He is silent as he does so, as if he thought he might keep the fire a secret and extinguish it by himself before anyone can learn of his foolishness.

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The company makes no secret that the Kindle Fire is essentially a tool on which the company would like to sell you things, which is why the blatant attempts to point you toward new purchases don't feel so much intrusive as, well, helpful.

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Someone associated with Bulgaria's secret police used a special umbrella to fire the pellet into a Bulgarian dissident.

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UN's Special Commission, whose job it has been since the Gulf war ended in 1991 to strip Iraq of its secret chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to fire them.

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It is possible, as many Apple advocates insist, that they have a secret plan and will once again set the world on fire.

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The man appeared to fall face forward on the ground in front of the gate security building, the witnesses said, and uniformed Secret Service agents rushed to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher.

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In 2009, American troops opened fire at a Baghdad airport checkpoint, killing Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari and wounding a just-freed Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, whom Calipari was trying to spirit out of the country.

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With the community already abuzz with discussion the team continued to fuel the fire by dropping calculated leaks, hints, and teases alluding to the top secret blackout project.

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So what we have is a situation in which the U.S. government, while keeping the raid a secret and hoping to be in and out of Pakistan without incident, was prepared for and half expected to draw fire from the Pakistani military.

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