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There may be fear of retribution from a saint if the manda is not fulfilled, and sometimes individuals actually suffer this retribution.
The article was written by al-Quds al-Arabi 's Amman correspondent, Bassam Badareeen, who reported from Baghdad last week that ordinary Iraqis were becoming more openly critical of the authorities without apparently fearing retribution by the secret police.
Thousands of Cubans have demonstrated, and Fidel Castro has threatened retribution if González is not returned to his father in Cuba.
In 86 b.c., Roman general Sulla sacked the city in retribution for its unwise alliance with Mithridates, King of Pontus and bitter enemy of Rome.
Jews, though scant among the revenge-takers, did in some cases seek retribution as well--and this chapter of the post-World War II retaliation has been especially problematic (as I explain ). In a penetrating essay in the Forward last fall, Hillel Halkin asked whether Jews who pursued extremely drastic retaliation were "courageously honest in seeking to act out what others merely dreamed of, or ...