Word: kingpin
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...into the battle." Though the letter was undated and unsigned, U.S. intelligence officials detected in its aims and bravado--the author claimed to have directed 25 suicide bombings--the imprint of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden's and now the most wanted terrorist kingpin in Iraq...
...investigators, Zougam appeared to be a low-level operative who moved easily in Islamist circles, not a terrorist kingpin. Moroccan officials told TIME they considered him an intermediary between various cells in that country. "His name came up very often," said a Moroccan official. "But we had no evidence he had done anything, so we could not arrest...
...There was the kingpin. He wasn’t even in New York the first three weeks of the genocide,” Dallaire said...
...Saturday night, the Dartmouth women’s basketball team came into Lavietes Pavilion and beat Harvard, snapping the Crimson’s 26-game Ivy winning streak and seriously challenging the continuation of its two-year reign as league kingpin...
...role in which Eric Bogosian tries to top his cartoonish villain in Under Siege 2. Although he doesn’t quite achieve that formidable goal, he does create a sense of empathy for a truly terrible man, aided by his Scarface-like rise from immigrant to mob kingpin...