Their history is one long saga of decapitation and disembowelment, usually because of dissatisfaction with the current government.

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Economic optimism is starting to really make itself felt as the slow-motion disembowelment of the pessimism bubble continues apace.

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In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.

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What Pakistan's disembowelment shows is that the military dictator has never been all-powerful.

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But the signs of torture -- the cuts, the disembowelment -- were along the lines of what officials are used to seeing in drug-related violence.

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Then, as now, the so-called international community insisted on ignoring or apologizing for the genocidal bellicosity of Palestinian Arab nationalism, while attempting to appease the Palestinians with money and the conferral of international support and legitimacy for the cause of Israel's disembowelment.

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