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Rumors circulated that, in return for Iyasu invading the Sudan with 50, 000 soldiers, that he would be rewarded with the strategic port of Djibouti.
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Rumors circulated that Frazier had died.
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Rumors circulated that St. Clair and Schuyler were traitors who had taken bribes in exchange for the retreat.
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Rumors of a mine construction soon reached the Confederates, but Lee refused to believe or act upon it for two weeks before commencing countermining attempts, which were sluggish and uncoordinated, and were unable to discover the mine.
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Rumors that Monsanto and other companies intended to introduce terminator technology have caused protests, for example in India.
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Rumors spread in the territory about the motives for the troop movement.
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Rumors abounded that the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which by then had taken over the stadium from the city of Minneapolis, had deliberately let the Met go to seed in order to aid the push for the Metrodome.
In their book, Narrative Landmines: Rumors, Islamist Extremism and the Struggle for Strategic Influence, co-authors Daniel Bernardi, Pauline Hope Cheong, Chris Lundry and Scott W. Ruston coin the term narrative IED to help explain the function and danger of rumors in a strategic communication context.
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