Word: brass
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...difficulty of redirecting the army toward moderation is illustrated by Musharraf's struggle to reform Pakistan's powerful internal-security apparatus, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), once the Taliban's No. 1 ally. These days, says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, the ISI's top brass carries out Musharraf's bidding, but some of the lower-echelon officers seem to retain ties--ideological and financial--with their former Taliban proteges. Says this diplomat: "At some level, these guys see the Taliban as an insurance policy for what happens next in Afghanistan...
...years ago he said there was no link between Saddam and Sept. 11, new evidence about Saddam's links to al-Qaeda has led him to update his position: "We don't know" if Saddam was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. That prompted a quick response from Administration brass to reiterate the official White House line. "We've had no evidence," said Bush, "that Saddam Hussein was involved with Sept. 11." Administration officials insisted, however, that Cheney had not strayed from the official script but was merely restating the more general point that Saddam had al-Qaeda ties...
...forces have apprehended Farouk Hijazi, the Iraqi spymaster and former ambassador to Turkey. Hijazi has confessed to meeting with top al Qaeda brass, under Saddam’s orders, in 1994 in Sudan—as had long been speculated by American intelligence. He will not admit to a much-rumored December 1998 summit with bin Laden in Kandahar, at which time he allegedly offered the Saudi exile refuge in Iraq...
...Hillary Clinton ( A ) launched a new line of high-fashion brass knuckles. ( B ) embarked on a fact-finding trip to New York. ( C ) finally released her ghostwriters from the cellar...
...hitherto unknown body called the Armed Vanguard of Muhammad's Second Army claimed responsibility, but it was simply impossible to know if the group even existed, let alone whether it had carried out the attack. In the days following the explosion, everyone from top Administration officials to Pentagon brass to the cottage industry of experts on terrorism to coffeehouse and bazaar gossips in Baghdad itself offered opinions on the perpetrators. It was Baathists; or members of Fedayeen Saddam; or the U.N.'s own security guards; or remnants of Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group supposedly routed...