The Mumbai attacks prompted bellicose outbursts from the Indian news media and led Indian officials to state that their "restraint" should not be mistaken for "weakness".
While the movement characterizes its tactics as nonviolent, it has used bellicose anti-Western imagery, praised attacks on American forces in the region, and spoken of global conquest.
The language was later attacked as too bellicose, and was softened, but it has effectively re-emerged as official policy in the current Bush administration.
The president appeared tentative in his first appearances after the attacks, and then overly bellicose on Monday, when he made his "wanted: dead or alive" remarks at the Pentagon.
Israel launched around 45 air strikes on targets in Gaza over the same period, amid speculation that the security cabinet considered authorising a more sustained and bellicose assault in response to an attack by militants in the Sinai last week that triggered the current round of violence.
Rooster, bellicose, stumbles to the fire with a few thin branches.
Even when they were not actively attacking passers-by, their drunken, bellicose behaviour was intimidatory.
In the days after the attack, he'd been so bellicose that his father called to tell him to tone it down.
Mr. Hardy, who is from the same folk lineage that spawned Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, had a perspective on the attack and the preparations for a bellicose response that differed sharply from those of commentators on CNN.
Against this backdrop, the war planners produced a scenario in which a bellicose new USSR leadership had taken control and launched attacks on West Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and Turkey.
