But the attack that I find to be particularly offensive is that on health standards.
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But the attack on the Sri Lankan team coach by gunmen in Lahore on 3 March has seen Pakistan removed as co-hosts.
Brazil is no stranger to gun violence, with frequent shoot-outs in major cities, but the attack in Rio de Janeiro shocked the nation.
The hack only works until the machine is powered off, but the attack even foils that, intercepting the switch signal and making the system only appear to power down.
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But the attack on Yukos, the best-run and most western-looking of Russian companies, was the worst cure of all: capricious, selective and motivated by politics not the rule of law.
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But the attack Rutkowska outlined goes even further: she described how an intruder could install what she calls a "blue pill, " a second, malicious hypervisor that controls the original hypervisor and all of the virtual machines beneath it.
Correspondents said it was possible Mrs Kumaratunga had benefited from a sympathy vote following her narrow escape - but that the attack may equally have turned Sinhalese voters away from the opposition's plan to open talks with the rebels.
Hamdan testified he had wanted to settle in his native country, Yemen, but after the attack in 2000 by an explosives-laden motorboat on the USS Cole in Yemen's Gulf of Aden, which killed 17 American sailors, he and his wife left the country.
No motive was given for the planned attack but the men had already confessed, she added.
One Shia official said the prime suspects for the attack were Saddam loyalists hoping to stir up trouble between Shia and Sunni Muslims, but others think the attack may be linked to a power struggle within the Shia community.
Detectives have said they are puzzled by the motive for the attack but there was no evidence he had been the victim of a robbery or a racist attack.
But what could change the skyline of London and other cities across the globe is not the atmosphere of feeling vulnerable following the attack, but the economic downturn that has followed.
Police later confirmed that Syed's family had been in that home at the time of the attack but said he fled the house in a black sport utility vehicle.
But the Jan. 17 attack on the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin, who had sulphuric acid thrown in his face and eyes outside his home, has cast a dark shadow on that ideal.
But the IRS' attack on split-dollar insurance came months after key congressmen had moved to block the ploy.
The victim's 68-year-old father, Iqbal, and 55-year-old mother, Parveen, tried to stop the attack but were themselves stabbed, the court was told.
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The security system took several seconds to come down during the lunchtime attack, but the thief made no effort to get away.
The keeper would have been powerless to deny Essien from close range after he was found by Branislav Ivanovic's cross in the third phase of the same attack, but the Ghanaian somehow poked wide.
The alliance said it was unable to confirm civilian casualties from the attack on the bridge, but said it does not intentionally attack noncombatants.
Israel has claimed that Iran and Hezbollah played roles in the attack but investigators in Bulgaria have not made such a link previously, and Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attack.
Naved then took the new ball for Pakistan but was withdrawn from the attack after conceding 22 from his first two overs.
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The funeral was targeted in a drone attack but the Pakistani Taliban leader is reported to have missed being killed by a few hours.
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Mr Jerbo was chief of staff of SLA-Unity rebel group at the time of the 2007 attack but is currently in the Justice and Equality Movement group, the ICC says.
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These teams have not over emphasised the defensive side of their game but have gone on the attack.
It would be very hard for him to do anything but implicitly condone the attack.
But the farther one gets from the attack, the lesser the justification.
Damascus denies the claims but the ruins were bulldozed after the attack.
Kent hit back with a sixth-wicket stand between Van Jaarsveld and Alex Blake, but Ashraf rejoined the attack to deny Van Jaarsveld his century.
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