Word: grips
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...Both Chota Shakeel and Abu Salem could end up in Indian jails. But the bhais won't ease their grip on Bollywood. They'll keep watching. They always...
...tone seems to have calmed a little. Georgia is expecting retaliation, and not just in the Pankisi Gorge. That might be bombed a couple of times, but there's not much there except a few sheep. Instead, the Georgians expect a Russian military operation to break Georgia's grip on the Kodori Valley. Several pieces of Georgia have been nibbled away by Russian-backed separatist insurgencies since Georgia broke from the Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which the Georgian-held Kodori valley is the strategic gateway. And Georgian officials fear that if Russian pressure forces...
...Intelligence officials have acknowledged that Abu Zubaydah's reliability is uncertain at best, and an Associated Press report in August had law-enforcement officials dismissing Padilla as a "small fish" whose plans never got beyond the drawing board. But the Justice Department shows no sign of loosening its grip on Padilla, and in the end, that old saying about possession and the law still applies. The government has Padilla exactly where it wants him, and it can afford to stretch out the legal process for as long as it wants...
...Taliban may have been forced to surrender its grip on Afghanistan's cities last winter, but it was never systematically disarmed. Its fighters simply scattered into the hills, returning to their villages and, in many cases, joining up with local warlords. Many of their leaders escaped capture, too, most notably the one-eyed peasant mystic Mullah Omar - who has eluded capture by the U.S. despite the widespread belief that he remains based in the mountains of his home province. And the shape of the post-Taliban order in Kabul may have paradoxically helped set the stage for a Taliban resurgence...
...have exploited the security threat implied by Bush's rhetoric to further consolidate their hold on power - sentencing reformist legislators to prison time, closing liberal newspapers, and meddling in foreign policy. Bush administration officials have publicly expressed doubt in the ability of Khatami's reform movement to break the grip of hard-line clerics, and the combination of external and domestic pressures may have prompted him to take the initiative...