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For America, it was a lethal assault on democracy.

Modern secularism, as he had experienced it under Nasser, seemed a great evil and a lethal assault on faith.

SHANWEI, China, Dec. 10 - Four days after a lethal assault on protesters by paramilitary forces, a village in southern China remained under heavy police lockdown on Saturday.

Interview UNICEF's Chief of Child Protection Karin Landgren says conflict is a lethal assault on childhood: 2 million children have died in conflict since 1990, and 6 million have been permanently disabled or injured.

HIV/AIDS is posing a growing and lethal assault on children and childhood.

Actually, even that statement is of dubious accuracy -- unless one discounts post-9/11, Bush-in-the-White-House moments like the anthrax attacks, the airplane shoe bomber, the lethal assault on an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles and, for that matter, the D.C. sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrorized Washington and its environs.

Japanese police, seizing $7.9 million in cash and 22 pounds of gold, discovered a huge cache of toxic chemicals similar to those used in the lethal assault on Tokyo's subways in a massive raid Wednesday on the secretive religious group Aum Supreme Truth.

It was the first lethal assault on Israeli civilians in nearly a month, and it came despite curfews enforced by Israel in the seven Palestinian towns it has occupied and surrounded in an effort to avert such attacks.

The provocative French author Michel Houellebecq didn't have a novel being published on Friday when Islamist terrorists made their most lethal assault on Paris.

The lethal assault on the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters came after national demonstrations called by the chief of the army, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, to give him backing to confront "violence" and "terrorism" – understood by many to be a thinly veiled code for a crackdown on the Brotherhood.

The strenuous efforts at counter-terrorism since 9/11 have all been predicated on the fundamental and unquestioned assumption that the great danger took the form of a clandestine, tightly organized group of fanatical Islamist jihadis dedicated to lethal assaults on the United States and Western Europe.