Word: agent
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...compare New Orleans with Iraq. But I would hear the analogy again and again as I talked with people who had spent years fighting and losing the battle against violent crime in New Orleans. The U.S. Attorney talked about the need to win citizens' hearts and minds. An FBI agent compared the city's gangs to a jihadist movement: small, loosely organized and hard to track...
...When a community feels like the judicial system has failed, then a second system kicks in," says Jim Bernazzani, special agent in charge of the FBI's New Orleans division, "and killings beget killings beget killings...
...gangs have regrouped where once there were 13. "The drug dealers have to have people to sell to, and now that the population is coming back, there's an increase in trafficking. It's the same thing with firearms. It's almost hand in hand," says Mark Chait, special agent in charge of ATF's New Orleans field office...
...Although Moussaoui won't get to mingle, he will be near other notorious inmates at ADX Florence including Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid, 1993 World Trade Center mastermind Ramzi Yousef, 2000 Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and FBI agent turned Soviet spy Robert Hanssen...
...it’s an oxymoron. For him, though, it’s a chemical delicacy. Gilbert has been aspiring to make the contradictory treat after he discovered recipes for the unusual concoction in a blog post from a chef who had used a food-thickening agent called methylcellulose to make hot ice cream. “Methylcellulose precipitates at high temperatures, so you put it in a room temperature [ice cream] mix, it dissolves, and you take a bit and heat it up, put the ice cream in boiling water, and it hardens like freezing,” says...