Word: coverts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nothing happening" across the Line of Control and that guerrilla camps in Pakistan's Kashmir territory either no longer existed or "would be gone tomorrow." If Pakistan does indeed seal off the Kashmir border, as the U.S. is insisting, some militant groups will wither, starved of Islamabad's covert training, arms and cash. Already in Muzaffarabad, the main city in Pakistan's side of Kashmir, unemployed jihadis are scraping through by driving cabs and tending shops. Their commanders had to sell off fleets of four wheel-drive vehicles, gifts from the Pakistani intelligence agencies. But Saad hasn't lost hope...
...American commanders in the city believe the covert Turkish team was meant to inflame these kind of tensions. "These [Turkish] forces are tied in to Turkoman groups in the city," says Col Mayville. The 173rd Airborne commanders suspect an amalgam of local Turkoman parties under the banner of the Iraqi Turkoman Front (ITF) were to be used by the covert team to wreak havoc. "In this first convoy was real aid. They'd do this two or three times then money or weapons would have started flowing in. We suspect their role was to strongarm or discipline the members...
...Three’s Company,’ they [Larry and Mark] would patrol the left and right hallways. Larry got “One Day at a Time.’ Mark got ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ It was an incredibly covert operation...
...dump others (MGM had to wait 12 years to film The Postman Always Rings Twice). Moviegoers that summer Sunday may have been shocked by the sudden absence of shocking dialogue and situations. But filmmakers evolved a new "code," one that traded starkness for subtlety. Audiences quickly learned this covert language in which a woman's knowing smile was its own double entendre, and a kiss was never just a kiss. --By Richard Corliss
...corner Saddam and flush him out into the open; if a coup or assassination fails to dislodge him, U.S. air and ground forces plan to launch more strikes against critical targets inside the capital in an effort to kill him. A senior U.S official told TIME that covert U.S. intelligence personnel have infiltrated Baghdad, hunting in the shadows for the Iraqi leaders. "We've had some folks on the ground over there now for weeks," the official says...