid
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...assemble an unfortunate-looking squad of volunteer policemen disguised as athletes, except that the World War II-era steel helmets and submachine guns undo any camouflage effect created by their gaudy Adidas track suits, and put them into position to storm the Israelis' besieged compound. They call off the raid at the last moment, and only then realize that the gunmen had been watching them get into position on television because the whole thing was being broadcast live on the world's networks...
...also a means by which the mighty power of government can be turned to good ends rather than bad. For young Americans to neglect political involvement in favor of private measures, deciding not to vote because they gave at the office, is to invite those with special interests to raid the public treasury and subvert the public good...
Tracy told me I could join them on their first action: a supermarket raid for which I'd wear a giant chicken suit and label chicken products with stickers that read WARNING: THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS THE DECOMPOSING CORPSE OF A SMALL TORTURED BIRD. When I asked her about the possibility of getting arrested, she said, "For people who work hard, jail offers a nice time just to relax." I told Tracy that things were probably a little different in the men's jail than in the women's. "When you're in jail, it's good to remember that there...
...world's 911 number - a reference to what GOP heavyweights see as the administration's inconsistent and misguided policy of "humanitarian intervention." Valid criticism, perhaps, although it's also worth remembering that the defining humanitarian debacle of the '90s - the death of 18 U.S. soldiers during a botched raid on a Somali warlord in Mogadishu -occurred in the course of a mission bequeathed by the Bush administration...
...never added to the State Department's terrorist watch list, for which he'd have been an obvious candidate if the link was strong enough to justify bombing a factory. And last year Washington quietly released his assets in U.S. financial institutions, which had been frozen following the raid. The Wall Street Journal characterized Idris as "a Westernized Saudi Arabian banker" with no known ties to Islamic extremists. Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and their acolytes certainly aren't generally in the habit of filing suit in Washington...