BRUSSELS — The news from Afghanistan over the past few days has been disturbing: a Taliban terrorist attack in Kabul; a failed but dramatic attack on a NATO base; and reports of Taliban intimidation in Central Helmand and Kandahar, where Afghan and NATO forces are ramping up operations.
"After the election, before the inauguration, you never sought any information about this rather dramatic attack on our country?" "No," Sessions said. . "You never asked for a briefing or attended a briefing or read the intelligence reports?" King asked.
The dramatic attack on the Japanese prisoner of war camp carried out by P-51 Mustangs is accompanied by Jim's whoops of "...the Cadillac of the skies!", a phrase believed to be first used in Ballard's text as "Cadillac of air combat" and in the screenplay that has now entered urban mythology as being attributed to the war years.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday acquitted 24 loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who had been accused of organizing the so-called "Camel Battle," one of the most dramatic attacks on protesters of last year's uprising.
Kabul has been generally safe recently, but the Taliban has occasionally staged dramatic attacks on international forces and diplomatic installations, including a major assault on the American embassy last year, and a 20-hour siege of the Parliament and other government offices just last month.
The same month Monsegur typed those words, Anonymous, which had been up and running for a couple of years, was planning what hackers hoped would be its most dramatic attack yet, on PayPal and certain credit-card companies, in retaliation for their suspending services to WikiLeaks.
One broad hint that no dramatic attack is imminent came on Tuesday from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who said of the struggle against the terrorists, "This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event".
Germany's Constitutional Court has launched a new attempt to ban the country's small but virulently racist neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, after a dramatic increase in attacks on refugees and asylum hostels since the onset of Europe's refugee crisis.
Besides a dramatic increase in attacks on journalists, recent developments show a more worrying pattern of behavior on the part of the media attackers.
Since January 2009, nine Human Rights Watch fact-finding missions to frontline areas found a dramatic increase in attacks on civilians and other human rights abuses in Lubero, Rutshuru, Masisi, and Walikale territories in North Kivu, Kalehe and Shabunda territories in South Kivu, and Haute Uele district in northern Congo.
