Word: culprit
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...those newly drafted civil soldiers returned to work, investigators raced to protect them from more enemies they can't see. Late last week a fragile consensus was emerging among intelligence sources that the culprit is likely a lone scientist in our midst, someone who has no connection to Osama bin Laden--except for a shared talent for terrifying Americans...
...hysteria surrounding the killings with any emotive force, nor does it probe the murderer’s sociopath psyche in any telling detail. It’s a thriller that rarely excites, a mystery that doesn’t intrigue and since we know already that Jack is the culprit, the tale is less of a “whodunit” than a “whoisit.” Any viewer with half a perceptive eye, however, will quickly learn the killer’s true identity; thus, the narrative’s motor effectively stalls, sputters...
...Khyber Pass, we were dropped off near the border only to be surrounded by Afghan civilians and mugged by one of them. We ran the last kilometer with our packs. I told a Taliban immigration official we had been robbed, and he demanded I show him the culprit. We found the man, and he was promptly and violently beaten in front of me and escorted to jail. The official stamped our passports, we walked through the gates and I kissed the soil of Pakistan...
Whos to blame for this schism? Yassine pointed to the media as the culprit for this blindness toward the shared values and sympathies that Muslim and Arabs share with their neighbors, both domestic and international. There are a lot of people misiniformed in this country, Yassine says. The media broadcasts Palestinians celebrating on TV but never shows the Palestinian vigils...
...Black Sea waiting to be towed to Macau, where it's slated to become a floating casino. Turkey won't let it go?ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder). The owners had threatened to abandon...