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  • Aghanistan: residents could see the blacked-out hotel on a hilltop on the western outskirts of Kabul illuminated by red tracer bullets and explosions Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP

    Kabul attack: Nato kills Taliban squad members who launched suicide assault 2011

  • From miles across the city, residents could see the blacked-out hotel on a hilltop on the western outskirts of Kabul illuminated by red tracer bullets and explosions.

    Kabul attack: Nato kills Taliban squad members who launched suicide assault 2011

  • The streets were empty, and when a blacked-out van rolled up the street slow as hell we all paused.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • From miles across the city residents could see the blacked-out hotel on a hilltop on the western outskirts of Kabul illuminated by red tracer bullets and explosions.

    Afghanistan: Kabul's Intercontinental hotel attacked by Taliban militants 2011

  • But two blacked-out pages include titles that make clear that “regional states” that is, nations in troubled regions who are close to going nuclear have been included in the master nuclear target base list.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Two seconds later a blacked-out Ford Focus pulled out a parking spot in front of a corner store and passed by me to pull in front of the building.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • No one committed crimes with weapons, shot at their wife, blacked-out about being arrested in a park, abandoned their children, had children shoot other children on the front lawn, had brothers arrested for smuggling explosives into the country, or threatened to kill a police officer.

    Ellen Dumm: GOP's Quest for an Honest Man -- Or Even One Without a Shady Past Ellen Dumm 2010

  • One key difference was that Churchill's bunker was set just 10 feet below blacked-out London streets, while Hitler's was some 40 feet beneath the old Reich Chancellery gardens.

    From Hitler to Gaddafi: dictators and their bunkers 2011

  • No one committed crimes with weapons, shot at their wife, blacked-out about being arrested in a park, abandoned their children, had children shoot other children on the front lawn, had brothers arrested for smuggling explosives into the country, or threatened to kill a police officer.

    Ellen Dumm: GOP's Quest for an Honest Man -- Or Even One Without a Shady Past Ellen Dumm 2010

  • In a neat square of padded mats, just accommodating four petite seniors, with shoes neatly parked outside, Toshiko Suzuki, 70, prepared Tuesday to spend a fifth night at the makeshift shelter on several upper floors of city hall, where kerosene generators provide rare light in an otherwise blacked-out city.

    Public order still rules amid devastation in Japan 2011

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