Word: agente
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...some ways, he was al-Qaeda's Agent 007: suave, well educated, a trilingual globe-trotter who mixed easily in other cultures, who engaged women and intrigue with savoir faire and deadly expertise. Except that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed isn't fiction. He's all too real. Consider his resume of terror. He presumably helped kinsman Ramzi Yousef bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. He hatched plots, never carried out, to bring down U.S. airliners over the Pacific and to assassinate President Clinton and the Pope. He may well have masterminded--officials aren't sure yet--the deadly assault...
...other films, “The Sound of the Violin in My Lai” and “The Story from the Corner of a Park,” which tells the story of a former Vietnamese soldier whose two children were disabled by the chemical effects of Agent Orange...
...SAID FEB. 14 THAT MANY PROSCRIBED ITEMS, INCLUDING TONS OF CHEMICAL AGENT, WERE UNACCOUNTED FOR. YOU SAID THERE WERE SIGNIFICANT OUTSTANDING ISSUES, INCLUDING THE WHEREABOUTS OF PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED STORES OF ANTHRAX AND VX POISONS AND LONG-RANGE MISSILES. ISN'T IT REASONABLE TO CONCLUDE THAT THE IRAQIS AREN'T COOPERATING...
...already be too late for that. "The atrocious way they died was bad enough," says Kim Hae Jung, a 43-year-old real estate agent who lost her brother-in-law. "But after they died, they were treated with less regard than animals. They were thrown in the trash." With 285 people still missing, the death toll could rise further. But fires inside the carriages reached 1,000?C, making even DNA identification impossible in some cases. For families still waiting for news, hope is quickly turning into anger...
...same sorts of restrictions they rejected so strongly five months ago. Instead of arguing on principle that knowledge is morally neutral, the Journal Editors and Authors Group accepted the government’s contention that “sensitive” research should be suppressed. Instead of a federal agent pulling the plug, it will be the editor of a journal. But the result in both cases is the same. Important information that could help scientists develop defenses to bioterrorism is suppressed because of the fear that such information could be used by al Qaeda...