And then secondly, can you talk a little bit about how much the recent incidents -- the burning of the Korans and the killing spree that left a number of Afghans dead -- how much did those incidents complicate the efforts to finalize the Strategic Partnership Agreement?

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Because an occasional nut or fanatic goes on a killing spree, millions of law-abiding gun owners will henceforth be subjected to obnoxious harassment the Second Amendment notwithstanding.

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Some doctors paint a scary worst-case scenario: A flu pandemic breaks out and beats down the immune systems of millions of people, and then staphylococci--the hospital strain and the nastier variant in the community--run wild on a killing spree.

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UPC's child-fighters indulged in one final killing spree.

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Hardline Taliban went on an assassination spree - the most prominent being the killing in Kabul on 13 May of Maulvi Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban and now member of the High Peace Council, a body which leads efforts to make peace with the Taliban.

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Just before he went on his killing spree, Mr Breivik published a 1, 500-page manifesto on the internet.

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Davis would have been only the second Manson-related murder defendant to be granted parole since the killing spree began in 1969.

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Dorner, a 33-year-old former Navy reservist, is suspected of killing three people in a spree across southern California last week, including a policeman.

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More than 600 people died in a widespread and ethnically motivated killing spree after Odinga accused Kibaki of rigging the December 27 vote to win his re-election.

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