Kofi Annan, whose assistants this week used the media to try to decapitate the U.N.

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They allegedly wanted to kill exactly 88 African-Americans and decapitate exactly 14 more.

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Do I have to decapitate him and hook his head up to electrodes to make him tell me more?

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If Mr Bemba were pushed into exile, as seems likely, that would effectively decapitate what little opposition still exists in Congo.

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In olden days, barbarians would decapitate an enemy leader and impale his severed head on a pike to serve as a warning to others.

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But it is certainly not the policy of the coalition, of this administration, to decapitate, if you will, or to effect regime change in Libya by force.

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Notes found in the defendants' possession showed they intended to decapitate the pop star before dumping her body in a river, the jury of 10 men and two women was told.

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At the end of that month, following the end of a six-month truce, the Israeli military launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, designed to destroy Hamas infrastructure, prevent the firing of rockets and decapitate its leadership.

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Blu-Ray discs may even be able to render compromised players unusable, after which they will doubtless sprout ninja star blades, emit a piercing battle cry, and eject themselves from such players with a force deadly enough to decapitate most pets.

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Jeff has retired in the face of exhaustion, a fear of snitches in the network and rumors that the U.S. government has planted an agent in the system, who over time is rising high enough to decapitate a big smuggling operation.

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