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Rape, the Most Intimate of Crimes by Mary Dickson © 1996

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It's a story so common, it never even made it into the newspapers. A 49-year-old woman who lives in a middle class neighborhood on one of Salt Lake City's busiest streets let her dog out one warm fall night as she always did. When he began barking furiously in the driveway, she ran outside to see what was wrong. As cars sped by, a masked man grabbed her and put a knife at her throat. Without saying a word, he pulled her by the arm, pushed her into her house and threw her on the bed. The dog ran in the house behind them, barking frantically. The man threw the dog against the wall, then raped the woman. He told her that if she screamed, he would "Nicole" her. Gritting her teeth, she focused on the small can of mace attached to her keychain on the table in the next room. "I know that I will never, ever be the same person again. In fact, after it happened, I asked both my daughter and my sister if I looked different. Because I felt like I was so changed, it must be

TERRORISM: LET'S FACE THE UGLY REALITY

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Na-Allah Mohammed Zagga has this star post! France is once again under terrorist attacks. In the latest incident, a Muslim extremist of Tunisian origin has killed around 80 innocent people in Nice on Thursday. He was described as a 31-year-old resident born in Tunisia, according to French newspaper Nice Matin. According to Sputnik News, "The attack occurred when the driver plowed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day during a firework display along the city's waterfront. He drove for more than a mile before being shot dead by police, according to French Interior Ministry spokesperson Pierre-Henry Brandet." The frequent or repeated terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists around the world is worse than embarrassing. Of course, Muslims are also victims of terror attacks elsewhere around the world, including the recent deadliest terrorist attacks in Baghdad, but the internationalisation of terrorism by conducting attacks on Western cities have far graver repercussions t

TROOPS AMBUSH BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS AND CAPTURE GUN TRUCK

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TROOPS AMBUSH BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS AND CAPTURE GUN TRUCK Following reliable information about movement of remnants of suspected Boko Haram terrorists, troops of 118 Task Force Battalion, 7 Brigade, laid an ambush for the terrorists  today morning. The troops laid the ambush about 3 kilometres away from Goneri town, South West of Kukawa Local Government Area, where they encountered the unsuspecting terrorists in 2 gun trucks and on motorcycles and engaged them. An unconfirmed number of the terrorists escaped with gun shot wounds abandoning 1 Buffalo Land Cruiser gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft gun, 1,600 rounds of 12.7mm Armour Piercing Incendiary (API) ammunitions, 563 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition for General Purpose Machine Guns and 57 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition. The troops further recovered 1 motorcycle, 7 jerry cans of Premium Motor  Spirit (PMS) and Automotive Gasoline Oil (AGO), a pair of Nigerien Army uniform, 2 Cameroonian telecommunication service