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Al Ahram's editor, Ibrahim Nafie, called the prosecution an attempt "to cripple freedom of the press in Egypt".

The hard-liners have stepped up their attacks on reformers before the vote, apparently in an attempt to cripple Mr. Khatami's support.

It was strikingly similar to the recently disclosed cyber attack on Iran's nuclear facilities using the Stuxnet worm, which also appears to have used contaminated hardware in an attempt to cripple Iran's nuclear programme.

Leaders of those two parties do not deny they had a deal, but they say shutting down the chambers allows no debate at all and seems to be an attempt to cripple Mr. Calderón's administration.

The raid, carried out by 133 airmen in 19 Lancaster bombers from the specifically formed 617 squadron, was an attempt to cripple a major part of the Nazi war economy by carrying out attacks on three dams in the industrial heartland of Germany.

This may include unmuzzling the country's scientists, who have been prevented for years from discussing their work with the media; restoring the mandatory long-form census, which the Conservatives abolished in an attempt to cripple the government's data-gathering (and money-spending) capacity; and tempering the country's new and uncomfortably Patriot Act-like security laws.

But western officials say the terrorist group has adapted its tactics, sending flying columns through the Sahara to launch pinpoint attacks in aan attempt to cripple the oil industry.

But abortion rights groups called the building requirements a thinly disguised attempt to cripple or bankrupt the state's 20 private abortion clinics and said that some clinics may be forced to close.

Bankrolled by out-of-state oil companies, Proposition 23 is a not-so-subtle attempt to cripple California's promising clean-energy industry -- and the jobs that will come with it.

This situation is the direct result of the State Department's misconceived attempt to cripple the Mujahedeen Khalq by labeling it a terrorist organization, beginning in 1997.

The bombing, she said, was 'an attempt to cripple our Government - and that is the scale of the outrage.' She and her colleagues had been surrounded by close personal protection for more than two months because of a tip-off about an IRA assassination squad.