In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: For five years, Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina's first minority governor, dismissed calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse lawn as a divisive issue far from her agenda. In her 2010 campaign, she said the two-thirds legislative approval required to move the flag from its 30-foot perch was too high a hurdle to allow for real debate. When her re-election opponent called last fall for it to be removed, she branded it a desperate stunt. None of that mattered, she said, after nine people were killed last month at a black church in Charleston, including its pastor, State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, in a crime she called 'pure hate.'South Carolina lawmakers plan to introduce a resolution Tuesday to debate removing the Confederate flag from the State House groundsGov. Nikki Haley said she was 'disgusted' to see photos of Emanuel AME Church shooting suspect Dylann Roof with flag'The flag didn't kill those families, but let's honor every person in South Carolina so no one drives by this Statehouse and feels pain,' she saidPublicly called on legislators to send the battle flag to a museumFlag has become a 'deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past' 
 Question:Since taking office, Haley said, a goal has been to change how people outside the state view _.

Answer: South Carolina


Question: (CNN) Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, often seen as a fractured and undisciplined group, apparently has carried out its second major terror attack in two months -- claiming more than 20 lives in the assault on a luxury hotel and two other targets in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The gun attack on the Splendid Hotel bears many similarities to that on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, on November 20 in which 22 people were killed. Both targets were popular with Westerners and international (especially U.N). officials; they were "soft," rather than military installations or police stations. The attackers (two in Bamako, possibly four in Ouagadougou) were armed with automatic weapons, their aim to kill and then take as many hostages as possible.Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb appears to have been rejuvenatedIts affiliates are based in areas with limited state security 
 Question:Belmoktar is leader of Al Mourabitoun, which carried out another deadly hotel attack in the Malian town of Sevare last August in addition to the _ and Ouagadougou attacks.

Answer: Bamako


Question: A former Fortune 500 executive from New Hampshire who caused a highway crash that killed a Vermont couple and their unborn baby was accused of being 'heartless' in court on Wednesday by angry family members. Prosecutors have said Robert Dellinger told investigators he was trying to kill himself in December 2013 when he drove his pickup truck across an Interstate 89 median and smashed into an SUV carrying 24-year-old Amanda Murphy, who was 8 months pregnant, and her fiance, 29-year-old Jason Timmons. Relatives of Murphy and Timmons tore into Dellinger during the first of the two-day sentencing hearing. Amanda Murphy's mother, Tammy Langlois, and Murphy's sister, Ashley Murphy, cry after speaking about the moment they learned of the accident that killed Murphy, her unborn child, and her fiancee, Jason Timmons, during Robert Dellinger's sentencing on WednesdayRobert Dellinger, 54, allegedly tried to kill himself in December 2013 by driving across highway, but instead he killed a young coupleAmanda Murphy, 24, and Jason Timmons, 29, were killed instantly in the crash in Lebanon, New HampshireMurphy was eight months pregnant with their first child, a girlDellinger pleaded guilty in February to negligent homicide for their deaths, and to assault for the death of the fetusHe faces 12 to 24 years in prison when sentencing resumes on Thursday 
 Question:Defense lawyers have said _ was suffering from delirium due to a 'toxic regime' of prescription medications for multiple sclerosis and depression.

Answer:
Robert Dellinger


