Word: brokenness
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...course it’s better to stop terror plots early than never (provided innocent citizens don’t get caught up in the mix), but the recently broken-up plots seemed more like efforts to shore up a political image than to halt a ticking time bomb...
...lender, could well figure among any suitors to emerge in the coming weeks. It's understood to have been in talks with Northern Rock about a deal just days before the Bank of England rescue. If there's no appetite for taking it on whole, Northern Rock could be broken up. And should no credible bids be forthcoming, it may even be forced to wind...
...first game and have zero turnovers against a very good football team, I thought was a major accomplishment,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. Throughout the afternoon, O’Hagan looked poised and comfortable in the pocket, getting sacked only once and having just four passes broken up all afternoon. “I thought he made great decisions today,” Murphy said. “In terms of field generalship, [it’s] arguably the best game he’s played.” When asked what the difference between his performances...
...Germany too, an opposition leader has pointed out that the case was in fact broken without any extraordinary eavesdropping powers. Much of the sleuthing, after the first break in the case, was done the old-fashioned way - via in-person, on-the-ground surveillance. Off and on during the past nine months the suspects knew they were being watched. At one point, a suspect even stopped at a traffic light, got out of his car, and slashed the tires of the car behind him to thwart the German agents who were following him. One of the suspects, less than discreetly...
...around Ramadi coming together to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq. Sattar, like other tribal leaders of Anbar Province, had fallen out with al-Qaeda in Iraq after years of complacency and cooperation with insurgents targeting U.S. forces. The longtime pact between tribal leaders and insurgents in Anbar Province had broken down around Ramadi amid squabbling over money, essentially. When insurgents began raiding highways in Sattar's territory as a means of fundraising, Sittar and his fighters lashed out in defense of their turf. Fighting erupted. By 2006, Sattar found himself in a blood feud with al-Qaeda in Iraq...