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The monitoring group said on Friday that it was aware of Isis crucifying 17 young men in the space of 48 hours, and that it came as a direct retaliation for the deaths of 12 Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian jihadists.

And even more so to then compare it to a war that was, at best, an effort to thwart a highly theoretical threat as opposed to one that was a direct retaliation for acts of aggression against the U.S. In fact, seen purely through the prism of the leaks themselves, this one is far more perilous.

The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the airstrikes were a direct retaliation for the Paris attacks, which he said were masterminded by Isis leaders inside Syria.

Rodney's art confronted the hypocrisies of post-modern Britain: his installation Trophies of Empire was a direct retaliation to institutional racism.

Farmaner, like many critics of the government, sees the closing of the Rakhine operations as direct retaliation for MSF reporting that it treated victims of a massacre this past January in Du Chee Yar Tan village — the UN believes that at least 48 Rohingya were killed over the course of two attacks there.

Osama bin Laden noted a few years ago that the 9/11 attacks on New York were in direct retaliation for Israel's brutal bombardment and destruction of downtown Beirut.

A grim toll of 370 journalists have been murdered over the past 10 years in direct retaliation for doing their job.

Israel refrained from direct retaliation.

Some fear direct retaliation by Islamic State.

They feared the imposition of trade and other sanctions from foreign governments opposed to such a measure, as well as retaliation from the affected pharmaceutical companies [ 12, 13].

In fact, the recent crash of a Russian airliner was claimed as an ISIS retaliation.