Few imagine that Mr Mugabe would hesitate to give the order to open fire.
It is not uncommon for the Israeli army to open fire on Palestinians who approach the fence.
On the rare occasion he loses, his bodyguards have been known to open fire on the crowds.
At a news conference on Friday, Ms Phiyega said police had been forced to open fire to protect themselves.
Protesters breaking into the Benghazi army base found 15 officers shot dead, apparently for refusing orders to open fire.
The Spanish Navy threatened to open fire if civil guards were not allowed on board to carry out a search.
Outside the compound, another soldier is ready to open fire on neighborhood civilians coming to see what the noise is about.
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Shortly after 08:00, Menezes enters one classroom and starts to open fire.
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What led him to open fire with a handgun as employees were taking a morning break is not yet clear, police said.
Troops are meant to open fire at any abductors, even if it means injuring the soldier being abducted, under the so-called Hannibal directive.
Mr Karimov has insisted that his troops were not ordered to open fire and blamed the violence on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned Islamist group.
But he stressed to the BBC that no specific orders had been given to open fire if US troops crossed the border from Afghanistan.
According to Mr. Mujtaba, the attackers Wednesday threw a grenade into the paramilitary camp from a nearby neighborhood where children were playing cricket, prompting paramilitary personnel to open fire.
The Newtown shooter, a 20-year-old man living with his mother, took her legally owned guns and killed her before going to the school to open fire on students and teachers.
The armed forces' rules of engagement stipulate under what circumstances British forces are allowed to open fire, either in direct contact with the enemy or to prevent an imminent attack.
What kind of message does it send to be sending money to open fire houses in Iraq, but we're shutting fire houses, who are the first responders here in America?
The circumstances that led police to open fire remain unclear, but reports from eyewitnesses suggest the shooting took place after a group of demonstrators rushed at a line of police officers.
Only a truly crazy person could be so cruel as to open fire on defenseless individuals in movie theaters, or on innocent children in schools, so why not re-institutionalize the insane?
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Whereas the ships apparently demonstrated their readiness to engage, in their decision not to open fire on the Iranian boats, they signaled clearly that the US is unwilling to actually fight Iran.
Unfortunately, the US navy's refusal to open fire on the Iranian boats in the Straits of Hormuz and America's continued refusal to combat Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq send the opposite message.
Last week, Kim Jong Un visited two islands just north of the sea boundary and ordered troops there to open fire immediately if a single enemy shell is fired on North Korean waters.
Investigators late Wednesday said they were closer to finding a motive behind why McLendon would fatally shoot his mother in his hometown of Kinston before moving on to open fire in Samson and then Geneva.
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What led him to open fire with a handgun as employees were taking a morning break is not yet clear, but a hotline set up after the incident has been "widely used, " according to a Lucerne police statement.
It has an insulated combustion chamber as opposed to an open fire.
Corkins -- who had chosen the research council as his target after finding it listed as an anti-gay group on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- had planned to stride into the building and open fire on the people inside in an effort to kill as many as possible, he told investigators, according to the court documents.
"Rather than cutting council tax the mayor should be providing the funding to keep these fire stations open, " he said.
"Boris has a clear choice - he can either cut council tax by 7p a week, or he can freeze it and use the money to keep our fire stations open, " he said.
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In the warmer months, take a seat on the wide jasmine-scented veranda, while in winter it is divine to cosy up inside by the open fire.
To illustrate the absurdity of gun-free zones, Goldberg dug up the advice that gun-free universities offer to its students should a gunman open fire on campus.
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