After Latin American and European diplomats helped salvage peace talks last month, the rebels unleashed 117 attacks, exploding four car bombs, destroying 33 energy towers and, most spectacularly this week, hijacking a plane and kidnapping a prominent senator, according to the Colombian government.
Men like Belmokhtar, one of the best known warlords in the Sahara region between Algeria and west Africa, are products of decades of bitterness and hatred that have now, through the In Amenas attack, exploded into western consciousness.
Two people suspected of being militants were killed Friday when an improvised bomb that the police said was being prepared for a terrorist attack exploded in a mosque's cemetery in the North Caucasus region, where Russia is struggling to contain an insurgency.
Yet reading through his football writings (I refer again to his fine "Coaching Football's 46 Defense") his emphasis throughout is not on preparation and repetition but on surprise assault — on the Walsh trinity of "attack, explode, recover".
The Tigers' determination to keep the ball alive on the last tackle of their next attacking set exploded in their face.
"You have to recover all the wreckage to see what part is attacked or exploded," he said, while declining to comment on what China Airlines thinks caused the crash.
A Ukrainian military helicopter was attacked and exploded in Kramatorsk on Friday.
After he fends off Hydro-Man and Doctor Octopus there, the guests escape narrowly to the river where Hobgoblin attacks with exploding pumpkins and sends guests into the streets.
Ten days before the attacks, a bomb exploded in a discotheque in West Berlin frequented by U.S. soldiers, killing two people and injuring more than 200.
Although the group largely targeted government and corporate buildings in their attacks, it accidentally exploded a townhouse in Greenwich Village in 1970.
