Red Moonrise: Red Moonrise is a terrorist organization who believe that humanity must be subjugated through acts of random, wholesale slaughter.

I saw a lot of random slaughter back there but no sign of really methodical search.

There are dead men enough to bury after the looting and burning of Oxford town,' said Hugh with dry bitterness, almost resigned to the random slaughters of this capricious civil war. '

The newspapers were hysterical, printing picture upon picture of random slaughter by dead and living alike.

Off the record, that's scarier than all the random slaughter put together.

Over the years, human rights monitors have chronicled random slaughter of civilians, human sacrifice, ritual killing and rampant, often forced, drug abuse among soldiers to steel them for battle.

The 14-week trial, which ended with his conviction with two co-defendants in Federal court on Thursday, illustrated how ominously simple it can be for a trained terrorist to plan random slaughter.

But simple alienation is not the primary reason he frequently contemplates random slaughter.

Warnings of famine, disease and random slaughter, which may kill a third of the country's four and a half million to six million people, were noted, but the full horror was not grasped or conveyed.

The history of mankind is a history of anonymous and random slaughter - civilizations we think of as "civilized" were no exception.