Word: go-between
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...most famous act of defiance came in 1988, after Uday personally murdered Kamel Hanna Jajjo, Saddam's majordomo, for acting as a go-between for Saddam and one of his mistresses. Word of the scandal spread through Baghdad--even to Nouman, in prison. At her next court hearing, she stood up and delivered an impromptu speech. Uday had killed a man, she said, and he should be brought to trial and imprisoned. "I said what every Iraqi was thinking," she says. "I just had nothing to lose. What could they do to me that they were not already doing...
...easier, even though Pearl's convicted abductors are behind bars. In December, the Karachi bureau of the Associated Press news agency was contacted by an unknown militant group and promised?much in the way that Pearl had been?some "exclusive material." A.P.'s Pakistani reporter met with a go-between who blindfolded and drove him to Karachi's outskirts. There the car was met by an Arab who drew off the reporter's blindfold and swore at the go-between: "What is this? You promised me a foreign journalist!" Eventually, the Pakistani journalist was allowed to leave, and the Arab...
...intend to be friends with each of them. "Early on in the separation, there are going to be strong feelings, and you need to be a shoulder to cry on," says the Rev. Scott Stevens, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Willimantic, Conn. "But if after a few months the venting is not getting better, tell them you're not going to listen to ex bashing." He says it's crucial to let each party know you are not going to act as a go-between: "Explain that there are now two different, separate relationships...
...effect, the former Adams House senior tutor serves as a go-between in Lewis’ relationship with senior tutors...
...telephone intercepts and locator devices?Pakistani and American investigators zeroed in on at least two houses in Faisalabad where calls were being made to suspicious phone numbers in Afghanistan. The investigators staked out the house in Faisal Town and found that it had been rented through a local go-between by Middle Easterners posing as cotton merchants. Ideally, the agents would have "sat on" Zubaydah, monitoring his contacts and e-mails for as long as possible to unlock his secret plots and pick up clues about bin Laden...