Word: raided
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...immediate plans to return to Peru from Japan - as the son of Japanese immigrants to Latin America, he's entitled to live in Japan and wouldn't need to be granted asylum. Besides, he's regarded as something of a hero in Tokyo after supervising a raid on Japan's embassy in Peru four years ago after it had been captured by leftist guerrillas...
...risky business. The army's undercover unit, which has its own big storeroom full of Arab clothing, wigs and makeup, shot one of its men six years ago when he was disguised as an Arab. On a midnight raid in August, the unit killed three of its own men--who weren't disguised at the time--as they tried to arrest bombmaker Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a member of the militant Islamic group Hamas. Some of the undercover soldiers get only three weeks of Arabic training before they're sent into dangerous situations. But when they succeed, the undercover squads...
Once the U.S. National Team decided to raid the ECAC of its top defenseman, it managed to do a thorough job. Princeton's standout blueliner Annamarie Holmes will join Mounsey and Ruggiero in training for Salt Lake City this season...
...REVENUE RAID Transferring interest savings to Social Security doesn't change the basic equation: more and more government revenues will still need to be devoted to the retirement of the elderly. Gore increases the percentage of the budget devoted to retirement with his "retirement savings plus" plan (which will cost between $200 billion and $620 billion over the next 10 years). Is it worth annually spending nearly a third of the national budget on Social Security to extend the program's life for only 17 years...
...basically genocide," Williams says. "The Muslims from the north come down and raid villages in the south. The men are killed or used as carriers and the women and children are brought back to the north as slaves...