11.   The Islamic terrorists who slaughtered thousands of people in New York and Washington believed they had a religious calling to attack the United States and kill Americans.

12.   The U.S. barely noticed when President Assad slaughtered thousands of Syrians in Hama.

13.   A year earlier, he said, he witnessed Shiites and ethnic Uzbek residents slaughter thousands of Taliban soldiers.

14.   At the edge of a forested ravine where Nazis slaughtered thousands of Jews, President Clinton on Friday remembers the horrors of World War II.

15.   Authorities started slaughtering thousands of pigs on Monday after diagnosing three more animals with foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea.

16.   Bosnian Serbs had overrun the U.N. refuge at Srebrenica, slaughtering thousands of Muslims.

17.   Egyptians slaughter thousands of sheep, goats and cows during the four-day Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, which began Tuesday.

18.   German troops slaughtered thousands of Serbs and other Yugoslavs during World War II.

19.   Germany, which slaughtered thousands of Serbs and other Yugoslavs during World War II, has declined to send troops to the region to avoid aggravating old historical wounds.

20.   He invited close friends and relatives into government, angered investors and obstructed a U.N. inquiry into reports that his fighters slaughtered thousands of Hutu refugees from neighboring Rwanda.