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The Independent of London reported allegations Thursday that the Russian apartment-block bombings that ignited the latest war in Chechnya and propelled Vladimir Putin into the presidency were the work not of Islamic terrorists, as claimed by Moscow, but of the Russian special services.
Newt Gingrich ignited a storm of controversies in Israel . Two weeks after 1) calling U.S.
4. The spark that ignited TWA 800's fuel tank could have been caused by one of these misdirected power surges, since there were several military planes, helicopters, and even a naval destroyer travelling nearby at the time.
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."
It is the charge that is ignited, not the “explosion”; also, black powder does not explode: it burns.