I sold them to buy a gun – not to aim at the army soldiers, who were my colleagues and most likely did not have the chance to defect, but to fire against barbaric shabiha [militia], who were slaying people and with burning and smashing civilian houses.
But how does the bunny-butchering bookworm compare with other famous hunters and the backlashes caused by their beastie-slaying?
And besides slaying infants, malaria makes adults too feverish to work.
Why on earth, many Americans are asking, should the United States try to police a region, when all it gets in return is mindless abuse, blame for things it cannot control, and mob violence?The slaying of Mr Stevens is hardly the only recent example of Arab dysfunction.
Brazil had recently stopped telling banks to whom they should lend and at what price, and was in the process of slaying hyperinflation.
Nor does it help that Mr Raffarin's spin doctor, Dominique Ambiel, resigned last week after being caught with an under-age prostitute in his car.In this section An ominous European debut Brains not welcome here Slaying his own dragons When pigs don't fly Trying to look nicer Norman conquest A party spoiled?
The charge of "privatising the NHS" (roughly equivalent to slaying the first-born) was for decades enough to quash any bid to take on the monolith.
Now, emboldened by the slaying of Saddam Hussein's two sons (see article), the administration is back on the offensive, with Mr Bush, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz all proclaiming in effect that a corner has been turned in Iraq, and that a calmer Middle East is next.
In Saint-Lô, freed by American firepower, a plaque remembers the victims of September 11th.In this section An ominous European debut Brains not welcome here Slaying his own dragons When pigs don't fly Trying to look nicer Norman conquest A party spoiled?
After all, Breard's guilt was not in question and his crime the 1992 slaying of an Arlington woman during an attempted rape was particularly brutal.
Between then and now, many dragons still need slaying.
