There were the union militants Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood and John J. McNamara; a sprinkling of Communists and anarchists; a handful of corrupt politicians; some homicidal socialites; a host of mobsters; one world-famous architect; and a few people accused of truly heinous crimes: charming young Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who had killed a child just to see if they could get away with it.
The first big militant attack in France in recent years came earlier however, in 2012, and targeted soldiers and the Jewish community.
It was the first big militant attack in Srinagar in two years.About 150,000 litres of diesel spilled into the Wei river in China's northern province of Shaanxi after a construction accident.
For political leaders in the United States or the Arab world, both addressing audiences that may have little familiarity with the various schools of ultraconservative or militant Islam, "the big name — Al Qaeda — can mobilize people," said Diaa Rashwan, an expert on Islamist movements at the state-funded Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo.
At the same time as he was building social protections, he was also, shrewdly, becoming a much more militant nationalist and Big Englander; he arranged (through a loan from his friends the Rothschilds) for England to buy a crucial stake in the Suez Canal, and he made Queen Victoria Empress, not merely overseer, of India.
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Last month, the Pentagon launched a drone strike in Somalia aimed at members of the biggest militant group there, the Shabab.
In the Niger Delta, the biggest militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, declared a ceasefire for a few months after Mr Yar'Adua took office.
When the militants — armed with "big guns, huge guns, I don't know what kind of guns those were," Mr. Hakim said — saw his last name, which is often an Arabic name, they grunted and let him pass.
The fall of Ramadi and Palmyra, on opposite ends of the vast territory controlled by Isis, were the militant group's biggest successes since a US-led coalition launched an air war to stop them last year.
