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Synonyms for attacker

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Synonyms for attacker

one who starts a hostile action

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Synonyms for attacker

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In general, we treat one player as the defender and the opposing player as the attacker. This distinction is important, as the players in these types of games are not interchangeable.
Two more boys, also 17, were convicted yesterday of committing the same offence while acting with the knife attacker. They joined in the assault, which was filmed on a phone, and one of them attacked the victim as he clutched his side in pain after being stabbed.
"It is too early to say now what the motive was of the attacker. The investigation is underway," the police spokeswoman said.
Israeli troops shot the attacker, whom Israeli media identified as a 16-year-old from a nearby Palestinian village.
Chief Awino Wanga said it is suspected that the attacker was a casual labourer from Navakholo in Kakamega County and was in a love relationship with Ms Mukhule."The attacker thought that Ms Henrica, whom he had a love relationship with, was cheating on him with another man.
According to German media, Munich Police Chief Hubertus Andrae ruled out terrorist link and said that the attacker may have been a mental patient.
A non-profit organisation (NGO) had approached the court last week over the failure of the provincial police to track down the attacker, who had allegedly attacked various women with a knife in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
A police patrol responded to the emergency and shot the attacker dead.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Advanced attackers are using a blend of in-memory malware, legitimate pen-testing tools and a compromised updater to attack banks and tech firms, warns Microsoft.
Most "terrorist" attacks in Europe are designed to end in the attacker's death.
The only weapon the Westminster attacker carried was a dagger - not a weapon he can have hoped to kill many with.
Occupied Al-Quds, Dhu-AlHijjah 16, 1437, September 18, 2016, SPA -- A Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli army officer in the chest near a West Bank settlement Sunday and moderately wounded him, before Israeli soldiers shot the attacker and apprehended him, the military said, according to AP.
Mr Herrmann said people close to the attacker told investigators he had seemed like a calm person, not overtly religious or an extremist.
Prior work has shown that an attacker able to craft pages on the target system can use this timing difference as a simple single-bit side channel to discover that certain pages exist in the system.
On May 23, a deputy candidate from the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party), Ramazan Demir, was stabbed three times by an attacker during his visit to Adana's Aladay- district in the course of his election campaign.