Last October, a car bombing in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut killed a powerful intelligence official who was viewed as an enemy of Syria, along with seven others.
In July a suicide attacker killed a powerful anti-Taliban leader, security commanders and more than a dozen other guests at a family wedding in neighbouring Samangan province.
More and more American soldiers were being killed by powerful roadside bombs that had been planted by sophisticated fighters; the Pentagon, however, was mesmerized by its doctrine of high-technology warfare and initially refused to call the campaign an insurgency.
Bashar al-Assad has not been seen in public since the bomb that killed his powerful brother-in-law and three other senior security chiefs in Damascus on 18 July.
In order to pass through the town, the pair must first rescue the town's sheriff, who went into a nearby forest with the town guard in an attempt to kill the powerful vampire Blood Fox.
In vast parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, reporters, editors, and broadcasters could be bankrupted, beaten, thrown into jail, or killed, by powerful people offended by what they wrote or aired.
The reasons for the crossbow's success were simple: crossbows were capable of killing the most powerful of mounted warriors, yet they were far cheaper than war-horses and armour and were much easier to master than the skills of equestrian combat.
It is extremely powerful, killing enemies easily under 100%.
As policemen moved in, the fighters detonated a powerful bomb, killing four of the officers and leveling the house.
Dieldrin worked only as a poison — a powerful one, killing 92percentt of mosquitoes that made contact with it, far more than alphacypermethrin or DDT.
