"While details of these suicide attacks are still being verified, it is clear this vicious crime killed and wounded many innocent people, " the statement said.

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Gupta and Lal are just two of thousands of victims of a new and vicious crime wave that has cast a pall of fear over Bombay, India's commercial and cultural center and a city that has always thrived on boisterous ostentation.

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Terrorism is a vicious, monstrous crime, but, thankfully, it poses no existential threat to the U.S. Al-Qaeda and allied groups do not possess nuclear-tipped ICBMs, carrier groups, air wings, and armored divisions.

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But in her trial 10 months later, a jury of 12 men decided no woman could be capable of a crime so vicious.

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As a result, unwitting American investors potentially have been pumping their cash into everything from Russian organized crime to a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign in Africa to peddlers of weapons of mass destruction in Communist China.

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Combining proven public health and public safety strategies will help break the vicious cycle of drug abuse, crime, and incarceration.

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"Jamaicans are driving the trade and the media, police and politicians have jumped on the bandwagon because it is so much easier to scapegoat Haiti and blame the problem on these vicious Haitians who are coming here to perpetrate crime and bring guns and kill people, " she says.

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