Word: masterminding
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When I met Anthony Gonzalez, the mastermind of M83, his eyes were squinting at the light of his laptop screen. Even in the moments before his sound check at the Paradise Rock club last Tuesday, Gonzalez looked to be on the brink of revelation. He stood only to shake my hand, glancing up from his music only briefly...
...Montreal has always looked to the past, but the bygone era that mastermind Kevin Barnes daydreams of here is considerably more recent than usual. These two minutes hearkens more than anything—more, even, than the “Age of Aquarius”—to the period in the late ’90s when the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 collective produced some of the more trippy retro-psych this side of “Hair.” When, for a moment, it seemed as if the Beatles and the Beach Boys had never...
...prime minister Ariel Sharon putting a hellfire missile through Mahmoud Abbas’s window, celebrating the defeat of Palestinian terrorism, and ignoring Hamas. While the moderate, democratically elected Chechen leader Maskhadov lies dead, other, more radical Islamic fundamentalist fighters are still at large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free. In fact, Basayef may well feel that his unrestrained tactics have been vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call...
...fighting, he said, vowing the war will end "only when the regime that generates and nourishes aggression against the Chechen state and Muslims of the Caucasus is finally annihilated." As the Soviet Union began to crumble in the early 1990s, Maskhadov, an artillery colonel, returned to Chechnya to mastermind the military strategy for its 1994-96 revolt against Russia. Elected Chechen President by a landslide in 1997, he quickly lost support for failing to stop the republic's descent into anarchy. After late 1999, when Russian forces reinvaded Chechnya and overthrew his secessionist government, Maskhadov became a fugitive, constantly...
...supporting the insurgency from Syria that the U.S. wanted the regime to round up. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the U.S. has pressed Syria to arrest Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian who Washington charges is not only the chief banker to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind in Iraq, but also one of his top logistical agents and recruiters. The official says Darwish sends money "across the Syrian border in vehicles driven by couriers carrying bags of cash" to be delivered to al-Zarqawi's personal aides. Assad's response to U.S. demands, says an authoritative official...