Word: massimo
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...elder who declines to give his name. "The resistance does exist, but it's not to protect Saddam or avenge Uday and Qusay. The resistance belongs to the community." A community that's hard to fit on just one deck of cards. --Reported by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Michael Ware/Tarmiyah
...believe that the change in emphasis allowed bin Laden to disperse to other parts of the world operatives who survived the initial months on the run. "The reason these guys were able to get away," says a former Bush official, "was because we let up." --By Michael Duffy and Massimo Calabresi
...early 2002 he left for Yemen, partly because of a "climate of fear of intimidation," says Johari Malik, a friend. Malik says al-Aulaqi returned briefly last fall to liquidate his assets and adds: "If he was concerned about the feds, he wouldn't have come back." --By Massimo Calabresi, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon
...Americans have already blown it," says a Western aid worker in Liberia. If the U.S. intervenes, he says, "rather than saying thank you, Liberians will be saying, 'It's about time.'" Unless, as many in the international community fear, they're saying it's too late. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Eric Roston/Washington
...really only one party whose unhappiness gets him moving, and that's the Pentagon. That's where his sympathies lie." A current Hadley aide responded vigorously to the suggestion that his political views might have influenced his handling of intelligence: "That is flat untrue." --By John F. Dickerson and Massimo Calabresi