Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...allowed to grow. If these people manage to get to Iraq and learn how to wage jihad, we risk seeing them return to continue in Europe." Police suspect the two men nabbed in Germany were preparing to stage a fatal car accident in Egypt so one of them could collect on life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the money would have funded attacks in Iraq. Prosecutors also allege that one of the men tried to buy 48 g of enriched uranium in Luxembourg - not enough for a bomb but, as E.U. terror...
...carry out that kind of work, the DIA has organized what it calls "strategic support teams," groups of 10 or fewer agents who can be sent anywhere in the world to collect intelligence for commanders in the field. Senior Pentagon officials say that one such agent, an interrogator who was dispatched to Baghdad, managed to glean information in interviews with Iraqis that led to the capture of Saddam Hussein...
...checkpoint, Aziz told the police officers, "I want to walk." Turning left on the four-lane road cutting through the capital's Jadriyah district, he headed east in the direction of the Australian embassy. In front of him a garbage truck stopped, and its driver hopped out to collect the rubbish bags left out on the pavement. This early, the Jadriyah road was quiet. Shops were still shuttered; a few pedestrians and the odd car went by. The Australian soldiers in their nine-story barracks - set up in the shell of a partly built apartment block in front...
...With Lunar New Year approaching, tens of millions of the country's migrant workers will soon attempt to collect unpaid wages before heading home for the holiday. More clashes with employers are possible. Meanwhile, Chen is back home, trying to shrug off stares from neighbors who look down on her because of her stint behind bars. "To them it's like I went to prison for killing somebody," she says, "but it was just a strike." All part of the daily grind...
...small seaside town about an hour north of Barnstable began another unsparing manhunt this month in hopes of solving a three-year-old murder. Police in Truro, Mass., intend to collect the DNA of every one of the town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then...