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Wolf urine has been marketed and claimed to be an organic coyote deterrent, such as for deterring attacks on sheep.
An anonymous European official claimed that the US officials implied that they might consider shooting down Galileo satellites in the event of a major conflict in which Galileo was used in attacks against American forces.
After the attacks, employees at an adult video store, Adult Lingerie Center, in Beltsville claimed that Moqed had been in the store three times, although there were no transactions slips that confirmed this.
CNN's preliminary report following the attacks claimed that an unnamed acquaintance relayed " He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child.
The Yugoslav government claimed the NATO attacks were a terror campaign against the country while NATO defended its actions as being legal.
Associated with stories of the supposed burning of Shaolin by the Qing government and with the tales of the Five Elders, this temple, sometimes known by the name Changlin, is often claimed to have been either the target of Qing forces or a place of refuge for monks displaced by attacks on the Shaolin Monastery in Henan.
After the 9 / 11 attacks, Pakistan claimed to have ended its support to the Taliban.
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, family and friends claimed that Jarrah did not exhibit the same “ smoldering political resentments ” or “ cultural conservatism ” as Mohamed Atta.
Dönitz was savage in his relentless attacks against Raeder for his " policy of bloated surface vessels " and for not spending enough money on building U-boats in the 1930s, a policy that Dönitz claimed had cost him victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
In an article for The Independent, he claimed that, while the Bush administration was incapable of successfully carrying out such attacks due to its organisational incompetence, he is " increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9 / 11 " and added that he does not condone the " crazed ' research ' of David Icke, but is " talking about scientific issues ".
* In the early decade of the 2000s, after the September 11 attacks, Jonathan Idema, a self proclaimed vigilante, entered Afghanistan and captured many people he claimed to be terrorists.
Since then RAAD have claimed responsibility for no less than 17 shootings as well as countless pipe bomb attacks ( see Republican Action Against Drugs # Timeline ).
It is claimed that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been the target of attacks on occasion from 1993 to 2004, including desecration of patriarchal cemeteries and personal assaults against the Ecumenical Patriarch.
The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U. S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved " Tonkin Ghosts " ( false radar images ) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks.
The following is a timeline of attacks and attempted attacks that have been claimed by, or blamed on, the LVF:
The company had claimed that the destruction of the firm's email servers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all email before that date.
Goldstone wrote that the situation in the West Bank was more complex, but that there is no attempt to maintain " an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group ", and claimed that the seemingly oppressive measures taken by Israel were taken to protect its own citizens from attacks by Palestinian militants.
Whenever it claimed responsibility for its attacks, the UVF usually claimed that those targeted were IRA members or IRA sympathisers.
Other times, attacks on Catholic civilians were claimed as " retaliation " for IRA actions, since the IRA drew most of its support from the Catholic community.
Many retaliatory attacks on Catholics were claimed using the covername " Protestant Action Force " ( PAF ).
Hamas gained popularity in Palestinian society by establishing hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services, but it has also claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians, leading to its being characterized by the European Union, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States as a terrorist organization.
* 2008 Mumbai attacks: Following ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, tensions heightened between the two countries since India claimed interrogation results alleging Pakistan's ISI supporting the attackers while Pakistan denied it.

claimed and with
Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.
He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.
Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.
John had claimed her from the stag line, a young man a year out of Dartmouth with skiing crinkles still around his eyes.
Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.
Murder on the Links began with news from France, a wife debunked, who claimed intruders tied her up and murdered her husband.
On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.
Murphy had opposed the idea that an individual mind with personality as an entity would survive, instead he claimed the mind and all of its memories would merge itself into a larger field of consciousness.
The Assyrian king claimed a victory, but his immediate return and subsequent expeditions in 849 BC and 846 BC against a similar but unspecified coalition seem to show that he met with no lasting success.
Whether he also did in the case of the Mediterranean with the kingdom of Kaptara ( possibly Cyprus ), as claimed in later documents, is more questionable.
Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.
They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.
Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.
His Landscape with Footbridge ( National Gallery, London ) of 1518-1520 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil.
" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.
Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.
Later he claimed to be the discoverer of the moons, which led to a dispute with the true discoverer, Galileo Galilei.
In 2007, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said that photos the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claimed showed a juvenile Bigfoot were most likely of a bear with mange.
In a 2006 interview, Walsh claimed that during his tenure with the Bengals, Brown " worked against my candidacy " to be a head coach anywhere in the league.
Bayezid II's overriding concern was the quarrel with his brother Cem, who claimed the throne and sought military backing from the Mamluks in Egypt.
It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.
Subjects of further contention among scholars are the identity of claimed corrections and revisions of Job's speeches, which are claimed to have been made for the purpose of harmonizing them with the orthodox doctrine of retribution.

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