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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...ry of France|French military forces]]—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization [[Is [[Suicide bomber]]s detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the American Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 America
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• 9M133 Kornet
  ...M). It is a heavy ATGM intended to replace an older generation of missiles in the Russian inventory, Kornet was designed to deal with current and future .... The missile is believed to have also entered service in the Russian army in 1994<ref>http://www.deagel.com/Anti-Armor-Weapons-and-Missiles/Kornet_a0010
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  |caption=61-K in Saint Petersburg Artillery Museum. ...930s and used during [[World War II]]. The land based version was replaced in Soviet service by the [[ZSU-57-2]] during the 1950s. Guns of this type were
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• Petroleum
  ...roleum'' was first used in the treatise ''De Natura Fossilium'', published in 1546 by the [[Germany|German]] mineralogist [[Georg Bauer]], also known as ...nes from [[pentane]] and up are in the form of liquids or solids. However, in the underground [[oil reservoir]] the proportion which is gas or liquid var
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• Gunpowder
  ...b|right|Black powder for [[muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] rifles and pistols in FFFG granulation size. [[Quarter (United States coin)|Coin]] (diameter 24 m ...ern firearms do not use the traditional gunpowder (black powder) described in this article, but instead use [[smokeless powder]]. [[Antique]] firearms or
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• Iron
  ...veryday use. Fresh iron surfaces appear lustrous silvery-gray, but oxidize in air. ...rth most common in the Earth's crust. It is produced as a result of fusion in high-mass stars, and it is the heaviest stable element produced by stellar
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• ISPM 15
  ...d to adopt the bark restriction regulations proposed by the European Union in 2009. Australia held out for approximately one year with more stringent ba ...less than 3 cm in width (regardless of the length) or - greater than 3 cm in width, with the total surface area of an individual piece of bark less than
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• List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans
  {{sync|List of terrorist incidents in the United States}} * 1881 - [[James A. Garfield]], 20th US President, is shot in Washington by [[Charles J. Guiteau]]
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• Insurgency
  [[File:Vcfightersboat.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Viet Cong]] insurgents in the mid-1960s]] ...rd English Dictionary]] second edition 1989 "insurgent B. n. One who rises in revolt against constituted authority; a rebel who is not recognized as a be
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...lly charged.<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p32">Hoffman (1998), p. 32, See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrori ...o differences of opinion between various members about the use of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination."<
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• History of terrorism
  ...pponents.”<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p32">Hoffman (1998), p. 32, See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrori ...se of "systematic use of terror as a policy" was first recorded in English in 1798.<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism]</ref>
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• Animal-borne bomb attacks
  ...the bomb past a checkpoint or with the intention of making the bomb go off in a crowd killing a large number of civilians or soldiers. In 2009, the Taliban strapped an improvised explosive device to a donkey. The
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• Islam and violence
  ...ainst women ostensibly supported by Islam's tenets, references to violence in the [[Qur'an]], and acts of terrorisms motivated and/or justified by Islam. ...n-copenhagen-protest-reprinting-of-danish-cartoons.html Bloomberg: Muslims in Copenhagen Protest Reprinting of Danish Cartoons<!-- Bot generated title --
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• 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...rs. The ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement."<ref>http://www.fbi.gov/anthrax/amerithraxl ...bs at [[Fort Detrick]] in [[Frederick, Maryland|Frederick]], [[Maryland]]. In June 2008, Ivins was told of the impending prosecution, and on July 27, 200
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• Abu Sayyaf
  |war =the [[Insurgency in the Philippines]] ...ead, September 4, 2006</ref><br/>[[Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani]] [[Killed in action|KIA]] <ref>Reported dead, December 8, 1998</ref>
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  .../> "'''Torture by proxy'''" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries k ...tp://washingtonindependent.com/46882/obama-administration-seeks-re-hearing-in-extraordinary-rendition-case
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• FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
  ...Fugitives]] list. It now serves as a companion to that earlier list, which in years past, had listed several major terrorist fugitives. In response to the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] on the [[United States]], fo
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• Preemptive war
  {{Dablink|In political rhetoric, "preemptive war" may also be used to refer to [[prevent ...is not imminent or known to be planned, while a preemptive war is launched in anticipation of immediate enemy aggression.<ref>{{citation|volume=20|publis
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• Special Registration
  ...to the US [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE) in case of changes in plans. They are also able to travel to and from the US via certain ports on ..., and [[Syria]]; any other non-citizen, non-permanent residents determined in advance by the [[United States Department of State]] or the INS, or as they
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• Syria Accountability Act
  ...)|bill]] of the [[United States Congress]] passed into law on December 12, 2003. ...Iraqi oil and to end illegal shipments of military items to anti-US forces in Iraq.
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