Word: masterminding
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...concern for Perejil comes from its position near Spain's North African enclave Ceuta. GREECE 17 November Cracked Greek authorities detained a 58-year-old math professor suspected of being the leader, and a founder member, of the terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The group's alleged mastermind, Michalis Economou, was captured by police who stormed his home island of Lipsi, 250 km east of Athens. The professor's real name is believed to be Alexandros Giotopolous. The authorities were led to him by 17 November terrorists who confessed in return for lighter sentences. Police also confirmed that...
...attack are still out there," says a top FBI official. "Padilla is one symptom of the fact that the core group is still around. They're able to communicate and move money around." The foot soldiers will not necessarily be Arab, nor will there always be a disciplined mastermind like Mohamed Atta leading them. The next attacker could be a man with a Midwestern accent, or a man who makes up for his lack of aplomb with sheer rage. He could be someone like Padilla, whose metamorphosis--from a pudgy Catholic boy to a radical Muslim accused of conspiring...
...official. Mohammed has been fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden now in U.S. custody at a secret location, and by some al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials are still not sure of Mohammed's precise role in the hijackings--"Calling him the mastermind goes further than we would go," says one. But the gumshoes would love to get their hands...
Facing low approval ratings and lower odds of election in November, Republican Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift dropped out of the primary race last month, leaving the door wide open for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic mastermind Mitt Romney to enter the race as the Republican challenger...
TUBAS The suspected mastermind of the Passover suicide bombing in Netanya and five other militants were killed in an attack by Israeli forces...