Word: masterminding
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...some of his denials are worth believing. At the end of the 2000 presidential campaign, for example, the owlish Rove was suspected as the mastermind behind a scheme involving a stolen videotape of George W. Bush's debate preparations. Many were convinced that Rove had mailed the tape to the Gore campaign, hoping strategists there would secretly watch it. Then at just the right moment, Rove would leap out and expose them as sneaks willing to do anything to get ahead. Some in the press even published the whole yarn as if it were known to be true...
...third buries his head between his knees, then cozies up to a Kalashnikov and smiles. The silent footage, released by the Justice Department last Thursday, was spliced together from five tapes recovered by allied forces in the rubble of the home of Mohammed Atef, al-Qaeda's operations mastermind who was killed by a U.S. air strike in November. They were no ordinary home movies. The five men who appear on them are members of al-Qaeda, and U.S. authorities say they were recording messages of martyrdom--a move commonly made by people about to stage a suicide terrorist attack...
...gravest terrorism threat may come less from Mindanao than from Manila, thought to be a prime hideaway for undetected al-Qaeda cells scattered throughout Southeast Asia. For several months Manila provided houseroom for Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Only last week Philippine police arrested three men suspected of plotting with an al-Qaeda ring recently broken up in Singapore. Sleepers like these, with a taste for anti-American action, trained and financed by al-Qaeda, could be part of a regional terrorism fraternity operating under the banner of Jemaah Islamia, which seeks...
...elusive mastermind...
...fueled controversy following the Sept. 11 attack when he espoused televangelist Jerry Falwell's accusations that liberal groups were partly to blame for the tragedy. RETIRING. GERALD LEVIN, 62, the ceo of AOL Time Warner (Time's parent company), after 30 years as a top corporate executive and a mastermind behind Time Inc.'s transformation into the world's No. 1 media company; in New York. Richard Parsons, the co-coo, will succeed Levin as the head of the company in May 2002. ARRESTED. CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER, 45, an escaped convict and one of the fbi's 10 Most Wanted...