Word: hoaxing
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Vanderweil says he had no choice but to resort to this gender-bending hoax. “All the girls at Harvard already know I’m a dirty sleazebag,” he says...
...slowly. Although the poisonings began in 1989, it wasn't until 1995 that police took notice. Soon it became clear they were dealing with a calculating serial killer, a Jack the Ripper of the canine world. That's why Chief Inspector Richard Skinner thinks the recent scrawling is a hoax, the work of a copycat. Skinner believes the real killer is not a publicity seeker, but someone wreaking methodical revenge on specific targets. "I don't think it's a lunatic just walking around wanting to kill dogs for the sake of it," Skinner says. "The person doing it believes...
...identification of Saeed was a sorely needed break for Pakistani investigators, coming as it did a week before President Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release...
...timing is deeply suspicious. And since Assaad is Egyptian born, he would seem to make a perfect fall guy. FBI agents met with him on Oct. 3 and, after a 45-minute interview, told him they were convinced the letter was a hoax. Assaad says he is sure he was being set up by the real anthrax killer to take the blame for the attacks...
...Hamas signaled the end of its own undertaking to suspend actions inside Israel, by attacking a military post on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came Karni's slaying - Israel insists he was planning terror attacks - and the Fatah-linked Al Aqsa Brigades proclaimed that "the hoax of the so-called cease-fire is cancelled, cancelled, cancelled...