Word: illicitness
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...class 3 felony for illicit possession of prescription painkillers carries a sentence of as much as five years in prison. But Florida investigators are more interested in nailing suppliers and sellers in this Gold Coast drug ring than in sending users to jail. If prosecutors did have the goods on Limbaugh, he would probably be encouraged to testify against the pushers...
These tales are tempting to dismiss as scripts recited by practiced liars who had been deceiving the world community for years. These sources may still be too frightened of the possibility of Saddam's return to power to tell his secrets. Or it could be that Saddam reconstituted an illicit weapons program with such secrecy that those who knew of past efforts were left out of the loop. But the unanimity of these sources' accounts can't be easily dismissed and at the very least underscores the difficulty the U.S. has in proving its case that Saddam was hoarding unconventional...
...that's true, what happened to the banned weapons Iraq once possessed? In the inspections regime that lasted from 1991 to 1998, the U.N. oversaw the destruction of large stores of illicit arms. Some documented inventories, however, were never satisfactorily accounted for; these included tons of chemical agents as well as stores of anthrax and VX poison. The Iraqis eventually owned up to producing these supplies but insisted that they had disposed of much of them in 1991 when no one was looking and had kept no records of the destruction. That made Blix wonder. In an interview with TIME...
MEANWHILE IN MANILA ... Affairs of the Heart Filipinos deluged a "report a mistress" campaign with e-mails and text messages detailing the alleged extramarital activities of government officials, sending 500 messages in its first day. A citizens' group launched the campaign to stop officials from spending government money on illicit dalliances...
This summer, however, hardly a week has gone by in which the kingdom's newspapers haven't carried sensational headlines about the latest police shoot-out with an al-Qaeda cell or the discovery of an illicit stash of arms and explosives. The streets are blocked by police checkpoints. In an unprecedented step, the Interior Ministry has published the names and photos of al-Qaeda suspects at large, appealing to the public to turn them in. Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler, has declared his own war on terrorism. The kingdom's highest religious authority has issued a declaration...