Most of the bandits not only evaded the government's forces but killed several of their captives.
Then it quickly gets un-Western: the bandits shoot a boy in the eye with a poison dart.
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While the first raid's failure had until recently discouraged the government from trying another, it also generated public outrage against the bandits.
Roughly 4, 000 troops and police, supported by artillery, armoured cars, aircraft and helicopter gunships, have so far failed to crush the bandits.
The Generals expected to carry the league with star power and success fell to the Stars the following week, then to the Bandits and the Boston Breakers.
The BBC understands the bus in which Mr Moghe had been travelling was sprayed with bullets by the bandits and no passenger was singled out.
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Some politicians have been accused of being behind the bandits.
He expected the summit to discuss the question of outside security forces entering Afghanistan, but Washington first wanted Afghans to try to "get rid of the bandits" threatening aid efforts in the war-ravaged state.
The darkest note in the story it's what no conventional sci-fi blockbuster would dare to include is the Mortensen character's despairing realization that he must be prepared at any moment to fire a bullet into his beloved son should they be captured, since the bandits who roam the land would rape and kill the boy if he didn't.
They point out that an unconditional amnesty has never been granted to any fugitive in India and say that, even in the case of the dreaded bandits of Chambal Valley in north India, the brigands had to undergo imprisonment before they were rehabilitated.
Divided by warring militias for 15 years, international aid shipments into the country have been attacked by pirates on the sea and bandits on the road.
Last week, Mr Zuma said the South African troops died in a nine-hour "high-tempo battle" against the "bandits" in Bangui.
He reasoned that if his neighbors could see a heat map denoting where the gutter bandits were operating, preventive action could be taken.
Anyone who remained in Grozny, the military warned in its infamous instruction of 11 December, would be destroyed along with what it called the Chechen bandits.
The suggestiveness of this unfortunate habit drove the assembled bandits mad with lust as they leaned forward in their seats devouring peaches and hanging on his every mooshy word.
The firebase is attacked regularly, bombs are planted along the roads, and bandits set up illegal checkpoints to rob the people.
The director of Time Bandits and Brazil will helm a production of the opera Benvenuto Cellini, by French romantic composer Hector Berlioz.
Schilling, a bulky African-American from Oakland, California, became the latest foreign hostage taken by the Abu Sayyaf bandits based in Sulu.
"The preference is to see if we can get a level of stability in the country so that indigenous forces... get rid of bandits on the roads, " he said.
Her CV reveals an eclectic list of roles, ranging from the flaky housewife in comedy Bandits, to elf queen Galadriel in the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, to hard-hitting Irish journalist in Veronica Guerin.
On September 11, the idyllic calm of the luxurious destination was shattered, when armed bandits broke in to the beachfront cottage where Britons Judith and David Tebbutt, both in their 50s, were staying.
The basic argument offered was that unregulated short-selling caused the crisis thanks to short-selling "bandits" allegedly forcing down the share prices of companies, regardless of their underlying financial health.
Or you've got folks saying, well, the real problem is -- what we really disagreed with was the workers, they all made out like bandits -- that saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions.
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The gambles went wrong, but they made out like bandits, and now the institutions they wrecked are being bailed out with public money.
The president of Uefa has hit out at "bandits and crooks" for the escalation of Ukrainian hotel prices ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships.
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That inaugural trip hit a snag when bandits stole the group's food and horses.
For instance, he wants to install 3, 000 slot machines in a locale that has never embraced the one-armed bandits.
But Mr Estrada's movie tough-guy role, fighting bandits in the south, helped bolster his popularity and hush the critics.
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