His men razed houses that had been harboring insurgents, and he limited reconstruction projects.
The Taliban have razed houses and killed a civilian working for the police in Matta.
Since 2009, more than 14 miles of permanent levees have been built in Fargo, and the city has bought and razed houses in flood-prone areas.
The latest took place before dawn on March 7th, when gangs attacked villages south of the city, razed houses and hacked their occupants with machetes.
United Nations and Western aid officials have condemned razing houses.
When she would ask what he was doing, he'd type back: "You know, the usual: kidnapping, razing houses, stuff like that".
One in five buyers are going a step further, they say, and razing houses, especially the area's trademark Tudors, some adorned with witch's-hat towers and leaded-glass windows.
"Now they're looking at the whole DNA of the city and saying, 'There are just too many structures for the population we have.' " Cleveland, whose population has shrunk by about 80,000 during the past decade to 395,000, has spent $50 million over the past six years to raze houses, which cost $10,000 each to destroy, compared with $27,000 annually to maintain.
The issues are in contention at the federal level now: the Bush administration proposes to eliminate Hope VI, while the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend it and require that all razed public housing be replaced.
Some loved the new look; others responded as if the new HTC Hero had insulted their family and razed their house to the ground.
