Bandits

Spokesman Mohamed Qanyare Afrah said Aidid's forces in the region sometimes clashed with what he called bandits armed by ❋ Unknown (1997)

BAMAKO - Mali's defence ministry said 20 people died in raids by what it called bandits in the country's barren north. ❋ Unknown (1994)

He condemned groups like the Abu Sayyaf, which he described as bandits "who exist for money and engage in forbidden business." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Medvedev said all those he calls bandits and scoundrels must realize that they can either give up or stay and be destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

By the time the pirates save Luffy and his town from a group of mountain bandits, the boy is hopelessly hooked on piracy as a career choice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are famous now for lawlessness and vicious violence; we are known as bandits of the sea and for our religious zeal, our will to kill and die for nothing. ❋ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010)

(Incidentally, the Laffer maximum for banditry from a sedentary neighbor, where there are a few but not many competing bandits, is probably somewhere in between the maxima for fully roving and fully stationary bandits: Sides recounts how the Navajo would not steal every animal from their Pueblo or Mexican neighbors during raids, but made sure to leave them enough breeding stock to rebuild their herds). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tuareg dissidents who refuse to recognise a 1992 pact between the government and four Tuareg groups are frequently referred to as bandits by the government. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Latin American bandits who produce marijuana, cocaine, and so on. ❋ Unknown (1985)

Li captures the couple running like bandits from a Chinese gunman (Ted Oyama) sent by Russian gangster Dmitri (Patrick Walsh), the crowd of summer tourists and residents looking with interest and confusion at the melodramatic happenings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Asked if he will talk with the opposition after the election, he replied that he would not talk to what he called bandits and diversionaries.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Garuba told him that armed "bandits" - generally believed to come from both sides - were looting and robbing civilians and were becoming "of great concern." ❋ Unknown (1995)

“That’s correct princess but these are goblin bandits who have not agreed with the peace between Banshee’s and Goblins if they find us it’s more than likely they will kill and eat us,” said Mist worried. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We were the ones the bandits were aimed at: one of them pulled my bag from behind. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ragtag bandits, though, had taken on far more than they could handle: a U.S. warship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In recent years the race has had problems with rowdiness from so-called bandits, runners who join in on race day without registering. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the newspapers sometimes we call him a bandit, we are also called bandits in turn. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)