Considering recent surprise attacks against U.S. servicemen by attackers dressed as civilians, the soldiers exercised considerable caution, the spokesman said.

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Exploring dungeons is the standard dungeon-crawler RPG fare, with every few paces of exploration being interrupted by surprise attacks from monsters.

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After all, the American people have rarely had more occasion to focus on the ineluctable fact that surprise attacks, like that on Oahu, are by definition surprises.

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The militants' attacks caught Khartoum by surprise, and it had very few troops in the region.

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The timing of the attacks came as no great surprise to Spain's security forces, who only two weeks ago had seized a huge load of explosives destined for Madrid.

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Akamai's back with yet another snapshot of the state of the internet and, surprise surprise, it's reporting that DDoS attacks were up threefold last year versus 2011.

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There was little surprise that, over the last week, Labour intensified its attacks on Fine Gael as it battled for a coalition place only to cosy up again to its would-be partner in government in the last few days, as if to prove to undecided voters it could form a stable administration.

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Hakura said the Turkish military wanted to conduct a surprise attack against the PKK prior to the springtime, when violent attacks tend to escalate, and when the snow in the mountainous border region leaves the fighters' footprints.

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He reminded the cadets the surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked dramatic changes in the military and the September 11 attacks have done the same.

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