"He used to be a fighter, MMA fighter, " Taramov said, in a reference to mixed martial arts.
Nick Robinson said the fight had gone out of Mr Mitchell, who was considered to be a fighter and a former soldier who loved political scrapping.
The leader of the hostage-takers is said to be a veteran fighter from Niger, named as Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri by the Mauritanian news agency ANI, which has been in contact with the militants.
What emerges from her chronicle is the story of a person who never let setbacks shake her self confidence, a Southern girl who learned to be a street fighter without losing her humanity.
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I'm never going to be a guy who puts a fighter in there and sees him lose and then turns around and says 'I shouldn't have done it'.
This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.
But most boxing fans didn't want Jones to be anything other than a fighter.
Germany's Walter Neusel - 'the 'Blond Tiger' - would prove to be his downfall, a fighter who was two stones heavier than the Welshman.
This has not stopped speculation that it will be Chen Long, a fighter pilot who has been to Russia to train with the cosmonaut programme.
Obviously, focusing on one discipline will increase your power faster than if you tried to learn to be a thief, then a mage, then a fighter.
Fallows, looked at the F-16 which was designed by John Boyd to be a fast, relatively uncomplicated fighter.
What the sport does promote is discipline, sportsmanship and hard work, all elements necessary for a fighter to be successful here.
For all these problems, my sense is that Benedict will be remembered as a thinker rather than a fighter.
Enter the cockpit of a fighter plane and you will be amazed by the myriad arrays of display panels and complex control systems.
Russia's initial response was to suspend talks on selling China the Su-33, a fighter with folding wings that can be used on aircraft carriers.
The government has said it is confident there will not be a second U-turn on the type of fighter planes to be used on the navy's new aircraft carrier.
The Czech decision on a new fighter is expected first and will be closely watched.
The next generation of European fighter jets, he says, should be a more co-ordinated effort.
Mr Trimble is a stubborn fighter, and is said to be determined not to step down as party leader even if he is defeated.
It would be akin to spending billions to research and build a new fighter jet and then realizing that we have no fuel to fly it.
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So, for example, at the announcement where I talked about offshore drilling, I did so in front of an F-18, a fighter jet, that is actually going to be run half on biomass.
There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.
Although the government never quite specified what would happen to the Queen Elizabeth if the Prince of Wales was fitted with highly expensive "cats and traps" for the more capable fighter, there was a strong presumption that it would be mothballed or sold, leaving the country with one carrier, able to provide cover around 60% of the time.
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"He's been in the game a lot longer and his technique should be superior, " said the Bedford fighter.
"I may be the youngest fighter in the group, " the former lieutenant said with a smile, after declining to reveal his exact age.
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It upgraded Dungeon Fighter, which should be reflected in upcoming numbers, and has a much stronger pipeline of new games than it did last year.
That said, the Brixton fighter may be soothed by promoter Frank Warren's assurances that a win will lead to another world-title tilt later this year.
That theory appeared to be vindicated in September 1994 by a second round loss to journeyman Oliver McCall, a fighter who had never beaten a top-ranked opponent.
Lindbergh's name was yet to be uttered by a single delegate, and because of an engineering conclave at a midwestern factory where he'd been advising on the design of a new fighter plane, he wasn't present or expected to be.
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