Even Baitullah Mehsud had struggled to rein in the violent excesses of Hakimullah and his cousin Qari Hussain, another TTP commander, who likes to chop up his victims with a knife and to brainwash children into becoming suicide-bombers.

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Now Serebryakov wants to chop up the surrounding forests and sell off the land, leaving Vanya with only his own wasted life to contemplate.

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The defendant said he could not remember his thought process when he decided to buy a chainsaw to chop up the body, an extra freezer, gloves and overalls.

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His twisted, New Age reasoning as to why it's spiritually copacetic to chop up murder victims is delivered with a very charismatic conviction, even as he's making you gag.

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