This was completely unprovoked. It really could have been anybody. It was a random act of violence. She just happened to be there, at the wrong place at the wrong time.

carefully executed act of violence

Maya put it out there, ... She said 'I am not going to be ashamed of somebody else's act of violence.' The soldiers should be ashamed, not me.

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.

It (the attack) was an un-Islamic act. No religion justifies violence as a means to resolve differences in faiths.