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But where Mr. Mubarak's supporters were diffident or self-serving, Mr. Hamid said, General Sisi "has the fervent backing of millions of ordinary Egyptians, many of whom think the army has not been sufficiently brutal against the Muslim Brotherhood".

On the face of it, the case for threatening the use of military force against North Korea is even stronger than for Iraq: evidence of a weapons programme, evidence of broken treaties, evidence of hostile acts against South Korea, evidence that the regime is brutal against its own people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger taking part in a brutal, against-the-odds fight to prevent planetary catastrophe sounds like the epic blockbuster everyone should be talking about this summer.

They could be brutally effective on the counter-attack (they could also be brutal), but against defensively resilient opponents they showed precious little flair and invention.

Some of its original members are veterans of Afghanistan's brutal war against the Soviet occupation during the 1980s or Iran's war against Iraq that same decade.

Against all odds the Chechens achieved independence in 1996 after winning a brutal war against mighty Russia.

The first was the bitter, brutal struggle against Japanese occupiers.

In the 1990s hundreds more Libyans died during a brutal campaign against Islamist radicals.