Word: henchman
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...imagination when facts are not available," he says of his method. Lévy says he only resorted to pure conjecture two or three times in the book, but it is up to the reader to discern those moments. His harrowing account of Pearl's decapitation by a Yemeni henchman includes unknowable embellishments: "As the Yemeni killer grabs and tears the collar of his shirt, he thinks of other hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night...
...blind eye to the activities of radical clerics like alleged Jemaah Islamiah head Abubakar Ba'asyir allowed Islamic radicalism to put down deep roots in the Malaysian Muslim community. There is no arguing, either, with the fact that Malaysia was used by the likes of Abubakar and his alleged henchman Hambali as their haven for over a decade and eventually as a rendezvous for both regional and global militant conclaves organized by JI. Most notorious was the January 2000 meeting attended by up to 12 key JI and al-Qaeda figures, including Tawfiq bin Atash, top suspect in the bombing...
...jazz age thug carefully steps into a huge hollow cake; his job is to pop out later and gun down a big gangster. A henchman hands the thug a machine gun, then warns him, "And don't mess up the cake. I promised to bring back a piece for my kids...
...henchman is a minor character in a fleeting scene in Some Like It Hot, but Billy Wilder couldn't resist giving him a line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices...
...world's most powerful drug lord, was finally brought down by a Mexican military special operations unit, which surrounded him at about 1am Saturday outside a residence in Puebla, about 30 miles from Mexico City, and took him into custody without a shot. Also arrested was a henchman, Manuel Martinez. Inside the house, Hutchinson said, the Mexican authorities found a shrine with burning candles and a snapshot of Benjamin's younger brother Ramon, one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives, whose enthusiasm for torture and mass murder did much to consolidate the family's hold over the lucrative...