Word: colonels
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...Justice Department charges, Hanssen sent a fateful letter, addressed to a KGB officer in Washington. Inside was a second missive marked "Do not open. Take this envelope unopened to Viktor I. Cherkashin." Hanssen knew well who Cherkashin was: Moscow's chief counterspy at the Soviet embassy, a KGB colonel adept at handling double agents. (Cherkashin was already masterminding the activities of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, who was not uncovered until 1994.) Inside that second envelope was an anonymous offer to send a trove of classified papers to the KGB in exchange for $100,000, and a proposal to keep...
...really created a problem. We can't achieve any progress in economic development. To give you an example, in north Africa, we have a steel factory in Libya, another in Egypt, another one in Algeria, but they are all losing money. Why not have one that will be successful? Colonel Ghaddafi started thinking, "Why not try again to achieve African unity?" The reaction of the African heads of state was quite amazing...
Libya has pulled off something of a diplomatic coup. Catching more powerful rivals like Nigeria and Egypt by surprise, Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi's regime has quickly marshaled many of the nations of the continent behind a plan to establish an African Union. The proposed political and economic bloc, which is set to replace the 38-year-old Organization of African Unity, is designed to more effectively manage the continent's affairs as well as its relations with the rest of the world. If all goes to plan, the Union's executive council, parliament, court of justice, peacekeeping force and financial...
...Klerk denies ever knowing about security police that committed gross violations of human rights nor of the hit squads and the torture camp of Vlakplaas--a state-funded center for covert operations. He maintains that the men involved in these atrocities, including Colonel Eugene de Kok, who headed up the police death squad, were mavericks who carried out these dastardly deeds of their own volition. Although de Klerk does not dispute the evidence that gross violations of human rights were committed by elements of the security forces, he claims that he cannot be held responsible...
...Acting Prime Minister Ehud Barak immediately closed Palestinian areas and his defense minister vowed that Israel would continue to pursue those responsible for planning such attacks - an ominous warning in light of Tuesday's assassination of a lieutenant colonel in Yasser Arafat's security detail in an Israeli helicopter attack. Even more ominous, perhaps, was the sense that Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a new downward spiral of violent conflict...