"When people say what animal is the biggest killer of man, some say sharks, some tigers, but it's actually mosquitoes.
The former official said that the killers of some of the twenty-two coalition soldiers who died this year while training Afghan forces had been planted in the Army by the Taliban or by Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's main intelligence branch.
But as I stood there before the screen, I felt that the real villain in this piece was CNN, placing its stupid rescue story in the foreground, delivered by the flirty anchor at the desk, and then immediately followed by a commercial for a pain-killer of some kind, called Activa, or was it Actaval?
There are some vague similarities between Pardo and Michael C. Hall's serial-killer-of-serial-killers.
This follow-up to his justly legendary "Killer of Sheep" is also, in some ways, its antithesis: in that film, the pathos of poverty is heightened by humor and romance; here, Burnett drives a thesis hard and it gets in the way of emotion.
He called the assailants "a collection of killers," some of whom, he said, were former members of Mr. Hussein's regime.
Just last month, American helicopters swept over the dusty Somali horizon to take out Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a wanted Qaeda suspect who had been hiding out in Somalia for years and training a new bevy of killers; some of those trainees are believed to be Somali-Americans who could easily slip back into the United States and do some serious damage as suicide bombers.
In some developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cancer killer of women.
"He is the killer of poetry".
