Word: dragnets
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...what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. "The kinds of people who are coming in simply can't match their predecessors and their ability to run the organization," says a CIA official. But he adds that "as we kill a group, we are facing...
...Dragnet Girl...
...into possible accounting fraud at SK's trading arm, SK Global, uncovered a multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent politicians to jail. GNP members are also under investigation: GNP lawmaker Choi Don Woong has already admitted to taking $8.3 million from...
...through forests, until they reached a camp hidden in a narrow gorge on the Nepalese border, hours from the nearest road. They held him there for a week, telling him they wanted a ransom of 3 million rupees ($64,000). But as the days dragged on and the police dragnet tightened, the kidnappers became nervous and dropped their price. Eventually, for the promise of $1,700, half of it as a loan, Salahuddin's abductors left him at an isolated village and fled. "I never paid," he says. "They might come back for their money, but then again...
...three al-Qaeda terrorist cells are still operating in Saudi Arabia despite a frenetic investigation and at least 11 arrests since the May 12 Riyadh bombing, a senior official close to the dragnet tells TIME. But a new spirit of cooperation between the two countries has developed since the attack, and the bitter U.S./Saudi recriminations that followed the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and continued after 9/11 appear to be over...