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• Soap
  ...oaps.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A collection of decorative soaps, usually found in hotels]] ...]], which historically comes either in solid [[molding (process)|bars]] or in the form of a viscous liquid.
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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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• Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station
  [[File:M240 CROWS.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[M240|M240 machine gun]] mounted in the Common Remotely Operated Weapon System.]] ...st RAVEN units as part of the first CROWS contract were fielded in 2004 in Iraq, employed by special forces, military police, infantry and transport units.
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) |length= {{mm to in|1650|abbr=on|precision=1|wiki=yes}}
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• Phalanx CIWS
  | type = [[Close-in weapon system]] ...//www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Phalanx.htm |title=USA 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) |publisher=Navweaps.com |date= |accessdate=2010-04-13}
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• Swingfire
  ...ile|wire-guided]] [[anti-tank guided missile|anti-tank missile]] developed in the 1960s and produced from 1966 until 1993.<ref name="FORE"/> ...itish Aircraft Corporation]]. It replaced the [[Vickers Vigilant]] missile in British service. It was a product of both its predecessor the Vigilant and
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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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• Depleted uranium
  ...rs |accessdate= |author= |date= |year= |publisher= UN |pages= }}</ref> In the past, DU has been called '''Q-metal''', '''depletalloy''', and '''D-38' ...>]]. Civilian uses include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shielding in medical [[radiation therapy]] and industrial [[radiography]] equipment, and
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• Chlorine
  ...-containing molecules such as [[chlorofluorocarbons]] have been implicated in the [[ozone depletion|destruction]] of the [[ozone layer]]. ...ersity of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd, UK]}}</ref> Solutions of chlorine in water contain chlorine (Cl₂), hydrochloric acid, and hypochlorou
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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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• 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters
  ...three others wounded. The perpetrator, Mir Aimal Kasi, shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight. ...al]] and first-degree [[murder]], and was executed by [[lethal injection]] in 2002.
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  {{About|the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993|the 2001 attack and destruction of the World Trade Center|September 11 ...hilders.htm |title=Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings: Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center |accessdate=2008-01-08 |la
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• List of foiled Islamic terrorist plots in the post-9/11 United States
  ...tary targets. The following is a '''list of foiled Islamic terrorist plots in the [[Post-9/11]] United States'''. ...=http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020909/aattendants.html|title=Courage In The Air|last=Thomas|first=Cathy Booth|date=September 1, 2002|work=Time Maga
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...itaries]], [[police department]]s and [[corporation]]s adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed. ...ticular context. Individuals, such as [[Timothy McVeigh]], may also engage in terrorist acts such as the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].
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• Internet and terrorism
  ...vary due to difficulties measuring but, there is a general consensus that in 1996 there was just under 100 websites and to well over 5000 websites today ...elligence and send encrypted messages.<ref name="Weimann 2004: 12">Weimann 2004: 12</ref><ref>Thomas 2003: 1</ref>
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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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• Terrorism
  ...niversally agreed, legally binding, criminal law [[definition of terrorism#In international law|definition of terrorism]].<ref>Angus Martyn, [http://www. ...publisher=[[Strategic Studies Institute]] (SSI) |quote=The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the offi
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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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