Word: concealer
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Dick Cheney has taken a hard line against the General Accounting Office, refusing its efforts to get information on meetings held by his energy task force. Critics suspect that Cheney is stonewalling to conceal the Administration's links with bankrupt energy giant Enron. But Cheney may be hiding more than that. Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money...
...treatment during detention. A number of human rights organizations have raised further objections to the treatment of the detainees in transit from Afghanistan. The military should be able to take reasonable actions to prevent the prisoners from hurting themselves or others. The decision to shackle the prisoners and conceal their faces so as to keep them from communicating was justified, given that several prisoners have continued to threaten to kill Americans...
More likely is that future terrorists, like those on Sept. 11, will keep a low profile and will choose weapons that are easy to conceal. They will avoid confrontation at all costs. And, as resourceful as terrorists usually are, they will enlist the help of insiders. But my friends in fatigues will be useless against all of that...
...adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif offers insights into the ways people fight in this forbidding land. Afghan forces on both sides often appear formless to visitors, but they can conceal tightly bound units with a fighting philosophy that places greater importance on energy conservation and brutal surprise than on sheer military muscle. "We must make sure that we pick the right time to fight," says Mohammed Kabeer Marzban, a warlord who controls the northern town of Khoja Bahauddin. "Otherwise...
...adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif offers insights into the ways people fight in this forbidding land. Afghan forces on both sides often appear formless to visitors, but they can conceal tightly bound units with a fighting philosophy that places greater importance on energy conservation and brutal surprise than on sheer military muscle. "We must make sure that we pick the right time to fight," says Mohammed Kabeer Marzban, a warlord who controls the northern town of Khoja Bahauddin. "Otherwise...