But two large-scale attacks in a week, as well as a bomb in a Shia area in Diyala, a mixed Shia-Sunni province north of Baghdad, where another 25 civilians were killed, raise the spectre of widespread sectarian violence if a national-unity government is not formed soon.Despite such recent setbacks, the burgeoning Iraqi army and police, numbering more than 400,000 in all, have been coping better.
Even if there's an American citizen killed, raising such questions about Israel is a political no-no.
Noble Malcolm loved Alice, even after her mother was killed, raising her as no less his daughter than the others.
The Palestinian connection Massoud's name first surfaced in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Siyasah which quoted "a well-informed source" in Dubai as saying he had been with Mabhouh until he was killed, raising questions about his involvement.
But Raffaele's statement to prosecutors that he had spoken to his father the night Kercher was killed raised suspicion, as phone records showed no trace of the call.
Although there have been violent crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators in recent months that left dozens dead, Monday's clash — in which only a few people appear to have been killed — raised the prospect of a broad factional conflict in which both sides are heavily armed.
The report said: "In the vast majority of these cases, no police officer was injured or killed, raising questions as to whether there was in fact an armed exchange in which there was an imminent threat to the lives of police or others".
Since March 25th, when many thousands of Syrians again took to the streets for the second Friday in a row, more than 40 people have been killed, raising the death toll in two weeks to more than 100 and many more than that have been arrested and tortured.After the most recent bloody round of protests in Deraa, the nearby town of Sanamein erupted too: at least 15 people were shot dead.
City Councilman Don Samuels started holding vigils at the site of every shooting where a young person was killed, raising awareness about the impact of violence.
An autopsy later showed that Alexis's unborn twins, Taylor and Tyler, had been viable when their mother was killed, raising the official body count to five and making this the single deadliest mass shooting to hit Charleston County since the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church last June.
The faces and voices of these ordinary people forced to kill raises the age-old question: Who, in the same situation, would have acted differently?
