Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gaza Strip finally cornered and trapped Wa'el Nassar, a member of the radical Islamist group Hamas, who they suspected was planning a suicide bombing in Israel. Later that night, the Israelis captured 10 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank, including, they believed, the mastermind of a bus bombing in the city of Ramat Gan on July 24. The sweep also led to the seizure of three ready-to-go bombs, a car fixed to explode and assorted bomb-making materials. Thus, the counterterrorists reckoned, they were one up on Hamas...
...Peru, where the CIA is reportedly linked to the feared National Intelligence Service (SIN), which has been accused of killing 17 people in Lima's Barrios Altos in 1991 and causing the disappearance of nine university students and a professor in La Cantuta in 1993. SIN's purported mastermind, an attorney who is President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence adviser, has represented a number of major drug traffickers in court...
...heart, it is an action-adventure film. Unfortunately, there is very little action involved. While the viewer gets a good glimpse of Jack Devlin, who has been sent to kill Bennett after she gains knowledge of an attempt to sabotage the Internet, the viewer learns little about the actual mastermind of the plan and his intentions. Instead, the viewer catches glimpses of Jeff Gregg, a Bill Gates-like computer executive out to destroy the world. The best movies about good guys and bad guys tend to leave a viewer--at least for a while--sympathizing with...
Despite having bank accounts that have ranged as far afield as Hong Kong, in the past few years Josa Santacruz Londono has rarely ventured outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake...
...investigators concede, they are not even sure what part of the country the second suspect is hiding in or whether McVeigh -- who broke his steadfast silence last week only to reject two lawyers provided by his family -- is mastermind or pawn. Are the Nichols brothers more deeply involved than they are now charged? Was John Doe No. 2 the ringleader? "Somebody did motivate them," an agent maintains. Furthermore, "he could easily motivate two or three more militia types to do this again somewhere else. You do this two or three times, we'd be chasing our butts. This...