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…s. But where were the cops? They were all fuming /ns/de City Hall-- where their commander had instructed them to stay—-armed prisoners watching helplessly as angry demonstrators broke the glass trying to ram their way through the locked doors. | spotted Weiss and a student from...

… had decided the case of Enmund v. Florida, reversing the death penalty of a defendant who drove the “getaway car in an armed robbery of a home in which Enmund’s accomplices killed the elderly couple they had robbed. The vote was 5 to 4. The majority reasoned that: “We are quite...

…banon's Shiite community. Hezbollah is also Lebanon's largest militia, the only one to keep its weapons and rebrand its armed elements as an "Islamic resistance" in response to the terms of the 1989 Taif Accord, which ended the Lebanese Civil War. While the group's various eleme...

…g WMD. We need to answer the above questions as part of defining our policy. Intel and arms are happening. We also need armed observers to know what’s going on; need safe harbors that have a protective flank in order to provide good logistics and supply. Syria is far more difficu...

…e up and arrested him for breaking into the queen’ s bedroom, but the queen said he didn’ t threaten her and he wasn’ t armed and it was just a childish silly prank, and so she let it slide if he promised not to do that any more. James Bond couldn’ t break into the queen’ s bedro...

…nd an explicit or implicit shift to containment, indicating that Washington would be prepared to coexist with a nuclear-armed Iran. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018203

… the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence. And if it did come to armed conflict? “When the people of Israel will understand how far we were ready to go, we will have the power to stand together, unified, in such a struggle, h...

…d Hamas. In 2006, Hamas campaigned against Fatah and tensions between the two camps remained strong after the election. Armed conflict broke out the following year despite the creation of a de facto unity government, splintering the PA. Should the current reconciliation agreement...

…ious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organizatio...

…erred to Gary as their “prison father,” since he had spent most of his adult life behind bars, having been convicted of armed robbery and other predatory crimes. On the way back to prison from a court appearance, Gary had overpowered the guard, killed him, took his gun and escap...

…elivering that message: breaking into apartments in the middle of the night. Yes, each of the men was almost sure to be armed. But these flats were their homes. Very likely, members of their families would be there. If the operation went as planned, it was hard to imagine how any...

…ating backwards into my bladder. The tissue diagnosis was of embryonic cell carcinoma with chorionic elements. The U.S. Armed Service Pathology Department’s statistical book gave me 5% chance of living beyond two years. My second testicular cancer occurred in my fifties and on th...

…were mainly military secrets, as Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on March 6, 2014. It was not the quantity of Mr. Snowden’s theft but the quality that was most telling. Mr. Snowden’s theft put documen...

…l as defense secretary, a nomination still in question after an unsteady performance by the candidate before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that focused in part on his past criticism of Israel. “This trip is a signal that the president has an interest, not just in...

… the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence. And if it did come to armed conflict? “When the people of Israel will understand how far we were ready to go, we will have the power to stand together, unified, in such a struggle, h...