Word: ganges
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...special forces are on Basilan Island training Philippine soldiers to hunt down the Abu Sayyaf Group, a terrorist gang holding three hostages, including two U.S. missionaries. Green Berets and Philippine Scout Rangers are watching the gang and may try a rescue soon. But the joint exercises are just a warm-up. Abu Sayyaf is more a gang of local kidnappers than a global Islamist terrorist organization. But two larger groups linked to al-Qaeda are in the Philippines. Better-trained soldiers and intelligence agents could help contain al-Qaeda operations inside the country and in nearby Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia...
...Mackey is a gang leader. And he is a gang leader's worst nightmare. He murders to keep his secrets. And he saves little girls and babies. He is a criminal. And he is a cop. What kind? "Good Cop and Bad Cop left for the day," he tells a suspect he's about to interrogate (i.e., torture). "I'm a different kind...
Showtime follows veteran cop Mitch Preston (De Niro), who is on the verge of busting a drug-dealing gang he has been tracking when fellow cop Trey Sellars (Murphy) unintentionally botches the plan. When the media shows up, Mitch is so annoyed that he shoots one of the cameras. After seeing his disgruntled face splattered over newspapers, TV producer Chase Renzi (Rene Russo) comes up with the idea for a cop reality show starring the now famous Mitch. Although he wants nothing to do with it, the veteran cop still complies because it is the only way he will...
...illustration for their CD cover," he says. "I came up with five action figures, representing each member." Another friend, from the weekly East Touch magazine, asked him to create a comic strip the following year. The lead character was a skater dude named Maxx who had a gang of cool, streetwear-stylish pals. The Gardener collective was born. Since 1999, Sony Music Entertainment Television has owned the Japanese license to the Gardener series and has plastered them on key rings, T shirts and Visa cards...
...over the cozy consensus among established Dutch political parties. He has played incessantly on distrust of Muslims, and his promises to beef up police evidently appeals to urban dwellers who feel unsafe on their own streets. "Everyone in my local pub voted for him, because there is a small gang of Moroccan kids that terrorize the neighborhood," says Cathy Brouwer, a human-resources worker in Rotterdam. "They somehow think Fortuyn is the answer, which, of course...