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(Click for frequent words.) 49 ANALYSTS VIEW 48 NBC#Obama 46 KOLD News #China 46 NBC#Iran 44 Defiant Gaddafi 43 freewheeling opinionated MSNBC 42 SKorea NKorea 42 impartial newsgatherers 42 N.Korea nuke 41 Cavendish covets 41 Gilani Manmohan 41 restive Xinjiang 41 Nth Korea 41 Clashes erupt 41 Tense calm 40 BBC Jill McGivering 40 maritime territorial disputes 40 exacerbates tensions 40 tuning pegs adjust 40 Violence escalates 40 heightened tensions 40 Fighting erupts 40 blames Kadeer 39 envoy Chen Yunlin 39 fomented ethnic 39 staunchest backer 39 Tawang Buddhist monastery 39 historical Ciragan Palace 39 Violence flares 39 President Imomali Rakhmon 39 tribally governed belt 39 disputed isles 39 unresolved territorial disputes 39 Hu Jin tao 38 mosque hardline clerics 38 inflaming racial 38 Korean peninsular 38 Sangu Mera checkpoint 38 chiefs mend frayed 38 Toshiyuki Takano 38 envoy Ali Larijani 38 militancy wracked 38 disputed Kuril Islands 38 expel SKoreans 38 avoid enflaming 38 troop buildups 38 massive multihulled boats 38 Unrest flared 38 Fighting rages 37 VOA Kurt Achin 37 Michaloliakos capitalized 37 POLITICS Summary 37 DMZ dividing 37 flares anew 37 Communist Party plenum 37 powerbroker Syria 37 Sino US tensions 37 Blackwater guards escorting 37 NK nuke 37 Nuclear Talks Resume 37 ethnic animosities 37 Moderate quake jolts 37 deploy missile shield 36 NKorea seizes SKorean 36 riots erupt 36 NKorean nuke test 36 heightened sectarian tensions 36 Sinn Fein Democratic Unionist 36 USPresident George W. 36 mly 36 territorial spats 36 indiscreet asides 36 Heightened geopolitical tensions 36 simmering separatist 36 Yanggang province near 36 bloody factional 36 Korean peninsula 36 Wi Sung lac 36 Geopolitical worries 36 Cabinda separatist 35 diplomatic spats 35 Terreblanche slaying 35 Pyongyang pyuhng yahng 35 territorial spat 35 Condom Positive 35 NKorea threatens 35 tense standoffs 35 Futenma airbase 35 Mount Everest straddles 35 BBC Kim Ghattas 35 pandemic ravaging 35 NKorea warns 35 stokes tensions 35 NKorea vows 35 Koreas Paik Hak 35 lingering territorial disputes 34 Geumgang resort 34 Moamer Qadhafi 34 prime minister Yousaf Raza 34 rift widens 34 Bettran arrived 34 coups mutinies 34 botched commando raid 34 simmering Aaron Rodgers 34 bungled el Masri 34 swiftest renewal 34 disaffected southerners 34 Nagging worries 34 thorniest disputes 34 exacerbating tensions 34 southeastern Sirnak province 34 Dueling demonstrations 34 sectarian tensions gripping 34 misinformation crisscrossing 34 Sabre rattling 34 deepening pessimism 34 SKorea cancels 34 Escalating tensions 34 Koreaā 34 Geopolitical tension 34 Antigovernment protests 33 sparking riots 33 Beijing resolutely opposes 33 BUSINESS Summary 33 Violent scuffles 33 gloom Aizawa 33 escalating geopolitical tensions 33 Yeongpyeong 33 Soviet vassal 33 disputed Senkaku islands 33 flared sporadically 33 negotiate nonaggression treaty 33 risked inflaming 33 Artillery duels 33 seeming intransigence 33 Lingering resentment 33 saboteurs bombed 33 Ethiopia Eritrea border 33 shrine glorifies 33 Simmering tensions 33 CHRONOLOGY Major 33 backing Jundollah 33 heavily fortified frontier 33 reacted icily 33 Hamas raided Shijaiyeh 33 de nuclearise 33 Eritrea Ethiopia border 33 authoritarian Lukashenko 33 Japanese counterpart Kenichiro 33 king Sheik Hamad 33 ancient Preah Vihear 33 revive Mideast peacemaking 33 disputed Senkaku Islands 33 disputed Diaoyu Islands 33 creeping Talibanization 33 defusing tension 33 heightens tensions 33 rumbling volcano nearby 33 gif width 33 Pyongyong 32 hospital Crompton Hime 32 mending frayed 32 Demilitarised Zone DMZ 32 visit mercurynews 32 legal ramifications Urbahn 32 Taghavi boarded 32 emir dissolved parliament 32 deadly artillery barrage 32 Eritrea Djibouti 32 By Syma Sayyah 32 deepened rifts 32 Imia 32 export sapping appreciation 32 teeny Ksenia Semenova 32 diffuse tensions 32 infuriate Pyongyang 32 envoy Tang Jiaxuan 32 industry excesses vindicates 32 Polish geologist Piotr 32 '1 ,# fold 32 Yeonpyeong shelling 32 frictions 32 deepen rifts 32 CHRONOLOGY Key events 32 inter factional 32 Geopolitical concerns 32 bloody communal riots 32 Fahri Koruturk 32 INTERNATIONAL Summary 32 worsen sectarian tensions 32 multicandidate presidential 32 defuse tensions 32 demilitarized zone bisecting 32 Syrian troop pullout 32 Hwanghae 32 apparent conciliatory gesture 32 holiest Shia 32 defuse tension 32 Korean artillery bombardment 32 Yemens 32 enflame tensions 32 produced glaring contradictions 32 Factional fighting 32 heightened geopolitical tensions 32 BBC Sarah Rainsford 32 ease tensions 32 low cloudcover 31 Fierce gunbattles 31 tensions 31 SPORTS Summary 31 NKorea accuses 31 heightening tensions 31 bitter recrimination 31 US allied 31 Nagorno Karabakh enclave 31 goalkeeper Ri Yong 31 tribal resentments 31 saber rattling rhetoric 31 coups countercoups 31 radical cleric al Awlaki 31 Clashes mar 31 Adm Mullen 31 reactivate Yongbyon 31 Albu Mohammad 31 Animosities 31 Downplaying tensions 31 condemns NKorea 31 DW WORLD.DE readers 31 NKorean rocket 31 Easing tensions 31 escalating tensions 31 Mieh Mieh camp 31 Diaoyutai islands 31 closed Taspinar 31 Drumcree march 31 heightened tension 31 eastern Zayouna neighborhood 31 safe haven Swiss franc 31 Dokdo Takeshima 31 sparking gunbattles 31 Lahore Oct.# ANI 31 near Diyara west 31 Deadly clashes 31 internecine feuding 31 lingering mistrust 31 Prime Minister Rashid Karami 31 Qatari mediated 30 Sectarian strife 30 weekslong standoff 30 Hani Sabra Middle East 30 Electing Suleiman 30 normalizing bilateral 30 RANGOON Burma Burma 30 Escalating violence 30 Chinese trawler collided 30 President Joao Bernardo 30 stoked sectarian tensions 30 might withered Yeltsin 30 territorial dispute 30 #,# km unfenced 30 President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad 30 festering territorial disputes 30 Fierce gunbattles erupted 30 reclusive Stalinist 30 latent anti Americanism 30 separatist Georgian 30 Parsay served 30 tectonic plates slabs 30 Shuichi Kanehira senior 30 gasoline stockdraw 30 Roslyn Crawl 30 Anjana Pasricha reports 30 undergoes hereditary 30 Sectarian tension 30 Uighur exiles 30 Tensions flared anew 30 drones buzzed overhead 30 demanded nonaggression treaty 30 already besets Kirkuk 30 Conflicting casualty counts 30 Senkaku Diaoyu islands 30 Parvaz detention 30 Shi'ites Sunnis Kurds 30 Baiyaa religiously mixed 30 stoking sectarian 30 unsettled Urumqi 30 covert drone 30 Jealousies 30 restive Himalayan 30 unmanned drone missile 30 infuriated secularists 30 solemn observances 30 shelled Yeonpyeong island 30 neighboring Qadasiyah province 30 Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh 30 diplomatic expulsions 30 deepening rift 30 uneasy truces 30 Territorial disputes 29 geopolitical tension 29 sectarian discord 29 Resentments 29 Cheonan corvette 29 ideological rifts 29 geopolitical jitters 29 Stoking tensions 29 IG BNK ;) COUNTRY 29 Korean ferry Mangyongbong 29 Simmering tension 29 reconciliatory gestures 29 scuffles erupting 29 closest ally 29 inflame sectarian tensions 29 Lt. 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Ahmed Shujaa 29 galaxies juxtaposed 29 Diaoyutai Islands 29 mutual mistrust 29 nuclear powered supercarrier 29 website Uriminzokkiri 29 unrest 29 #,# tonne corvette 29 bulldozers excavating 29 opposes expelling Arafat 29 brought stinging denunciations 29 Heightened tensions 29 mend ties 29 Chuseok holiday 29 gravely undermined 29 Charlotte Knobloch Holocaust survivor 29 territorial disputes 29 OTTAWA Differences 29 frayed ties 29 unpopularity propelling 29 mutual recriminations 29 Eyjafjallajökull erupted 29 Burj Abi Haidar 29 archfoe Iran 29 Pyonyang 29 mediating indirect 29 weaponize plutonium 29 diplomatic spat 29 naval skirmishes 29 Gen Pasha 29 militants barraging 29 warship Cheonan exploded 29 AU mediated 29 Kurile islands 29 NewYorkCountryLawyer # * 29 merciless counterblow 29 representative Jean Arnault 29 MV Faina Ukrainian 29 Shiraz Arak Qom 29 deadlocked Mideast peacemaking 29 sporadic clashes erupted 29 Yeonpyong Island 29 evidence implicating Goudeau 29 factional bloodletting 29 rapprochements 29 simmering 29 Wazristan 29 fiery artillery barrage 29 Nuristan bordering 29 interclan 29 Maluku islands 29 Frictions 29 Cheonan warship 29 disputed Himalayan 29 spokesman Hidenobu Sobashima 29 Nonaligned Summit 29 Migingo island 29 pilgrimage culminates 29 exacerbate tensions 29 mend frayed ties 29 cross strait tensions 29 severed diplomatic 28 thundering honking 28 Chinese fishing trawler 28 Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas 28 postelection glow 28 Iran postelection turmoil 28 evacuating Jewish settlers 28 embarrassing Spygate 28 Zhou Gaoping 28 inflaming sectarian 28 HYMZY 28 Gadhafi Juppe 28 MOGADISHU Somalia Heavy 28 turmoil 28 trawler captain 28 Abole small 28 warlike rhetoric 28 simmering tension 28 reacted curtly 28 stockpiled paving stones 28 Abdul Latif al Jubouri 28 nuclear ambitions 28 Abe predecessor Junichiro 28 Spratleys 28 Sporadic gunbattles 28 Chouweifat 28 scenic Himalayan 28 watchdog arbitrating 28 restive Baluchistan province 28 beads toting parasols 28 nationalistic sentiment 28 rampant anti Americanism 28 deepened rift 28 NATO eastward enlargement 28 provoking retaliatory 28 tensions simmered 28 al Qaida propagandist Muharib 28 Unease 28 Caucusus 28 Hezbollah guerillas penetrated 28 apparent climbdown 28 risked reigniting 28 rival NSCN Khaplang 28 Sectarian clashes 28 Nobuaki Tani currency 28 Tensions simmer 28 GCP Liquors Horseheads 28 sporadic skirmishes 28 Rhetoric heats 28 Somyot Pruksakasemsuk Red Shirt 28 Insurgent violence 28 seemingly intractable conflict 28 Ethnic tensions 28 tribal animosities 28 simmering geopolitical tensions 27 deepening rifts 27 reconciliatory mood 27 Arab Misseriya nomads 27 deadly naval skirmishes 27 maneuvered dangerously 27 Gunbattles rage 27 Tension escalated 27 lawlessness plaguing 27 Drumcree parade 27 disputed islets 27 instability 27 geopolitical uncertainty 27 Julian Moti affair 27 Shiite Houthi rebels 27 Instability 27 firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr 27 Liao Jinju wailed 27 Scattered clashes 27 arch foe Eritrea 27 simmering dispute 27 Ethio Eritrean 27 Mount Baldy Wilderness 27 repegged 27 governor Morteza Tamadon 27 Karbala KAHR' bah lah 27 Bab el Tabaneh district 27 Popular uprisings 27 exchanged artillery 27 Tangun Trading 27 Albu Mohammed 27 Strained relations 27 impoverished Arabian Peninsula 27 peasant rebellions 27 shelling Yeonpyeong Island 27 Kaliningrad exclave sandwiched 27 flashpoint 27 Palestinian Nakba catastrophe 27 Poisoned spy 27 disputed islands 27 Elaine Quijano reports 27 CAIRO Clashes 27 Sunni reprisal killings 27 soothe tensions 27 rapproachement 27 defenseless Turkish Cypriots 27 daily ambushes assassinations 27 Islamist militancy sectarian 27 South Korean warship 27 easing geopolitical tensions 27 Cheonan incident 27 unpeg 27 shelled Yeonpyeong Island 27 transatlantic rift 27 Babhali barrage 27 Paktia province Zurmat district 27 ethnic tensions 27 rapprochment 27 Demilitarized Zone bisecting 27 stirred unease 27 trounced Abbas Fatah 27 archfoes 27 Sistan Beluchistan province 27 Predominantly Shiite 27 unmanned Shenzhou capsules 27 ultranationalist Jew opposed 27 embarrassing Spygate II 27 inflaming sectarian tensions 27 cultural commonalties 27 bloody internecine 27 heaviest bombardment 27 Kuril chain 27 Cheonan sank 27 Coronel downfall came 27 Zuercher Kantonalbank welcomed 27 secessionist sentiment 27 Bushehr atomic 27 sectarian bloodshed unleashed 26 merciless counterattack 26 disputed Nagorny Karabakh 26 flared anew 26 former Soviet vassal 26 Luke Bedrick went 26 EPIX joint venture 26 Lt Gen Jaswal 26 trod cautiously 26 Rift widens 26 Heightening tensions 26 mutual distrust 26 Senkaku islands 26 disputed Abyei 26 tat expulsions 26 desultory diplomacy 26 potentially destabilizing 26 mediate truce 26 intesified 26 Baluch rebels 26 captain Zhan Qixiong 26 report chartpoppers.com covers 26 intensifying 26 daylong prayer vigil 26 Fatah FAH' tah 26 stoked tensions 26 Jangjon 26 Reformists denounced 26 factional feuding 26 predominantly Muslim 26 East Berliners streamed 26 KCNA dispatch 26 botched prewar intelligence 26 Yeonpyeong island 26 intolerable meddling 26 friction 26 protracted haggling 26 febrile atmosphere 26 widespread disaffection 26 US backed 26 roiled 26 torpedoing warship 26 Mount Gamkonora 26 undemarcated border 26 Flare ups 26 leader Nizar Rayyan 26 internecine strife 26 divided peninsula 26 Rocio Sperry girl 26 uncertainity 26 needlessly antagonize 26 heightening tension 26 inflaming tension 26 Mughniyeh assassination 26 relative quiescence 26 vehemently denies downing 26 widen rifts 26 monthslong standoff 26 perceived affronts 26 Pitched battles 26 Eritrean Ethiopian 26 Tallafar 26 Islamic ministate 26 northwestern Bajur 26 internecine clashes 26 heightened 26 Jebel Moun 26 Koreas exchanged gunfire 26 heighten tension 26 Chinese trawlerman 26 Chechen rebel warlord 26 restive 26 animosities 26 deadly skirmishes 26 normalizing ties 26 NuroPro protein biomarkers 25 Georgia breakaway republics 25 waged sporadic 25 Sleeping Beauty slumber 25 diplomatic maneuverings 25 secretive Stalinist regime 25 demilitarized buffer zone 25 intraparty feud 25 engineered rapprochement 25 issued stern rebuke 25 cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad 25 exacerbate sectarian tensions 25 Saber rattling 25 Seneca Mohawk Tuscarora 25 rocket bombardments 25 Spontaneous demonstrations 25 Syrian troop withdrawal 25 tension 25 Cold War mentalities 25 retaliated militarily 25 isolated Stalinist 25 Ahmadabad crowded 25 retaliate militarily 25 YS Rhoo market 25 antigovernment sentiment 25 rekindled worries 25 imperialist militarism 25 Baluch nationalist 25 Riaz Khan Quetta 25 Severe droughts 25 Cosgriff objected 25 creeping Talibanisation 25 Tensions flared 25 irretrievably catastrophic 25 Col. Azad Eisa 25 Hezbollah hez BUH' lah 25 enrich uranium defying 25 postelection upheaval 25 stoke tensions 25 Hormuz strait 25 sectarian reprisal attacks 25 Fierce clashes erupted 25 Wassan Yassin 25 communal tensions 25 Taepo dong missiles 25 hardline cleric Muqtada 25 naval skirmish 25 watchdog rebuking 25 mend rift 25 simmering resentments 25 countervailing pressures 25 breakoff 25 nationalistic backlash 25 additional minesweeping ships 25 de hyphenation 25 daylong gunbattle 25 strongman Andry Rajoelina 25 layered differing 24 pitting Odinga Luo 24 fragile truces 24 Demilitarized Zone DMZ separating 24 hikers Sarah Shourd 24 exile Khaled Mashaal 24 hardline Islamist rebels 24 feuding drug cartels 24 Taliban warlord Baitullah 24 antimissile systems 24 heighten tensions 24 official Umran Idris 24 Jailing Mousavi 24 nationalist rhetoric 24 Pyongang 24 ditching nonaggression pact 24 bloody confrontations 24 launched multistage rocket 24 Craig Hatkoff founded 24 hardline Stalinist 24 congratulated Yanukovich 24 diplomatic ties 24 interethnic violence 24 Palestinian intifadah 24 increasingly assertive 24 profound nationalistic fervor 24 BBC Crispin Thorold 24 easing tensions 24 DMZ Demilitarized Zone 24 heaviest bombardments 24 denuclearised 24 oust Somchai 24 reputed insurgent stronghold 24 Geopolitical tensions 24 bloody naval skirmishes 24 nationalist passions 24 nuclearized 24 Upper Kodori Valley 24 unusually conciliatory 24 unnecessarily antagonize 24 navy corvette 24 widening rift 24 Impoverished Tajikistan 24 Openwave empowers 24 human error Fredriga 24 Gemayel assassination 24 unsettling authoritarian rulers 24 Plato newfound fame 24 volcano Katla 24 conflictual relationship 24 Shi'ite theocracy 24 Hezbollah guerrillas shelled 24 geopolitical instability 24 relative lull 24 simmering tensions 24 disputed Shebaa Farms 24 Chechen warlord Doku Umarov 24 muttered Pierre Watermeyer 24 regained peacetime 24 bitter recriminations 24 intensified 24 hijacked airliner assaults 24 secessionist rebellion 24 sow strife 24 rapprochement 24 neighboring Songkhla 24 northeast cattle ranching 23 lawless northwestern 23 geopolitical tensions 23 generational rift 23 Qazwini informed 23 defusing tensions 23 demilitarized zone DMZ separating 23 Mischief Reef 23 enflamed tensions 23 sectarian rivalries 23 nuclearised 23 Hezbollah guerrillas snatched 23 al Arbaeen 23 Northern Bahr Gazal 23 tension mounts 23 commander Imad Moughniyeh 23 increasingly acrimonious 23 Lee Dong bok 23 extremist Jewish settlers 23 Skepticism greets 23 Yassin assassination 23 Badr militiamen 23 normalize relations 23 erect missile shield 23 standoff 23 Darfurian movements 23 tense 23 recent hickup 23 fierce gunbattles 23 Fordo existence 23 uncertainty 23 restive Niger delta 23 ONLF rebels 23 run Uriminzokkiri website 23 verbal broadsides 23 Yeongpyeong island 23 predominantly Kurdish peshmerga 23 Juarez drug cartels 23 Sectarian tensions 23 fractious 23 Bilateral ties 23 archenemies Syria 23 Adm. Eliezer Marum 23 rancor 23 Uighur separatists 23 mistrust 22 nationalistic passions 22 strained 22 diplomatic relations 22 inflame tensions 22 inflame sectarian violence 22 Amjad Hanawi 22 archfoe Israel 22 militarily intervened 22 escalate tensions 22 Jon Alterman director 22 rapproachment 22 destruction Megi wreaked 22 fence mending 22 Kurds Turkmens 22 Hizbollah guerillas 22 clashes 22 previous fragging incidents 22 Amnesty International condemns 22 premeditated provocation 22 mend rifts 22 heightened sensitivity 22 breakaway regions 22 trawler collided 22 students hung nooses 22 escalating 22 Quarghuli 22 sectarian reprisal 22 harsh crackdowns 22 strident rhetoric 22 upheaval 22 nucler 22 Helicopters hovered 22 Hizbollah guerrillas captured 22 secessionist sentiments 22 hardline Islamist insurgents 22 factional rifts 22 investor skittishness 22 accept Zelaya reinstatement 22 Tensions 22 Hezbollah guerrillas crossed 22 inconclusive offensives 22 discord 22 factional feuds 22 protracted wrangling 22 Cheonan sinking 22 stoking tensions 22 pursuing beggar thy 22 Zalum few 22 simmering discontent 22 anti foreigner rampages 22 Violent clashes 22 crusader plunderers 22 Racial tension 22 Israeli overflights 22 simmering sectarian tensions 22 Darfurian rebels 21 ongoing Gujjar agitation 21 animist south Sudan 21 intentional provocation 21 tumult 21 bitterly divided 21 sectarian tensions 21 nationalist sentiment 21 disputed Diaoyu islands 21 wariness 21 Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla 21 healing rifts 21 Shiite theocracy 21 Gemayel slaying 21 routed Abbas Fatah 21 worries 21 restarted psychological warfare 21 tensions flared 21 disagreements 21 Krue Se 21 longstanding feud 21 Birimian greenstone belt 21 Communal tensions 21 Maqsood Hasan 21 frosty relations 21 expelled Ocalan 21 hardliners 21 assertive posture 21 TENSIONS 21 communal flare 21 Mohammed Khazim 21 extremist sanctuaries 21 strenuous denunciations 21 prolonged Arafat incapacitation 21 bloodshed 21 communal strife 21 heighten sectarian tensions 21 loyalist paramilitary feud 20 maritime demarcation 20 pirate hijackings 20 destablising 20 largely symbolic 20 rifts 20 fiercely antagonistic 20 minister Tsahi Hanegbi 20 informal truces 20 mediated truce 20 wrangling 20 sectarian tension 20 intercommunal tensions 20 whose trawler collided 20 recaptured Samarra 20 Ras Doumeira 20 naval corvette Cheonan 20 Tensions simmered 20 Tension 20 factional squabbles 20 marginalize Montazeri 20 harboring bin Laden 20 sectarian clashes 20 palpable tension 20 Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas 20 Refueling flights 20 fomenting rebellion 20 cast shadow 20 simmering anger 20 joyous celebrations 20 al Sabil terminal 20 al Salihiya 20 producing Niger delta 20 racial tensions 19 deep rifts 19 restive Ogaden 19 Security Commissioner Ramtane 19 buoying sentiment 19 inflamed tensions 19 overran Gaza 19 widening gulf 19 feuding 19 Charles Bizilj testified 19 harshly denounced 19 disputes 19 offered starkly differing 19 southern secessionists 19 remains unratified 19 Koreas maritime 19 Mughniyah assassination 19 expressed unremitting hostility 19 acrimony 19 Long simmering tensions 19 souring 19 distrust 19 cleric Mahdi Army 19 assumes significance 19 Tutsi rebellion 19 neighboring Kunduz province 19 missile launches 18 escalation 18 destabilizing 18 inflaming tensions 18 flareup 18 plotting waterborne 18 aggravate tensions 18 violent clashes 18 unease 18 Jangulbagh estimated 18 unleashed bloodbath 18 Shaba farms 18 rattled nerves 18 supplying EFPs 18 seeming divergence 18 Basque separatists Eta 18 dispute 18 saber rattling 18 destabilized 18 Wael Hassanin 18 factional clashes 18 rancorous 18 inflamed passions 18 deliberate provocation 18 uninhabited islets 18 factional rivalries 18 torpedo sank South 18 sowed confusion 17 Uriel Patino 17 Hizbollah guerrilla 17 acrimonious 17 toward peacefully reunifying 17 deeply divided 17 declared unilateral ceasefires 17 shelled Yeonpyeong 17 nickname Grim Sleeper 17 scaledown 17 nervousness 17 rich Spratly 17 belligerent rhetoric 17 bitter rivalry 17 loyalist feud 17 Disputes 17 anxiety 17 detente 16 muscle flexing 16 fears 16 rift 16 conflicting signals 16 antagonism 16 destabilize 16 Tensions escalated 16 deteriorated sharply 16 disputed 16 conciliatory noises 16 stoked fears 16 resentment 16 tense standoff 16 assertiveness 16 uneasiness 16 disagreement 15 confrontation 15 confrontations 15 ignite sectarian strife 15 feud 15 ruffled feathers 15 John Ausonius evaded 15 bloody skirmishes 15 animosity 15 Lee Ho chul 14 communal tension 14 dissension 14 violent confrontations 14 conciliatory 14 hostility 14 internecine bloodshed 14 uneasy 14 unseemly squabble 13 simmering feud 13 further inflaming tensions 13 furor 13 heated debate 13 enmity 13 factional fighting 13 soured 13 communal clashes 12 shaky truce 12 hardline Islamist insurgent 11 strait narrow chokepoint 11 retaliatory attacks 10 disquiet 10 bitter feud 10 instablity 10 uproar 9 raised hackles 8 factious Shiite 7 widespread condemnation 6 loggerheads 4 rung alarm bells