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He fearlessly expressed what no one else dared to say in a community terrorized by criminal gangs.

How could the world ask a nation to abandon its citizens to captivity while letting Hamas militants—the hostage-takers and torturers—continue to hold hostages and terrorize Israel?

Uribe's killing echoed the worst years of political violence in Colombia in which five presidential candidates were gunned down in the 1980s and 1990s, as drug cartels and various armed groups terrorized the country.

What doesn’t change with the times is that “It” is synonymous with its star antagonist, Pennywise, the sinister clown that terrorizes Derry.

“This administration has turned the military against our own people, terrorizing entire communities, and even detaining U.S. citizens who are exercising their constitutional rights to speak out.”