The assisting officer returned fire, striking and
killing the man.
At least to the killers, that kind of
killing, like impersonal bombings from on high, can easily seem consequence-free.
Of the remaining 431 officers slain within the
killing zone, the circumstances varied.
Lately, however, a number of Arab activists and leaders--including Jordan's King Abdullah and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak--have begun to attack the practice of so-called honor
killing. At a conference in Jordan in June, delegates from the region discussed the problem openly--a rarity in itself--and began to consider action.
I don't know why I've come here tonight really; my motives are not as pure as the people I'm with--joined in a small, silent circle against the notion of a state
killing. I came tonight partly just to be part of this macabre production, partly because I think the death penalty is a pretty rotten idea, but not at all, finally, because I am going to regret the end of John Wayne Gacy.
THE ACT OF
KILLING MAY BE DEEMED good or bad, depending on who kills whom and why.
But it isn't criminals who are
killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year.
Taliban said it was responsible.-- February 5: Twenty-two people were killed in a suicide attack that targeted a gathering for the Shiites in Karachi.-- February 17: The Pakistani Army confirmed arrest of the military commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul-Ghani Baradar in the south.-- February 20: Thirty gunmen were killed in an air strike carried out by the Pakistani Air Force on the militants' hideouts in Waziristan.-- March 4: Militants attacked a military roadblock in Mohmand in northwest Pakistan
killing a soldier.
Sarah Marsland 86 07/08/78 At home Unlawful
killingTHE President of the Nigerian Community in South Africa, Mr Benjamin Okoli, has decried the
killing of a Nigerian, Mr Ire Chinello by an unidentified assailant on March 31 in South Africa.
Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has vowed to expose those
killing innocent Kenyans.
May 13: Three suicide bombing target churches in Surabaya city, Indonesia,
killing 11 people and wounding four dozens.